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Brain Evolution and Why it is Meaningful Today to Improve Our Brain Health
Over the last months, thanks to the traffic growth of SharpBrains.com (over 100,000 unique visitors per month these days, THANK YOU for visiting today and please come back!), a number of proactive book agents, publishers and authors have contacted us to inform us of their latest brain-related books. We have taken a look at many…
Read MoreWorking Memory Training from a pediatrician perspective, focused on attention deficits
Today we interview Dr. Arthur Lavin, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western School of Medicine, pediatrician in private practice, and one of the first providers of Cogmed Working Memory Training in the US (the program whose research we discussed with Dr. Torkel Klingberg and Dr. Bradley Gibson). Dr. Lavin has a long standing…
Read MoreThe new Mental Game: sport psychology, coaches, get ready!
One of the many Sharp Brains around, who is up to date of everything related to brain health and fitness (yes, Jeanne, that’s you! thanks for being such a great bureau chief!) has sent us a very interesting press note on how brain fitness and training can be applied in the sports performance world. I…
Read MoreBrain Fitness News: Posit Science, Slate
A couple of quick links DISCOVER Magazine, May 2007 issue, brings a great article titled “The Elastic Brain: Michael Merzenich believes you can tone your mind and stave off memory loss. All it takes is time in his mental gym”. The article (which is not available online) provides a great overview of the amazing work of…
Read MoreBrain Fitness and Exercise in Japan
Fun article in the Washington Post: Aging Japanese Keep Their Minds Moving “part of a broad range of mental acuity products that are all the rage in Japan: books, toys, food and other things, sold with the pledge that they can reenergize aging brains.” “Analysts said the current brain-training trend began in 2004 and 2005…
Read More‘Brain gyms’ tone minds and reduce stress
Fun article in the San Francisco Examiner today on how High-tech ‘brain gyms’ tone minds, reduce stress. Quotes: “SharpBrains and Posit Science are just two of a growing number of start-up companies leading the way in the area of packaging and developing suites of software they call “brain gyms.†“SharpBrains offers a suite of products…
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