Dr. Judith Beck on the future of cognitive therapy and psychotherapy

By SharpBrains | October 11, 2021

Dr. Awais Aftab: What do you think the future of psy­chother­a­py is? What would you like it to be? Dr. Judith Beck: A num­ber of years ago, a col­league asked my dad whether he expect­ed cog­ni­tive ther­a­py to even­tu­al­ly dom­i­nate the field of psy­chother­a­py. He respond­ed, “I hope good ther­a­py even­tu­al­ly dom­i­nates the field of psychotherapy.…

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Study Links Obesity and Cognitive Fitness — In Both Directions

By SharpBrains | August 26, 2011 |

Obe­si­ty linked to Cog­ni­tion (Health­Canal): — “Obese peo­ple tend to per­form worse than healthy peo­ple at cog­ni­tive tasks like plan­ning ahead, a lit­er­a­ture review has found, con­clud­ing that psy­cho­log­i­cal tech­niques used to treat anorex­i­cs could help obese peo­ple too.”

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Top 10 Cognitive Health and Brain Fitness Books

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 2, 2009 |

Here you have The 10 Most Pop­u­lar Brain Fit­ness & Cog­ni­tive Health Books, based on book pur­chas­es by Sharp­Brains’ read­ers dur­ing 2008. Enjoy! 1. Brain Rules: 12 Prin­ci­ples for Sur­viv­ing and Thriv­ing at Work, Home, and School (Pear Press, March 2008) — Dr. John Med­i­na, Direc­tor of the Brain Cen­ter for Applied Learn­ing Research at Seat­tle Pacific…

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Top 30 Brain Health and Fitness Articles of 2008

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 23, 2008

Here you have Sharp­Brains’ 30 most pop­u­lar arti­cles, ranked by the num­ber of peo­ple who have read each arti­cle in 2008. Please note that, since the first arti­cle already includes most of our most pop­u­lar brain teasers, we have exclud­ed teasers from the rest of the rank­ing. (If those 50 are not enough for you, you…

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The Future of Computer-assisted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 3, 2008 |

The Wall Street Jour­nal had a very inter­est­ing arti­cle yes­ter­day, titled To Be Young and Anx­i­e­ty-Free, focused on the val­ue of cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py to help chil­dren with high lev­els of anx­i­ety learn how too cope bet­ter and pre­vent the snow­ball sce­nario, when that anx­i­ety grows and spi­rals out of con­trol result­ing in depres­sion and…

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Obesity Crisis or Cognitive Crisis?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 17, 2008

The arti­cle Clum­sy kids more like­ly to become obese adults: study (CBC)… — “The study was based on tests of about 11,000 peo­ple in Britain who were test­ed for hand con­trol, co-ordi­­na­­tion and clum­si­ness at age sev­en and 11, and were then fol­lowed until age 33.” — “Prof. Scott Mont­gomery of the Karolin­s­ka Insti­tutet in Stockholm…

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