Study: MRI scan technicians can experience negative neurocognitive effects

By SharpBrains | September 11, 2012

MRI work­ers expe­ri­ence tran­sient neu­rocog­ni­tive effects (News Med­ical): “Indi­vid­u­als work­ing in the vicin­i­ty of mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing (MRI) machines may expe­ri­ence tran­sient neu­rocog­ni­tive effects when mov­ing their heads, research demonstrates…Study par­tic­i­pants who com­plet­ed standardized 

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In the Age of Google, Should Schools Teach Memorization Skills?

By Dr. Bill Klemm | August 23, 2012

As school is about to resume, peo­ple are remind­ed of their strong opin­ions about how to fix schools: more fund­ing, bet­ter teach­ers, less gov­ern­ment inter­fer­ence, more gov­ern­ment inter­fer­ence, etc. But the one obvi­ous, and nev­er-stat­ed prob­lem, is that stu­dents don’t remem­ber what they are taught. In spite of all the “teach­ing to the test” that…

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Lindsay Gaskins on What Brain Games Consumers Buy and Why

By SharpBrains | May 20, 2012

The CEO of Mar­bles: The Brain Store will pro­vide an overview of What Brain Games Con­sumers Buy (in Mar­bles’ stores) and Why, at the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012). Lind­say start­ed Mar­bles: The Brain Store in 2008 with the sim­ple idea of find­ing the best brain games out there and

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Protect Your Asset by Being Your Own Brain Fitness Coach

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 26, 2012

Last week I had the good for­tune of spend­ing four days in Nue­vo Val­lar­ta, Mex­i­co, with over 300 amaz­ing indi­vid­u­als from 40+ coun­tries who had been named Young Glob­al Lead­ers by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum. The sum­mit agen­da was insight­ful and inspir­ing, con­ver­sa­tions with oth­er par­tic­i­pants always proved to be eye-open­ing and stim­u­lat­ing, and the…

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Learning to Cope with Google/ Information Overload

By SharpBrains | February 17, 2012

Google chang­ing how humans think (Cana­di­an Busi­ness): — “…the psy­chol­o­gists con­clud­ed that our reliance on the Inter­net has affect­ed how we relate to information—instead of remem­ber­ing the infor­ma­tion itself, we just remem­ber where to find it.” — “While the move from know­ing infor­ma­tion to know­ing where to find it has many benefits—including free­ing up your brain for…

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Upcoming Talk & Book Signing in Washington, DC

By SharpBrains | January 23, 2012

On Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 7, at 7 p.m., Cleve­land Park Library in Wash­ing­ton, DC will host Alvaro Fer­nan­dez as he dis­cuss­es  The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: 18 Inter­views with Sci­en­tists, Prac­ti­cal Advice, and Prod­uct Reviews to Keep Your Brain Sharp (book also avail­able via DC library sys­tem). The book expands on the con­cept of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty that…

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