Upcoming: Grand Rounds Blog Carnival and Brain Fitness Q&A

By SharpBrains | November 11, 2011

Just a quick note to announce that next Tues­day, Novem­ber 15th, SharpBrains.com will be host­ing two great resources: 1- Grand Rounds Blog Car­ni­val: the week­ly col­lec­tion of what’s best in the health and med­ical blo­gos­phere (see great lat­est edi­tion Here). If you want to con­tribute your own blog post, please do so via this Contact…

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Brain Fitness: Definition, Priorities, and Links to Neuroleadership and Human Capital

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 9, 2011 |

Yes­ter­day we had a fun ses­sion on Brain Fit­ness dur­ing the Neu­rolead­er­ship Sum­mit tak­ing place now in San Fran­cis­co, explor­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to enhance per­for­mance and health of lead­ers and work­forces by deploy­ing both old tools (like breath­ing and med­i­ta­tion) and new ones (such as biofeed­back and data­base-dri­ven per­son­al­ized brain train­ing solu­tions). Here are a couple…

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Let’s Define Brain Fitness and Physical Fitness

By SharpBrains | April 8, 2011 |

Bev­er­ly San­born, Vice Pres­i­dent of Pro­gram Devel­op­ment at Bel­mont Senior Liv­ing and sched­uled 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit Speak­er, could not final­ly speak at the Sum­mit (she was very well replaced by col­league Jeff DeBevec), but for­tu­nate­ly we can share her thought­ful answers to the fol­low­ing four crit­i­cal ques­tions. 1. How would you define “brain fit­ness” vs. “phys­i­cal fitness”?…

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Quick update on 2010 Brain Fitness Innovation Awards

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 16, 2010

We have received 40 excel­lent entries to the inau­gur­al Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards describ­ing pio­neer­ing ini­tia­tives to apply neu­ro­­plas­tic­i­­ty-based find­ings and tools to a vari­ety of purposes/ age groups through the lifes­pan: aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance, sports per­for­mance, pro­fes­sion­al per­for­mance, healthy aging, clin­i­cal and men­tal health pur­pos­es. Most came from orga­ni­za­tions based in North Amer­i­ca, but we…

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Last Days for Entries to 2010 Brain Fitness Innovation Awards

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2010

Please remem­ber we are accept­ing entries until end of this Thurs­day, April 15th. Win­ners will be announced on May 24th, 2010. How to Apply: Orga­ni­za­tions can use this Entry Form to sub­mit entries (opens a Word doc­u­ment). Descrip­tion: the new annu­al Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards, designed to fos­ter inno­va­tion and best prac­tice shar­ing by cel­e­brat­ing outstanding…

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