An Australian study recently released a shocking finding: every hour of television a person watches shortens their life by an average of 22 minutes. Looking at the behavior of 11,000 participants, the Queensland scientists found that people who watched around 6 hours of TV each day lived an average of almost 5 years less than [...]

1. Life Gets Better After Age 50 (Really!)
2. Early Results: European Study Combines Exercise and Brain Training for Memory
3. Having Correctly Prescribed Glasses Improves Quality of Life

A few days ago, we hosted a Q&A session on Facebook about brain plasticity and brain fitness with Posit Science founder Dr. Michael Merzenich. For those who missed the discussion and prefer to read it in transcript form, I’ve re-posted it here. Question: I would love to know what Dr. Merzenich thinks about brain plasticity [...]

1. Evaluating Brain Fitness Programs – Which Should I Choose?
2. Our Brain Awareness Session on Brain Foods with Karen Merzenich
3. Our Brain Awareness Q&A Session on Movement, Exercise, and the Brain with Dr. G

I have a dog named Easy. He’s quite handsome, as you can see in this picture. According to a new study, he might also be my “secret weapon” to healthier living–as long as I walk him on a regular basis. In the study, researchers from Michigan State University investigated whether walking a dog is a [...]

1. Physical Pain and Emotional Pain
2. An Everyday Example of Brain Fitness
3. Our Brain Awareness Session on Brain Plasticity & Brain Fitness with Dr. Michael Merzenich

This past weekend the New York Times continued its coverage of the Boomers reaching retirement age. Interestingly, they tracked down and profiled the first boomer (at least one of the early ones) to reach retirement age; click the link to read more about this generation and one of its first born, Aloysius Nachreiner. Oliver Sacks [...]

1. Person of the Year
2. The Ultimate D.I.Y. Project
3. New Web Resource: “About the Brain”

Time Magazine got it wrong.  Naming Mark Zuckerberg “Person of the Year” is okay but a better choice would have been the first Boomer to turn 65 in 2011.  That person, whomever he or she may be, is literally at the forefront of a tsunami that will change our world. NPR reported this morning that [...]

1. Boomer Coverage, Continued
2. The Coming Costs of Alzheimer’s
3. Why isn’t brain health top of mind?

The brain fitness market has expanded rapidly in recent years, and there is now a large selection of computer and on-line brain training exercises to choose from. At one end of the spectrum are games that are purely for entertainment purposes. At the other end are exercises that have been scientifically validated in clinical trials. [...]

1. Live Blogging the SharpBrains Summit – Day 1
2. Our Brain Awareness Session on Brain Plasticity & Brain Fitness with Dr. Michael Merzenich
3. Posit Science training programs provide many real-world benefits

I just found out that more than half of babies born in developed countries today will live to be more than 100 years old. That’s a lot of centenarians. Apparently, with each passing year humankind (in rich countries, at least) gains an average of 3 months of extra life expectancy, thanks to medical advances. As [...]

1. Centenarians Show Us What It Takes To Live Long (and Prosper)
2. The Age of the World… in Art
3. Chemobrain and cognitive training

Is there really anything more interesting to talk about than music? Personally, I can’t think of anything else I would rather occupy my thoughts and conversations with. That’s probably because for me, music connects to everything worth caring about in the first place: culture, technology, and language. Mark Richardson, one of my favorite modern writers [...]

1. Music and the Brain: Further Evidence on The Power of Sound
2. Tinnitus, Music, and Brain Plasticity
3. Top 12 Brain-Based Reasons Why Music as Therapy Works

Ed. note: Today we are pleased to present a guest post from Dr. G, aka M. A. Greenstein, Ph.D. Dr. G is an internationally recognized speaker, coach, and researcher of visual culture and neurosomatics.  Click on her name above for a full biography. With the ever increasing research buzz on brain fitness, and especially “novel” [...]

1. Men’s Brains vs. Women’s Brains: Social Implications of Neuroimaging (Part 1 of 2)
2. Men’s Brains vs. Women’s Brains: Social Implications of Neuroimaging (Part 2 of 2)
3. Our Brain Awareness Q&A Session on Movement, Exercise, and the Brain with Dr. G

Depending on where you live, you may have seen our new commercial on TV. We are really proud of it- because it reminds people that among other benefits, Posit Science programs are clinically proven to help people improve their memory and auditory processing, cut crash risk in half, and protect health-related quality of life for [...]

1. UFOV Training Reduces Medical Expenditures
2. Live Blogging the SharpBrains Summit – Day 1
3. Giving Health Advice for Older People? Don’t Forget the Brain!