Stimulating Minds, Stimulating Links

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 8, 2009

Just a quick note to announce a new Sil­ver Spon­sor of the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit, and link to a cou­ple stim­u­lat­ing online con­ver­sa­tions. The Insti­tute For the Future is an inde­pen­dent, non­prof­it strate­gic research group with more than 40 years of fore­cast­ing expe­ri­ence. The core of our work is iden­ti­fy­ing emerg­ing trends and dis­con­ti­nu­ities that will…

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Update: Live Well to 100 by Using Your Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 30, 2009

Here you have the Novem­ber edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. Liv­ing Well to 100 100 is the new 65: Why do some peo­ple live, and well, to 100? Researchers…

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Grand Rounds: Brain and Cognition edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 20, 2009 |

Encephalon (brain & mind blog car­ni­val, edi­tion ) final­ly meets Grand Rounds (health & med­i­cine blog car­ni­val). What a nice sur­prise. Hel­lo. Nice to meet you! — Note: Chron­ic Babe wins a com­pli­men­ta­ry copy of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness for basi­cal­ly invent­ing cog­ni­tive sleep ther­a­py. Con­grats! — Life and Death Mind­Hacks dis­cuss­es an unex­pect­ed surge…

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Neuroscience, brain development and cognitive health

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 13, 2009

Round-up of recent arti­cles on neu­ro­science, brain devel­op­ment and cog­ni­tive health: Encephalon 68: A car­ni­val of neu­ro­science: Chris hosts a great col­lec­tion of neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy posts in his sig­na­ture Q&A style. Bilin­gual Babies Get Head Start — Before They Can Talk: — Unlike the mono­lin­gual group, the bilin­gual group was able to suc­cess­ful­ly learn a…

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Blog Carnivals: Encephalon, Grand Rounds, Change of Shift

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 2, 2009

Three excel­lent new edi­tions of these blog car­ni­vals: — Encephalon at Neu­roskep­tic: brain and mind top­ics. — Grand Rounds at Run­ning a Hos­pi­tal: over­all health and med­i­cine, this week with spe­cial theme “when things go awry”. — Change of Shift at Emergi­Blog: nurs­ing and relat­ed health­care topics.

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Brain, Mind, Health, Medicine: blog carnivals!

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 19, 2009

A cou­ple of very well curat­ed col­lec­tions of recent blog posts: Encephalon #64: host­ed by Neu­r­o­crit­ic, cov­er­ing neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy. Please make sure to vis­it when you have some time to spare…because you will quick­ly become addict­ed to the qual­i­ty con­tent and superb pre­sen­ta­tion. It’s Grand Rounds, What Do You Think? GOSH!: host­ed by Kim at…

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