Seed and ScienceBlogs Receive Awards for Science Journalism

12.20.06  Seed Media Group today announced that Seed and Sci­ence­Blogs have been rec­og­nized for inno­va­tion and excel­lence in sci­ence jour­nal­ism. Seed is the proud recip­i­ent of the 2006 UTNE Inde­pen­dent Press Award for Best Science/Technology Cov­er­age. Sci­ence­Blogs (scienceblogs.com) was award­ed Best Sci­ence Blog for Pharyn­gu­la, and Best Medical/Health Issues Blog for Respect­ful Inso­lence with 2006…

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emWave (formerly Freeze-Framer) for Stress Management and Peak Performance

Just a quick note to sum­ma­rize a num­ber of con­ver­sa­tions we have been hav­ing at a num­ber of hol­i­day par­ties. In short, who may ben­e­fit from a biofeed­back-based stress man­age­ment pro­gram? any­one, no mat­ter the age (after 6‑years-old) who wants a more mea­sur­able way to man­age stress and anx­i­ety and per­form at peak lev­els. Our…

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MindFit Brain Fitness Program review

Get­ting ready for the hol­i­days, not the best time to write great orig­i­nal content…so let us share the only review we have found so far on one of the pro­grams we offer, Mind­Fit. First, a good arti­cle titled The dawn of cog­ni­tive tech­nol­o­gy, on the sci­ence behind the need for struc­tured com­put­er-based pro­grams, with quotes…

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New Study on the Benefits of Brain Exercises/Brain Fitness

Ten ses­sions of exer­cis­es to boost rea­son­ing skills, mem­o­ry and men­tal pro­cess­ing speed staved off men­tal decline in mid­­dle-aged and elder­ly peo­ple in the first defin­i­tive study to show that hon­ing intel­lec­tu­al skills can bol­ster the mind in the same way that phys­i­cal exer­cise pro­tects and strength­ens the body. The researchers also showed that the…

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New Year’s Resolutions for Brain and Body

If you haven’t found one yet, here are some great posts with a lot of ideas to help find your own healthy resolutions.The Car­ni­val of Pos­i­tive Think­ing has some real­ly great entries this time. One of the arti­cles in par­tic­u­lar has some great sug­ges­tions to help your brain health into the new year- tak­ing time to reflect, find a healthy bal­ance of stim­u­la­tion and rest, appre­ci­at­ing life, and being inquisitive.The Car­ni­val of Sport­s­The Hap­pi­ness Car­ni­val­So, what are your res­o­lu­tions for 2007?

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New Brain Fitness Guide

We are very excit­ed to announce our new guide: <strong>Brain Fit­ness for Sharp Brains: Your <em>New</em> New Year Resolution,</strong>. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg wrote it with Car­o­line Lath­am in order to pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to the con­cept, sci­ence, and prac­tice of brain fitness.

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