New Year’s Resolutions for Brain and Body

By Caroline Latham | December 18, 2006

If you haven’t found one yet, here are some great posts with a lot of ideas to help find your own healthy resolutions.The Car­ni­val of Pos­i­tive Think­ing has some real­ly great entries this time. One of the arti­cles in par­tic­u­lar has some great sug­ges­tions to help your brain health into the new year- tak­ing time to reflect, find a healthy bal­ance of stim­u­la­tion and rest, appre­ci­at­ing life, and being inquisitive.The Car­ni­val of Sport­s­The Hap­pi­ness Car­ni­val­So, what are your res­o­lu­tions for 2007?

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New Brain Fitness Guide

By Caroline Latham | December 14, 2006 |

We are very excit­ed to announce our new guide: <strong>Brain Fit­ness for Sharp Brains: Your <em>New</em> New Year Resolution,</strong>. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg wrote it with Car­o­line Lath­am in order to pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to the con­cept, sci­ence, and prac­tice of brain fitness.

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This is a Brain Fitness Center.

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 12, 2006 |

Today we issued the fol­low­ing press release, and are work­ing hard to get every­thing ready by Jan­u­ary (every­thing works now, but we want to pol­ish it). Please view this web­site as research in action, a liv­ing hypoth­e­sis. We are doing this because we love to learn and help. Please help us learn-feel free to give…

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Cognitive Training and Brain Fitness Computer Programs: Interview with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 8, 2006 |

Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg is a clin­i­cal pro­fes­sor of neu­rol­o­gy at New York Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine, and author of over 50 peer-reviewed papers. His areas of exper­tise include exec­u­tive func­tions, mem­o­ry, atten­tion deficit dis­or­der, demen­tia, trau­mat­ic brain injury, and oth­ers. Dr. Gold­berg was a stu­dent and close asso­ciate of the great neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Alexan­der Luria. His…

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Brain Fitness Program: Cogmed Working Memory Training. And more…

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 7, 2006

Busy day today. And very fun. — Great chat with Rolf Hal­len­creutz, Chair­man of the Board of Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing pro­gram, RoboMemo-now only for kids with ADD/ ADHD‑, dis­cussing how work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing may influ­ence med­i­cine, edu­ca­tion, cor­po­rate train­ing, and health & well­ness in gen­er­al (Dear Skype: thanks one more help for con­tribut­ing to US-Sweden…

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What happens in your brain when you see “SharpBrains”?

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 28, 2006

Well, it depends on how good a job we are doing. A study pre­sent­ed today at the annu­al meet­ing of the Radi­o­log­i­cal Soci­ety of North Amer­i­ca, car­ried out func­tion­al mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing (fMRI) stud­ies on the brain acti­va­tion of 20 adult men and women when shown a num­ber of logos. Very inter­est­ing results. We won’t write about…

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