References on Cognitive Health/ Brain Fitness

This is a par­tial list of the lit­er­a­ture we reviewed dur­ing the research phase of our new book, The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness.  We know many friends of Sharp­Brains are researchers, health­care pro­fes­sion­als, graduate/ Ph.D. stu­dents, who want have direct access to the ref­er­ences (per­haps PubMed should pro­mote itself as a nev­er end­ing source of men­tal stim­u­la­tion?), so here you have this list, orga­nized by rel­e­vant chap­ter. Please note that the list below appears in the book — whose man­u­script we had to close in Jan­u­ary 2009.

Intro­duc­tion

Basak, C. et al. (2008). Can train­ing in a real-time strat­e­gy video game atten­u­ate cog­ni­tive decline in old­er adults? Psy­chol­o­gy and Aging.
Beg­ley, S. (2007). Train your mind, change your brain: How a new sci­ence reveals our extra­or­di­nary poten­tial to trans­form our­selves. Bal­lan­tine Books.
DeKosky, S. T., et al. (2008). Gink­go bilo­ba for pre­ven­tion of demen­tia: a ran­dom­ized con­trolled tri­al. Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion, 300, 2253–2262.
Doidge, N. (2007). The Brain that changes itself: Sto­ries of per­son­al tri­umph from the fron­tiers of brain sci­ence. Viking Adult.

Chap­ter 1. The Brain and Brain Fit­ness 101 

Bunge, S. A., & Wright, S. B. (2007). Neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal changes in work­ing mem­o­ry and cog­ni­tive con­trol. Cur­rent Opin­ion In Neu­ro­bi­ol­o­gy, 17(2), 243–50.
Dama­sio, A. (1995). Descartes error: Emo­tion, rea­son, and the human brain. Pen­guin Press.
David Kolb, D. (1983). Expe­ri­en­tial learn­ing: Expe­ri­ence as the source of learn­ing and devel­op­ment. FT Press.
Dra­gan­s­ki, B., Gas­er, C., Kem­per­mann, G., Kuhn, H. G., Win­kler, J., Buchel, C., & May A. (2006). Tem­po­ral and spa­tial dynam­ics of brain struc­ture changes dur­ing exten­sive learn­ing. The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science, 261231, 6314–6317.
Gage, F. H., Kem­per­mann, G., & Song, H. (2007). Adult Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis. Cold Spring Har­bor Lab­o­ra­to­ry Press, NY.
Gard­ner, H. (1983). Frames of Mind: The the­o­ry of mul­ti­ple intel­li­gences. New York: Basic Books.
Gas­er, C. & Schlaug, G. (2003). Brain struc­tures dif­fer between musi­cians and non-musi­cians. The Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science, 23, 9240–9245.
Jensen, E. (2006). Enrich­ing the brain: How to max­i­mize every learn­er’s poten­tial. Jossey-Bass.
Kling­berg, T., Fer­nell, E., Ole­sen, P. J., John­son, M., Gustafs­son, P., Dahlstrm, K., Gill­berg, C. G., Forss­berg, H., & West­er­berg, H. (2005). Com­put­er­ized Train­ing of Work­ing Mem­o­ry in Chil­dren With ADHDA Ran­dom­ized, Con­trolled Tri­al. J Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Child and Ado­les­cent Psy­chi­a­try, 44(2), 177–186.
Maguire, E. A., Wool­lett, K., & Spiers, H. J. (2006). Lon­don taxi dri­vers and bus dri­vers: A struc­tur­al MRI and neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal analy­sis. Hip­pocam­pus, 16, 1091–1101.
Mechel­li, A., Crin­ion, J. T., Nop­peney, U. , O Doher­ty, J., Ash­burn­er, J., Frack­owiak, R. S., & Price, C. J. (2004). Struc­tur­al plas­tic­i­ty in the bilin­gual brain. Nature, 431, 757.
Par­sons, L. M. (2001). Explor­ing the func­tion­al neu­roanato­my of music per­for­mance, per­cep­tion, and com­pre­hen­sion. Annals Of The New York Acad­e­my Of Sci­ences, 930, 211–31.
Roenker, D., Cis­sell, G., Ball, K., Wadley, V., & Edwards, J. (2003). Speed of pro­cess­ing and dri­ving sim­u­la­tor train­ing result in improved dri­ving per­for­mance. Human Fac­tors, 45, 218–233.
Rue­da, M. R., Pos­ner, M. I., & Roth­bart, M. K. (2005) The devel­op­ment of exec­u­tive atten­tion: con­tri­bu­tions to the emer­gence of self-reg­u­la­tion. Devel­op­men­tal Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy, 28, 573–594.
Rue­da, M. R., Roth­bart, M. K.., Sac­ca­man­no, L., & Pos­ner, M. I. (2005) Training,maturation and genet­ic influ­ences on the devel­op­ment of exec­u­tive atten­tion. Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, 102, 14931–14936.
Stern, Y. (2002). What is cog­ni­tive reserve? The­o­ry and research appli­ca­tion of the reserve con­cept. Jour­nal of Int. Neu­ropsych. Soc., 8, 448–460.
Syl­west­er, R. (2007). The ado­les­cent brain: Reach­ing for auton­o­my. Cor­win Press.
Tang, Y., Ma, Y., Wang, J., Fan, Y., Feng, S., Lu, Q., et al. (2007). Short-term med­i­ta­tion train­ing improves atten­tion and self-reg­u­la­tion. Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, 104(43), 17152–17156.
Woodruff, L., & Woodruff, B. (2007). In an instant: A Fam­i­ly —  jour­ney of love and heal­ing. Ran­dom House.
Zull, J. E. (2002). The art of chang­ing the brain: Enrich­ing the prac­tice of teach­ing by explor­ing the biol­o­gy of learn­ing. Sty­lus Publishing.

