Update: Live Well to 100 by Using Your Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 30, 2009

Here you have the Novem­ber 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. Liv­ing Well to 100 100 is the new 65: Why do some peo­ple live, and well, to 100? Researchers…

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Cognitive science to improve student learning

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 2, 2008

Today’s news: McDon­nell Foun­da­tion grant har­ness­es cog­ni­tive sci­ence to improve stu­dent learn­ing (press release) — “Using what cog­ni­tive psy­chol­o­gists are dis­cov­er­ing in the lab­o­ra­to­ry to improve learn­ing in the class­room is the goal of a $6.47 mil­lion col­lab­o­ra­tive activ­i­ty grant to Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty from the James S. McDon­nell Foun­da­tion (JSMF).” — “The aim of the…

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Top 10 Cognitive Fitness Events of 2008 (Webinar)

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 2, 2008

We have just announced an upcom­ing webi­nar to pro­vide a mar­ket update:  Top 10 Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness Events of 2008 — A Mar­ket Update. When: Thurs­day Decem­ber 11th, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm Pacif­ic Time. The same webi­nar will be repeat­ed on Thurs­day Decem­ber 18th, from 9:00 to 10:00 pm Pacif­ic Time. The Top 10 Cog­ni­tive Fitness…

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Exercise your brain in the Cognitive Age

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 3, 2008 |

In the past two days, The New York Times has pub­lished two excel­lent arti­cles on brain and cog­ni­tive fit­ness. Despite appear­ing in sep­a­rate sec­tions (tech­nol­o­gy and editorial), the two have more in com­mon than imme­di­ate­ly meets the eye. Both raise key ques­tions that politi­cians, health pol­i­cy mak­ers, busi­ness leaders, educators and consumers should pay atten­tion to. 1) First, Exer­cise Your Brain, or Else You’ll … Uh …, by Katie…

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Preventing Memory Loss-CQ Researcher

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 8, 2008

Ever won­dered what explains the some­times sur­re­al, often mis­guid­ed, health poli­cies by our gov­ern­ment? Well,  it is beyond our hum­ble brains to cap­ture and artic­u­late what may be going on…but we now see that lack of access to qual­i­ty infor­ma­tion is cer­tain­ly not the main prob­lem. Deci­­sion-mak­ing process­es, and struc­tur­al incen­tives, would prob­a­bly mer­it more…

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