10 Brain Fitness New Year’s Resolutions

By SharpBrains | December 31, 2007 |

You have sur­vived the 2007 shop­ping and eat­ing sea­son. Con­grat­u­la­tions! Now it’s time to shift gears and focus on 2008…whether you write down some New Year res­o­lu­tions or con­tem­plate some things that you want to let go of from last year and set inten­tions and goals for this year — as is a friend’s tradition…

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Brain Training: No Magic Bullet, Yet Useful Tool. Interview with Elizabeth Zelinski

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 18, 2007 |

Sharon Beg­ley, Newsweek’s sci­ence reporter, recent­ly wrote that — “With the nation’s 78 mil­lion baby boomers approach­ing the age of those dread­ed ‘“where did I leave my keys?” moments, it’s no won­der the mar­ket for com­put­er-based brain train­ing has shot up from essen­tial­ly zero in 2005 to $80 mil­lion this year, accord­ing to the consulting…

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Brain Fitness Newsletter: November Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 30, 2007 |

Here you are have the Month­ly Digest of our Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your month­ly Brain Exer­cise Mag­a­zine. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, check our Top­ics sec­tion, and sub­scribe to our month­ly newslet­ter at the top of this page if you want to receive this…

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Brain and Mind News and Articles

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 13, 2007 |

Here you have a col­lec­tion of recent news cov­er­age on brain heath, fit­ness and train­ing top­ics: 1- Great Mem­o­ry Spe­cial in Nation­al Geo­graph­ic, includ­ing — Inter­ac­tive 3D map of the brain — Mem­o­ry Game 2- Fas­ci­nat­ing What the Bea­t­les Gave Sci­ence, by Sharon Beg­ley at Newsweek — “Even in novices, med­i­ta­tion leaves its mark. An eight-week course…

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Brain Fitness Newsletter: October Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 1, 2007 |

Fol­low­ing our Sep­tem­ber edi­tion, here you are have our Month­ly Digest of the Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your month­ly Brain Exer­cise Mag­a­zine. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, check our Top­ics sec­tion, and sub­scribe to our month­ly newslet­ter at the top of this page if you…

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Cognitive Fitness and Brain Improvement: 10 Debunked Myths

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 30, 2007 |

Over the last year we have inter­viewed a num­ber of lead­ing brain health and fit­ness sci­en­tists and prac­ti­tion­ers world­wide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have news to report. What can we say today that we could­n’t have said only 10 years ago? That what neu­ro­science pio­neer San­ti­a­go Ramon y Cajal claimed in…

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