New Online Course: How to Be Your Own Brain Fitness Coach in 2012

By SharpBrains | December 27, 2011

We are pleased to announce a new online course designed to equip par­tic­i­pants with the under­stand­ing and infor­ma­tion required to apply emerg­ing sci­ence and tools to enhance brain health and func­tion­al­ity across the lifes­pan. Course descrip­tion: Infor­ma­tion over­load and longer lives expose our brains to more demands than even before. This fast-paced and inter­ac­tive online…

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Neuroscience Boot Camp: For Anybody who Needs to Understand, Predict or Influence Human Behavior

By Dr. Martha Farah @ upenn | January 20, 2011

I am writ­ing to share some infor­ma­tion about our third annu­al “Neu­ro­science Boot Camp,” which I think the read­ers of the Sharp­Brains blog will find inter­est­ing. The Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia announces their 3rd annu­al Neu­ro­science Boot Camp, July 31-August 10, 2011! Why Neu­ro­science Boot Camp? Neu­ro­science is increas­ing­ly rel­e­vant to a num­ber of pro­fes­sions and aca­d­e­m­ic dis­ci­plines beyond its…

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Boost your Attention with Meditation

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | October 11, 2010 |

Brain train­ing does not nec­es­sar­i­ly mean com­put­er­ized games. For instance, medi­a­tion may be a great tool to train your brain. Dif­fer­ent parts of the brain sup­port dif­fer­ent func­tions. One func­tion, cen­tral to many of our actions, is “atten­tion”. Atten­tion can be defined as the abil­i­ty to sus­tain con­cen­tra­tion on a par­tic­u­lar object, action, or thought. It…

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Tracking decline in the brain from the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | September 16, 2010

Inter­est­ing arti­cle on The Dana Foun­da­tion web­site on how to mon­i­tor cog­ni­tive decline in the brain in the very ear­ly stages of Alzheimer’s: Func­tion­al MRI May Be Use­ful for Mon­i­tor­ing Cog­ni­tive Decline in the Elder­ly (Dana Foun­da­tion) Alzheimer’s researchers have long want­ed to find bet­ter ways not only to diag­nose the dis­ease but also to…

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