Madrid, 29 de septiembre: ¿Cómo debemos aplicar la neurotecnología en la clínica y en la educación?

By Universidad Camilo José Cela | September 13, 2022

Descrip­ción: La med­i­c­i­na, la psi­cología y la edu­cación están asistien­do a la irrup­ción de una gran can­ti­dad de nuevos enfo­ques gra­cias a la colab­o­ración con otras dis­ci­plinas como la inge­niería, la elec­tróni­ca o la com­putación. Estos nuevos enfo­ques pro­po­nen cri­te­rios y man­eras de abor­dar el neu­rode­sar­rol­lo y su aspec­tos patológi­cos (TND) de man­eras muy diferentes…

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Study: Practicing gratitude helps lower physiological stress levels of the “expresser” AND the “receiver”

By Greater Good Science Center | September 7, 2022

Express­ing grat­i­tude nur­tures our rela­tion­ships, help­ing us to feel clos­er to our friends and roman­tic part­ners. Some research sug­gests that grate­ful peo­ple seem to cope bet­ter with stress and enjoy supe­ri­or phys­i­cal health, per­haps because of those stronger social rela­tion­ships. What about expe­ri­enc­ing grat­i­tude with peo­ple we don’t know so well—like those we work with?…

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Building cognitive reserve helps delay memory and thinking decline regardless of genetic or childhood markers

By SharpBrains | August 30, 2022

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing time­ly brain news and a few fun brain teasers to test your per­cep­tu­al and cog­ni­tive skills. #1. Study: Build­ing cog­ni­tive reserve helps delay mem­o­ry and think­ing decline regard­less of genet­ic or child­hood mark­ers “While our child­hood can influ­ence our mem­o­ry and think­ing skills lat­er in life,…

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Study: Building cognitive reserve helps delay memory and thinking decline regardless of genetic or childhood markers

By SharpBrains | August 8, 2022

Build­ing cog­ni­tive reserve could pro­tect against mem­o­ry and think­ing decline, even with low child­hood cog­ni­tion scores (Alzheimer’s Research UK): New research sug­gests that peo­ple who devel­op high ‘cog­ni­tive reserve’ by the time they reach 69 years old may reduce their like­li­hood of mem­o­ry and think­ing decline, even with low child­hood cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties. The study was…

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Q&A with researcher Robb Rutledge on mental health, expectations, decision-making and, yes, holiday planning!

By Greater Good Science Center | July 25, 2022

Have you ever looked for­ward to a con­cert, beach vaca­tion, or par­ty only to find your­self not enjoy­ing it as much as you thought you would? You may be suf­fer­ing from over­ly high expec­ta­tions, says psy­chol­o­gist Robb Rut­ledge of Yale Uni­ver­si­ty. Rut­ledge and his col­leagues have been using smart­­phone-based data col­lec­tion (via a free app called…

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Update: Playing videogames may be more cognitively beneficial than other forms of screentime like social media, watching videos/ TV

By SharpBrains | June 30, 2022

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing time­ly brain & men­tal health news and a fun brain teas­er to put your tem­po­ral lobes to good use :-) #1. Study finds that play­ing videogames may be more cog­ni­tive­ly ben­e­fi­cial for chil­dren than oth­er forms of screen­time (social media, watch­ing videos/ TV) “Here, we esti­mat­ed the impact…

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