Cognitive Neuroscience @ MIT OpenCourseWare

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 28, 2007 |

The great MIT Open­Course­Ware ini­tia­tive offers a lot of free mate­ri­als on Brain and Cog­ni­tive Sci­ences. You can browse lec­ture notes, read­ings, and more on a vari­ety of psy­chol­o­gy and neu­ro­science cours­es. “The human brain is the most com­plex, sophis­ti­cat­ed, and pow­er­ful infor­­ma­­tion-pro­cess­ing device known. To study its com­plex­i­ties, the Depart­ment of Brain and Cognitive…

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Neuroscience for lawyers and leaders

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 3, 2007 |

Stephanie, our lawyer-blog­ger friend, alert­ed us of 2 great arti­cles co-authored by her and Dr. Jef­frey M. Schwartz, a research psy­chi­a­trist at the School of Med­i­cine at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia at Los Ange­les and one of the world’s lead­ing experts in neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty. We high­ly rec­om­mend them for lawyers, busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als, and lead­ers in general.…

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Brain Exercise for the Frontal lobes: the McKinsey Mind

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 1, 2007 |

My first full-time job was as a strate­gic con­sul­tant at McK­in­sey & Com­pa­ny. A very intense 2‑year learn­ing expe­ri­ence. Their Alum­ni News Ser­vice recent­ly inter­viewed me and pub­lished this great arti­cle on Sharp­Brains. The writer does a superb job of pro­vid­ing an overview of what we do, so I rec­om­mend you read it. I’d like…

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Mind & Life Institute

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 24, 2007 |

My wife and I were for­tu­nate to con­duct recent­ly a mind train­ing exper­i­ment, in the form of a breath­ing & med­i­ta­tion retreat, with some neu­ro­sci­en­tists and Adam Engle, Co-Founder and Chair­man of the Mind & Life Insti­tute (nice name, isn’t it?) The Mind and Life Dia­logues “start­ed in 1987 as an exper­i­ment to deter­mine whether a scientific…

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Brain Fitness Training for Trainers

By Caroline Latham | April 23, 2007 |

The Osh­er Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tutes (OLLI) at San Fran­cis­co State Uni­ver­si­ty and Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley, and Sharp­Brains offer this three-day work­shop for edu­ca­tors and brain fit­ness prac­ti­tion­ers seek­ing instruc­tion­al cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in the Sharp­Brains course, Exer­cis­ing Our Brains. Sharp­Brains (www.sharpbrains.com) has intro­duced the first sci­ence-based brain fit­ness cen­ter with infor­ma­tion and pro­grams to help peo­ple of all ages exer­cise their brains. They have offered the pop­u­lar Exer­cis­ing Our Brains course at SF State’s OLLI since Octo­ber 2005.

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Brain Fitness at Neurotech Industry Conference

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2007 |

Zack Lynch from Neu­roIn­sights reminds us that the early­bird reg­is­tra­tion for the Neu­rotech Indus­try Invest­ing and Busi­ness con­fer­ence is about to expire. You can reg­is­ter by April 13th to save $300. Con­fer­ence Details: Date: May 17 — 18, 2007 Loca­tion: West­in San Fran­cis­co, Mill­brae, CA High­ly rec­om­mend­ed con­fer­ence for any­one work­ing on biotech, med­ical devices, diag­nos­tics and…

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