Update: 5 ways to pro­tect your brain, and boost your career

Time for Sharp­Brains’ August 2013 e‑newsletter, fea­turing 8 excel­lent inter­views with Speak­ers and Par­tic­i­pants in the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th), 7 insight­ful media sto­ries, and more. Enjoy! Inter­view Series: San­dra Chap­man: Using inno­v­a­tive think­ing, and brain train­ing, we can rewire the brain at every lev­el Lynn Steffes: Let’s bet­ter inte­grate phys­i­cal ther­a­py and cog­ni­tive fit­ness Cori Lath­an: It’s…

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Brain Gyms a new industry?

The Cal­gary Har­ald and oth­er Cana­di­an papers bring a good arti­cle: ‘Brain gyms’ a new indus­try I’d only add that the rev­enue fig­ures sug­gest we are real­ly talk­ing about a high­­­ly-dynam­ic and grow­ing “baby-mar­ket”, which one day (hope­ful­ly, soon enough for all of us to ben­e­fit) will mature to become a real “indus­try”.  We see…

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A User’s Guide to Lifelong Brain Health: BrainFit for Life

As the Brain Fit­ness indus­try con­tin­ues to gain momen­tum, and peo­ple explore all the incred­i­ble brain-train­ing tools being devel­oped, we hope that enthu­si­asts don’t take their eye off the impor­tance of the phys­i­cal health of the brain and all the sys­tems it com­mu­ni­cates with. The brain is unique in that it hous­es our cog­ni­tive and…

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