Update: How will Health incorporate Brain?

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 30, 2012

Time for Sharp­Brains’ March 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion thought-pro­­vok­ing  per­spec­tives on emo­tions, ADHD, health and the brain, and a brief sta­tus update of the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012). Fea­tured Per­spec­tives: The Emo­tion­al Life of Your Brain, by Richard David­son and Sharon Beg­ley Is ADHD over­diag­nosed? Find­ings from a new study in Germany,…

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The Emotional Life of Your Brain: One Brain Does Not Fit All

By SharpBrains | March 2, 2012

When it comes to how peo­ple respond to what life throws at them, and how they can devel­op and nur­ture their capac­i­ty to feel joy, to form lov­ing rela­tion­ships, to with­stand set­backs, and in gen­er­al to lead a mean­ing­ful life, the pre­scrip­tion must be just as personalized. 

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Upcoming Talk & Book Signing in Washington, DC

By SharpBrains | January 23, 2012

On Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 7, at 7 p.m., Cleve­land Park Library in Wash­ing­ton, DC will host Alvaro Fer­nan­dez as he dis­cuss­es  The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: 18 Inter­views with Sci­en­tists, Prac­ti­cal Advice, and Prod­uct Reviews to Keep Your Brain Sharp (book also avail­able via DC library sys­tem). The book expands on the con­cept of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty that…

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Brain Fitness: Definition, Priorities, and Links to Neuroleadership and Human Capital

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 9, 2011 |

Yes­ter­day we had a fun ses­sion on Brain Fit­ness dur­ing the Neu­rolead­er­ship Sum­mit tak­ing place now in San Fran­cis­co, explor­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to enhance per­for­mance and health of lead­ers and work­forces by deploy­ing both old tools (like breath­ing and med­i­ta­tion) and new ones (such as biofeed­back and data­base-dri­ven per­son­al­ized brain train­ing solu­tions). Here are a couple…

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Update: How Stress and Emotions Impact Brain Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 28, 2011

Spon­sored Ad (How to Adver­tise on SharpBrains.com) Time for the Octo­ber edi­tion of the month­ly Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing this time sev­er­al arti­cles on the impact of stress, emo­tions, and self-reg­u­la­­tion, on our brain’s struc­ture and per­for­mance. We are pleased to bring to Sharp­Brains read­ers a new 6‑part series on the Neu­ro­bi­ol­ogy of Stress, based on a…

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