Study: Dyslexia not related to intelligence. Implications for discrepancy model?

By SharpBrains | November 6, 2011

NIH-fund­ed study finds dyslex­ia not tied to IQ (NIH press release): — “Regard­less of high or low over­all scores on an IQ test, chil­dren with dyslex­ia show sim­i­lar pat­terns of brain activ­i­ty, accord­ing to researchers sup­port­ed by the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health. The results call into ques­tion the dis­crep­an­cy mod­el — the prac­tice of classifying…

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Brain Exercise: Software vs. Crosswords

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 6, 2008 |

Today I had a great con­ver­sa­tion with Mar­tin Buschkuehl, one of the U Michi­gan researchers involved in the cog­ni­tive train­ing study that has received much media atten­tion since ear­ly last week, when the study was pub­lished at the Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences. I will pub­lish the inter­view notes next week. For the…

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Stress Management for Lawyers

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 22, 2007

The ABA (Amer­i­can Bar Asso­ci­a­tion) Jour­nal has a good arti­cle titled Law Hacks: 101 tips, tricks and tools to make you a more pro­duc­tive, less stressed-out lawyer, com­bin­ing tips on email usage, soft­ware, and some brain tips from us: 67 “The Web site Sharp­Brains sug­gests self-improve­­ment exer­cis­es. Try this one: Take five-minute visu­alization breaks with deep…

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