Scanning healthy brains to understand and enhance our minds

By SharpBrains | January 7, 2014

The Brain, in Exquis­ite Detail (The New York Times): “Each of the 1,200 sub­jects whose brain data will form the final data­base will spend a good 10 hours over two days being scanned and doing oth­er tests. The sci­en­tists and tech­ni­cians will then spend at least anoth­er 10 hours ana­lyz­ing and stor­ing each person’s data to…

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Sensible decisions over hard prescriptions for lifelong brain health

By SharpBrains | June 7, 2013

Intel­li­gence tests offer insight into age­ing brain (BBC News): “Six­­ty-six years ago today, more than 70,000 10 and 11-year-old chil­dren across Scot­land took an intel­li­gence test…now they have formed the foun­da­tion of a remark­able research project which is pro­duc­ing valu­able insights into what lies behind cog­ni­tive decline — or age­ing of the brain…

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Study: Families’ Perspectives on ADHD and its Treatment

By Dr. David Rabiner | October 18, 2011

In 2005 the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics (AAP) began an ini­tia­tive to pro­mote an approach to care among its mem­bers in which “…the pedi­atric team works in part­ner­ship with a child and a child’s fam­i­ly to assure that all of the med­ical and non-med­i­cal needs of the patient are met.” A crit­i­cal­ly impor­tant focus of…

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A Love affair Across Generations: A Lamarckian Reincarnation?

By Dr. Robert Sylwester | February 14, 2009

Eric Jensen alert­ed me to a research study pub­lished in the Feb­ru­ary 4th Jour­nal of Neu­ro­science — Trans­gen­er­a­tional Res­cue of a Genet­ic Defect in Long-Term Poten­ti­a­tion and Mem­o­ry For­ma­tion by Juve­nile Enrich­ment. We both had the same ini­tial WOW! feel­ing that we had expe­ri­enced when we first read about the dis­cov­ery of mir­ror neu­rons a…

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Training Attention and Emotional Self-Regulation — Interview with Michael Posner

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 18, 2008 |

(Edi­tor’s Note: this is one of the 20 inter­views includ­ed in the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age) Michael I. Pos­ner is a promi­nent sci­en­tist in the field of cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science. He is cur­rent­ly an emer­i­tus pro­fes­sor of neu­ro­science at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon (Depart­ment…

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Peace Among Primates (Part 3)

By Greater Good Science Center | April 20, 2008 |

A few days ago we pub­lished the first and sec­ond install­ments of this Peace Among Pri­mates series, by neu­ro­sci­en­tist Robert Sapol­sky. Today we pub­lish the third and final one. Peace Among Pri­mates (Part 3) Any­one who says peace is not part of human nature knows too lit­tle about pri­mates, includ­ing our­selves. –By Robert M. Sapol­sky Nat­ur­al born…

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