Fundamental is a word scientists like to use a lot. Fundamental knowledge. Fundamental insight. Fundamental discovery. Well, you get the idea. But it is the deeper thinkers, the activist intellectuals ...

In 2013, Nature told the world that NeuroRacer, the first health game from the research lab that would spin out to become Akili Labs, was a game changer. While Akili Labs cofounder and Chief Science ...

If Dr. Adam Gazzaley had his way, doctors would stop using primarily prescription drugs to treat neurological issues and disorders on older patients and start prescribing video games. The professor of ...

Gazzaley’s new book, cowritten with psychologist Larry D. Rosen of California State University, Dominguez Hills, is called The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World. In it, the two ...

Apps and gaming companies have claimed for years that video games can improve our cognitive function. But not all games are created equal. Just one company, Boston-based Akili Interactive Labs, has ...

Adam Gazzaley is building a repertoire of games that could one day help us reduce or even reverse the impact on our cognitive faculties of disorders such as Alzheimer's, or deficits caused by brain ...

Dr. Gazzaley has extensively studied how the brain handles memory, attention and aging. Gazzaley awed the crowd midway through the session by strapping an EEG on Hart as he paced, clutching a drum, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Ever find yourself juggling multiple devices at once? You're not alone. Just don't call it multi-tasking. UCSF brain researcher Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D., says what you're ...

Over the last six years Adam Gazzaley's research has undergone a transformation. He's moved from studying how the brain works, to studying the brain as it ages, then into the domain of applying ...

Videogames as medicine. It sounds like a sci-fi movie subplot in which scientists repurpose an addictive leisure activity into a prescriptive treatment. Like many sci-fi scenarios, though, this story ...