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Rocketboom Tech's Ellie Rountree speaks with Alvaro Fernandez, Founder of SharpBrains, to learn more about the neurology of our brains and cognitive training. Dec 9, 2009

Scotiabank and Baycrest today officially announced that the Bank will become the title sponsor of the 2010 Scotiabank Pro-Am for Alzheimer's, which expands to two cities this year: Edmonton and Toronto. Earlier this month, Baycrest and Toronto innovation centre MaRS announced the launch of a new company, Cogniciti, that will develop and market brain fitness products aimed at helping adults extend their memory and cognitive abilities longer in the lifespan. Dec 9, 2009

Rocketboom Tech's Ellie Rountree speaks with Alvaro Fernandez, Founder of SharpBrains, to learn more about the neurology of our brains and cognitive training. Dec 9, 2009

Seniors are staying healthier and living longer. Dr. Jane Barratt, secretary general of the International Federation on Aging, believes only one in seven seniors needs to live in a long-term care facility. Even some quite frail elderly people can and should remain independent in their homes. A conference Tuesday and Wednesday at the MaRS Centre in Toronto explored the business of aging and looked at public policy solutions to issues such as brain health, health care and pensions. Dec 4, 2009

Cogniciti, is a new for-profit company that will create and market products designed to help adults extend their memories and cognitive abilities. The Toronto-based business is a partnership between two non-profit organizations, Baycrest and the MaRS Discovery District, an organization that helps science, technology and social entrepreneurs build their companies. Memory@Work is Cogniciti's first product.

Canada's aging population is about to drive medical costs sky high. The The Business of Aging event happening at the MaRS Centre on Dec 1 & 2, 2009. This event will explore the business of aging and look at public policy solutions to issues such as brain health, health care and pensions. Nov 29, 2009

Garten's headband is called Muse, a fashion-forward brainwave sensing wearable device which monitors and collects data from your brain and sends to your smartphone or tablet. Think this sounds like a concept we will see only in the future? Think again. This device is expected to hit the market later this year.

"Encycle Therapeutics, a MaRS Innovation spin-off company, has created a ground-breaking chemistry platform for cyclizing peptides that promises to increase the efficiency of the early-stage drug discovery process."

Baycrest is a provides healthcare for elderly patients and is the research centre for the development of innovation on aging and brain health. Mary Allen, report from IT in Canada states "Baycrest places a good deal of emphasis on collaboration - with the University of Toronto to meet research goals, with the MaRS Discovery District for commercialization of products to maintain healthy cognitive functioning."

"Encycle Therapeutics, a MaRS Innovation spin-off company, has created a ground-breaking chemistry platform for cyclizing peptides that promises to increase the efficiency of the early-stage drug discovery process."

MaRS Client, Axela, talks about moving from human protein testing into the agricultural markets -- the challenges and the opportunities.

InteraXon is a start-up that has developed the largest thought-controlled computer interface experiment in human history. MaRS Discovery District has been working with InteraXon to develop and market it's products.

William Reichman, Baycrest President and CEO of Canada, announced the creation of a new company with MaRS, a center specializing in Canadian innovation. The new company, called Cogniciti will produce games and mental training protocols to beat the decline in memory with the help of high-tech games.