Posts Tagged ‘lifestyle’
Brain Fitness Newsletter: Premium Research Sponsors
Here you have the twice-a-month newsletter with our most popular blog posts. Please remember that you can subscribe to receive this Newsletter by email, simply by submitting your email at the top of this page. Have you ever wondered how we can maintain SharpBrains’ website, blog and newsletter without selling any products and with only limited…
Read MoreCognitive Health News Round-Up
Round-up of interesting recent news on cognitive health and fitness: the field is in motion. 1) Baycrest creates Centre for Brain Fitness with $10-million Investment from Ontario Government (Canada NewsWire) 2) Cognitive tests are the best way to select medical students (EurekAlert) 3) High blood pressure hard on the aging brain (Reuters) 4) Alzheimer’s tests beneficial for seniors (Atlanta-Journal…
Read MoreSalon.com on Brain Fitness: Tree or Forest?
Salon.com published yesterday a thought-provoking article focused on Posit Science’s Brain Fitness Program, titled Buff Up Your Brain, that combined a) some pretty good analysis and great points about that specific program and justifiable (to a point) criticism of the commercial tone of a recent PBS Special, with b) the error of confusing a tree…
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Prevention and Diagnostic Tests
Roundup of several insightful articles and recent research: Fish Oil May Help Prevent Alzheimer’s (Washington Post) — “The omega‑3 fatty acids found in fish oil might play an important role in preventing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a research team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).” — “Publishing in the Dec. 26 issue of the…
Read MoreBrain Health Newsletter, March Edition
We have had another busy month behind us, and we’re looking forward to Brain Awareness Week March 12–18. Keep reading for the details (including a special offer in honor of Brain Awareness Week) … I. Press Coverage II. Events III. Program Reviews IV. New Offerings V. Website and Blog Summary. Set your DVRs – SharpBrains is coming to the small screen! Our television debut will be on CBS 13 West Sacramento’s “Good Day Sacramento†on Monday, March 12. La Opinion, the most prestigious Spanish-language paper in the US, featured SharpBrains in a recent article “Secreto para triunfar en los exámenes†(Secrets to Triumphing in Exams). Another great international publication was an article called “Training the Brain as Possible as Training the Body†in the prominent Arabic newspaper Annahar. And Mark Muckenfuss of The Press-Enterprise in Riverside writes in “Train Your Brain”: “I would tend to believe that still we underestimate the brain,” says Fernandez, whose background is in educational training and marketing. He notes that recent studies have shown when a brain is injured by a stroke, “those mental structures recreate themselves (with exercise). It means to me there are a lot of things we could really do and many times we are not aware of them. We cannot promise to people you will only keep getting better until you are 200 years old. But I think people still underestimate how flexible the brain really is.”
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