Chap­ter 2. The 4 Pil­lars of Brain Maintenance

Ball, K., Berch, D. B., Helmers, K. F., Jobe, J. B., Lev­eck, M. D., Mar­siske, M., Mor­ris, J. N., Rebok, G. W., Smith, D. M., Tennst­edt, S. L., Unverza­gt, F. W., & Willis, S. L. (2002). Effects of cog­ni­tive train­ing inter­ven­tions with old­er adults. Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion, 288, 2271–2281.
Basak, C. et al. (2008). Can train­ing in a real-time strat­e­gy video game atten­u­ate cog­ni­tive decline in old­er adults? Psy­chol­o­gy and Aging.
• Brooks, J. O., Fried­man, L., Pear­man, A. M., Gray, C., & Yesav­age, J. A. (1999). Mnemon­ic train­ing in old­er adults: Effect of age, length of train­ing, and type of cog­ni­tive pre­train­ing. Inter­na­tion­al Psy­chogeri­atrics, 11, 75–84.
Burns, N. R., Bryan J., Net­tel­beck T. (2006). Gink­go bilo­ba: no robust effect on cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties or mood in healthy young or old­er adults. Human Psy­chophar­ma­col­o­gy, 21(1), 27–37.
Col­combe, S., & Kramer, A. F. (2003). Fit­ness effects on the cog­ni­tive func­tion of old­er adults: A Meta-Ana­lyt­ic study. Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sci­ence, 14 (2) , 125–130.
DeKosky, S. T., et al. (2008). Gink­go bilo­ba for pre­ven­tion of demen­tia: a ran­dom­ized con­trolled tri­al. Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion, 300, 2253–2262.
Der­winger, A., Neely, A. S., Pers­son, M., Hill, R. D., & Back­man, L. (2003). Remem­ber­ing num­bers in old age: Mnemon­ic train­ing ver­sus self-gen­er­at­ed strat­e­gy train­ing. Aging Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy and Cog­ni­tion, 10, 202–214.
Elsabagh, S., Hart­ley, D. E., Ali, O., Williamson, E. M., & File, S. E. (2005). Dif­fer­en­tial cog­ni­tive effects of Gink­go bilo­ba after acute and chron­ic treat­ment in healthy young vol­un­teers. Psy­chophar­ma­col­o­gy, 179(2), 437–46
Eriks­son, P. S., Per­fil­ie­va, E., Bjork-Eriks­son, T., Alborn, A. N., Nor­borg, C., Peter­son, D., & Gage, F. H. (1998). Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis in the adult human hip­pocam­pus. Nature Med­i­cine, 4(11): 1313–1317, 1998.
Faher­ty, C. J., Shep­herd, K. R., Herasimtschuk, A., & Smeyne, R. J. (2005). Envi­ron­men­tal enrich­ment in adult­hood elim­i­nates neu­ronal death in exper­i­men­tal Parkin­son­ism. Mol­e­c­u­lar Brain Research, 134(1), 170–179.
Fontani, G., Cor­rade­schi, F., Feli­ci, A., Alfat­ti, F., Miglior­i­ni, S., & Lodi L. (2005). Cog­ni­tive and phys­i­o­log­i­cal effects of Omega‑3 polyun­sat­u­rat­ed fat­ty acid sup­ple­men­ta­tion in healthy sub­jects. Euro­pean Jour­nal of Clin. Invest., 35(11), 691–9.
Gage, F. H., Kem­per­mann, G., & Song, H. (2007). Adult Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis. Cold Spring Har­bor Lab­o­ra­to­ry Press, NY.
Gopher, D., Weil, M., & Bareket, T. (1994). Trans­fer of skill from a com­put­er game train­er to flight. Human Fac­tors, 36, 1–19.
Heyn, P., Abreu, B. C., & Otten­bach­er, K. J. (2004). The effects of exer­cise train­ing on elder­ly per­sons with cog­ni­tive impair­ment and demen­tia: a meta-analy­sis. Archives of Phys­i­cal Med­i­cine and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion, 85(10), 1694–704.
Hill­man, C. H., Erick­son, K. I., & Kramer, A. F. (2008). Be smart, exer­cise your heart: exer­cise effects on brain and cog­ni­tion. Nature Reviews Neu­ro­science 9 (1), 58–65.
