What do Medicine, HR, Green living, Videogames, and Genes have in common…

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 22, 2007

…that understanding how our brains and minds work may con­tribute to all of them. Here you have some of the best blog car­ni­vals (col­lec­tions of blog posts on spe­cif­ic top­ics) we have con­tributed to this week: Grand Rounds: “brain exer­cise” is as impor­tant as nutri­tion, phys­i­cal exer­cise and stress man­age­ment. Green Liv­ing: let’s start the con­ver­sa­tion about “sus­tain­able brains”.…

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Science, Health and Business blogs

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 13, 2007

As every Mon­day, we bring you many blog car­ni­vals (col­lec­tions of blog posts around spe­cif­ic top­ics) we have con­tributed to. But before we do so, we have 2 announcements:  Learn­ing, The Gravy Way will host the next edi­tion of the Brain fit­ness car­ni­val on August 20th. You still have a few days to sub­mit your post on any­thing related…

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Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology, Education, Videogames, and much more…

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 16, 2007 |

Well, today we have an excep­tion­al col­lec­tion of blog car­ni­vals to men­tion. Please only start brows­ing if you do have some time to spare…otherwise you will end up spend­ing more time read­ing the arti­cles than you real­ly can afford to :-) First, some superb edi­tions of: Grand Rounds (Med­i­cine). An amaz­ing col­lec­tion of med­i­cine-relat­ed arti­cles, with fun guidance.…

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Brain Health and The way we age now

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 25, 2007 |

The New Yorker April 30th issue includes a superb arti­cle on The Way We Age Now: Can med­i­cine serve an aging pop­u­la­tion?. Atul Gawande pro­vides a great (and a bit depress­ing) sur­vey on the geri­atrics field: more and more need for prac­ti­tion­ers, with less and less sup­ply. now, a cou­ple of quotes and data points that are very rel­e­vant to…

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