Social Connections for Cognitive Fitness

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | April 3, 2008 |

We human beings are social ani­mals. It seems intu­itive (even for intro­verts!) that social con­tact has ben­e­fits. Obvi­ous­ly we need oth­er peo­ple to ful­fill basic needs such mak­ing sure that our genes out­live. Maybe less obvi­ous­ly we seem to need oth­er peo­ple to main­tain ade­quate lev­els of men­tal well being and moti­va­tion. Even less obviously,…

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Best of the Brain from Scientific American

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 20, 2007 |

The Dana Foun­da­tion kind­ly sent us a copy of the great book Best of the Brain from Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can, a col­lec­tion of 21 superb arti­cles pub­lished pre­vi­ous­ly in Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can mag­a­zine. A very nice­ly edit­ed and illus­trat­ed book, this is a must for any­one who enjoys learn­ing about the brain and spec­u­lat­ing about what the…

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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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