Katz­man, R., Aron­son, M., Fuld, P., Kawas, C., Brown, T., Mor­gen­stern, H., Frish­man, W., Gidez, L., Eder, H., & Ooi, W.L. (1989). Devel­op­ment of dement­ing ill­ness­es in an 80-year-old vol­un­teer cohort. Annals of Neu­rol­o­gy, 25, 317 — 324.
McCleary, L. (2007).The Brain Trust Pro­gram: A sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly based three-part plan to improve mem­o­ry, ele­vate mood, enhance atten­tion, alle­vi­ate migraine and menopausal symp­toms, and boost men­tal ener­gy. Perigee Trade.
McCraty, R., Bar­rios-Choplin, B., Roz­man, D., Atkin­son, M., & Watkins, A. D. (1998). The impact of a new emo­tion­al self-man­age­ment pro­gram on stress, emo­tions, heart rate vari­abil­i­ty, DHEA and cor­ti­sol. Inte­gr. Phys­i­ol. Behav. Sci., 33(2), 151–70.
Nair, K. S., Riz­za, R. A., O’Brien, P., Dhatariya, K., Short, K. R., Nehra, A., Vit­tone, J. L., et al. (2006). DHEA in elder­ly women and DHEA or testos­terone in elder­ly men. The New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine, 355(16), 1647–59.
Piscitel­li, S. C, Burstein, A. H., Chaitt, D., Alfaro, R. M., Fal­loon, J. (2001). Indi­navir con­cen­tra­tions and St John’s wort. Lancet, 357, 1210.
Roenker, D., Cis­sell, G., Ball, K., Wadley, V., & Edwards, J. (2003). Speed of pro­cess­ing and dri­ving sim­u­la­tor train­ing result in improved dri­ving per­for­mance. Human Fac­tors, 45, 218–233.
Sapol­sky, R. M. (2004). Why zebras don’t get ulcers. Owl Books.
Scarmeas, N., Levy, G., Tang, M. X., Man­ly, J., & Stern, Y. (2001). Influ­ence of leisure activ­i­ty on the inci­dence of Alzheimer’s dis­ease. Neu­rol­o­gy, 57, 2236–2242.
Snow­don, D. A., Ost­wald, S. K., Kane, R. L., & Keenan, N. L. (1989). Years of life with good and poor men­tal and phys­i­cal func­tion in the elder­ly. Jour­nal of Clin­i­cal Epi­demi­ol­o­gy, 42, 1055–1066.
Solomon, P. R, Adams, F., Sil­ver, A., Zim­mer, J., & DeVeaux, R. (2002). Gink­go for mem­o­ry enhance­ment: a ran­dom­ized con­trolled tri­al. JAMA, 288(7), 835–40.
Stern, Y. (2002). What is cog­ni­tive reserve? The­o­ry and research appli­ca­tion of the reserve con­cept. Jour­nal of Int. Neu­ropsych. Soc., 8, 448–460.
• Ver­haeghen, P., Mar­coen, A., & Goosens, L. (1992). Improv­ing mem­o­ry per­for­mance in the aged through mnemon­ic train­ing: A meta-ana­lyt­ic study. Psy­chol­o­gy and Aging, 7, 242–251.
Willis, S. L., Tennst­edt, S. L., Mar­siske, M., Ball, K., Elias, J., Koep­ke, K. M., Mor­ris, J. N., Rebok, G. W. Unverza­gt, F. W. Stod­dard, A. M., & Wright, E. (2006). Long-term effects of cog­ni­tive train­ing on every­day func­tion­al out­comes in old­er adults. Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion, 296(23), 2805–2814.
Wil­son, R.S., Ben­nett, D.A., Bienias, J.L., Aggar­w­al, N.T., Mendes de Leon, C.F., Mor­ris, M.C., Schnei­der, J. A., & Evans, D. A. (2002). Cog­ni­tive activ­i­ty and inci­dent AD in a pop­u­la­tion-based sam­ple of old­er per­sons. Neu­rol­o­gy, 59, 1910–1914.
Zelin­s­ki et al. (on-going). The IMPACT Study: A ran­dom­ized con­trolled tri­al of a brain plas­tic­i­ty-based train­ing pro­gram for age-relat­ed decline.
Zelin­s­ki, E. M., & Burnight, K. P. (1997). Six­teen-year lon­gi­tu­di­nal and time lag changes in mem­o­ry and cog­ni­tion in old­er adults. Psy­chol­o­gy and Aging, 12(3), 503–513.
Zull, J. E. (2002). The Art of chang­ing the brain: Enrich­ing the prac­tice of teach­ing by explor­ing the biol­o­gy of learn­ing. Sty­lus Pub­lish­ing: Ster­ling, VA.

