Marian C. Diamond to open SharpBrains Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 25, 2009

What a bet­ter open­ing for our Jan­u­ary Sharp­Brains Sum­mit than to have Mar­i­an C. Dia­mond, one of the pio­neers of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty research since the 1960s, intro­duce us to the human brain, its anato­my and func­tion, and impli­ca­tions from neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty for brain health and per­for­mance at any age. Mar­i­an C. Dia­mond, Ph.D., is Pro­fes­sor of Neu­ro­science and…

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Maintain Your Brain and Stay Sharp: An Upcoming Guide and Resource

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 24, 2009 |

You may be read­ing all about brain fit­ness and brain train­ing. It seems every week brings a new bar­rage of arti­cles and stud­ies which often con­tra­dict what you read the month before: Does Gingko Bilo­ba help delay Alzheimer’s Dis­ease? Can phys­i­cal exer­cise help you stay sharp as you age? Which com­put­er-based “brain fit­ness pro­grams”, if…

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Brain Teaser to Stimulate your Concentration Skills

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | April 6, 2009 |

Learn­ing can be inci­den­tal. We all mem­o­rize facts with­out pay­ing much atten­tion to these facts or with­out will­ing to mem­o­rize them. How­ev­er, when one real­ly wants to mem­o­rize a fact, it is cru­cial to pay atten­tion. Many stud­ies have shown that com­pared to full atten­tion con­di­tions, divid­ing atten­tion dur­ing study time leads to poor memory…

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Cars don’t work because they don’t fly

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 9, 2009

Study Ques­tions Effec­tive­ness Of $80 Mil­lion Per Year ‘Brain Exer­cise Prod­ucts Indus­try for Elder­ly (Sci­ence Dai­ly) — “There is much research on the ben­e­fits of cog­ni­tive reha­bil­i­ta­tion strate­gies among elder­ly who already expe­ri­ence mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment (MCI) or Alzheimer’s dis­ease, as well as on the pos­i­tive impact of phys­i­cal exer­cise. The researchers, how­ev­er, want­ed to evaluate…

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The Age of Mass Intelligence?

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 16, 2008

“We’ve all heard about dumb­ing down. But there is plen­ty of evi­dence that the oppo­site is also true. Is this, in fact, the age of mass intel­li­gence?” Fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle in Intel­li­gent Life, a pub­li­ca­tion by The Econ­o­mist: THE AGE OF MASS INTELLIGENCE — “Mil­lions more peo­ple are going to muse­ums, lit­er­ary fes­ti­vals and operas; millions…

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