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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TIME Magazine — A User Guide to the Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 23, 2007

We announced last week the CBS News/TIME Series on Brain Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Mem­o­ry Exer­cis­es.  Now, Time Mag­a­zine has pub­lished a spec­tac­u­lar spe­cial issue with many good brain-relat­ed arti­cles. Enjoy TIME Mag­a­zine — A User Guide to the Brain.  

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Brain Fitness Blog Carnival #1

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 19, 2007 |

Wel­come to the inau­gur­al edi­tion of the Brain Fit­ness Blog Car­ni­val. The tim­ing could­n’t be bet­ter  you have prob­a­bly seen the fea­tured CBS News/TIME Series on Brain Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty. Thanks to the over 40 peo­ple who sub­mit­ted posts. We have had to select the posts we enjoyed the most to help facil­i­tate an engag­ing and informed…

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CBS News/TIME Series on Brain Neuroplasticity and Memory Exercises

By Caroline Latham | January 17, 2007 |

CBS News and TIME mag­a­zine are team­ing up for a five-part series on the “The Com­pli­cat­ed, Mes­mer­iz­ing World of the Brain”.If you want to catch it:The CBS News reports began Wednes­day, Jan. 17, with three parts to air on the CBS Evening News (6:30–7 p.m. ET) and two parts on The Ear­ly Show (7–9 a.m. ET/PT), as well as extend­ed, Web-exclu­sive reports on CBSNews.com and com­pan­ion pro­gram­ming on CBS Radio News.

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