Brain exercise: Frontal and Parietal Lobes

Sep­tem­ber 20, 2006  |

Let’s now exer­cise our Frontal Lobes (that deal with work­ing atten­tion, among oth­er things), and Pari­etal Lobes (visu­al inter­pre­ta­tion). (Basic brain anato­my here) Quick!, count the num­ber of times the num­ber “7” appears below. Then, count the total of both “1“s and “2“s, try­ing to add the total num­ber of both as you see either (this…

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Mind/Body, Emotions and Decision-Making

Sep­tem­ber 20, 2006  |

BrainEthics cov­ered the news that Anto­nio Dama­sio, M.D., for­mer Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy and head of the depart­ment of neu­rol­o­gy at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Col­lege of Med­i­cine, had left Iowa to join the USC Insti­tute for the Study of the Brain and Cre­ativ­i­ty. There is still not too much infor­ma­tion on this Insti­tute, apart from…

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#24. Quick brainteaser games for consulting/ tech job interviews

Sep­tem­ber 18, 2006  |

Try to quick­ly ESTIMATE the answers to the ques­tions below, based on your own log­i­cal approach. The goal is not to find out (or Google) the right answer, but to, first, iden­tify a log­i­cal approach that can help “guessti­mate” an appro­pri­ate range–say + or – 30% of the actu­al answer– and then com­plete the cal­cu­la­tions (ide­ally men­tally, but you…

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Brain teaser: Please draw the face of a penny

Sep­tem­ber 17, 2006  |

How many pen­nies have you seen in your life? Can you rec­og­nize the face of a pen­ny, with all its ele­ments, now? You will prob­a­bly find the answer in your pock­ets, not in your mind… Now, does any­one need to know exact­ly what the face of a pen­ny looks like? We can prob­a­bly sur­vive with­out know­ing it ……

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Working Memory Training and ADD/ADHD

Sep­tem­ber 17, 2006  |

Mark Katz, a San Diego clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist with decades of expe­ri­ence help­ing ADD/ ADHD kids and adults, and for­mer Board Mem­ber of CHADD, and I had a very good meet­ing with a few school super­in­ten­dents on Sat­ur­day. We dis­cussed the research state-of-the-art, cur­rent ADD/ ADHD inter­ven­tions and the future of pre­ven­­­tion-dri­ven inter­ven­tions. Some high­lights from…

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What happens in our brain when…

Sep­tem­ber 15, 2006  | Com­ments Off on What hap­pens in our brain when…

Thanks to more refined brain imag­ing tech­niques we now have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what hap­pens in the “black box” of our brains. See an illus­tra­tion, con­tained in the great book Map­ping the Mind by Rita Carter.You see what typ­i­cal­ly hap­pens (lat­er­al view, frontal lobe/ fore­head to the left, the back to the right) when we are…

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Ready to Learn?

Sep­tem­ber 15, 2006  |

What is Learn­ing Readi­ness? What does it mean for the cur­rent debate on Pre‑K edu­ca­tion, and for all of us? The Edu­ca­tion Blog Edu­wonk has a great entry on Pre‑K Every­where You Look! where it dis­cuss­es pros and cons of cur­rent leg­is­la­tion ini­tia­tives. Today, we have had a very good debate at a meet­ing with a…

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Brain exercise: Better than coffee

Sep­tem­ber 14, 2006  |

  Quick! say aloud what col­or you see in every word below, NOT the word you read :-) The Stroop test is used in neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tions to mea­sure men­tal vital­i­ty and flex­i­bil­i­ty, since per­form­ing well requires strong inhi­bi­tion capability. 

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The Brain Fitness Revolution is here with us

Sep­tem­ber 13, 2006  |

Roger Doo­ley, author of the Neu­ro­mar­ket­ing blog, wrote in April an excel­lent overview of the Brain Fit­ness field in the Future­Lab blog. Enjoy his entry Mar­ket­ing Neu­ro­science: Brain Fit­ness. Let me quote a cou­ple of sen­tences: “The two big dri­ving forces for the brain fit­ness move­ment are demo­graph­ics, par­tic­u­lar­ly the aging baby boom pop­u­la­tion, and…

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Use It or Lose It: What is the “It”?

Sep­tem­ber 12, 2006  |

Use it or Lose it is term coined by sharp­brains. If you use your brain, it appre­ci­ates. If you don’t use it, it depre­ci­ate or lose it. The choice is yours. 

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