Top 10 Cognitive Health and Brain Fitness Books

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 2, 2009 |

Here you have The 10 Most Pop­u­lar Brain Fit­ness & Cog­ni­tive Health Books, based on book pur­chas­es by Sharp­Brains’ read­ers dur­ing 2008. Enjoy! 1. Brain Rules: 12 Prin­ci­ples for Sur­viv­ing and Thriv­ing at Work, Home, and School (Pear Press, March 2008) — Dr. John Med­i­na, Direc­tor of the Brain Cen­ter for Applied Learn­ing Research at Seat­tle Pacific…

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Brain Training and Brain fitness games

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 7, 2007

Fun quick arti­cle, titled Review: Lat­est Brain-Teas­ing Video Games, on Brain Train­ing, “Nin­ten­do Brain Age”, “Big Brain Acad­e­my”, “Hot Brain”, “Brain Boost”, “Brain Genius”, “Brain Juice”, “Brain Chal­lenge”, “Mind Quiz”… Please remem­ber to use our check­lists on How to Select the Right Brain Fit­ness Pro­­gram-short check­list or the full length ver­sion‑, if you are look­ing for…

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Brain Training with Cognitive Simulations

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 8, 2007

Today we will con­tin­ue our review of the ben­e­fits of brain train­ing for spe­cif­ic occu­pa­tions: in this case, pilots and bas­ket­ball play­ers. The lessons can be rel­e­vant not only for cor­po­rate train­ing but also for edu­ca­tion and brain health & well­ness. To do so, we will select quotes from our inter­view last year with one…

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