The Brain Fitness Program DVD (Michael Merzenich)

The most pop­u­lar ques­tion we got when we announced that PBS had a great spe­cial on Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram and Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty in Decem­ber was, when will the DVD be avail­able? Well, final­ly here it comes. You can click on the image or the title to go over to PBS shop to learn more and buy it.…

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Neurotechnology, Health and Brain Fitness News

Today we have a num­ber of indus­try announce­ments: 1) New edi­tions of these Blog Car­ni­vals (col­lec­tions of blog posts around spe­cif­ic top­ics) Encephalon (neu­ro­science) Grand Rounds (med­i­cine) Edu­ca­tion (guess!) Hap­pi­ness 2) The Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Indus­try Orga­ni­za­tion has launched a Neu­rotech Job Board ded­i­cat­ed to com­mer­cial neu­ro­science (most­ly focused on clin­i­cal appli­ca­tions, like drugs and devices, not…

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Neuroscience for lawyers and leaders

Stephanie, our lawyer-blog­ger friend, alert­ed us of 2 great arti­cles co-authored by her and Dr. Jef­frey M. Schwartz, a research psy­chi­a­trist at the School of Med­i­cine at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia at Los Ange­les and one of the world’s lead­ing experts in neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty. We high­ly rec­om­mend them for lawyers, busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als, and lead­ers in general.…

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Can a brain fitness program help me become more creative?

Here is ques­tion 20 of 25 from Brain Fit­ness 101: Answers to Your Top 25 Questions.Question:Can a brain fit­ness pro­gram help me become more creative?Key Points: Cre­ativ­i­ty can be trained, like oth­er men­tal muscles.Set up struc­tured time, places, or rou­tines that pro­vide a frame­work for cre­ativ­i­ty to happen.Reducing your stress helps to keep your brain more flexible.Using many parts of the brain as well as try­ing new things will stim­u­late the areas of your brain involved in creativity.

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Brain Management for lawyers

How does this neu­ro fron­tier inside our skulls specif­i­cal­ly inform law firm man­age­ment? By peer­ing inside the brain, we can see how its own­er takes in infor­ma­tion, makes deci­sions, changes and resists change, remem­bers and recalls, and responds to peo­ple. What we are learn­ing about the brain affects three fac­tors crit­i­cal to law firms and…

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