Games for Brain Health — Novelty, Variety and Challenge

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 12, 2008

Land­mark study just pub­lished: Basak C, et al “Can train­ing in a real-time strat­e­gy video game atten­u­ate cog­ni­tive decline in old­er adults?” Psy­chol Aging 2008; DOI: 10.1037/a0013494. Play­ing com­put­er games improves brain pow­er of old­er adults, claim sci­en­tists (Tele­graph) — The team at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois recruit­ed 40 adults over 60 years old, half…

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Brain Fitness at New York Public Library

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 6, 2008

A few weeks ago I had the plea­sure to give a talk to one hun­dred or so staff mem­bers at New York Pub­lic Library. As you would expect, it was a very stim­u­lat­ing group, and one of the par­tic­i­pants, Brigid Caha­lan, just wrote a fun blog post on her impres­sions from the event: Brain Fit­ness at…

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Brain teasers and games: ready for a mental workout?

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 27, 2008

You may have already seen that our Teasers sec­tion con­tains not only our selec­tion of Top 50 Brain Teasers and Games, but also a reg­u­lar­ly updat­ed page with lat­est Games for the Brain. Below you have the brain games and teasers we have added in 2008 so far. Ready?  — Octo­ber 2008: Top Brainy Haikus. Yours?.…

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Brainy Haikus for brain training

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 4, 2008 |

Thank you to every­one who has writ­ten so many fun haikus over the sum­mer (fol­low­ing the post Top 25 Brain and Mind Haikus. Yours?). These are the 10 I have enjoyed the most: (Also, Can you write a haiku describ­ing any­thing cross­ing your mind now? Remem­ber the sim­ple rules: write 3 lines, which don’t need…

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Update: Major Implications from Brain Research

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 29, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Major Impli­ca­tions from Brain Research Should Social-Emo­­tion­al Learn­ing Be Part of Aca­d­e­m­ic Cur­ricu­lum?: It is clear by now that our brains…

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