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About: Sebastian Seung @ MIT

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Profile: – Sebas­t­ian Seung is Pro­fes­sor of Com­pu­ta­tional Neu­ro­science and Physics at the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy, where he is cur­rently invent­ing tech­nolo­gies for map­ping con­nec­tions between the brain’s neu­rons, and inves­ti­gat­ing the hypoth­e­sis that we are all unique because we are “wired dif­fer­ently.” His new book is Con­nec­tome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are (Houghton Mif­flin Har­court; Feb­ru­ary 2012).

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Top Articles on Brain, Cognition and Neuroplasticity

  1. Do you believe these neu­romyths?, by SharpBrains
  2. Brain Plas­tic­ity: How learn­ing changes your brain, by Pas­cale Michelon
  3. In the Age of Google, Should Schools Teach Mem­o­riza­tion Skills?, by Bill Klemm
  4. Does cog­ni­tive train­ing work? (For Whom? For What?), by Pas­cale Michelon
  5. The Emo­tional Life of Your Brain, by by Richard David­son, Sharon Begley
  6. Cur­rent State of the Sci­ence behind Neu­ro­feed­back Treat­ment for ADHD, by David Rabiner
  7. To Be (Your Con­nec­tome), or Not to Be (Your Genome), by Sebas­t­ian Seung
  8. Top 10 Brain Fit­ness Future Trends, by Alvaro Fernandez
  9. Biofeed­back now a “Level 1 — Best Sup­port” Inter­ven­tion for ADHD, by SharpBrains
  10. When 1 + 1 = 5: Dyscal­cu­lia and Work­ing Mem­ory, by Tracy Alloway
  11. Train­ing Atten­tion and Emo­tional Self-Regulation — Inter­view with Michael Pos­ner, by Alvaro Fernandez
  12. The Ten Habits of Highly Effec­tive Brains, by Alvaro Fernandez
  13. Why do You Turn Down the Radio When You’re Lost?, by Car­o­line Latham
  14. Brain fit­ness Q&A: Mem­ory, stress, emo­tions, by Alvaro Fernandez
  15. Cog­ni­tive ther­apy or med­ica­tion? Brain scans may help per­son­al­ize treat­ments, by SharpBrains
  16. New Study shows Teens with ADHD helped by Cog­ni­tive Behav­ioral Ther­apy, by David Rabiner
  17. How Do Words Change Our Brains and Lives?, by Andrew New­berg, Mark Waldman
  18. BBC “Brain Train­ing” Exper­i­ment: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, by Alvaro Fernandez
  19. Sci­en­tific cri­tique of BBC/ Nature Brain Train­ing Exper­i­ment, by Liz Zelinski
  20. From Anti-Alzheimer’s “Magic Bul­lets” to True Brain Health, by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Peter Whitehouse
  21. Why Agile Minds Deploy Both Ratio­nal and Intu­itive Problem-Solving, by Judith Tingley
  22. Why I Wrote The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, by Bar­bara Arrowsmith-Young
  23. The Busi­ness and Ethics of the Brain Fit­ness Boom, by Alvaro Fernandez
  24. Break­ing Down the Cog­ni­tion & Alzheimer’s Dis­ease Alpha­bet Soup, by Dharma Singh Khalsa
  25. Top 10 Quotes on Life­long Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity, by Alvaro Fernandez
  26. To Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity, Start with Enthu­si­asm, by Helena Popovic
  27. Q&A with Yaakov Stern on Brain Reserve, Exer­cise, Cog­ni­tive Train­ing, Angry Birds, by Alvaro Fernandez
  28. It is Not Only Cars That Deserve Good Main­te­nance: Brain Care 101, 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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