Newsletter: Navigating Games for Health and Education

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Quick, Are videogames good or bad? That’s an impos­si­ble ques­tion. Good or bad for what? What  spe­cif­ic games are we talk­ing about?…

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Brain Training and Cognitive Health: September News

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 28, 2008 |

A round-up of inter­est­ed news dur­ing the month: 1) Train­ing Young Brains to Behave (New York Times) 2) Head Games (OpEd in New York Times) 3) Will Geron­tol­ogy rec­og­nize the Brain? (Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging event) 4) Brain func­tion gets a boost from walk­ing (Los Ange­les Times) 5) An idea whose time has (final­ly) come (McK­night’s Long Term Care News) 6)…

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Gerontology and the Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 7, 2008 |

Last Fri­day, dur­ing the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging’s Brain Health day, a par­tic­i­pant made a com­ment along the lines, “I just com­plet­ed my Mas­ters in Geron­tol­ogy at Uni­ver­si­ty XYZ. Despite my best efforts, I could not find a sin­gle brain-relat­ed class to attend as part of my stud­ies. Which is why I decid­ed to come…

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Education, Biogerontology, HR carnivals

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 22, 2008

We are host­ing here at Sharp­Brains the next edi­tions of sev­er­al great blog car­ni­vals. If you blog about these top­ics, please sub­mit your best recent posts using our Con­tact Us form: — August 27th: Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion. — Sep­tem­ber 9th: Car­ni­val of Biogeron­tol­ogy. — Sep­tem­ber 17th: Car­ni­val of HR. Enjoy the  weekend!

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Update: The Challenges of Gerontology

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 14, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. First, I am pleased to report that have been invit­ed to par­tic­i­pate in a new ini­tia­tive by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum.…

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Education and the Biology of Aging

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 14, 2008

Edu­ca­tion, Aging…two seem­ing­ly unre­lat­ed top­ics, but with more biol­o­gy in com­mon than may meet the eye… You may enjoy the most recent edi­tions of two great blog car­ni­vals: — Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion, host­ed by Joanne Jacobs. — Hour­glass: a car­ni­val of biogeron­tol­ogy, host­ed by Chris at Ouroboros. Chris recent­ly launched this blog car­ni­val to pro­vide a…

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