This week, we learned that Brain Plasticity Inc. (BPI), a new “technology incubator”, has received $3.65 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct research on software-based programs. They have been awarded $3 million to work on creating and testing a cognitive program for people with schizophrenia, as well as $650,000 for people [...]

1. Research and the Media – Reading Between the Lines
2. Brain Plasticity Cuts Both Ways: How Does Technology Affect The Brains of Children?
3. Tinnitus, Music, and Brain Plasticity

Viewing television and playing video games each are associated with increased subsequent attention problems in childhood.

1. Brain Plasticity Cuts Both Ways: How Does Technology Affect The Brains of Children?
2. Unlocking Alzheimer’s in the Mountains of Colombia
3. Move Aside, Drugs: Non-invasive Brain Therapies

Multiple studies have shown that Posit Science training programs produce many benefits for healthy adults by improving cognitive performance. There is also great interest in the science community for using our products to address cognitive decline in clinical populations. The goal of brain plasticity based training programs is to re-normalizing brain function through rigorous and [...]

1. Liveblogging “HIV-Related Cognitive Decline: Can Brain Training Help?” – Webinar with Dr. Sean Rourke
2. HIV-Related Cognitive Decline – Webinar with Dr. Sean Rourke
3. Posit Science training programs provide many real-world benefits

It has become clear over the last few years that one of the many benefits of regular physical exercise is a better functioning brain. In a recent review paper Erickson and Kramer (2009) noted the following: People who exercise regularly have larger volumes of grey matter in important regions of the brain, including the prefrontal, [...]

1. Move Aside, Drugs: Non-invasive Brain Therapies
2. UFOV Training Reduces Medical Expenditures
3. A Posit-Powered Skiing Champion

About the Brain is a new section on the Posit Science website that’s chock-full of great information about the brain and brain fitness. You can choose from these areas of interest: Brain Facts helps you understand how your brain and brain plasticity work. It answers all kinds of questions, like “Are crosswords really good for [...]

1. The Tipping Point?
2. Gentlemen: Start Your Engines! It’s Men’s Health Week
3. UFOV Training Reduces Medical Expenditures

Recently, I read an article about the promise of a nutritional drink called Souvenaid for Alzheimer’s treatment. (My co-worker wrote a great blog post about it a couple of weeks ago.) As reported in CNN, early studies showed the drink had the potential to improve certain types of memory in Alzheimer’s patients. Then I found [...]

1. Brain Plasticity Inc. to Receive $3.65 Million Funding for Schizophrenia & Stroke Research
2. Move Aside, Drugs: Non-invasive Brain Therapies
3. Live Blogging the SharpBrains Summit – Day 1

If you ever get a chance to talk to Dr. Mike Merzenich, be assured he’ll fill you with a missionary’s zeal for brain fitness.  You’ll leave the conversation wondering why everyone isn’t taking advantage of their brains’ natural abilities to improve.  However, we know good habits aren’t embraced by our society overnight.  It’s taken decades [...]

1. The Surprising Talents of the Middle Aged Mind
2. Holiday Break + Customer Support
3. UFOV Training Reduces Medical Expenditures

Lately I’ve been really interested in the role of brain development and function in criminal behavior–both for “minor” crimes like drug possession and more serious felonies. It’s a controversial topic that has the potential to shake our judicial and prison systems to the core. If someone’s brain is  “wired” to believe a certain criminal activity [...]

1. Brain Plasticity Cuts Both Ways: How Does Technology Affect The Brains of Children?
2. The Second Language Brain Debate
3. Brain Plasticity Inc. to Receive $3.65 Million Funding for Schizophrenia & Stroke Research

The holidays are rapidly approaching, and if you’re like me, you may still be struggling with deciding what ‘perfect gift’ you should give your mate or aunt or sister that could really mean something for them.  In the Land of Plenty, it is sometimes hard to determine what those individuals that we love can really [...]

1. Brain Healthy Holiday Gift Guide!
2. Live Blogging the SharpBrains Summit – Day 1
3. A Posit-Powered Skiing Champion