Exercise your brain in the Cognitive Age

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 3, 2008 |

In the past two days, The New York Times has pub­lished two excel­lent arti­cles on brain and cog­ni­tive fit­ness. Despite appear­ing in sep­a­rate sec­tions (tech­nol­o­gy and editorial), the two have more in com­mon than imme­di­ate­ly meets the eye. Both raise key ques­tions that politi­cians, health pol­i­cy mak­ers, busi­ness leaders, educators and consumers should pay atten­tion to. 1) First, Exer­cise Your Brain, or Else You’ll … Uh …, by Katie…

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Jogging our Brains for Brain Vitality, Healthy Aging-and Intelligence!

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 12, 2007 |

Quick: say the col­or in which each word in this graph­ic is dis­played (don’t just read the word!): Here you have a round-up of some great recent arti­cles on mem­o­ry, aging, and cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties such as self-con­trol: 1) How to Boost Your Willpow­er (New York Times). — “The video watch­ers were lat­er giv­en a con­cen­tra­tion test in…

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Brain Fitness Training for Trainers

By Caroline Latham | April 23, 2007 |

The Osh­er Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tutes (OLLI) at San Fran­cis­co State Uni­ver­si­ty and Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley, and Sharp­Brains offer this three-day work­shop for edu­ca­tors and brain fit­ness prac­ti­tion­ers seek­ing instruc­tion­al cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in the Sharp­Brains course, Exer­cis­ing Our Brains. Sharp­Brains (www.sharpbrains.com) has intro­duced the first sci­ence-based brain fit­ness cen­ter with infor­ma­tion and pro­grams to help peo­ple of all ages exer­cise their brains. They have offered the pop­u­lar Exer­cis­ing Our Brains course at SF State’s OLLI since Octo­ber 2005.

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Brain Awareness Week

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 7, 2007

When is Brain Aware­ness Week? March 12–18, 2007 What Will Hap­pen The Brain Aware­ness Week is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn more about how the brain func­tions and how to cul­ti­vate a healthy brain. The Dana Foun­da­tion and mul­ti­ple part­ners, such as Sharp­Brains, will lead out­reach events world­wide. In the blog of the Dana Foun­da­tion we…

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