Exercise Your Brain! Enjoy Learning!

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 30, 2007 |

Dr. Michael Merzenich has writ­ten a great post titled “cog­ni­tive reserve is a good thing to work on!. Rec­om­mend­ed read­ing if you are inter­est­ed in anoth­er sci­en­tif­ic per­spec­tive for cog­ni­tive train­ing. I agree we should know more (as usu­al), espe­cial­ly for pol­i­cy deci­sions, but there is enough research, from Mar­i­an Dia­mond et al (see beautiful…

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Some pearls of wisdom from Stanford alumni

By Caroline Latham | May 20, 2007

What a busy week, last one. We will be writ­ing dur­ing the week about some of the Sharp­Brains events that occured.  The May/June Issue of Stan­ford Mag­a­zine has a nice sec­tion titled Just One Ques­tion, where a num­ber of Stan­ford alum­ni answer the ques­tion “What do peo­ple in your pro­fes­sion know that you wish every­one knew?” Some…

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Brain Awareness Week

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 7, 2007

When is Brain Aware­ness Week? March 12–18, 2007 What Will Hap­pen The Brain Aware­ness Week is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn more about how the brain func­tions and how to cul­ti­vate a healthy brain. The Dana Foun­da­tion and mul­ti­ple part­ners, such as Sharp­Brains, will lead out­reach events world­wide. In the blog of the Dana Foun­da­tion we…

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