Marian C. Diamond to open SharpBrains Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 25, 2009

What a bet­ter open­ing for our Jan­u­ary Sharp­Brains Sum­mit than to have Mar­i­an C. Dia­mond, one of the pio­neers of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty research since the 1960s, intro­duce us to the human brain, its anato­my and func­tion, and impli­ca­tions from neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty for brain health and per­for­mance at any age. Mar­i­an C. Dia­mond, Ph.D., is Pro­fes­sor of Neu­ro­science and…

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New Neurons: Good News, Bad News

By Dr. Bill Klemm | April 25, 2008

Over the last year we have glad­ly seen an avalanche of news on adult neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis (the cre­ation of new neu­rons in adult brains), fol­low­ing recent research reports. Fur­ther, we have seen how the news that phys­i­cal exer­cise can enhance neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis is becom­ing com­mon knowl­edge among many health sys­tems we work with. Now, the obvi­ous ques­tion that…

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Carnival of Education #159: Briefing the Next US President on 35 Issues

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 19, 2008 |

Dear Mr or Mrs Next US Pres­i­dent, Thank you for stop­ping dur­ing recess for a quick study ses­sion. 35 edu­ca­tors have col­lab­o­rat­ed to present this Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion as a use­ful les­son plan for you and your edu­ca­tion pol­i­cy team on what our real con­cerns and sug­ges­tions are. In case this is your first vis­it to…

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Are Schools (Cognitively) Nutritive for Children’s Complex Thinking?

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 10, 2008 |

Today we host a very stim­u­lat­ing essay on the impor­tance of prob­lem-solv­ing and encour­ag­ing com­plex game-play­ing for chil­dren’s com­plete “cog­ni­tive nutri­tion”. Enjoy! ——————– Chil­dren’s Com­plex Think­ing – By Tom O’Brien and Chris­tine Wal­lach Pop over to your neigh­bor­hood school and vis­it some class­rooms. Is what’s hap­pen­ing cog­ni­tive­ly nutri­tive? That is, does it sat­is­fy present needs…

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“Cells that fire together wire together” and Stanford Media X

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 18, 2007 |

That is the goal of Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Media X: to fos­ter deep col­lab­o­ra­tions between indus­try and acad­e­mia, as high­light­ed in Busi­ness Week’s recent arti­cle The Vir­tu­al Meet­ing Room. The 5th Annu­al Media X Con­fer­ence on Research, Col­lab­o­ra­tion, Inno­va­tion and Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty served its pur­pose well for the last cou­ple of days: very fun and insight­ful presentations…

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