The Next Frontier: Neuroscience, Business and the Arts

By Silvia Damiano | May 9, 2012

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer your­self any direc­tion you choose.” — Oh The Places You’ll Go, Dr.Seuss. The space between cre­ativ­i­ty and entre­pre­neur­ship is one of the most excit­ing areas unfold­ing in our mod­ern world right now. 

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Update: The Challenges of Gerontology

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 14, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. First, I am pleased to report that have been invit­ed to par­tic­i­pate in a new ini­tia­tive by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum.…

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Good blogs on health, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, education, business and more

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 4, 2007 |

Here you have a few recent great blog car­ni­vals (col­lec­tions of select­ed blog posts focused on spe­cif­ic top­ics): — Grand Rounds: health and med­i­cine — Encephalon: neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy — COTC: busi­ness and entre­pre­neur­ship — Human Resources: arti­cles for HR pro­fes­sion­als — Edu­ca­tion: arti­cles for K12 teach­ers and staff — Tan­gled Bank: gen­er­al science  — Books: good book…

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I am busy executive with a challenging job. How is brain fitness relevant to me?

By Caroline Latham | March 29, 2007 |

How is brain fit­ness rel­e­vant to me?Key Points: Reduce your stress to improve con­cen­tra­tion and learn­ing readi­ness and reduce distractions.Increase your men­tal stim­u­la­tion to help main­tain a healthy, flex­i­ble brain.Answer:Executives, or any­one involved in com­plex and rapid­ly evolv­ing envi­ron­ments, need to make pres­sured deci­sions based on sound log­ic, instead of emo­tion­al impuls­es.… Stress can also lim­it our men­tal flex­i­bil­i­ty and abil­i­ty to see alter­na­tive solu­tions, there­by pre­vent­ing us from adapt­ing to, and suc­ceed­ing in, new circumstances.

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