The Dana Guide to Brain Health and Brain Research

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 30, 2006 |

Dana Press kind­ly sent us a cou­ple of books. One of them, The Dana Guide to Brain Health: A Prac­ti­cal Fam­i­ly Ref­er­ence From Med­ical Experts, is our top­ic today. We are impressed by what Dana is doing to insert neu­ro­science find­ings and impli­ca­tions into the pub­lic dis­course. No big sur­prise then, to find out so much…

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Free Brain Exercise: Two Feet of Free Therapy

By Caroline Latham | December 13, 2006 |

Guess what?! There is this amaz­ing ther­a­py that is free for every­one. All you need is two feet (and many very accom­plished prac­ti­tion­ers don’t even have that!). … It’s called exer­cise! All kid­ding aside, there is more and more evi­dence com­ing to light about how your brain health is intri­cate­ly inter­twined with the health of…

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Cognitive Training and Brain Fitness Computer Programs: Interview with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 8, 2006 |

Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg is a clin­i­cal pro­fes­sor of neu­rol­o­gy at New York Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine, and author of over 50 peer-reviewed papers. His areas of exper­tise include exec­u­tive func­tions, mem­o­ry, atten­tion deficit dis­or­der, demen­tia, trau­mat­ic brain injury, and oth­ers. Dr. Gold­berg was a stu­dent and close asso­ciate of the great neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Alexan­der Luria. His…

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