Brain Awareness Week is here!

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 8, 2008

We have planned a num­ber of fun posts, start­ing tomor­row, to cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week (March 10–16th). We hope you will enjoy them. Let me share a taste of a few arti­cles you will find here dur­ing the week: — Dr. Adri­an Pre­da, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at UC Irvine School of Med­i­cine, will help us exercise…

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Brain News: Software, Education, Arts

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 5, 2008 |

A few updates and announce­ments: — 1) My apolo­gies for slow blog­ging, due to trav­el. I par­tic­i­pat­ed yes­ter­day in a fun pan­el dis­cus­sion at ETech on Use Your Head- The Future of Mind Hacks. You can read some take-aways (in Ital­ian, so this may be good brain exer­cise) here. — 2) We will release our…

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Announcing Expert Contributors to SharpBrains.com

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 22, 2008 |

Start­ing this week, you will start see­ing a grow­ing num­ber of Expert Con­trib­u­tors writ­ing in our blog and web­site, so that we can col­lec­tive­ly dis­cuss the lat­est research and trends on cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al train­ing, brain fit­ness and health, and the impli­ca­tions of brain research in gen­er­al for our every­day lives. All of it, spiced up…

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Baby Boomers, Healthy Aging and Job Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 25, 2007 |

There has been an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion about the issues relat­ed to the aging of the legal pro­fes­sion. Stephanie intro­duced us to the arti­cle “the Gray­ing Bar: let’s not for­get the ethics” by David Giacalone. In short: sta­tis­tics about the increas­ing ratio of lawyers over 70 in active prac­tice, on the one hand, and the general…

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