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March 13, 2019 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

There’s Actually a Lot of Hard Work Being Done While You Sleep

SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Turning our clocks ahead last weekend, robbed us all of an hour – as we were sleeping. With World Sleep Day coming up on Friday, and in honor of...
February 25, 2019 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

Study: Brain Training for Heart Failure

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new study — made available online in advance of print by The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and conducted by a team from Emory University...
February 12, 2019 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

This Valentine’s Day: Your Brain on Love

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oscar Wilde observed that love is even more mysterious than death. But, can’t love be distilled down to chemical processes in the brain? That...
January 08, 2019 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

Keeping New Year’s Resolutions: Your Brain and Commitment

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- It’s only a week into the new year, but people are already well along in failing at new year’s resolutions. An estimated 80 percent will be abandoned...
December 10, 2018 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

Study: BrainHQ Shows Promise in Gravely Disabled Patients with Schizophrenia

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A study, just published in the December print issue of the journal Schizophrenia Research, found that targeted cognitive training using BrainHQ — the...
November 09, 2018 07:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

Study Reveals Brain Signature of Depressed Mood

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the first time, researchers have identified what appears to be a signature pattern of brain activity when people are experiencing anxiety and...
November 05, 2018 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

National Cancer Institute Designates BrainHQ as a Research-Tested Intervention Program

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the US National Institutes of Health has designated BrainHQ online brain exercises, made by Posit Science, as...
October 15, 2018 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

BrainHQ Brain Exercises Spread Across 2019 Medicare Advantage Plans

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- There will be a new type of benefit to look for – brain fitness exercises – in many Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for 2019, as the open enrollment...
October 08, 2018 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

Insurers Find BrainHQ Exercises Reduce Car Crashes in Real-World Field Trials

DETROIT, Oct. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This week, researchers from Posit Science, maker of BrainHQ computerized brain exercises, will present data gathered with two major automobile insurers in...
September 04, 2018 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

The Dark Side of White Noise

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A review just published in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology questions whether white noise generators — boxes that make static-like sound and are...