Mind & Life Institute

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 24, 2007 |

My wife and I were for­tu­nate to con­duct recent­ly a mind train­ing exper­i­ment, in the form of a breath­ing & med­i­ta­tion retreat, with some neu­ro­sci­en­tists and Adam Engle, Co-Founder and Chair­man of the Mind & Life Insti­tute (nice name, isn’t it?) The Mind and Life Dia­logues “start­ed in 1987 as an exper­i­ment to deter­mine whether a scientific…

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Nutritional Supplements and Brain Fitness

By Caroline Latham | October 19, 2006 |

Well, the idea that you can just pop a pill to improve your mem­o­ry and atten­tion lost some ground today. The Asso­ci­at­ed Press released an arti­cle on DHEA, a steroid pre­cur­sor to testos­terone and estro­gen used to improve ath­let­ic per­for­mance, increase sex dri­ve, and reduce fat as well as fight dia­betes and heart dis­ease. The…

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