Chap­ter 3. Men­tal Exer­cise vs. Men­tal Activity

Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging (2006). ASA-Metlife Foun­da­tion Atti­tudes and Aware­ness of Brain Health Poll.
Basak, C. et al. (2008). Can train­ing in a real-time strat­e­gy video game atten­u­ate cog­ni­tive decline in old­er adults? Psy­chol­o­gy and Aging.
Beck, A. (1979). Cog­ni­tive ther­a­py and the emo­tion­al dis­or­ders. Plume. Beck, J. S. (1995). Cog­ni­tive Ther­a­py: Basics and Beyond. Guil­ford Press.
Beck, J. S. (2007). The Beck diet solu­tion: Train your brain to think like a thin per­son. Oxmoor House.
Eric­s­son, K. A., & Delaney, P. F. (1998). Work­ing Mem­o­ry and Expert Per­for­mance. In R. H. Logie & K. J. Gilhooly (Eds.), Work­ing Mem­o­ry and Think­ing, pp. 93–114. Hills­dale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Gaab, N, Gabrieli, J. D. E., Deutsch, G. K., & Tem­ple, E. (2007). Neur­al cor­re­lates of rapid audi­to­ry pro­cess­ing are dis­rupt­ed in chil­dren with devel­op­men­tal dyslex­ia and ame­lio­rat­ed with train­ing: An fMRI study. Restora­tive Neu­rol­o­gy and Neu­ro­science, 25, 295–310.
• Gopher, D., Weil, M., & Baraket, T. (1994). Trans­fer of skill from a com­put­er game train­er to flight. Human Fac­tors, 36, 387–405.
Ham­brick, D. Z., Sathouse, T. A., & Meinz, E. J. (1999). Pre­dic­tors of cross­word puz­zle pro­fi­cien­cy and mod­er­a­tors of age-cog­ni­tion rela­tions. Jour­nal of Exper­i­men­tal Psy­chol­o­gy: Gen­er­al, 128, 131–164.
Hill­man, C. H., Erick­son, K. I., & Kramer, A. F. (2008). Be smart, exer­cise your heart: exer­cise effects on brain and cog­ni­tion. Nature Reviews Neu­ro­science 9 (1), 58–65.
Jaeg­gi, S. M., Buschkuehl, M., Jonides, J., & Per­rig, W. J. (2008). Improv­ing flu­id intel­li­gence with train­ing on work­ing mem­o­ry. Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, 105(19), 6829–6833.
Jobe, J. B., Smith, D. M., Ball, K., Tennst­edt, S. L., Mar­siske, M., Willis, S. L., Rebok, G. W., Mor­ris, J. N., Helmers, K. F., Lev­eck, M. D., Klein­man, K. (2001). ACTIVE: A cog­ni­tive inter­ven­tion trail to pro­mote inde­pen­dence in old­er adults. Con­trol Clin­i­cal Tri­als, 22(4), 453–479.
Kawashima, R. (2005). Train your brain: 60 days to a bet­ter brain. Kumon Pub­lish­ing North America.
Kling­berg, T., Fer­nell, E., Ole­sen, P. J., John­son, M., Gustafs­son, P., Dahlstrm, K., Gill­berg, C. G., Forss­berg, H., & West­er­berg, H. (2005). Com­put­er­ized train­ing of work­ing mem­o­ry in chil­dren with ADHDA ran­dom­ized, con­trolled tri­al. J. Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Child and Ado­les­cent Psy­chi­a­try, 44(2), 177–186.
Lavin, A., & Glaser, S. (2006). Who’s boss: Mov­ing fam­i­lies from con­flict to col­lab­o­ra­tion. Col­lab­o­ra­tion Press.
Lavin, A., & Glaser, S. (2007). Baby and tod­dler sleep solu­tions for dum­mies. Wiley.
Levine, M. (1995). All kinds of minds. Edu­ca­tors Pub­lish­ing Service
Mah­ncke, H. W., Con­nor, B. B., Appel­man, J., Ahsanud­din, O. N., Hardy, J. L., Wood, R. A., Joyce, N. M., Boniske, T., Atkins, S. M., & Merzenich, M. M. (2006). Mem­o­ry enhance­ment in healthy old­er adults using a brain plas­tic­i­ty-based train­ing pro­gram: A ran­dom­ized, con­trolled study. PNAS, 103(33), 12523–12528.
