Selection of articles and brain teasers to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2018

By SharpBrains | March 9, 2018

___ Please join us next week in cel­e­brat­ing Brain Aware­ness Week 2018  (March 12–18th), the annu­al glob­al cam­paign orga­nized by the Dana Foun­da­tion to increase pub­lic aware­ness about the progress and ben­e­fits of brain research. You can attend some of the many activ­i­ties world­wide (here’s the BAW’s Inter­na­tion­al Cal­en­dar of events), and also enjoy and share some of our…

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Study: Why Super Mario 3D World may train your brain better than Angry Birds

By SharpBrains | December 9, 2015

Play­ing 3‑D video games can boost mem­o­ry for­ma­tion, UCI study finds (UCI News): “…Craig Stark and Dane Clemen­son of UCI’s Cen­ter for the Neu­ro­bi­ol­o­gy of Learn­ing & Mem­o­ry recruit­ed non-gamer col­lege stu­dents to play either a video game with a pas­sive, two-dimen­­sion­al envi­ron­ment (“Angry Birds”) or one with an intri­cate, 3‑D set­ting (“Super Mario 3D World”)…

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Calling high school students/ teachers to design creative experiments on the human brain

By SharpBrains | November 19, 2012

Design a Brain Exper­i­ment Com­pe­ti­tion, by the Dana Foun­da­tion: “The Dana Foun­da­tion is devot­ed to pro­mot­ing an inter­est in brain research in schools across the coun­try. Encour­ag­ing stu­dents to take an inter­est in sci­en­tif­ic research, espe­cial­ly relat­ed to the brain, is cru­cial, not only for stu­dents, but also for the future devel­op­ment of neuroscience. 

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The Mental Game: How High-Level Athletes Remain Calm and Focused

By SharpBrains | August 10, 2012

The Men­tal Prepa­ra­tion of High-Lev­­el Ath­letes (brief­ing paper by the Dana Foun­da­tion): “Base­ball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra is cred­it­ed with say­ing that “90 per­cent of the game is half men­tal.” Over the years, the line has been appro­pri­at­ed beyond the world of base­ball to explain the impor­tance of fac­tors like focus and motivation 

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Brain Awareness Week is Approaching: March 12–18th, 2012

By SharpBrains | February 6, 2012

Brain Aware­ness Week (BAW) is the glob­al cam­paign, orga­nized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Ini­tia­tives, to increase pub­lic aware­ness of the progress and ben­e­fits of brain research. Every March, BAW unites the efforts of part­ner orga­ni­za­tions world­wide in a cel­e­bra­tion of the brain for peo­ple of all ages. Events are 

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Experience Corps: Promoting Healthy, Meaningful Aging Through Social Involvement

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 28, 2011 |

The cur­rent issue of Cere­brum –a great pub­li­ca­tion of the Dana Foun­da­tion– includes the excel­lent in-depth arti­cle Pro­mot­ing Healthy, Mean­ing­ful Aging Through Social Involve­ment: Build­ing an Expe­ri­ence Corps, writ­ten by researcher Michelle Carl­son: “Over the last decade, sci­en­tists made two key dis­cov­er­ies that reframed our under­stand­ing of the adult brain’s poten­tial to ben­e­fit from lifelong…

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