You know your weight. And your physical fitness. And a variety of health-related metrics.

What about your brain fitness?

Two recent announcements bring out how the assessment of cognitive abilities, or brain functions, is increasingly being done thanks to new computerized options:

1) Last week, OptumHealth announced an exclusive 3-year agreement (estimated at $18m) with the Australian company Brain Resource. OptumHealth will be embedding the Brain Resource platform into their overall Behavioral Solutions program.

- OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions will work with Brain Resource to provide clinicians with a Web-based assessment that measures general cognition (how people process information) and social cognition (how people manage their emotions). This 40-minute assessment is based on well-known and validated tests of memory, attention, executive function, and response speed, and mood, social skills and emotional resilience.

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First of all, thank you for coming to enjoy our 50 brain teasers…the reaction was overwhelming. We will prepare more!

Second, quick links to excellent health-related blog carnivals:

Grand Rounds: the most comprehensive one

Health Wonk Review: focused on public policy 

Change of Shift:  nursing-oriented

Medicine 2.0: on how web 2.0 interacts with the medical field

Third, here you have a useful ranking of top 100 Health blogs. Our blog is #10, despite our niche focus on brain health and fitness!