What cognitive skills are for (or, is the Internet making us dumber?)

(Click on the image above to play with the “giga­pan” NASA  built using 36,000 “self­ies”) NASA Releas­es Earth Day ‘Glob­al Self­ie’ Mosa­ic (press release): “For Earth Day this year, NASA invit­ed peo­ple around the world to step out­side to take a “self­ie” and share it with the world on social media. NASA released Thurs­day a…

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Internet-driven innovation drives new digital health market, social change

Brain Health And Well­ness Inno­va­tion Dri­ves New Dig­i­tal Health Mar­ket, Social Change (Young Upstarts): “Tech­nol­o­gy has com­plete­ly changed the prac­tice of med­i­cine, pro­vid­ing incred­i­ble imag­ing tech­niques and data that now play a key role in treat­ing injuries and ill­ness­es. Sophis­ti­cat­ed tools give researchers amaz­ing new insights that advance our under­stand­ing of human anato­my, includ­ing the brain.…

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Update: Alzheimer’s Disease population to triple — unless we prevent or delay it

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Feb­ru­ary 2013 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing this time new sci­ence and analy­sis on Alzheimer’s Dis­ease, ADHD, men­tal well-being, brain health, and more. Enjoy! New sci­ence: Alzheimer’s Dis­ease pop­u­la­tion to triple: We need smarter research, pub­lic health ini­tia­tives and lifestyles, by Pas­cale Mich­e­lon, PhD Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion report: Can inter­ac­tive media boost atten­tion and well-being? Study: Mind­ful­ness training…

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Is the Internet Good or Bad for Your Brain?

The con­tro­ver­sy itself is super­fi­cial; as the obvi­ous real­i­ty is the inter­net and tech­nol­o­gy are not only here to stay, but con­stant­ly evolv­ing and per­me­at­ing more of our lives…The real con­ver­sa­tion should be how we can best use the Inter­net in smarter ways that help us to mon­i­tor and enhance the brain, and how can…

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Is the Internet making us dumber? (Nope, just different)

Is the Inter­net Real­ly Mak­ing Us Dumb­er? (Der Spiegel): “In Ger­many, scores increase by about 3 IQ points each decade. In fact, the tests have to be adjust­ed every few years to keep up. The test cur­rent­ly used for chil­dren is called the WISC-IV. A per­son claim­ing to have an IQ of 130 needs to…

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