The “Holy Grail”: How to drive behavior change by harnessing neuroplasticity and emotions

By SharpBrains | November 17, 2014

— CWRU nurs­ing school award­ed $2.35 mil­lion to study the link between the brain and health behav­ior change (press release): “A five-year, $2.35 mil­lion grant from the Nation­al Insti­tute of Nurs­ing Research will allow researchers from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nurs­ing, Col­lege of Arts and Sci­ences and the School of Med­i­cine at Case…

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Learning to Cope with Google/ Information Overload

By SharpBrains | February 17, 2012

Google chang­ing how humans think (Cana­di­an Busi­ness): — “…the psy­chol­o­gists con­clud­ed that our reliance on the Inter­net has affect­ed how we relate to information—instead of remem­ber­ing the infor­ma­tion itself, we just remem­ber where to find it.” — “While the move from know­ing infor­ma­tion to know­ing where to find it has many benefits—including free­ing up your brain for…

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Transcript: David DiSalvo on How Cultural Evolution Outpaces Natural Evolution and Old Brain Metaphors

By SharpBrains | December 9, 2011

Below you can find the full tran­script of our engag­ing Q&A ses­sion today with David DiS­al­vo, author of What makes your brain hap­py and why you should do the oppo­site, mod­er­at­ed by Alvaro Fer­nan­dez. You vis­it pre­vi­ous Q&A Ses­sions Here. Full Tran­script (Light­ly edit­ed) of Live Q&A held on Decem­ber 9th, 2–3pm ET

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What makes your brain happy and why you should do the opposite

By David DiSalvo | November 29, 2011

(Edi­tor’s Note: This is an excerpt from David DiS­alvo’s new book What makes  your brain hap­py and why you should do the oppo­site.) Tak­ing a posi­tion in any argument—large or small—is slip­pery busi­ness for our brains. We can have every inten­tion of hon­est­ly pur­su­ing an answer, yet still fool our­selves into think­ing our method is…

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Learning with Video Games: A Revolution in Education and Training?

By Marshall Weinstein | July 29, 2011 |

In recent years, we have wit­nessed the begin­nings of a rev­o­lu­tion in edu­ca­tion.  Tech­nol­o­gy has fun­da­men­tal­ly altered the way we do many things in dai­ly life, but it is just start­ing to make head­way in chang­ing the way we teach.  Just as tele­vi­sion shows like Sesame Street enhanced the pas­sive learn­ing of infor­ma­tion for kids…

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