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Brain Fitness Market

Here you have SharpBrains’ 5 most popular articles on the brain fitness market since 2006. Remember that you can subscribe to our free monthly Newsletter to receive new articles on the topic.

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Top 10 Brain Fitness/ Training Predictions
- By Alvaro Fernandez
In an emerging market like this, it is difficult to make precise projections. Here we point out a number of trends that executives, consumers, public policy makers, and the media should watch closely in the coming years, as brain  fitness and training becomes mainstream, new tools appear, and an ecosystem grows around it.[...]
2.
Report: State of the Market 2009
- By Alvaro Fernandez
This 150-page report finds sustained growth in the brain fitness software market (from $225m in 2007 to $265m in 2008) and promising seeds for future growth, combined with increased confusion given aggressive marketing claims and lack of education and standards. The report includes, for the first time:[...]
3.
Program Evaluation Checklist
- By Alvaro Fernandez
To help consumers and professionals navigate through the growing number of programs making “brain fitness” or “brain training” claims, we have published this Program Evaluation Checklist [...]
4.
The Brain Fitness Market in 2007/2008: An Executive Summary
- By Alvaro Fernandez
A spate of recent global news coverage on brain fitness and brain training reflects a growing interest in natural, non drug-based interventions to keep our brains sharp as we age. This interest is very timely, given an aging population, increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s rates, and soaring health care costs in the US that place more emphasis than ever on prevention and lifestyle changes. [...]
5.
Top 10 Cognitive Fitness Events of 2008 (Webinar)
- By Alvaro Fernandez
Important developments during 2008 underscore the solid fundamentals for the continued growth of this category: public policy initiatives, wide scale cognitive assessments, multiple venture capital investments, major initiatives by insurance companies, and new published research. SharpBrains forecasts the market to grow above $2b by 2015. [...]

Top 30 Articles

  1. Top 50 Brain Teasers, by SharpBrains Team
  2. The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains, by Alvaro Fernandez
  3. Why do You Turn Down the Radio When You're Lost?, by Caroline Latham
  4. Brain Plasticity: How learning changes your brain, by Pascale Michelon
  5. Top 10 Brain Fitness Future Trends, by Alvaro Fernandez
  6. 7 FAQs on Mental Exercise, by Alvaro Fernandez
  7. It is Not Only Cars That Deserve Good Maintenance: Brain Care 101, by Alvaro Fernandez
  8. Evaluation Checklist for Brain Fitness products and games, by Alvaro Fernandez
  9. MIT Event on Brain Games: Context, Trends, Questions, by Alvaro Fernandez
  10. Stress Management Workshop for International Women's Day, by Alvaro Fernandez
  11. Mindfulness and Meditation in Schools for Stress Management, by Jill Sutie
  12. Stress and Neural Wreckage: Part of the Brain Plasticity Puzzle, by Gregory Kellet
  13. How can I improve my short term memory?, by Caroline Latham
  14. Cognitive and Emotional Development Through Play, by David Elkind
  15. Judith Beck: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person, by Alvaro Fernandez
  16. Easy Steps to Improve Brain Health, by Caroline Latham
  17. Infographic: State of the Market 2009, by Paul Van Slembrouck
  18. Improve Memory with Sleep, Practice, and Testing, by Bill Klemm
  19. 10 Brain Tips To Teach and Learn, by Laurie Bartels
  20. Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg on Cognitive Training and Brain Fitness, by Alvaro Fernandez
  21. Maximize the Cognitive Value of Your Mental Workout, by Schlomo Breznitz
  22. Brain Fitness Program and Neuroplasticity @ PBS, by Alvaro Fernandez
  23. Mindfulness Meditation for Adults & Teens with ADHD, by David Rabiner
  24. Can Intelligence Be Trained? Martin Buschkuehl shows how, by Alvaro Fernandez
  25. How Strong is the Research Support for Neurofeedback in Attention Deficits?, by David Rabiner
  26. Exercising the body is exercising the mind, by Adrian Preda
  27. Brain Evolution and Why it is Meaningful Today to Improve Our Brain Health, by Larry McCleary
  28. Physical Exercise and Brain Health, by Pascale Michelon
  29. Posit Science, Nintendo Brain Age, and Brain Training Topics, by Alvaro Fernandez
  30. Sleep, Tetris, Memory and the Brain, by Shannon Moffet

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