Brain News: Lifelong Learning for Cognitive Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 30, 2009

Here you have the March edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. I know I am biased — but do believe this Newslet­ter issue might well be our best…

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Your Trading Brain: Expert or Novice

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 5, 2008 |

All trad­ing strate­gies and deci­sion mak­ing are brain-based synap­tic strate­gies. The human brain has an infi­nite capac­i­ty to change, orga­nize and reor­ga­nize itself, pro­gres­sion to trad­ing excel­lence is possible.

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Brain Research Interview Series

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 23, 2008 |

We are work­ing on improv­ing sev­er­al sec­tions of our web­site, espe­cial­ly our Resources sec­tion. It will look much bet­ter in a few days. Our first step has been to re-orga­nize our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series, and below you have how it looks today. Dur­ing the last 18 months I have had the for­tune to inter­view over 15…

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Brain Plasticity, Health and Fitness Books

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 17, 2008 |

As you may have noticed, we just changed a few things in our site, includ­ing prepar­ing a more sol­id Resources sec­tion. Please take a look at the nav­i­ga­tion bar at the top. One of the new pages, that we will update often, is an expand­ed Books page. Here are the books that we are rec­om­mend­ing now. Fas­ci­nat­ing books on…

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Brain Fitness Software Trends

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 3, 2008

Some very inter­est­ing brain fit­ness soft­ware mar­ket news: 1) Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing To Buy Out Solil­o­quy — “Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing Corp. has announced that it will acquire Solil­o­quy Learn­ing from JTT Hold­ings. Both Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing and Solil­o­quy pro­vide tech­nol­o­gy solu­tions for edu­ca­tion. The acqui­si­tion will cost SLC about $11 mil­lion and is expect­ed to be com­plet­ed this month.” -…

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Feed Your Brain with Fun Neuroscience

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 25, 2007 |

To all new read­­ers-Wel­­come!. The Digg Tsuna­mi has brought over 40,000 vis­i­tors so far…and it con­tin­ues. We need to thank Andrey for his excel­lent tech­ni­cal work in help­ing us ride such a beau­ti­ful wave. Let me give you an overview of what you can find in our blog, bridg­ing neu­ro­science research and brain health/ “brain exercise”…

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