Fit Brains

File:Fit Brains logo Wiki 1
Type	Private
Founded	Vancouver (2007)
Headquarters	300-150 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Michael Cole, CEO/Founder Paul Nussbaum, CSO/Co-Founder Mark Baxter, VP Product/Co-Founder
Industry	Casual Games Online Games
Products	Brain Fitness, Brain Games, Brain Teasers
Divisions	http://www.fitbrains.com/brain-games
Website	http://www.fitbrains.com

Fit Brains is an online platform focused on the area of brain fitness through exercises.^[1] The platform has online exercises in the form of brain games, personalized tools that provide feedback and charts to improve brain fitness, and blogs and articles on brain health.^[2] It is built with scientific input from Paul Nussbaum.

Contents 1 History 2 Aims 3 Media attention 4 See also 5 References

[edit] History

Fit Brains was founded by Michael Cole, Paul Nussbaum, and Mark Baxter in Vancouver, British Columbia. The platform was started with private investors' money and is supported by Telefilm Canada and National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP).^[3]

[edit] Aims

The main objective of Fit Brains is to create an online brain fitness platform geared toward baby boomers and anyone who wants to exercise and improve their cognitive functions with [1]. Fit Brains focuses on improving five cognitive functions: memory, language, concentration, executive functions, visual and spatial skills.^[4] It offers nine games that exercise one or more functions. The science of each game is provided and users can track their performance using feedback and monitoring tools.

[edit] Media attention

Fit Brains was featured on CBS News on July 10, 2008.^[5] It is supported on Bigfish and Prevention.

[edit] See also

• Mental health
• Psychiatric assessment
• Psychiatry
• Mental disorder
• Neurocognitive
• Serious game
• Mind360
• Lumosity

[edit] References