Talk about a corporate headache. Lumosity, the brain-training game app whose TV ads and web presence have been near-ubiquitous in recent years, was slapped with a $50 million fine by the FTC earlier ...

Lumosity, which creates brain-training exercises and games, has raised $31.5 million in additional funding to help enhance cognitive studies and performance around the world. The San Francisco-based ...

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The brain-training giant Lumosity is recalibrating its strategy and facing new challenges as it reels from a federal crackdown on bold health claims about its digital games. The company behind the ...

For Lumos Labs, which makes the brain training app Lumosity, the year started on a sour note. Midway through the first week in January, the Federal Trade Commission announced it was suing the company ...

Brain-game maker Lumos Labs just got slapped with a $2 million penalty from the Federal Trade Commission for falsely claiming that it can help people fight the degenerative effects of aging. The ...

You've probably seen or heard ads for the brain training app Lumosity boasting that its games were designed by neuroscientists and were scientifically proven to help stave off Alzheimer's as well as ...

Want to be smarter? Look no further than Lumosity, a suite of brain training games that promise to help you make better decisions in life and work by targeting key areas of your brain in just an hour ...

As a neuroscience PhD candidate at Stanford, Michael Scanlon explored the effects of cognitive training through small-scale experiments on fish and rats. Now, seven years after dropping out to start a ...

Brain training apps such as Lumosity and Elevate are supposedly useful in order to keep your cognitive skills sharp, but there's been quite a bit of doubt cast on whether they are actually useful. Now ...

The creators of the Lumosity "brain training" program will pay the Federal Trade Commission $2 million to settle charges they deceived consumers with unfounded claims that their product sharpened ...

Sarah Mitroff has worn many hats at CNET, including Senior Mobile Editor and Managing Editor of Health and Wellness. Currently, she is a freelance editor. Throughout her career, she's written about ...