Brain Books: Your Suggestions?

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 11, 2008 |

Last Decem­ber we launched  our stim­u­lat­ing Author Speaks Series to pro­vide a plat­form for lead­ing sci­en­tists and experts writ­ing high-qual­i­­ty brain-relat­ed books to share their insights with Sharp­Brains read­ers. Par­tic­i­pants so far include (in order of appearance):

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The First Step Is Failure

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 17, 2008 |

Joanne Jacobs, edu­ca­tor, blog­ger and author of Our School: The Inspir­ing Sto­ry of Two Teach­ers, One Big Idea and the Char­ter School That Beat the Odds, par­tic­i­pates today in our Author Speaks Series with an excel­lent arti­cle on how “Schools won’t improve until admin­is­tra­tors and teach­ers can admit the prob­lems, ana­lyze what’s going wrong and…

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2 more Contributors on Brain, Education issues

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 29, 2008

We are pleased to announce that we’ll have 2 addi­tion­al excel­lent con­tri­bu­tions dur­ing Feb­ru­ary: — Adri­an Pre­da, M.D., will write about a brain plas­tic­i­ty top­ic. Adri­an Pre­da, M.D. is an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try and Human Behav­ior in the UC Irvine School of Med­i­cine. His exper­tise in human behav­ior, psy­chol­o­gy and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty is based on years…

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Stanford Media X Annual Conference

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 2, 2007

We will be attend­ing the 5th Annu­al Media X Con­fer­ence, April 16 and 17, 2007 at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. If you are com­ing, please con­tact us so we can talk in more detail about cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al train­ing (brain fit­ness). Descrip­tion: Media X Annu­al Con­fer­ence will high­light fun­da­men­tal research about peo­ple and tech­nol­o­gy for our Affiliates…

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