Brain Fitness Program 2.0, MindFit, and much more on Brain Training

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 27, 2007 |

Let’s quick­ly review 4 recent arti­cles in both “Times” news­pa­pers: the New York Times and the UK-based Times, on brain fit­ness and a cou­ple of programs.  1) Cal­is­then­ics for the Old­er Mind, on the Home Com­put­er: good overview of one of the grow­ing areas for cog­ni­tive train­ing, “healthy aging”. Quotes: — “In the past year,…

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Attention deficits: drugs, therapy, cognitive training

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 29, 2007 |

Shel­ley launched a good dis­cus­sion on The Neu­ro­science of ADHD in her blog, dis­cussing the sit­u­a­tion and pro­vid­ing a tech­ni­cal overview of drug-based inter­ven­tions. Some­thing I had­n’t heard is that “For exam­ple, babies born pre­ma­ture­ly face a sig­nif­i­cant­ly greater risk of devel­op­ing ADHD than full-term babies (socioe­co­nom­ic sta­tus was con­trolled for).” Which helps me better…

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Manage your feelings for conflict resolution

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 25, 2007

Stephanie West Allen kind­ly alert­ed us of her impres­sive new ini­tia­tive and blog, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Dr. Jef­frey M. Schwartz, titled Brains On Pur­pose. They have part­nered to bring a series of sem­i­nars on neu­ro­science and con­flict res­o­lu­tion: Port­land, Ore­gon, in Novem­ber 2007, and San Fran­cis­co Bay Area in Jan­u­ary 2008-so far. Dr. Schwartz has…

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Brain Fitness June Blog Carnival

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 18, 2007 |

   Wel­come to the June 18, 2007 edi­tion of brain fit­ness. We hope you will enjoy some of the great posts below! We are hap­py to see a broad­er inter­est in the top­ic since we launched the car­ni­val in Jan­u­ary-thanks to every­one involved.   Edu­ca­tion and Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment Brett Steen­barg­er presents a great 3‑part series titled Trade…

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Newsweek on Evolution, DNA and The Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 13, 2007

Great March 19th issue of Newsweek Mag­a­zine, announc­ing the hir­ing of sci­ence writer Sharon Beg­ley, who leads the cov­er sto­ry on The Evo­lu­tion Revolution. You will find: The New Sci­ence of Human Evo­lu­tion: “The new sci­ence of the brain and DNA is rewrit­ing the his­to­ry of human ori­gins”. Live Talk: Sharon Beg­ley on the new sci­ence of…

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