Maintain Your Brain and Stay Sharp: An Upcoming Guide and Resource

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 24, 2009 |

You may be read­ing all about brain fit­ness and brain train­ing. It seems every week brings a new bar­rage of arti­cles and stud­ies which often con­tra­dict what you read the month before: Does Gingko Bilo­ba help delay Alzheimer’s Dis­ease? Can phys­i­cal exer­cise help you stay sharp as you age? Which com­put­er-based “brain fit­ness pro­grams”, if…

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Can Google Kill Neurons and Rewire Your Whole Brain?

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 28, 2008 |

A few col­leagues and I just had an inter­est­ing exchange on the recent arti­cle at The Atlantic, Is Google Mak­ing Us Stu­pid?, which basi­cal­ly blamed Google for lit­er­al­ly rewiring our brains into more stu­pid brains (not being able to pay atten­tion, read deep books…) based on a num­ber of per­son­al anec­dotes and a lit­tle research. …

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Peace Among Primates (Part 3)

By Greater Good Science Center | April 20, 2008 |

A few days ago we pub­lished the first and sec­ond install­ments of this Peace Among Pri­mates series, by neu­ro­sci­en­tist Robert Sapol­sky. Today we pub­lish the third and final one. Peace Among Pri­mates (Part 3) Any­one who says peace is not part of human nature knows too lit­tle about pri­mates, includ­ing our­selves. –By Robert M. Sapol­sky Nat­ur­al born…

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Bi-Weekly Update: Preventing Memory Loss and Public Policy

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 15, 2008 |

Here you are have the bi-mon­th­­ly Digest of our most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter at the top of this page if you want to receive this digest by email). Brain Fit­ness News and Events Upcom­ing Events: I will be speak­ing at…

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Peace Among Primates (Part 2)

By Greater Good Science Center | April 12, 2008 |

(Edi­tor’s Note: A few days ago we pub­lished the first install­ment of this Peace Among Pri­mates series, by neu­ro­sci­en­tist Robert Sapol­sky. Today we pub­lish the sec­ond install­ment. Next Sat­ur­day, April 19th, you can come back and read the third and final part in the series.) Peace Among Pri­mates (Part 2) Any­one who says peace is not part…

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