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Update: Why Untrained Brains Are A Bit Like Puppies (And How Dance Offers Great Brain Training)

April 27, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ April e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing what’s new in brain health and cog­ni­tive per­for­mance. Quite stim­u­lat­ing reading 🙂

New thinking

  • Why Untrained Brains Are A Bit Like Pup­pies, And How To Put Togeth­er the Build­ing Blocks of a Smarter, Hap­pi­er Mind
  • Mak­ing Stress Work for You, Instead of Against You
  • 5 Facts You Need To Know To Under­stand, Nav­i­gate And Enjoy The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Revolution
  • Spe­cial Offer: Learn from 100+ Brain Experts, Watch 40+ Hours at the Lead­ing Edge (10%-off dis­count code: sharp2017)

New research

  • Dance train­ing: The ulti­mate way to delay brain decline by com­bin­ing phys­i­cal, cog­ni­tive, and social engagement
  • Help­ing bridge neu­ro­science and edu­ca­tion: 30+ experts debunk the the­o­ry of fixed, rigid “learn­ing styles”
  • Par­ents’ edu­ca­tion­al and income lev­els (not breast­feed­ing per se) account for the brain devel­op­ment gains in breast­fed children
  • Brain stim­u­la­tion can work–if prop­er­ly timed
  • The US Navy tests neu­ro-prim­ing and oth­er non-phar­ma­co­log­i­cal aids to boost cog­ni­tion and performance

therapy controlNew tools

  • Ful­ly con­cen­trat­ed on task at hand? Then your com­put­er won’t dis­tract you
  • Aug­ment­ing phys­io­ther­a­py via neu­ro­feed­back and neu­rostim­u­la­tion: Key neu­rotech­nol­o­gy patent #43
  • Elon Musk to pio­neer new Inner Space Fron­tier via Neu­ralink “neur­al lace” technology
  • In the field of neu­rostim­u­la­tion, what comes first, Pub­lished Research or Patents?
  • Enhanc­ing cog­ni­tion via brain train­ing with a visu­al empha­sis: Key neu­rotech­nol­o­gy patent #38

Upcoming event

  • May 6th, New York City: Antic­i­pat­ing and Shap­ing the Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy of the Future

 

Final­ly, here you have 5 quick brain teasers to sharp­en two key cog­ni­tive skills: atten­tion and work­ing mem­o­ry.

 

Have a great month of May,

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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