Kunal Sarkar ’00 and Mike Scanlon ’01: A Gym for Your Brain?
When Mike Scanlon ’01 moved to California after college to study neuroscience at Stanford, he got in touch with Kunal Sarkar ’00, then living in San Francisco and working at a private-equity firm nearby. The friends got together often and talked about an intriguing area of Scanlon’s studies: how to take advantage of the brain’s plasticity to improve cognitive abilities. In 2005, Sarkar quit his job and Scanlon took a leave of absence from Stanford to create a palette of online games said to help sharpen memory, attention, and other brain functions.
