New Brain Fitness Guide

By Caroline Latham | December 14, 2006 |

We are very excit­ed to announce our new guide: <strong>Brain Fit­ness for Sharp Brains: Your <em>New</em> New Year Resolution,</strong>. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg wrote it with Car­o­line Lath­am in order to pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to the con­cept, sci­ence, and prac­tice of brain fitness.

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How Do We Remember? A Neuroscience Explanation

By Caroline Latham | October 29, 2006

I just found a great tech­ni­cal descrip­tion ‑see below- of how we remem­ber in the Brain Back­grounders at The Soci­ety for Neu­ro­science web­site. If you are look­ing for a less tech­ni­cal expla­na­tion, you will enjoy read­ing instead: — Improve Mem­o­ry with Sleep, Prac­tice, and Test­ing — Try Think­ing With­out Work­ing Mem­o­ry — New Neu­rons: Good…

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Waltzing Your Way to Physical and Mental Fitness

By Caroline Latham | October 24, 2006 |

“From a mind-body per­spec­tive, any­thing you do suc­cess­ful­ly on the phys­i­cal end will pos­i­tive­ly affect your men­tal and emo­tion­al states.” com­ment­ed Jen­ny Suss­er, Ph.D., a sports psy­chol­o­gist at the Wom­en’s Sports Med­i­cine Cen­ter at New York City’s Hos­pi­tal for Spe­cial Surgery, a lead­ing cen­ter for sports med­i­cine. The arti­cle Dance Your Way To A Better…

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Brain Fitness and Mind Fitness Glossary

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 24, 2006 |

Senia has a good post on the impor­tance on learn­ing the “jar­gon” of new fields of inter­est. Let’s review a few terms we have been or will be using often: Brain Fit­ness or Mind Fit­ness: the gen­er­al state of good, sharp, brain and mind, espe­cial­ly as the result of men­tal and phys­i­cal exer­cise and prop­er nutri­tion. Brain Fit­ness Program:…

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