Working Memory Training can Influence Brain Biochemistry

By Dr. David Rabiner | February 22, 2009

I want­ed to alert you to a very inter­est­ing find­ing pub­lished in a recent issue of Sci­ence, one of the world’s lead­ing sci­en­tif­ic jour­nals. The study was led by Dr. Torkel Kling­berg and his col­leagues from the Karolin­s­ka Insti­tute in Swe­den. The goal was to learn whether Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing is asso­ci­at­ed with changes in…

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Cognitive Training (Cogmed) Changes the Brain More Than We Thought

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 6, 2009

Cog­ni­tive Train­ing Can Alter Bio­chem­istry Of The Brain (Sci­ence Dai­ly) — “Researchers at the Swedish med­ical uni­ver­si­ty Karolin­s­ka Insti­tute have shown for the first time that the active train­ing of the work­ing mem­o­ry brings about vis­i­ble changes in the num­ber of dopamine recep­tors in the human brain.” — ““Brain bio­chem­istry does­n’t just under­pin our men­tal activ­i­ty; our…

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Brain Fitness Update: Best of 2008

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 31, 2008 |

Dear read­er and mem­ber of Sharp­Brains’ com­mu­ni­ty, We want to thank you for your atten­tion and sup­port in 2008, and wish you a Hap­py, Pros­per­ous, Healthy and Pos­i­tive 2009! Below you have the Decem­ber edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter. Enjoy: Best of 2008  Announc­ing the Sharp­Brains Most Impor­tant Book of 2008: Neu­ro­sci­en­tist Torkel Kling­berg has writ­ten a very…

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The Overflowing Brain: Most Important Book of 2008

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 27, 2008 |

We have tracked for sev­er­al years the sci­en­tif­ic stud­ies pub­lished by Torkel Kling­berg and col­leagues, often won­der­ing aloud, “when will edu­ca­tors, health pro­fes­sion­als, exec­u­tives and main­stream soci­ety come to appre­ci­ate the poten­tial we have in front of  us to enhance our brains and improve our cog­ni­tive func­tions?” Dr. Kling­berg has just pub­lished a very stimulating…

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Torkel Klingberg helps with Overflowing Brain & Information Overload

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 29, 2008

Karolin­s­ka Insti­tute’s Dr. Torkel Kling­berg has just released in the US his excel­lent book The Over­flow­ing Brain: Infor­ma­tion Over­load and the Lim­its of Work­ing Mem­o­ry The title was first released in Swe­den with great suc­cess, and our co-founder Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg gave a Fore­word to the new US edi­tion. Dr. Kling­berg will be writ­ing an…

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Brain Research Interview Series

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 23, 2008 |

We are work­ing on improv­ing sev­er­al sec­tions of our web­site, espe­cial­ly our Resources sec­tion. It will look much bet­ter in a few days. Our first step has been to re-orga­nize our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series, and below you have how it looks today. Dur­ing the last 18 months I have had the for­tune to inter­view over 15…

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