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Nov 11, 2011 Comments Off

Upcoming: Grand Rounds Blog Carnival and Brain Fitness Q&A

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Just a quick note to announce that next Tues­day, Novem­ber 15th, SharpBrains.com will be host­ing two great resources:

1– Grand Rounds Blog Car­ni­val: the weekly col­lec­tion of what’s best in the health and med­ical blo­gos­phere (see great lat­est edi­tion Here). If you want to con­tribute your own blog post, please do so via this Con­tact Us form.
2– Live Q&A Ses­sion with Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, coau­thor of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness (recently selected as one of the Best Books on Brain Fit­ness by AARP). Ses­sion will take place at 11am Pacific Time/ 2pm East­ern Time, and will be mod­er­ated by Harry Moody, Direc­tor of Aca­d­e­mic Affairs at AARP. To learn more click Here.

Please make sure to visit us Tuesday!

    Dec 27, 2010 2

    Debunking 10 Cognitive Health and Fitness Myths

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    As part of the research behind the book The Sharp­Brains Guide for Brain Fit­ness we inter­viewed dozens of lead­ing cog­ni­tive health and fit­ness sci­en­tists and experts world­wide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have a num­ber of take-aways to report.

    What Santiago Ramon y Cajal can we clearly say today that we couldn’t have said only 10 years ago? That what neu­ro­science pio­neer San­ti­ago Ramon y Cajal claimed in the XX cen­tury, “Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculp­tor his own brain”, may well become real­ity in the XXI.

    And trans­form Edu­ca­tion, Health, Train­ing, and Gam­ing in the process, since Read the rest of this entry »

    Sep 15, 2009 Comments Off

    Encephalon brain & mind blog carnival

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    New edi­tion of Encephalon, the selec­tion of recent blog posts on brain & mind top­ics, this time hosted by Mike at Ion­ian Enchant­ment. Enjoy Encephalon’s #75 edi­tion!

    Aug 21, 2009 Comments Off

    Encephalon brain & mind blog carnival

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    A new edi­tion is out, this time hosted by David at Neu­ronar­ra­tive. Visit Encephalon #74 edi­tion if you have an appetite for great brain & mind blog­ging, and some time to relax and enjoy!

    Dec 22, 2008 Comments Off

    Encephalon #61: Brain & Mind Reading for the Holidays

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    Wel­come to the 61st edi­tion Encephalon brain blog carnivalof Encephalon, the blog car­ni­val that offers some of the best neu­ro­science and psy­chol­ogy blog posts every other week.

    We do have an excel­lent set of arti­cles today. cov­er­ing much ground. Enjoy the reading:

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    Neu­ro­science and Society

    Neu­roan­thro­pol­ogy,
    by Greg Downey    		 The Flynn Effect: Trou­bles with Intel­li­gence
    Aver­age IQ test scores had risen about 3 points per decade and in some cases more. Tests of vocab­u­lary, arith­metic, or gen­eral knowl­edge (such as the sorts of facts one learns in school) have showed lit­tle increase, but scores have increased markedly on tests thought to mea­sure gen­eral intelligence.
    Mind­Hacks,
    by Vaughan Bell    		 Med­ical jar­gon alters our under­stand­ing of dis­ease
    Under­stand­ing how pop­u­lar ideas influ­ence our per­sonal med­ical beliefs is an essen­tial part of under­stand­ing med­i­cine itself.
    Cog­ni­tive Daily,
    by Dave Munger    		 Is it sex­ist to think men are angrier than women?
    Are we more likely to per­ceive a male face as angry and a female face as happy? A recent study sheds light on the issue.
    Neu­r­o­critic Crime, Pun­ish­ment, and Jerry Springer
    Judges and jurors must put aside their emotionally-driven desire for revenge when com­ing to an impar­tial ver­dict. Does neu­roimag­ing (fMRI) add any­thing to our under­stand­ing of justice?

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    Alzheimer’s Dis­ease and Neu­rocog­ni­tive Health Read the rest of this entry »

    Nov 25, 2008 Comments Off

    Encephalon, MetaCarnival

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    Mike hosts a great new edi­tion of Encephalon neu­ro­science & psy­chol­ogy blog car­ni­val, avail­able here: #59 edi­tion.

    Fyi, Kim at Change of Shift will pub­lish the next edi­tion of MetaCar­ni­val next Mon­day, Decem­ber 1st.

    Oct 27, 2008 1

    MetaCarnival #1: a conversation across the blogosphere

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    Wel­come to the first edi­tion of MetaCar­ni­val: a Car­ni­val of Car­ni­vals (announced here), the new, sycamore treemonthly, and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary gath­er­ing of blogs and blog carnivals.

    Let’s pic­ture all par­tic­i­pants in the shadow of an expan­sive sycamore tree, con­duct­ing a lively Q&A lunch discussion.

    Gen­eral Advice

    Q: What would you rec­om­mend to live as long as pos­si­ble, and as healthy as pos­si­ble?
    - Hour­glass (biol­ogy of aging): Try Not To Stab Your­self Repeat­edly. Or smoke. Or eat that much fast food…you get the idea.  “The vast major­ity of peo­ple are quite com­fort­able engag­ing in habits that cause great harm to the old per­son they will one day be, cut­ting off years or even decades of health.”

    Q: Can blog­ging help, too?
    - I and the Bird (birds): Indeed. Just read about these life-changing moments in the Kenyan high­lands, brought together spon­ta­neously as a col­lab­o­ra­tion between researchers, con­ser­va­tion­ists, blog­gers. And, yes, birds.


    Sports (Well… Brain and Sports)

    Q: Tell me some­thing inter­est­ing about ath­letes and “The Zone”.
    - Encephalon (neu­ro­science and psy­chol­ogy): why don’t we review this recent study on the Momen­tum Chain in Sports. You can con­duct your own mini exper­i­ment while watch­ing TV: watch the reac­tions of the play­ers and the teams right after “pre­cip­i­tat­ing events” to see if they actu­ally lead to game-changing moments.

    Med­i­cine

    Q: Should patients be patient?.
    - SurgeX­pe­ri­ences (sur­gi­cal expe­ri­ences): Patience in indeed a virtue, espe­cially Read the rest of this entry »

    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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