Encephalon #50 Edition: Brain & Mind Research

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 21, 2008 |

Wel­come to Encephalon 50th edi­tion, where you will find anoth­er superb col­lec­tion of blog posts on all things Brain and Mind. Enjoy these con­tri­bu­tions: Sci­ence & Tech­nol­o­gy Mind Hacks reports that Face­book ate my psy­chi­a­trist. We can learn about the ben­e­fits of social net­work­ing sites like Face­book, bring­ing great per­spec­tive to recent and mis­guid­ed media speculation…

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Promising Cognitive Training Studies for ADHD

By Dr. David Rabiner | June 12, 2008 |

As not­ed in our Mar­ket Report, we expect the field of cog­ni­tive train­ing (or “brain fit­ness”) soft­ware to grow in a vari­ety of edu­ca­tion and health-relat­ed areas over the next years. One of the most promis­ing areas in our view: help­ing chil­dren and adults with atten­tion deficits improve brain func­tion to reduce ADHD symp­toms. I…

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Update: The State and Future of Brain Fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 30, 2008

Here you are have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our 10 most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. A cru­cial top­ic we cov­er is, “How can we use emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies to keep our brains healthy and productive…

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Mental Health News: NYT, Mind Hacks

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 15, 2008

A few very inter­est­ing New York Times arti­cles over the last cou­ple of days, plus a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for clin­i­cians and researchers in Latin Amer­i­ca. — Well: When a Brain Sci­en­tist Suf­fers a Stroke “Dr. Tay­lor recounts the details of her stroke and the amaz­ing insights she gained from it in a riv­et­ing 18-minute video…

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