Brain-Coach

Mobile Brain Training, Scientific Learning, and More News

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Some recent brain train­ing and health news: Monkey memory

1) A Promis­ing Debut for Com­put­er­ized Therapies

2) Fit­ness pro­tects brain in Alzheimer’s patients

3) Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram Clas­sic comes to Mac

4) Posit Sci­ence gains own­er­ship of Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing (NSDQ: SCIL) BrainConnection.

5) Brain train­ing on your mobile

6) You must remem­ber this: how the mind works

Here you have the links and my com­men­tary for these news: [Read more…] about Mobile Brain Train­ing, Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing, and More News

Is it necessary to train under the supervision of a doctor or other specialist?

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Fitness TrainerHere is ques­tion 11 of 25 from Brain Fit­ness 101: Answers to Your Top 25 Ques­tions. To down­load the com­plete ver­sion, please click here

Ques­tion:
Is it nec­es­sary to train under the super­vi­sion of a doc­tor or oth­er specialist?

Key Points:

  • Recre­ation­al activ­i­ties have always been done for fun either social­ly or independently.
  • Most com­put­er-based soft­ware pro­grams are intend­ed for you to use on your own com­put­er when it suits you. Think exer­cise and fit­ness, not medicine.
  • A few pro­grams used for peo­ple with med­ical con­di­tions may be super­vised or reviewed by the treat­ing neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist, physi­cian, or oth­er health­care personnel.

Answer: [Read more…] about Is it nec­es­sary to train under the super­vi­sion of a doc­tor or oth­er specialist?

Brain Fitness Blog Carnival #1

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Brain Fitness CarnivalWel­come 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 conversation.

Learn­ing is phys­i­cal. Our expe­ri­ence lit­er­al­ly shapes our brains. And vice ver­sa. The media seems to be focus­ing most­ly on brain fit­ness for seniors, but its impli­ca­tions go beyond that, as you will see in this post by Car­o­line: What is Brain Fit­ness?, and the arti­cles in this carnival.

Sci­ence-based under­stand­ing is evolv­ing from “Use it or Lose It” to “Use It and Improve It.”  As Fast Com­pa­ny’s Alan Deutschman provoca­tive­ly puts it in his last book, Change or Die. We could­n’t agree more with his sum­ma­ry rec­om­men­da­tion: “Relate. Repeat. Reframe.” Alan presents a blog arti­cle announc­ing his book (here is his orig­i­nal arti­cle). [Read more…] about Brain Fit­ness Blog Car­ni­val #1

Brain based coaching for brain fitness: Head Coach

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You may have seen our last and excel­lent post, Train Your Brain: Get a Head Coach, and won­dered, have Car­o­line and Alvaro become Head Coach­es now?

Rest assured. We haven’t.

Please wel­come our Head Coach, Neal Cohen, Psy.D. Neal is a licensed clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist [Read more…] about Brain based coach­ing for brain fit­ness: Head Coach

New Brain Fitness Guide

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Sharp BrainWe are very excit­ed to announce our new­ly released Brain Fit­ness for Sharp Brains: Your New New Year Res­o­lu­tion. We wrote it in order to pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to the con­cept, sci­ence, and prac­tice of brain fit­ness in plain Eng­lish, by answer­ing the Top 25 ques­tions we have received over the last four months. Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and myself (Car­o­line) have been work­ing hard on this.

You can click here to get your copy of the com­plete guide. Oth­er­wise, keep check­ing back this blog, as we will pub­lish a new ques­tion and its answer every Mon­day and Thurs­day before 9AM Pacif­ic Stan­dard Time. If we missed your press­ing ques­tion, let us know!

Here is a sneak pre­view of the ques­tions we will be answering …

[Read more…] about New Brain Fit­ness Guide

This is a Brain Fitness Center.

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Today we issued the fol­low­ing press release, and are work­ing hard to get every­thing ready by Jan­u­ary (every­thing works now, but we want to pol­ish it). Please view this web­site as research in action, a liv­ing hypoth­e­sis. We are doing this because we love to learn and help. Please help us learn-feel free to give us any sug­ges­tion, feed­back, crit­i­cism. We are in the busi­ness of engag­ing brains.
The Sharp­Brains team
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Decem­ber 12, 2006 08:01 AM East­ern Time

A New Year’s Fitness Resolution for your Head

– Sharp­Brains Is the First Online Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter to Offer Eval­u­a­tions, Men­tal Exer­cise Pro­grams and Per­son­al Coach­ing to Improve Mem­o­ry, Con­cen­tra­tion, and Stress Man­age­ment –

New Year’s Resolutions

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Getting in shape is at the top of almost every­one’s list of New Year’s res­o­lu­tions. How­ev­er, this hol­i­day sea­son, lead­ing experts are encour­ag­ing Amer­i­cans to join a dif­fer­ent kind of health club: one for their brains.SharpBrains.com is the first online brain fit­ness cen­ter ded­i­cat­ed to pro­vid­ing per­son­al­ized brain fit­ness eval­u­a­tions; men­tal exer­cise pro­grams to stim­u­late the brain and improve stress man­age­ment; and per­son­al online men­tal exer­cise coach­ing. Sim­i­lar to a train­er at a phys­i­cal fit­ness cen­ter, Sharp­Brains’ cus­tomers can ini­tial­ly under­go an eval­u­a­tion of their needs fol­lowed by sub­se­quent rec­om­men­da­tions for a suit­able com­put­er-based pro­gram to tar­get and strength­en essen­tial core “men­tal muscles.“      

“Research has shown that con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, the brain is con­stant­ly under­go­ing neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis, the devel­op­ment of new neu­rons and den­drites,” said Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at New York Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine and Chief Sci­en­tif­ic Advi­sor & Co-Founder of Sharp­Brains. “Learn­ing and tar­get­ed men­tal exer­cise pro­motes neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis – the cre­ation of new neu­rons – just as mus­cle growth is pro­mot­ed through phys­i­cal exer­cise.” [Read more…] about This is a Brain Fit­ness Center.