Brain Fitness Program: How to Evaluate and Choose One

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 10, 2007 |

The hol­i­days are approach­ing and you can expect many soft­ware and game devel­op­ers to adver­tise their prod­ucts aggres­sive­ly, try­ing to get you buy their “brain train­ing” prod­ucts for you or as a gift for a loved one. The good news is that there are more and more tools we can use to keep men­tal­ly stim­u­lat­ed and…

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Nintendo BrainAge, Lumosity, Happy Neuron, MyBrainTrainer…

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 17, 2007 |

A col­lec­tion of recent announce­ment in the “brain games” or “brain train­ing games” space: The Wii sets new gen­er­a­tional stan­dards for the videogame indus­try “The age­ing of the Japan­ese pop­u­la­tion com­pelled gamemak­er Nin­ten­do to widen its audi­ence. Now, the Wii is lead­ing the indus­try stan­dards. But hard­core gamers are still too impor­tant to be neglected.”…

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Emotional self-regulation and test anxiety

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 5, 2007 |

We wrote yes­ter­day about Grow­ing Super Ath­letes (each of our stu­dents) and how “Learn­ing” goes beyond what we typ­i­cal­ly call “Edu­ca­tion”. One of the skills need­ed for suc­cess at school and life is emo­tion­al self-reg­u­la­­tion, and a recent arti­cle on Sharp­Brains in La Opin­ion (main US-based Span­ish-lan­guage news­pa­per) touched pre­cise­ly on that. Below you have the link, and quotes,…

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