Ed. Note: we are live blogging selected sessions of this year’s SharpBrains Virtual Summit: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century. 2:05 PM: The session has wrapped up. We’ll be back tomorrow for one more session, “From Lab to Marketplace: How Science Reaches Users” at 8:30 AM. 2:02 PM: Dr. Wilson introduces Sophia Vinogradov, who [...]
Tags: ACTIVE study, Adam Gazzaley, attention, brain training, daphne bavelier, driving training, IMPACT study, jerri edwards, sharpbrains, sharpbrains summit, sophia vinogradov, video games
Posted March 31, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience
On the road in Tampa to explain brain fitness.
Tags: jerri edwards, magazine, news, Tampa, TV, University of South Florida
Posted May 19, 2010 by Steven Aldrich under Brain exercise, Neuroscience, Physical exercise
Recently Dr. Jerri Edwards of the University of South Florida published a paper showing that older adults who cease driving have higher mortality rates.1 You might think this can be easily explained by the fact that unhealthy people are more likely to cease driving. However, Dr. Edwards used an analytical method to take into account [...]
Tags: depression, Driving, driving cessation, health care, isolation, jerri edwards, mortality
Posted February 4, 2010 by Peter Delahunt under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, DriveSharp, Driving, InSight, Neuroscience, Research studies
1:38 PM: That’s it for our live blog today- Peter Delahunt will start the live blogging tomorrow morning at 8 AM for Day 2 coverage. We hope you enjoyed the live blog and that you’ll be back tomorrow! 1:35 PM: Elkhonon Goldberg is the Chief Scientific Advisor to SharpBrains. He begins by discussing the role [...]
Tags: allstate, alvaro fernandez, bill reichman, brain fitness, cognifit, conference, david whitehouse, Driving, driving safety, Elizabeth Zelinski, elkhonon goldberg, IMPACT study, jerri edwards, Kunal Sarkar, Lumosity, marian diamond, murali doraiswamy, plasticity, science claims, sharpbrains, shlomo breznitz, summit, teen driving, tom warden
Posted January 18, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, Brain Fitness Marketing, Brain Fitness Program, Brain plasticity, DriveSharp, Driving, Driving safety, Exercise, InSight, Memory, Neuroscience, Posit Science software, Processing speed, Research studies
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