Fun brain teaser for the weekend: What do you see?

By SharpBrains | May 31, 2019

What do you see first, ani­mals or peo­ple? And, if you try hard, and try dif­fer­ent … can you see both ani­mals AND peo­ple? :-)   For more visu­al illu­sions and brain teasers: Test your Brain with these 10 Visu­al Illu­sions Test your stress lev­el Top Brain Teasers, Games and Illu­sions, for Teens and Adults of…

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Update: 200 common prescription medications increase depression risk

By SharpBrains | June 28, 2018

___ Dear read­er, Time for Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter. It’s been a busy month, once again bring­ing to the fore­front the lim­i­ta­tions of our cur­rent health­care sys­tem and, on the pos­i­tive side, the grow­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to improve Brain Health and Men­tal Health for all, if we pay atten­tion to (and act on) lat­est research, think­ing and tools. New…

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5 quick brain teasers to sharpen two key cognitive skills: attention and working memory

By Caroline Latham | March 31, 2017

Look­ing for some fun–and free–cognitive stim­u­la­tion over the week­end? Here you have a few quick brain teasers to chal­lenge your atten­tion and your work­ing mem­ory (work­ing mem­ory is the capac­i­ty to keep infor­ma­tion in your mind while work­ing on pro­cess­ing and inte­grat­ing it) Please give them a try…they are not as easy as they may seem :-)

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The Hermann grid optical illusion, explained

By Caroline Latham | May 6, 2016

In this image, do you see some­thing oth­er than black and white? Does it mat­ter if you look direct­ly at one of the black blocks, vs. at one of the inter­sec­tions? While there are real­ly only black blocks and white spaces in the grid, the high con­trast black and white areas fool the eyes into per­ceiv­ing a gray…

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