Brain News: Lifelong Learning for Cognitive Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 30, 2009

Here you have the March edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. I know I am biased — but do believe this Newslet­ter issue might well be our best…

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Teaching is the art of changing the brain

By Laurie Bartels | October 6, 2008 |

James Zull is a pro­fes­sor of Biol­o­gy. He is also Direc­tor Emer­i­tus of the Uni­ver­si­ty Cen­ter for Inno­va­tion in Teach­ing and Edu­ca­tion at Case West­ern Reserve Uni­ver­si­ty in Ohio. These roles most assured­ly coa­lesced in his 2002 book, The Art of Chang­ing the Brain: Enrich­ing the Prac­tice of Teach­ing by Explor­ing the Biol­o­gy of Learning.…

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Training Young Brains to Behave

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 23, 2008 |

Great arti­cle in the New York Times titled Train­ing Young Brains to Behave. A cou­ple of quotes: — “But just as biol­o­gy shapes behav­ior, so behav­ior can accel­er­ate biol­o­gy. And a small group of edu­ca­tion­al and cog­ni­tive sci­en­tists now say that men­tal exer­cis­es of a cer­tain kind can teach chil­dren to become more self-pos­sessed at…

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Update: Work as a Brain Fitness Program

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 16, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our 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. There is one type of “brain fit­ness pro­gram” which is not only free but also pays you back. You guessed it,…

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Education and the Biology of Aging

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 14, 2008

Edu­ca­tion, Aging…two seem­ing­ly unre­lat­ed top­ics, but with more biol­o­gy in com­mon than may meet the eye… You may enjoy the most recent edi­tions of two great blog car­ni­vals: — Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion, host­ed by Joanne Jacobs. — Hour­glass: a car­ni­val of biogeron­tol­ogy, host­ed by Chris at Ouroboros. Chris recent­ly launched this blog car­ni­val to pro­vide a…

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