Exercise your brain at these events

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 25, 2008

Here are the dates and loca­tions of some upcom­ing events where I will be pre­sent­ing. Please intro­duce your­self if you are attend­ing! » Sep­tem­ber 4–5th, San Fran­cis­co, CA: sev­er­al Brain Health Pro­mo­tion ses­sions, at the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging con­fer­ence. » Octo­ber 9th, Van­cou­ver, Cana­da: Exer­cis­ing Our Brains 101 and Nav­i­gat­ing The Brain Fit­ness Maze,…

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Cognitive Fitness @ UC-Berkeley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 26, 2007

Quick post for my UC-Berke­­ley OLLI stu­dents: here are the links I promised. — Col­lec­tion of 50 Brain Teasers. — Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series includ­ing in-depth notes of inter­views with lead­ing sci­en­tists and prac­ti­tion­ers. — Build Your Cog­ni­tive Reserve-Yaakov Stern: which talks about the Cog­ni­tive Reserve and Alzheimer’s symp­toms, and includes a great clip on the famous…

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Executive Functions and Google/ Microsoft Brain Teasers

By SharpBrains | September 5, 2007 |

Inter­est­ing arti­cle: Want a job at Google? Try these brain­teasers first (CNN) Quote: “Seem­ing­ly ran­dom ques­tions like these have become com­mon­place in Sil­i­con Val­ley and oth­er tech out­posts, where com­pa­nies aren’t as inter­est­ed in the cor­rect answer to a tough ques­tion as they are in how a prospec­tive employ­ee might try to solve it. Since businesses…

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Top Ten Tips for Women Who Lead Men

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 2, 2007 |

Ellen recent­ly wrote a nice post titled Top Ten Tips for Men Who Lead Women, and asked for vol­un­teers to offer a com­ple­men­tary per­spec­tive. I hope you enjoy! We men know we are hard to lead, and that can be stress­ful for you and for us. You should know that stress affects short term mem­o­ry, so…

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Bill Gates Harvard commencement speech (and his Frontal Lobes)

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 16, 2007 |

Bill Gates deliv­ered a very inspir­ing com­mence­ment speech in Har­vard last week. I rec­om­mend read­ing the full Remarks of Bill Gates and reflect­ing on his core mes­sage, which may be sum­ma­rized in its last sen­tence: “And I hope you will come back here to Har­vard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have…

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