Update: The Future of Preventive Brain Medicine

By SharpBrains | January 27, 2012

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Jan­u­ary 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion mul­ti­ple thought-pro­­vok­ing per­spec­tives on how emerg­ing neu­ro­science can and should make us rethink pre­vail­ing prac­tices in edu­ca­tion, healthy aging and pre­ven­tive med­i­cine.   Fea­tured Per­spec­tives: The Future of Pre­ven­tive Brain Med­i­cine: Break­ing Down the Cog­ni­tion & Alzheimer’s Dis­ease Alpha­bet Soup, by Dr. Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa When 1 +…

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Update: Can Brain Science Enhance Living?

By SharpBrains | December 29, 2011

Spon­sored Ad (How to Adver­tise on SharpBrains.com) Time for our month­ly eNewslet­ter track­ing recent news and devel­op­ments on how the neu­ro­science of cog­ni­tion and emo­tions can inform edu­ca­tion and health across the lifes­pan. Let us try to be as con­cise as pos­si­ble, so you can spend as much time as pos­si­ble con­nect­ing with your Loved Ones instead of…

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News: Neuroscience Applied to Learning, Mental Health, Healthy Aging

By SharpBrains | December 28, 2011

Here you have a round-up of recent news on how cog­ni­tive and affec­tive neu­ro­science find­ings are start­ing to inform edu­ca­tion and health across the lifes­pan: Pedi­a­tri­cians issue a call to aid chil­dren fac­ing ‘tox­ic stress’ (LA Times) Teach­ers as Brain-Chang­ers: Neu­ro­science and Learn­ing (EdWeek)

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Is the University Centered on The Learner or the Professor?

By Miguel Angel Escotet | November 5, 2011

The aca­d­e­m­ic ethos of uni­ver­si­ties has changed very lit­tle since the Mid­dle Ages until the present. How­ev­er, there is a sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ence between the ori­gin of uni­ver­si­ties as social insti­tu­tions and con­tem­po­rary uni­ver­si­ties. At first, their struc­ture was more infor­mal and, con­trary to what one might think, more flex­i­ble. It was stu­dents who sought out…

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Study: Music Training Can Enhance Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function

By SharpBrains | October 5, 2011 |

Very inter­est­ing new study pub­lished in Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sci­ence: Short-Term Music Train­ing Enhances Ver­bal Intel­li­gence and Exec­u­tive Func­tion. Abstract: Researchers have designed train­ing meth­ods that can be used to improve men­tal health and to test the effi­ca­cy of edu­ca­tion pro­grams. How­ev­er, few stud­ies have demon­strat­ed broad trans­fer from such train­ing to per­for­mance on untrained cog­ni­tive activities.…

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