The Brain Fitness Program DVD (Michael Merzenich)

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 8, 2008 |

The most pop­u­lar ques­tion we got when we announced that PBS had a great spe­cial on Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram and Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty in Decem­ber was, when will the DVD be avail­able? Well, final­ly here it comes. You can click on the image or the title to go over to PBS shop to learn more and buy it.…

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Memory Improvement Techniques and Brain Exercises

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 22, 2007 |

A read­er (thanks Mike!) sends us this fun arti­cle, titled A mat­ter of train­ing, on how to train our mem­o­ry. Some quotes: “It’s a skill, not a tal­ent. It’s some­thing any­one could have picked up … I’m not born with this. It’s about train­ing and tech­nique, he says, explain­ing his unusu­al abil­i­ty. Anant holds the…

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Working Memory Training from a pediatrician perspective, focused on attention deficits

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 10, 2007 |

Today we inter­view Dr. Arthur Lavin, Asso­ciate Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Pedi­atrics at Case West­ern School of Med­i­cine, pedi­a­tri­cian in pri­vate prac­tice, and one of the first providers of Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing in the US (the pro­gram whose research we dis­cussed with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg and Dr. Bradley Gib­son). Dr. Lavin has a long standing…

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The Gregarious Brain and cognitive skills

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 8, 2007 |

I find via Mind­Hacks that NYT Mag­a­zine has pub­lished a great arti­cle titled The Gre­gar­i­ous Brain, sub­ti­tled “Williams syn­drome — a genet­ic acci­dent that caus­es cog­ni­tive deficits-”. The writer, David Dobbs, does an spec­tac­u­lar job at explain­ing that syn­drome in the con­text of what cog­ni­tive skills are and how they evolved. Some sam­ple quotes: “In the…

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Brain Fitness news.

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 23, 2007 |

A cou­ple of good recent arti­cles: (You can join our month­ly newslet­ter by sub­scrib­ing at the top of this page). Brain Games will give adults all the chal­lenge they can han­dle Bal­ti­more Sun, MD. Mar 22, 2007.The reporter pro­vides a great sur­vey of prod­ucts. The only parts I find miss­ing are: 1) what spe­cif­ic cog­ni­tive skill/s is/are…

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