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Neuroplasticity, Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health News

Special Reports and Updates

The Brain Fit­ness and Cog­ni­tive Health mar­ket is becom­ing increas­ingly dynamic and com­plex, with grow­ing impli­ca­tions for orga­ni­za­tions in a vari­ety of sec­tors, such as health­care, gam­ing, seniors hous­ing, insur­ance, and more.

Sharp­Brains pub­lishes Spe­cial Reports to pro­vide timely updates and insight into ongo­ing trends, com­ple­ment­ing the annual in-depth review pro­vided in the The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2008 report.

Spe­cial Reports in 2008

Brain Fitness Market Report

Exec­u­tive Pre­sen­ta­tion: The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2008

Pub­lished: August 2008.

Descrip­tion: 43-slide Pow­er­Point Pre­sen­ta­tion sum­ma­riz­ing the con­tent fea­tured in the  87-page mar­ket report State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2008, cov­er­ing research, play­ers, trends and impli­ca­tions for Con­sumers, Health­care and Insur­ance Providers, K12 School Sys­tems and major corporations.

Avail­abil­ity: only for Pre­mium Research Cir­cle members.

Brain Fitness Centers in Seniors Housing - A Field in the Making

Brain Fit­ness Cen­ters in Seniors Hous­ing — A Field in the Making

Pub­lished: Sep­tem­ber 2008, and Avail­able Here.

Descrip­tion: Spe­cial Issue Brief prepared  for the Amer­i­can Seniors Hous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (ASHA) that describes the use of com­put­er­ized brain fit­ness tools being offered to seniors hous­ing res­i­dents as part of com­pre­hen­sive well­ness ini­tia­tives. The 15-page elec­tronic report (PDF) pro­vides an overview of the brain fit­ness field with four case stud­ies that shed light on the use of brain fit­ness cen­ters in seniors hous­ing com­mu­ni­ties, includ­ing those oper­ated by Senior Star Liv­ing of Tulsa, OK, Bel­mont Vil­lage Senior Liv­ing of Hous­ton, TX, and Erick­son Retire­ment Com­mu­ni­ties of Catonsville, MD.

Avail­abil­ity: $25 for indi­vid­ual pur­chase. Click Here to learn more and to order your copy.

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Mar­ket Update and Webi­nar on the Top 10 Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness Events of 2008

Pub­lished: Decem­ber 2008.

Descrip­tion: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO of Sharp­Brains and mem­ber of the World Eco­nomic Forum’s Coun­cil on the Chal­lenges of Geron­tol­ogy, will present a 27-slide Pow­er­Point Pre­sen­ta­tion dis­cussing the Top 10 Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness Events of 2008. Click Here to learn more.

Avail­abil­ity: Free for Pre­mium Research Cir­cle mem­bers. Reg­is­tra­tion for webi­nar is now closed.

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  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
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  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
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  14. Cog­ni­tive and Emo­tional Devel­op­ment Through Play, by David Elkind
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  17. Info­graphic: State of the Mar­ket 2009, by Paul Van Slembrouck
  18. Improve Mem­ory with Sleep, Prac­tice, and Test­ing, by Bill Klemm
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  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
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