Study Links Obesity and Cognitive Fitness — In Both Directions

By SharpBrains | August 26, 2011 |

Obe­si­ty linked to Cog­ni­tion (Health­Canal): — “Obese peo­ple tend to per­form worse than healthy peo­ple at cog­ni­tive tasks like plan­ning ahead, a lit­er­a­ture review has found, con­clud­ing that psy­cho­log­i­cal tech­niques used to treat anorex­i­cs could help obese peo­ple too.”

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Study: Contrasting Brain Growth in Baby Humans and Baby Chimpanzees

By SharpBrains | August 16, 2011

Chart­ing Brain Growth in Humans and Chimps (New York Times): — “Although baby humans and baby chim­panzees both start out with unde­vel­oped fore­brains, a new study reports that the human brain increas­es in vol­ume much more rapid­ly ear­ly on.” — “The growth is in a region of the brain known as the pre­frontal cor­tex and is part…

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Why we need to Retool Use it or lose it

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 4, 2009

The July/ August 2009 issue of The Jour­nal on Active Aging includes my arti­cle Why We Need to Retool “Use It Or Lose It” An excerpt: “By now you have prob­a­bly heard about brain plas­tic­i­ty, the life­long capac­i­ty of the brain to change and rewire itself in response to the stim­u­la­tion of learn­ing and experience.…

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ETech09: on Life Hacking and Brain Training

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 12, 2009

Here you have the pre­sen­ta­tion I deliv­ered on Tues­day at ETech 2009 (this year’s O’Reil­ly Emerg­ing Tech­nol­o­gy Con­fer­ence): Emerg­ing Research and Tech­nol­o­gy for Life Hacking/ Brain Train­ing  (click to open pre­sen­ta­tion in new win­dow) Descrip­tion: Life hack­ing. Brain train­ing. They are one and the same. The brain’s frontal lobes enable our goal-ori­en­t­ed behav­ior, sup­port­ing executive…

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