Brain Fitness at New York Public Library, next week

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 17, 2009

Title: The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness — Prac­ti­cal Advice to Keep Your Brain Sharp  — Two com­­mu­ni­­ty-based book talks host­ed by New York Pub­lic Library and sup­port­ed by the Ein­stein Aging Study at Albert Ein­stein Col­lege of Med­i­cine. Descrip­tion: A fit brain? Can you exer­cise your brain and become men­tal­ly fit? Can you con­tin­ue to…

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The Age of Mass Intelligence?

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 16, 2008

“We’ve all heard about dumb­ing down. But there is plen­ty of evi­dence that the oppo­site is also true. Is this, in fact, the age of mass intel­li­gence?” Fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle in Intel­li­gent Life, a pub­li­ca­tion by The Econ­o­mist: THE AGE OF MASS INTELLIGENCE — “Mil­lions more peo­ple are going to muse­ums, lit­er­ary fes­ti­vals and operas; millions…

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Exercise your brain at these events

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 25, 2008

Here are the dates and loca­tions of some upcom­ing events where I will be pre­sent­ing. Please intro­duce your­self if you are attend­ing! » Sep­tem­ber 4–5th, San Fran­cis­co, CA: sev­er­al Brain Health Pro­mo­tion ses­sions, at the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging con­fer­ence. » Octo­ber 9th, Van­cou­ver, Cana­da: Exer­cis­ing Our Brains 101 and Nav­i­gat­ing The Brain Fit­ness Maze,…

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Exercise Your Brain Widget

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 26, 2008

Hel­lo, I hope you have been enjoy­ing the long week­end (for folks in the US). Cre­at­ing a Sharp­Brains Wid­get was in my To Do list for a good while, to make it eas­i­er to share our con­tent via oth­er blogs and social sites (Face­book…). Final­ly, it is done!. And sur­pris­ing­ly easy. What it is: A wid­get is…

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Update: Brain Fitness Seminars

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 15, 2008

Here you are have the bi-mon­th­­ly update with our 10 most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter, at the top of this page, if you want to receive this digest by email). We hope you have some time to share with us today. Just…

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Exercise your brain in the Cognitive Age

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 3, 2008 |

In the past two days, The New York Times has pub­lished two excel­lent arti­cles on brain and cog­ni­tive fit­ness. Despite appear­ing in sep­a­rate sec­tions (tech­nol­o­gy and editorial), the two have more in com­mon than imme­di­ate­ly meets the eye. Both raise key ques­tions that politi­cians, health pol­i­cy mak­ers, busi­ness leaders, educators and consumers should pay atten­tion to. 1) First, Exer­cise Your Brain, or Else You’ll … Uh …, by Katie…

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