Update: Brain Fitness Seminars

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We hope you have some time to share with us today. Just came back from a superb event on Brain Health Across the Lifespan…and many stim­u­lat­ing things are hap­pen­ing in the world of brain fitness.

News and Events

Exer­cise your brain in the Cog­ni­tive Age: The New York Times pub­lished two thought-pro­vok­ing arti­cles on brain and cog­ni­tive fit­ness, one of them fea­tur­ing SharpBrains.

Brain Fit­ness Webi­nar Series: Alvaro has been trav­el­ling a great deal over the last 2 weeks to speak at a num­ber of con­fer­ences (Games for Health, Inno­va­tion Insti­tute, Learn­ing & The Brain) and uni­ver­si­ties (Har­vard Busi­ness School), main­ly to present the key find­ings from our mar­ket report. Now we launch­ing a Brain Fit­ness Webi­nar Series to share the most impor­tant high­lights of our work and field, helped by biol­o­gist and author John Medina:

Webi­nar #1: “The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket, 2008, (Tues­day May 27th, 11am PDT).

Webi­nar #2: “Brain Rules for Think­ing Smarter, by guest speak­er John Med­i­na (Tues­day June 3rd, 11am PDT).

Webi­nar #3: “The Sci­ence and Prac­tice of Brain Fit­ness, (Tues­day June 10th, 11am PDT).

To learn more and reg­is­ter, click on Brain Fit­ness Webi­nar Series

Research

Can Intel­li­gence Be Trained? Mar­tin Buschkuehl shows how: These inter­view notes sum­ma­rize a great con­ver­sa­tion Alvaro had with Mar­tin Buschkuehl, one of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan’s researchers  involved in the cog­ni­tive train­ing study that has received lots of media atten­tion (New York Times, Wired, Sci­ence News…) since late April.

Under­stand­ing Brain Imag­ing: Spec­tac­u­lar post writ­ten by four of Dr. Daniel Lende’s stu­dents, show­ing how brain imag­ing pro­vides a win­dow into the plas­tic­i­ty of our brains, and how our very own actions impact them. For bet­ter and for worse.

Mar­ket

Jack LaLanne and Dakim: Beau­ti­ful dis­play of creativity…

Resources

Psy­chol­o­gy of Intel­li­gence Analy­sis: The CIA has post­ed the full text of one of its guide­books, “Psy­chol­o­gy of Intel­li­gence Analy­sis”. Fas­ci­nat­ing overview.

Brain and Cog­ni­tion Expert Con­trib­u­tors: We pro­file some of our grow­ing ros­ter of Expert Con­trib­u­tors and link to their best arti­cles with us so far. Enjoy!

Direc­to­ry of Web­sites: Here you have a vari­ety of brain and brain-health resources, includ­ing many gems.

Brain Teas­er

Word game: stim­u­late your tem­po­ral lobe: Teas­er that tar­gets the neu­rons in your lan­guage areas, by Dr. Pas­cale Michelon.

And final­ly, you may enjoy these reflec­tions on Gold­en Moments of Choice…and self-direct­ed neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty by read­ing Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty through Mind Hygiene.

Enjoy!