Cognitive, Brain News RoundUp

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 18, 2008

Inter­est­ing recent news: 1) A Par­a­digm Shift in Genet­ics (Philadel­phia Inquir­er) 2)  Con­fer­ence on Brain Devel­op­ment and Learn­ing: Mak­ing Sense of the Sci­ence (thanks Pete) 3) 1 in 5 vet­er­ans found with men­tal dis­or­der (Boston Globe) 4) Com­mon Med­ica­tions May Harm Mem­o­ry in Old­er Peo­ple (U.S. News & World Report) 5) Men More Like­ly to Devel­op Cog­ni­tive Prob­lems (Forbes) For more…

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Human Resources, Brain Science, Health Blogs

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 16, 2008

Some great new edi­tions of our favorite blog car­ni­vals: — Encephalon, For­thy-Third Edi­tion: the best of recent neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy blog posts. — Grand Rounds Vol­ume 4, Num­ber 30: superb overview of the health & med­i­cine blo­gos­phere. — Car­ni­val of HR #31: great resources for Human Resources professionals.

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Bi-Weekly Update: Preventing Memory Loss and Public Policy

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 15, 2008 |

Here you are have the bi-mon­th­­ly Digest of our most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter at the top of this page if you want to receive this digest by email). Brain Fit­ness News and Events Upcom­ing Events: I will be speak­ing at…

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Upcoming Brain Health and Fitness Events

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 14, 2008 |

I will be speak­ing at the these upcom­ing con­fer­ences: if you are attend­ing, please let me know! » Boston, April 28th, 2008: Pan­el on Lat­est Brain Research Trends, at the Learn­ing and the Brain Con­fer­ence. » Boston, April 29th, 2008: New Devel­op­ments in Cog­ni­tive Retrain­ing Tech­nol­o­gy, at the Inno­va­tion Insti­tute. » Bal­ti­more, May 9th, 2008:  The State…

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Cognitive Health News Round-Up

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 10, 2008

Round-up of inter­est­ing recent news on cog­ni­tive health and fit­ness: the field is in motion. 1) Bay­crest cre­ates Cen­tre for Brain Fit­ness with $10-mil­lion Invest­ment from Ontario Gov­ern­ment (Cana­da NewsWire) 2) Cog­ni­tive tests are the best way to select med­ical stu­dents (EurekAlert) 3) High blood pres­sure hard on the aging brain (Reuters) 4) Alzheimer’s tests ben­e­fi­cial for seniors (Atlanta-Jour­­nal…

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Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Prevention

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 9, 2008 |

We just received these two very thought-pro­­vok­ing essays on Alzheimer’s Dis­ease and brain health, as part of a writ­ing work­shop, led by Susan Hill in Lake­land, Flori­da, with a group of grade 9–11 home­school­ers. With­out fur­ther ado, here you are both Essays: Essay A. Pre­vent­ing Alzheimer’s at Work – By Josh H 5,000,000: that is the number…

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