Brain Fitness articles: on brain change, being sharp, and plasticity

Octo­ber 3, 2006  |

Today we want to share some of the best arti­cles we have read over the last year in the pop­u­lar press, cat­e­go­rized by top­ic so you can quick­ly iden­ti­fy your inter­est and find a good read. Enjoy!  Great arti­cles in the busi­ness and gen­er­al media — Change or Die (Fast Com­pa­ny): a fas­ci­nat­ing look into how to…

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#4. Guess: Are there more brain connections in one human brain or leaves in the whole Amazon?

Octo­ber 1, 2006  |

Brain con­sists of bil­lions of nerve cells and neu­rons. If you can build more con­nec­tions inside in order to make it perfect. 

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Brain Fitness, Cultivating Cognition, and Brain Science

Octo­ber 1, 2006  |

Chris Chat­man writes a good intro­duc­tion to what we do, in his entry Cul­ti­vat­ing Cog­ni­tion: the “Brain Fit­ness” Move­ment. I real­ly enjoy his use of the word “cul­ti­vat­ing”, since we want to help inspire a cul­tur­al change that places nur­tur­ing, exer­cis­ing, cul­ti­vat­ing, our brains and minds at the same lev­el as exer­cis­ing and train­ing our…

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Visual rotation brain teaser game

Sep­tem­ber 30, 2006  |

Let’s now exer­cise our occip­i­tal Lobes (visu­al inter­pre­ta­tion and rota­tion). Please pick the piece that’s miss­ing from the dia­gram on the left.             Answer: C   More brain teas­er games: Top 25 Brain Teasers, Games and Illu­sions Brain Teasers for each Cog­ni­tive Abil­i­ty More Mind Teasers and Games for Adults of any Age

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Brain Fitness, Brain Exercise and “Brain gyms”: why? how?

Sep­tem­ber 30, 2006  |

Brain Fit­ness and Brain Exer­cise: what it is, and why it is impor­tant I may be slight­ly biased, but I clear­ly see more and more talk and arti­cles about “Brain Fit­ness”. Which is great news. We view Brain Fit­ness as the com­bi­na­tion of sci­ence-based Brain Fit­ness Assess­ments, Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams, Brain Fit­ness Coach­es, and Brain Fitness…

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#25. More brain teaser games for job interviews

Sep­tem­ber 29, 2006  |

Let’s exer­cise our frontal lobes (that deal with plan­ning, among oth­er things), and pari­etal lobes (cal­cu­la­tions) with some quick brain teas­er games of the kind often used in job inter­views. Please try to guess the answers to the ques­tions below (you don’t need to know, or research, the right answer, sim­ply try to “guessti­mate” an…

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Brain Fitness Programs and Neurotechnology

Sep­tem­ber 29, 2006  | Com­ments Off on Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams and Neurotechnology

Sec­ond and last day of the 6th Annu­al Neu­rotech Lead­ers Forum. High­lights — Deep­er review into the chal­lenges the sec­tor (main­ly neu­rode­vices) face, such as com­plex­i­ty of reim­burse­ment process, and lack of rea­son­able agree­ment as to what “sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence” means (Medicare and Med­ic­aid require ran­dom­ized dou­ble-blind pro­to­cols, which is tough, if pos­si­ble in ensure in…

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#2. Classic attention experiment (1‑minute video)

Sep­tem­ber 28, 2006  |

Here is an excel­lent brain game to test ones’ atten­tion skill. 

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Neurotech Leaders Forum today

Sep­tem­ber 28, 2006  | Com­ments Off on Neu­rotech Lead­ers Forum today

The first day of the 6th Annu­al Neu­rotech Lead­ers Forum took place today. Good group, with con­tent focused on a) the basic sci­en­tif­ic under­pin­nings of the neu­rotech­nol­o­gy sec­tor, deliv­ered by War­ren Grill, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Bio­Med­ical Engi­neer­ing at Duke Uni­ver­si­ty, and b) mar­ket seg­men­ta­tion and trends, by Neu­rotech Reports’ founder James Cavuo­to. James defines the neurotechnology…

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Reading emotions and faces

Sep­tem­ber 27, 2006  |

Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, when dis­cussing dif­fer­ent Frontal Lobe’s func­tions in his great Wis­dom Para­dox book, says that “Exec­u­tive intel­li­gence” includes “the abil­i­ty to pen­e­trate oth­er people’s minds, and that starts with an inter­est in oth­er people’s minds.” And what do we call a win­dow into oth­er peo­ple’s emo­tions? A face. Paul Ekman has con­duct­ed extensive…

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