Why, to improve memory, we need to think of the brain as a system

By SharpBrains | January 24, 2013

(Edi­tor’s Note: every month we host an online Q&A with par­tic­i­pants in the e‑course How To Be Your Own Brain Fit­ness Coach. This is the light­ly edit­ed and anonymized tran­script from the Jan­u­ary Q&A ses­sion; the Feb­ru­ary Q&A will take place on Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 12th) 2:02 OK, ready to go! Hap­py 2013 again. You can start…

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Master a new language and grow hippocampus and cerebral cortex

By SharpBrains | October 11, 2012

Learn­ing New Lan­guages Helps The Brain Grow (Med­ical News): “The learn­ing of lan­guages allows the brain to stay “in shape”, by caus­ing cer­tain parts of the brain to grow, includ­ing the hip­pocam­pus and three areas of the cere­bral cortex…This find­ing came from sci­en­tists at Lund Uni­ver­si­ty, after exam­in­ing young recruits with a tal­ent for acquir­ing languages…

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Update: On Brain Training, Positive Psychology and the FDA

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2011

Time for the Sep­tem­ber edi­tion of the month­ly Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter, start­ing with a good brief New Sci­en­tist arti­cle, Mak­er of cog­ni­tive train­ing game seeks FDA approval: Imag­ine walk­ing away from a doctor’s office with a pre­scrip­tion to play a video game. Brain Plas­tic­ity, the devel­oper of a cog­ni­tive train­ing game, has begun talks with the Food and…

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