New brain cells in the adult brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 15, 2007 |

BBC News reports that Brain cre­ates ‘new’ nerve cells: “Researchers have dis­cov­ered a type of brain cell that con­tin­u­ous­ly regen­er­ates in humans.” “Experts said the find­ings, pub­lished in Sci­ence, opened up the poten­tial for research into repair­ing brains in con­di­tions such as Alzheimer’s dis­ease” “Dr Mark Bax­ter, Well­come Trust senior research fel­low at Oxford University,…

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Education and science blogs, with Singularity bonus

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 14, 2007

Two of the best blog car­ni­vals: For edu­ca­tion The Car­ni­val Of Edu­ca­tion For all things sci­ence: Tan­gled Bank And a very infor­ma­tive post via Mind­Hacks on what Sin­gu­lar­i­ty is and a tech­ni­cal guide to key terms of tran­shu­man­ism — “an opti­mistic move­ment that seeks to apply cur­rent and future sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies to extend­ing human expe­ri­ence and…

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Learning & The Brain Conference, February 15–17th in San Francisco

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 7, 2007 |

For infor­ma­tion on the 2008 Con­fer­ence, and the dis­count for Sharp­Brains read­ers, vis­it: Learn­ing & The Brain Con­fer­ence: dis­count for Sharp­Brains read­ers. The post below refers to the 2007 Con­fer­ence: ————————- The orga­niz­ers of this amaz­ing con­fer­ence, whose reg­is­tra­tion is about to expire, just extend­ed their very kind offer to Sharp­Brains read­ers: you can register…

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Hello: may we ask…

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 2, 2007 |

…a few ques­tions: how did you find us, what we are doing well, what we can do bet­ter? We have just found out that more than 600 people are receiv­ing our feeds, but we only know-and just a bit- the 50–60 who leave com­ments and link to us. We enjoy hav­ing so many read­ers not just in the…

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Brain Fitness Glossary

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 31, 2007 |

Giv­en the grow­ing aware­ness of this emerg­ing field, let’s review some of the most rel­e­vant con­cepts: Brain Fit­ness: the gen­er­al state of good, sharp, brain and mind, espe­cial­ly as the result of men­tal and phys­i­cal exer­cise and prop­er nutri­tion. Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram: struc­tured set of brain exer­cis­es, usu­al­ly com­put­er-based, designed to train spe­cif­ic brain areas and…

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Dana Alliance’s Brain Awareness Week for Brain Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 30, 2007 |

The Dana Alliance for Brain Ini­tia­tives is keep­ing up its great out­reach ini­tia­tives: 1‑ Check their blog with posts such as Resolve to be good to your brain, too. Tip: “Brain change takes time; allow your brain time to get used to new cir­cum­stance” (from the Dana Guide to Brain Health).  You can read our The Dana…

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