Posts Tagged ‘Guy-Potter’
Cognitive Reserve and Intellectually Demanding Jobs
I hope you are having happy holidays, and are getting ready for New Year celebrations. Best wishes to you and your loved ones. Via MedJournalWatch we just found this interesting paper, Associations of job demands and intelligence with cognitive performance among men in late life. Guy G. Potter PhD*, Michael J. Helms BS, and Brenda L. Plassman…
Read MoreCognitive Fitness as a New Frontier of Fitness
Very good article in the LA Times today. Like a StairMaster for the brain: Can mental workouts improve the mind’s agility? Baby boomer concerns stimulate an industry expansion. The reporter, Melissa Healy, reviews the healthy aging segment in the Brain Fitness field. A few selected quotes: — “There is plausibility, both biological and behavioral, to…
Read MoreOn The Brain
Very intense week, and very fun. I will be writing more about this week’s 3 speaking events, but let me say now that our key messages 1) our brains remain flexible during our lifetimes, 2) we can refine our brains with targeted practice, 3) good brain exercise, or “mental cross-training”, requires novelty, variety, and increasing level…
Read More10 Highlights from the 2007 Aspen Health Forum
The Aspen Health Forum gathered an impressive group of around 250 people to discuss the most pressing issues in Health and Medical Science (check out the Program and the Speakers bios), on October 3–6th. It was the first conference, by the way, where I have heard a speaker say: “I resuscitated a woman yesterday”. Key…
Read MoreBrain Fitness and SharpBrains.com in the Press
Growing media attention on the brain fitness field. At least on the “Healthy Aging” segment (I predict the media with catch up soon with developments in other areas, from cognitive training for kids and adults with ADD/ ADHD to stroke and TBI rehabilitation, to peak performance for corporate training). First, a superb article by Leslie…
Read MoreBaby Boomers, Healthy Aging and Job Performance
There has been an interesting discussion about the issues related to the aging of the legal profession. Stephanie introduced us to the article “the Graying Bar: let’s not forget the ethics” by David Giacalone. In short: statistics about the increasing ratio of lawyers over 70 in active practice, on the one hand, and the general…
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