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Cognitive Assessments

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

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1.
 Can We Pick Your Brain re. Cog­ni­tive Assess­ments?
- By Dr. Joshua Stein­er­man
 If you could, you would. You can, but pre­fer not to know it?
More than any other organ, your brain is up to you. You are what you think, not just what you eat. Here’s some food for thought:
Set­ting cog­ni­tive and behav­ioral goals raises chal­leng­ing and wor­thy ques­tions: What do you […]
2.
 Cen­tre for Brain Fit­ness at Bay­crest: Inter­view with Dr. William Reich­man
- By Alvaro Fer­nan­dez
In April 2008, Bay­crest, a lead­ing research insti­tute focused on aging and brain func­tion, received $10-million from the Ontario Gov­ern­ment to cre­ate a ground­break­ing Cen­tre for Brain Fit­ness. Its stated goal was to “develop and com­mer­cial­ize a range of prod­ucts designed to improve the brain health of aging Ontar­i­ans and oth­ers around the world”.
“Our gov­ern­ment is […]
3.
 Neu­rocog­ni­tive assess­ments and sports con­cus­sions
- By Alvaro Fer­nan­dez
 Con­cus­sion effect ‘spans decades’ (BBC)
– “Peo­ple con­cussed in their youth show sub­tle signs of men­tal and phys­i­cal prob­lems even more than 30 years later, say Cana­dian researchers.“
– “Dr Louis de Beau­mont, who led the study, said: “This study shows that the effects of sports con­cus­sions in early adult­hood per­sist beyond 30 years post-concussion, and that […]
4.
 Com­put­er­ized Cog­ni­tive Assess­ments: oppor­tu­ni­ties and con­cerns
- By Alvaro Fer­nan­dez
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 […]
5.
 Posit Sci­ence, Nin­tendo Brain Age, and Brain Train­ing Top­ics
- By Alvaro Fer­nan­dez
A few col­leagues referred me over the week­end to a very nice arti­cle at busi­ness pub­li­ca­tion Port­fo­lio. While the arti­cle does an excel­lent job at intro­duc­ing the reader to the con­cept and promise of com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive assess­ments, it also con­tributes to the mythol­ogy of “Brain Age”.

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