Brain Exercise and Fitness: August Monthly Digest

Crossword PuzzleAs we announced last month, we are offer­ing a month­ly digest of news. Today we will share the most pop­u­lar August posts. Con­sid­er it your month­ly Brain Exer­cise Magazine!

 

News You Can Use

The Ten Habits of High­ly Effec­tive Brains: our most suc­cess­ful post so far, on how to main­tain fit brains, with over 70,000 read­ers in a few days!

Phys­i­cal Exer­cise Boosts Mem­o­ry: “It is impor­tant for peo­ple of all ages to do 20 to 30 min­utes of aer­o­bic exer­cise sev­er­al times a week.”

 

Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket News

Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram 2.0, Mind­Fit, and more: overview and com­men­tary on recent New York Times and The Times articles.

Brain Train­ing Games and “Games”: 10-ques­tions to help eval­u­ate pro­grams mak­ing brain train­ing claims.

Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, Health and Brain Fit­ness News: a few announcements.

 

Cor­po­rate Well­ness and Training

Train­ing the Aging Work­force: an overview of demo­graph­ic trends and impli­ca­tions, rel­e­vant to every HR and Train­ing pro­fes­sion­al and boomer.

 

On Learn­ing and “Being Smart”

Feed Your Brain with Fun Neu­ro­science: some of my favorite quotes from our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series.

Smart Brains, Becom­ing Smarter, and Intel­li­gence: an essay by David Gamon on what being “smart” means and what hap­pens as we age.

 

Research

Cog­ni­tive train­ing research: Mind­Fit, Lumos­i­ty, Posit Sci­ence, Cogmed: overview of some recent­ly pub­lished and ongo­ing stud­ies.: overview of some recent­ly pub­lished and ongo­ing studies.

Cog­ni­tive Enhance­ment and Exer­cise, by Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg: a nice pod­cast inter­view with our co-founder, neu­ro­sci­en­tist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg.

 

We hope you enjoy these arti­cles and find them use­fu and stimulating!

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