My nephew Jack is playing soccer for a local club and has started learning to juggle the ball. It has been a long time since I played soccer so I thought it would be fun to learn along with him. When we started, we were getting 1 or 2 juggles before the ball hit the ground,…
One of our goals here at Posit Science is to make BrainHQ the best brain training program in the world. To do that, we have worked with hundreds of scientists, making sure our scientific foundation, design, and research is top notch. But there’s another group of people that’s equally important to listen to: people who…
A few months ago, a scientific colleague – Dr. Phil Harvey, of the University of Miami – came to me with a fun idea. He had been giving talks at various universities about cognitive training, and always got a lot of questions about the back-and-forth that seems to dominate our field (Cognitive training works! Cognitive…
We spend a lot of time building solutions to improve memory and the brain’s speed and accuracy…we understand how those improvements in brain performance translate into measurable, real-world impact. I was struck today, though, about the importance of the brain in emotional situations. A lapse in emotional intelligence – from misunderstanding your own or another’s emotional state…
An impactful experience when my family spent time at Animal Assisted Happiness
Cognitive ability is a critical measure of safe driving … understanding that point the way toward improving our ability to deal with the many distractions beyond texting that we can’t eliminate or legislate.
I am disappointed that distracted driving has been myopically defined as “texting while driving” … we are missing an opportunity to make a dent in the 6 million annual crashes in the US.
Brain training works! Brain training doesn’t work! Every week, I see a new headline in the news about brain training, and they reliably go back and forth between these two extremes like the tick-tock of a clock. Why the back and forth? If a study shows that brain training works in one week, how can…
I attended a talk by Dr. Frank Longo some years ago at Stanford. At the time Frank was the Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford and he walked the audience of a few hundred people through emerging treatments for cognitive health. One of the topics he touched on was the…
One of the most significant issue facing people with mental illness is their ability to integrate into society—to make friends, hold down a productive job, and contribute to their families. Imagine two people with bipolar disorder, both suffering the severe mood swings between manic energy and deep depression. One stays in touch with friends from…
