Brain training via mindfulness, cognitive training, and/ or tDCS

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 4, 2013

Sev­er­al recent media arti­cles high­light the grow­ing inter­est in a vari­ety of approach­es to enhance the brain and the mind. The obvi­ous emerg­ing ques­tion, which we address at The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness giv­en that “one size does­n’t fit all” is, what works best for whom and for what? Mind­ful­ness: Get­ting Its Share of Atten­tion (The New York Times):…

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Update: Learning about Learning/ more on Brain Age

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 1, 2009

Here you have the Jan­u­ary edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Bird’s Eye View  Brain fit­ness heads towards its tip­ping point: How do you know when some­thing is…

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Resources to help students build emotional intelligence

By Greater Good Science Center | January 24, 2009

(Edi­tor’s note: Daniel Gole­man is now con­duct­ing a great series of audio inter­views includ­ing one with Richard David­son on Train­ing the Brain: Cul­ti­vat­ing Emo­tion­al Skills. We are hon­ored to bring you this guest post by Daniel Gole­man, thanks to our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Greater Good Mag­a­zine.) ——————– Resources to help stu­dents build emo­tion­al intel­li­gence By Daniel…

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