Study: Training law-enforcement “itchy brains” can reduce shooting-related civilian casualties

By SharpBrains | July 27, 2015

. Brain Train­ing May Help Avoid Civil­ian Casu­al­ties (Duke Today): “Although fir­ing a gun seems like one action, it is made up of many small­er deci­sions and move­ments that require coor­di­na­tion between mul­ti­ple brain areas. The sud­den deci­sion to not shoot, called ‘response inhi­bi­tion,’ is crit­i­cal when some­one inno­cent comes into the line of fire. 

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Mixed reaction to new BRAIN initiative

By SharpBrains | April 15, 2013

Map­ping the mind—smart think­ing for brain health? (The Lancet):  “…Will the real­i­ty match the ambi­tion? Reac­tion has been mixed…Given that our brains change, learn, think, remem­ber, and are shaped by our expe­ri­ences, inter­ac­tions with oth­er peo­ple, and soci­ety, map­ping the elec­tri­cal spikes in the brain seems an over­ly restric­tive bio­med­ical approach to under­stand­ing the most…

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A Course Correction for Positive Psychology: A Review of Martin Seligman’s Latest Book

By Greater Good Science Center | September 15, 2011 |

(Editor’s Note: we are pleased to bring you this arti­cle thanks to our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Greater Good Sci­ence Cen­ter). A Course Cor­rec­tion for Pos­i­tive Psy­chol­o­gy A review of Mar­tin Seligman’s lat­est book, Flour­ish: A Vision­ary New Under­stand­ing of Hap­pi­ness and Well-Being. — By Jill Sut­tie As pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Psy­cho­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion in 1998, Mar­tin Selig­man challenged…

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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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