David­son, R. J., Kabat-Zinn, J., Schu­mach­er, J., Rosenkranz, M., Muller, D., San­torel­li, S. F., Urbanows­ki, F., Har­ring­ton, A., Bonus, K. and Sheri­dan, J. F. (2003). Alter­ations in brain and immune func­tion pro­duced by mind­ful­ness med­i­ta­tion. Psy­cho­so­mat­ic Med­i­cine, 65, 564–570.
New­berg, A., D Aquili, E., & Rause, V. (2001). Why God won’t go away: Brain sci­ence and the biol­o­gy of belief. Bal­lan­tine Books.
New­berg, A. & Wald­man, M. R. (2006). Why we believe what we believe: Uncov­er­ing our bio­log­i­cal need for mean­ing, spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, and truth. Free Press.
Paque­tte, V., Levesque, J., Men­sour, B., Ler­oux, J. M., Beau­doin, G., Bour­gouin, P., et al. (2003). Effects of cog­ni­tive-behav­ioral ther­a­py on the neur­al cor­re­lates of spi­der pho­bia. Neu­roim­age, 18, 401–409.
Roenker, D., Cis­sell, G., Ball, K., Wadley, V., & Edwards, J. (2003). Speed of pro­cess­ing and dri­ving sim­u­la­tor train­ing result in improved dri­ving per­for­mance. Human Fac­tors, 45: 218–233.
Scarmeas, N., Levy, G., Tang, M. X., Man­ly, J., & Stern, Y. (2001). Influ­ence of leisure activ­i­ty on the inci­dence of Alzheimer’s dis­ease. Neu­rol­o­gy, 57, 2236–2242.
Stahre, L., Trnell, B., Hkan­son, C.-.E., & Hll­strm, T. (2007). A ran­dom­ized con­trolled tri­al of two weight-reduc­ing short-term group treat­ment pro­grams for obe­si­ty with an 18-month fol­low-up. Inter­na­tion­al Jour­nal of Behav­ioral Med­i­cine, 14(1), 48–55
Steen­barg­er, B, N. (2006). Enhanc­ing Trad­er Per­for­mance: Proven Strate­gies From the Cut­ting Edge of Trad­ing Psy­chol­o­gy. Wiley.
Steen­barg­er, B. N. (2003). The Psy­chol­o­gy of Trad­ing: Tools and Tech­niques for Mind­ing the Mar­kets. Wiley.
Tang, Y., Ma, Y., Wang, J., Fan, Y., Feng, S., Lu, Q., et al. (2007). Short-term med­i­ta­tion train­ing improves atten­tion and self-reg­u­la­tion. Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, 104(43), 17152–17156.
Tem­ple, E., Deutsch, G. K., Pol­drack, R. A., Miller, S. L., Tal­lal, P.,Merzenich, M. M., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2003). Neur­al deficits in chil­dren with dyslex­ia ame­lio­rat­ed by behav­ioral reme­di­a­tion: Evi­dence from func­tion­al MRI. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100, 2860–2865.
Willis, S. L., Tennst­edt, S. L., Mar­siske, M., Ball, K., Elias, J., Koep­ke, K. M., Mor­ris, J. N., Rebok, G. W. Unverza­gt, F. W. Stod­dard, A. M., & Wright, E. (2006). Long-term effects of cog­ni­tive train­ing on every­day func­tion­al out­comes in old­er adults. Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion, 296(23), 2805–2814.
Woodruff, L., & Woodruff, B. (2007). In an Instant: A Fam­ilys jour­ney of love and heal­ing. Ran­dom House.
Zelin­s­ki et al. (on-going). The IMPACT Study: A ran­dom­ized con­trolled tri­al of a brain plas­tic­i­ty-based train­ing pro­gram for age-relat­ed decline.

