Neuroplasticity and “real” Brain Games: The opportunity at hand

By SharpBrains | March 23, 2016

In prepa­ra­tion for the new sea­son of Nation­al Geo­graph­ic’s Brain Games, their pro­duc­ers asked me to par­tic­i­pate in a vir­tu­al round­table around this thought-pro­­vok­ing ques­tion: Do you think indi­vid­u­als can train their brain to respond in a par­tic­u­lar way to cer­tain sit­u­a­tions, or do you think our brain’s innate “star­tle response” is too hard­wired to alter? My…

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Test your memory and reasoning skills with these proverbs

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | March 10, 2016

Mem­o­ry relies most­ly on tem­po­ral (green area) and frontal (in red) areas of the brain. These are the areas where many neu­rons will get stim­u­lat­ed when you (assum­ing you are Amer­i­can or have lived in the US for long) try to remem­ber the miss­ing words in the Amer­i­can proverbs below. How­ev­er when it comes to…

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eNewsletter: Aerobic and mental training, combined, can significantly improve brain and cognitive health

By SharpBrains | February 25, 2016

. Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter, cov­er­ing a range of brain, health and inno­va­tion top­ics. Enjoy! New think­ing: What Every­one Should Know About Stress, Brain Health, and Dance Vir­tu­al “Brain Games” round­table: Why we can–and should–train our brains Why shouldn’t behav­ioral ther­a­py, instead of med­ica­tion, be first-line treat­ment for ADHD? Iden­ti­fy­ing and treat­ing the brain…

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Virtual “Brain Games” roundtable: Why we can, and SHOULD, train our brains

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 8, 2016

In prepa­ra­tion for the new sea­son of Nation­al Geo­graph­ic’s Brain Games, start­ing this Sun­day Feb­ru­ary 14th, their pro­duc­ers asked us to par­tic­i­pate in a vir­tu­al round­table around this thought-pro­­vok­ing ques­tion: Do you think indi­vid­u­als can train their brain to respond in a par­tic­u­lar way to cer­tain sit­u­a­tions, or do you think our brain’s innate “star­tle response”…

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Resource: Free brain games for children (kid tested, teacher approved)

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 15, 2016

. Exquis­ite Minds (a web­site for gift­ed and cre­ative chil­dren) has curat­ed a fan­tas­tic list of Free Brain Games, promis­ing that “These free brain games have been kid test­ed and teacher approved.” We are proud our brain teasers for teens and adults top the list, and agree with their assess­ment that “This site is more intel­lec­tu­al in nature, it’s…

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