Workshop on Brain Fitness: The Science and Practice

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 20, 2008 |

Fyi, I will be teaching this work­shop soon, as part of our col­lab­o­ra­tion with sev­er­al Osh­er Life­long Learn­ing Institutes:    San José State University’s Osh­er Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tute (web­site) presents  Title: Brain Fit­ness: The Sci­ence and Prac­tice. When: Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 2, 2008 9:30–3:30 What: Neu­ro­sci­en­tists have shown how the human brain retains neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty (the abil­i­ty to…

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emWave in Golf Digest

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2007 |

We often talk about how stress man­age­ment is as impor­tant as cog­ni­tive train­ing for brain fit­ness. We have also seen how traders can improve their per­for­mance by learn­ing how to man­age emo­tions of anx­i­ety and fus­tra­tion. Golf Digest has just pub­lished an arti­cle on how golfers can see their game improved thanks to stress management…

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Stress Management Workshop for International Women’s Day

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 8, 2007 |

Today is Inter­na­tion­al Wom­en’s Day 2007. Glob­al con­sult­ing com­pa­ny Accen­ture orga­nized a series of events, and I was for­tu­nate to lead a fun work­shop on The Neu­ro­science of Stress and Stress Man­age­ment in their San Fran­cis­co office, help­ing over 125 accom­plished women (and a few men) learn what stress is, its impli­ca­tions for our brain…

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