Brain Plasticity @ Edge

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 5, 2009

Edge’s Ques­tion of the Year is, “What will change every­thing? What game-chang­ing sci­en­tif­ic ideas and devel­op­ments do you expect to live to see?” A cou­ple of sci­en­tists respond on areas close to our field: — Con­trol­ling Brain Plas­tic­i­ty (by Leo Chalu­pa) — The first major upgrade of the human brain and the mind it gen­er­ates since the…

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Brain Health/ Brain Training News

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 14, 2008 |

Roundup of inter­est­ing news in this emerg­ing field: 1) Brain Health Lead­ers Team Up to Pre­vent Crash­es. 2) Adults Improve Crit­i­cal Pro­fes­sion­al and Per­son­al Skills Through New Cog­ni­tive Train­ing Pro­gram. 3) Nature Neu­ro­science Pod­cast and Lon­don Taxi Dri­vers. 4) What Have You Changed Your Mind About, late­ly?. 5) The 2008 Mind & Life Sum­mer Research Institute…

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“Tis better to give than receive”: oxytocin and dopamine

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 21, 2007 |

Jef­frey Gonce, a Psy­chol­o­gy teacher at Red Land High School (West Shore School Dis­trict, PA) just asked his stu­dents to “com­plete a project describ­ing a recent brain (or genet­ic) study that affects behav­ior.”  The stu­dents could opt to post their arti­cles online, and Jef­frey was kind enough to send us a link to read the…

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