Posts Tagged ‘development’
Are Schools (Cognitively) Nutritive for Children’s Complex Thinking?
Today we host a very stimulating essay on the importance of problem-solving and encouraging complex game-playing for children’s complete “cognitive nutrition”. Enjoy! ——————– Children’s Complex Thinking – By Tom O’Brien and Christine Wallach Pop over to your neighborhood school and visit some classrooms. Is what’s happening cognitively nutritive? That is, does it satisfy present needs…
Read MoreCognitive Development and Brain Research: Articles, Books, Papers (ASA)
We had a very fun session titled Teaching Brain Fitness in Your Community at an American Society on Aging (ASA) conference for health professionals a couple of weeks ago. Full house, with over 60 attendants and very good participation, showing great interest in the topic. I can’t wait to see the evaluations. These are some…
Read MorePhysical and Brain Exercise Boost Memory
Researchers at Yale University have just released a good paper showing the importance of both physical and mental exercise to maintain good memory (full text of research paper Single Enrichment Variables Reduce Aged-related Memory Decline in Female Mice). Some quotes from the Science Daily release Exercise And Mental Stimulation Both Boost Mouse Memory Late In…
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Disease: too serious to play with headlines
We just came across an article titled Best Computer Brain Games for Senior Citizens to Delay Alzheimer’s Disease. The headline makes little scientific sense-and we observe this confusion often. The article mentions a few programs we have discussed often in this blog, such as Posit Science and MindFit, and others we haven’t because we haven’t…
Read MoreBrain training to live long and strong
If you want to live long and strong, you’ve got to do more than work out your body; you’ve got to exercise your brain, insists Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, clinical professor of neurology at New York University School of Medicine. While we’ve heard for years that mental stimulation can stave off dementia and Alzheimer’s, Dr. Goldberg…
Read MoreBrain Exercise for the Frontal lobes: the McKinsey Mind
My first full-time job was as a strategic consultant at McKinsey & Company. A very intense 2‑year learning experience. Their Alumni News Service recently interviewed me and published this great article on SharpBrains. The writer does a superb job of providing an overview of what we do, so I recommend you read it. I’d like…
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