Update: Four Essential Yet Overlooked Facts About Your Brain

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Decem­ber 2013 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a vari­ety of resources, brain teasers and arti­cles. Enjoy the reading…and Hap­py Holidays!

Fea­tured resources:

• Arti­cle: 4 Essen­tial (and Over­looked) Facts About Your Brain and Your Mind (via Cre­ativ­i­ty Post)
• Video: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age (via New York Pub­lic Library and YouTube)
• Book dis­count: The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness via Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk  (dis­count expires this Sun­day, Decem­ber 22nd!)

Brain teasers:

• Brain teasers to under­stand and boost cog­ni­tive abilities
• Test your Brain with these Teasers and Visu­al Illusions

Research and indus­try news:

• Neu­roe­d­u­ca­tion: Top find­ings to update edu­ca­tion and learning
• Debunk­ing the left-brain/ right-brain myth
• Study: Does Mind­ful­ness Med­i­ta­tion train­ing help adults with ADHD?
• Study: Ques­tion­ing the cog­ni­tive ben­e­fits of music classes
• Under­stand­ing the impact of con­cus­sions on the brain
• Roset­ta Stone to buy Viv­i­ty Labs, devel­op­er of Fit Brains brain train­ing games

Please remem­ber that we are host­ing a num­ber of webchats in Jan­u­ary to dis­cuss your impres­sions and ques­tions about  The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age (284 pages; 2013), so we hope you can spend some time read­ing the book over the hol­i­days, and per­haps even dis­cuss it with friends and relatives.

We wish you Hap­py Hol­i­days and a Pros­per­ous 2014!