college-preparation

2 more Contributors on Brain, Education issues

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We are pleased to announce that we’ll have 2 addi­tion­al excel­lent con­tri­bu­tions dur­ing February:

- Adri­an Pre­da, M.D., will write about a brain plas­tic­i­ty topic.

Adri­an Pre­da, M.D. is an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try and Human Behav­ior in the UC Irvine School of Med­i­cine. His exper­tise in human behav­ior, psy­chol­o­gy and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty is based on years of expe­ri­ence work­ing as a psy­chi­a­trist, psy­chother­a­pist, teacher and researcher in a vari­ety of aca­d­e­m­ic clin­i­cal and non-clin­i­cal set­tings, includ­ing Yale Psy­chi­atric Insti­tute, Yale New Haven Hos­pi­tal, Yale Health Plan, UT South­west­ern and UC Irvine Neu­ro-Psy­chi­atric Research. 

- Joanne Jacobs, edu­ca­tion expert and great blog­ger, will par­tic­i­pate in our Author Speaks Series. 

Once a Knight Rid­der columnist, Joanne is now a free­lance writer and author of a book about a char­ter school that pre­pares His­pan­ic stu­dents for college. Her most recent book is Our School: The Inspir­ing Sto­ry of Two Teach­ers, One Big Idea and the Char­ter School That Beat the Odds.  

Stanford Media X Annual Conference

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We will be attend­ing the 5th Annu­al Media X Con­fer­ence, April 16 and 17, 2007 at Stan­ford University.

If you are com­ing, please con­tact us so we can talk in more detail about cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al train­ing (brain fitness).

Descrip­tion: Media X Annu­al Con­fer­ence will high­light fun­da­men­tal research about peo­ple and tech­nol­o­gy for our Affil­i­ates and friends.  The research ranges from bio­met­rics for authen­ti­ca­tion, to wire­less net­work sen­sors for enhanced qual­i­ty of life, to gam­ing and lead­er­ship along with [Read more…] about Stan­ford Media X Annu­al Conference