entrenamiento mental

Perspectiva: Transformando la educacion para fortalecer de las funciones ejecutivas y mejorar el rendimiento escolar y laboral

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¿Puede ust­ed aumen­tar su inteligen­cia? (El Confidencial):

“Ha apare­ci­do una flo­re­ciente indus­tria del entre­namien­to men­tal (Brain Train­ing Indus­try) que mueve más de 1.000 mil­lones de dólares en EEUU (Sharpbrains.com). Medi­ante pro­gra­mas infor­máti­cos, prom­ete mejo­rar la inteligen­cia, aumen­tar la memo­ria, resolver prob­le­mas de déficit de aten­ción e hiper­ac­tivi­dad, pre­venir el alzhéimer, man­ten­er la efi­cien­cia cog­ni­ti­va en la vejez, etc. [Read more…] about Per­spec­ti­va: Trans­for­man­do la edu­ca­cion para for­t­ale­cer de las fun­ciones ejec­u­ti­vas y mejo­rar el rendimien­to esco­lar y laboral

June 22nd talk @ Fundacion Edad y Vida (Barcelona) on Health in the XXI century

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aa-225x300Last Novem­ber, talk­ing with some Japan­ese col­leagues at the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Coun­cil on the Aging Soci­ety, I dis­cov­ered that it is com­mon there to orga­nize research-dri­ven consortia/ learn­ing labs among for-prof­it, non-prof­it and aca­d­e­m­ic orga­ni­za­tions inter­est­ed in the devel­op­ment of “sil­ver indus­tries”, this is, where com­pa­nies devel­op prod­uct and ser­vices spe­cif­ic to the needs of old­er adults.

I just dis­cov­ered ‑hav­ing been invit­ed to speak there, togeth­er with Prof. Shlo­mo Breznitz- that my native Spain counts with a sim­i­lar inno­v­a­tive plat­form. You can see below (in Span­ish) the details of my tak in Barcelona on June 22nd, and here you have how the Fun­da­cion Edad y Vida describes itself:

  • The Edad&Vida Foun­da­tion is a plat­form where all the dif­fer­ent agents involved in con­tribut­ing to the qual­i­ty of life of elder­ly peo­ple con­verge. Edad&Vida is an open space to com­pa­nies from dif­fer­ent eco­nom­ic sec­tors, social agents and aca­d­e­m­ic entities.
  • Edad&Vida is the result of the effort of more than 40 lead­ing com­pa­nies that belong to dif­fer­ent eco­nom­ic sec­tors. We can find [Read more…] about June 22nd talk @ Fun­da­cion Edad y Vida (Barcelona) on Health in the XXI century