Music: Another Pillar of Brain Fitness?

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | November 26, 2010 |

Musi­cians’ brains are often used as mod­els of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty. Indeed, numer­ous stud­ies to date have shown that musi­cal train­ing can change the brain. Musi­cians have larg­er brain vol­ume in areas that are impor­tant for play­ing an instru­ment: motor, audi­to­ry and visuo-spa­­tial regions. A recent Nature Review Neu­ro­science arti­cle shows that music train­ing can ben­e­fit the…

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Update: Brain Health Promotion Event and Predictions

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 31, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. News and Events Brain Health Pro­mo­tion by the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging: You may be inter­est­ed in the excel­lent agen­da the…

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Brain Fitness/ Training Newsletter: January Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 31, 2008 |

As we have been doing for the last 6 months, here you are have the Month­ly Digest of our Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your month­ly Brain Fitness/ Train­ing Newslet­ter. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our month­ly newslet­ter at the top of this…

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Books on neuroplasticity and memory training

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 3, 2007 |

Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: the brain’s abil­i­ty to reor­ga­nize itself by form­ing new con­nec­tions through­out life. (see more con­cepts in our Glos­sary). We coud­n’t be hap­pi­er about the grow­ing num­ber of books pop­u­lar­iz­ing the key lessons about brain train­ing that Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg has been research­ing and writ­ing about for years, and that moti­vat­ed us to embark ourselves…

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