Brain fitness tips to improve concentration and memory

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | December 11, 2015

. Concentration–or atten­tion– and mem­o­ry are two cru­cial men­tal skills and are direct­ly relat­ed. In fact, many mem­o­ry com­plaints have noth­ing to do with the actu­al abil­i­ty to remem­ber things: They come from a fail­ure to focus prop­er­ly on the task at hand. For exam­ple, when you don’t remem­ber where you parked your car

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Brain Fitness: Definition, Priorities, and Links to Neuroleadership and Human Capital

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 9, 2011 |

Yes­ter­day we had a fun ses­sion on Brain Fit­ness dur­ing the Neu­rolead­er­ship Sum­mit tak­ing place now in San Fran­cis­co, explor­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to enhance per­for­mance and health of lead­ers and work­forces by deploy­ing both old tools (like breath­ing and med­i­ta­tion) and new ones (such as biofeed­back and data­base-dri­ven per­son­al­ized brain train­ing solu­tions). Here are a couple…

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Alzheimer’s Early and Accurate Diagnosis: Normal Aging vs. Alzheimer’s Disease

By Dr. Murali Doraiswamy | April 29, 2009

(Edi­tor’s Note: I recent­ly came across an excel­lent book and resource, The Alzheimer’s Action Plan: The Experts’ Guide to the Best Diag­no­sis and Treat­ment for Mem­o­ry Prob­lems, just released in paper­back. Dr. Murali Doraiswamy, one of the authors and lead­ing Alzheimer’s expert, kind­ly helped us cre­ate a 2‑part arti­cle series to share with Sharp­Brains readers…

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