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May 15, 2008

Update: Brain Fitness Seminars

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Here you are have the bi-monthly update with our 10 most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter, at the top of this page, if you want to receive this digest by email).Crossword Puzzles Brain fitness

We hope you have some time to share with us today. Just came back from a superb event on Brain Health Across the Lifespan…and many stim­u­lat­ing things are hap­pen­ing in the world of brain fitness.

News and Events

Exer­cise your brain in the Cog­ni­tive Age: The New York Times pub­lished two thought-provoking arti­cles on brain and cog­ni­tive fit­ness, one of them fea­tur­ing SharpBrains.

Brain Fit­ness Webi­nar Series: Alvaro has been trav­el­ling a great deal over the last 2 weeks to speak at a num­ber of con­fer­ences (Games for Health, Inno­va­tion Insti­tute, Learn­ing & The Brain) and uni­ver­si­ties (Har­vard Busi­ness School), mainly to present the key find­ings from our mar­ket report. Now we launch­ing a Brain Fit­ness Webi­nar Series to share the most impor­tant high­lights of our work and field, helped by biol­o­gist and author John Medina:

Webi­nar #1: “The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket, 2008, (Tues­day May 27th, 11am PDT).

Webi­nar #2: “Brain Rules for Think­ing Smarter, by guest speaker John Med­ina (Tues­day June 3rd, 11am PDT).

Webi­nar #3: “The Sci­ence and Prac­tice of Brain Fit­ness, (Tues­day June 10th, 11am PDT).

To learn more and reg­is­ter, click on Brain Fit­ness Webi­nar Series

Research

Can Intel­li­gence Be Trained? Mar­tin Buschkuehl shows how: These inter­view notes sum­ma­rize a great con­ver­sa­tion Alvaro had with Mar­tin Buschkuehl, one of the Uni­ver­sity of Michigan’s researchers  involved in the cog­ni­tive train­ing study that has received lots of media atten­tion (New York Times, Wired, Sci­ence News…) since late April.

Under­stand­ing Brain Imag­ing: Spec­tac­u­lar post writ­ten by four of Dr. Daniel Lende’s stu­dents, show­ing how brain imag­ing pro­vides a win­dow into the plas­tic­ity of our brains, and how our very own actions impact them. For bet­ter and for worse.

Mar­ket

Jack LaLanne and Dakim: Beau­ti­ful dis­play of creativity…

Resources

Psy­chol­ogy of Intel­li­gence Analy­sis: The CIA has posted the full text of one of its guide­books, “Psy­chol­ogy of Intel­li­gence Analy­sis”. Fas­ci­nat­ing overview.

Brain and Cog­ni­tion Expert Con­trib­u­tors: We pro­file some of our grow­ing ros­ter of Expert Con­trib­u­tors and link to their best arti­cles with us so far. Enjoy!

Direc­tory of Web­sites: Here you have a vari­ety of brain and brain-health resources, includ­ing many gems.

Brain Teaser

Word game: stim­u­late your tem­po­ral lobe: Teaser that tar­gets the neu­rons in your lan­guage areas, by Dr. Pas­cale Michelon.

And finally, you may enjoy these reflec­tions on Golden Moments of Choice…and self-directed neu­ro­plas­tic­ity by read­ing Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity through Mind Hygiene.

Enjoy!

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Top Articles on Brain Health and Neuroplasticity

  1. Debunk­ing 10 com­mon brain fit­ness myths, by Alvaro Fernandez
  2. Brain plas­tic­ity: How learn­ing changes your brain, by Pas­cale Michelon
  3. 8 Tips To Remem­ber What You Read, by Bill Klemm
  4. Why do You Turn Down the Radio When You’re Lost?, by Car­o­line Latham
  5. Retool­ing Brain Care With Low-Cost, Data-Driven Tech­nolo­gies, by Alvaro Fernandez
  6. Do you believe these neu­romyths?, by SharpBrains
  7. Six tips to build resilience and pre­vent brain-damaging stress, by SharpBrains
  8. Does cog­ni­tive train­ing work? (For Whom? For What?), by Pas­cale Michelon
  9. The Emo­tional Life of Your Brain, by by Richard David­son, Sharon Begley
  10. To Be (Your Con­nec­tome), or Not to Be (Your Genome), by Sebas­t­ian Seung
  11. Top 10 Brain Fit­ness Future Trends, by Alvaro Fernandez
  12. Biofeed­back now a “Level 1 — Best Sup­port” Inter­ven­tion for ADHD, by SharpBrains
  13. When 1 + 1 = 5: Dyscal­cu­lia and Work­ing Mem­ory, by Tracy Alloway
  14. Train­ing Atten­tion and Emo­tional Self-Regulation — Inter­view with Michael Pos­ner, by Alvaro Fernandez
  15. The Ten Habits of Highly Effec­tive Brains, by Alvaro Fernandez
  16. Does brain train­ing work? Yes, if it meets these 5 con­di­tions, by SharpBrains
  17. Cog­ni­tive ther­apy or med­ica­tion? Brain scans may help per­son­al­ize treat­ments, by SharpBrains
  18. New Study shows Teens with ADHD helped by Cog­ni­tive Behav­ioral Ther­apy, by David Rabiner
  19. How Do Words Change Our Brains and Lives?, by Andrew New­berg, Mark Waldman
  20. BBC “Brain Train­ing” Exper­i­ment: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, by Alvaro Fernandez
  21. From Anti-Alzheimer’s “Magic Bul­lets” to True Brain Health, by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Peter Whitehouse
  22. Why Agile Minds Deploy Both Ratio­nal and Intu­itive Problem-Solving, by Judith Tingley
  23. Why I Wrote The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, by Bar­bara Arrowsmith-Young
  24. The Busi­ness and Ethics of the Brain Fit­ness Boom, by Alvaro Fernandez
  25. Break­ing Down the Cog­ni­tion & Alzheimer’s Dis­ease Alpha­bet Soup, by Dharma Singh Khalsa
  26. Top 10 Quotes on Life­long Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity, by Alvaro Fernandez
  27. To Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity, Start with Enthu­si­asm, by Helena Popovic
  28. Q&A with Yaakov Stern on Brain Reserve, Exer­cise, Cog­ni­tive Train­ing, Angry Birds, by Alvaro Fernandez
  29. Eval­u­a­tion Check­list for Brain Fit­ness prod­ucts and games, by Alvaro Fernandez
  30. Mind­ful­ness and Med­i­ta­tion in Schools for Stress Man­age­ment, by Jill Sutie
  31. Stress and Neural Wreck­age: Part of the Brain Plas­tic­ity Puz­zle, by Gre­gory Kellet
  32. Cog­ni­tive and Emo­tional Devel­op­ment Through Play, by David Elkind
  33. AARP’s Brain Fit­ness Best Books List, by SharpBrains
  34. Judith Beck: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Per­son, by Alvaro Fernandez
  35. Improve Mem­ory with Sleep, Prac­tice, and Test­ing, by Bill Klemm
  36. 10 Brain Tips To Teach and Learn, by Lau­rie Bartels
  37. Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg on Cog­ni­tive Train­ing and Brain Fit­ness, by Alvaro Fernandez
  38. Mind­ful­ness Med­i­ta­tion for Adults & Teens with ADHD, by David Rabiner
  39. Phys­i­cal Exer­cise and Brain Health, by Pas­cale Michelon
  40. Sleep, Tetris, Mem­ory and the Brain, by Shan­non Moffet

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