Improving brain fitness literacy in Japan

By SharpBrains | October 28, 2016

Newsweek Japan just pub­lished this great arti­cle to dis­sem­i­nate lat­est think­ing and research about med­i­ta­tion, brain fit­ness and dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies, based on Alvaro Fer­nan­dez’ trip last week to dis­cuss How is our soci­etal obses­sion with tech­nol­o­gy chang­ing our health and well-being at the World Forum on Sport and Cul­ture in Tokyo. Key insights dis­cussed, com­ing from The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain…

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Promoting Healthy, Meaningful Aging Through Social Involvement: Building an Experience Corps

By Dana Foundation | August 30, 2011

(Editor’s note: Path­ways respon­si­ble for high­­er-order think­ing in the pre­frontal cor­tex (PFC), or exec­u­tive cen­ter of the brain, remain vul­ner­a­ble through­out life—during crit­i­cal ear­­ly-life devel­op­men­tal win­dows, when the PFC ful­ly matures in the ear­ly 20s, and final­ly from declines asso­ci­at­ed with old age. At all ages, phys­i­cal activ­i­ty and PFC-nav­i­­gat­ed social con­nec­tions are essen­tial components…

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Literacy Re-wires the Brain

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | December 3, 2010 |

In a  study pub­lished today in Sci­ence, func­tion­al mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing (fMRI) was used to study the brains of 63 adults: 10 were illit­er­ate, 22 learned to read as adults, and 31  learned to read as chil­dren. Brain respons­es to spo­ken and writ­ten lan­guage, visu­al faces, hous­es, tools, and check­ers were exam­ined. The main differences…

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