4 Essential (and Overlooked) Facts About Your Brain and Your Mind

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 17, 2013

An aspir­ing clar­inetist begins by get­ting a sense of the way the instrument’s sounds are pro­duced by the air she blows through it. A dri­ver must be acquaint­ed with var­i­ous vehi­cle fun­da­men­tals, such as adding gas, accel­er­at­ing, and read­ing the speedome­ter. It is no dif­fer­ent with the brain. Max­i­miz­ing your brain’s health and per­for­mance begins…

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New Summit Partner: The UCSF Gaz­za­ley Lab

By SharpBrains | August 6, 2013

We’re proud to announce that the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th) will count on the sup­port from anoth­er lead­ing orga­ni­za­tion. The UCSF Gaz­za­ley Lab is a cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science research lab at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, San Fran­cisco focused on study­ing the neur­al mech­a­nisms of mem­ory and attention, 

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Top 5 Quotes from The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness (and free chapter)

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 17, 2013

As a book co-author it is always a plea­sure, and a sur­prise, to see what read­ers find most inter­est­ing and note­wor­thy. A fea­ture in Ama­zon’s Kin­dle e‑reader allows read­ers to high­light and share their favorite sen­tences . These are the 5 Most High­light­ed Quotes in The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and…

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Calisthenics and Brain Games for a Child’s Mind

By SharpBrains | April 29, 2013

Brain Games Aim to Make Kids Smarter (Sci­Am Mind, requires sub­scrip­tion): “Sci­en­tists have con­coct­ed men­tal fit­ness reg­i­mens to strength­en weak think­ing skills in students—in effect, mak­ing kids smarter…Psychologists have long believed that think­ing capac­i­ties such as atten­tion, mem­o­ry and rea­son­ing were fixed, but 

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Raising awareness about the distracted mind (PBS special)

By Dr. Adam Gazzaley | March 7, 2013

I feel it is crit­i­cal that sci­en­tists make an effort to trans­late their research dis­cov­er­ies into a for­mat that is under­stand­able and mean­ing­ful to the gen­er­al pub­lic. They should also, at least on occa­sion, step beyond detailed descrip­tions of lab­o­ra­to­ry results and spec­u­late on how their find­ings inform the big­ger pic­ture and impact people’s lives.…

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Neuroscientists: Develop digital games to improve brain function and well-being

By SharpBrains | March 1, 2013

Authors: Devel­op dig­i­tal games to improve brain func­tion and well-being (UW-Madi­­son News): “Neu­ro­sci­en­tists should help to devel­op com­pelling dig­i­tal games that boost brain func­tion and improve well-being, say two pro­fes­sors spe­cial­iz­ing in the field in a com­men­tary arti­cle pub­lished in the sci­ence jour­nal Nature. In the Feb. 28 issue, the two — Daphne Bave­li­er of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Rochester…

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