Chap­ter 4. Brain Train­ing Soft­ware: Pro­files, Eval­u­a­tion Cri­te­ria and 21 Quick Picks

Bar­il, L., Nico­las, L., Croisile, B., Crozi­er, P., Hessler, C., Sas­so­las, A., McCormick, J. B., & Tran­noy, E. (2004). Immune response to Abetapep­tides in periph­er­al blood from patients with Alzheimer’s dis­ease and con­trol sub­jects. Neu­rosci. Lett., 355(3), 226–30
Gopher, D., Weil, M., & Bareket, T. (1994). Trans­fer of skill from a com­put­er game train­er to flight. Human Fac­tors, 36, 1–19.
Kawashima, R. (2005).Train your brain: 60 days to a bet­ter brain. Kumon Pub­lish­ing North America.
Kling­berg, T., Fer­nell, E., Ole­sen, P. J., John­son, M., Gustafs­son, P., Dahlstrm, K., Gill­berg, C. G., Forss­berg, H., & West­er­berg, H. (2005). Com­put­er­ized train­ing of work­ing mem­o­ry in chil­dren with ADHDA ran­dom­ized, con­trolled tri­al. J. Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Child and Ado­les­cent Psy­chi­a­try, 44(2), 177–186.
Mah­ncke, H. W., Con­nor, B. B., Appel­man, J., Ahsanud­din, O. N., Hardy, J. L., Wood, R. A., Joyce, N. M., Boniske, T., Atkins, S. M., & Merzenich, M. M. (2006). Mem­o­ry enhance­ment in healthy old­er adults using a brain plas­tic­i­ty-based train­ing pro­gram: A ran­dom­ized, con­trolled study. PNAS, 103(33), 12523–12528.
Nuss­baum, P. (2007). Your brain health lifestyle. Word Association.
Small, G. (2005). The mem­o­ry pre­scrip­tion: Dr. Gary Smalls 14-day plan to keep your brain and body young. Hyperion.
Steen­barg­er, B, N. (2006). Enhanc­ing trad­er per­for­mance: Proven strate­gies from the cut­ting edge of trad­ing psy­chol­o­gy. Wiley.

Chap­ter 5. A Grow­ing Range of Applications

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Chap­ter 6. Ready for the Future?

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Chap­ter 7. Open­ing the Debate

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