Seven fun brain teasers to honor our unique Brains and Minds during Brain Awareness Week 2020

Let’s cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week next week, March 16–22nd, by chal­leng­ing our minds safe­ly at home or at a san­i­tized office with one brain teas­er per day or, why not, try­ing them all at once :-) Here’s a selec­tion of sev­en fun brain teasers, puz­zles & games that Sharp­Brains read­ers (pri­mar­i­ly adults, but younger minds too) have…

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Brain Teaser: Ready to stimulate those neurons in your temporal lobes?

Lan­guage is pri­mar­i­ly processed in the tem­po­ral lobes–on the sides of your brain, next to you tem­ples, most­ly on the left side–and dif­fer­ent areas in the tem­po­ral lobes deal with dif­fer­ent aspects of lan­guage. For exam­ple, the Wer­nicke area sup­ports your abil­i­ty to under­stand words, where­as the Bro­ca area allows you to pro­duce lan­guage or…

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April 2015 Update: Latest neu­ro­science stud­ies, neu­rotech­nol­ogy news and brain fit­ness insights

. Time for Sharp­Brains’ April e‑newsletter, wrap­ping up this month’s key neu­ro­science stud­ies, neu­rotech­nol­ogy news and brain fit­ness insights…and includ­ing a fun brain teas­er at the end. Upcom­ing events: Neu­roGam­ing con­fer­ence + ESCoNS Sum­mit in San Fran­cis­co (dis­count code: Sharp­Brains) Online course on ADHD treat­ments to include com­ple­men­tary 1‑year treat­ment mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem (dis­count code: sharp2015) New research: The best brain supplement…

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