Daniel Goleman: Yes, You Can Build Willpower (meditate on neuroplasticity!)

By Greater Good Science Center | July 5, 2009

(Edi­tor’s note: Daniel Gole­man is now con­duct­ing a series of audio inter­views includ­ing a great one with Richard David­son on Train­ing the Brain. We are hon­ored to bring you this guest post by Daniel Gole­man, thanks to our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Greater Good Mag­a­zine.) — Yes, You Can:  New research sug­gests we can build our willpower –…

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Gardening your hippocampus with Physical and Mental Exercise

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 19, 2009

Phys­i­cal Fit­ness Improves Spa­tial Mem­o­ry, Increas­es Size Of Brain Struc­ture (Sci­ence Dai­ly) — “Now researchers have found that elder­ly adults who are more phys­i­cal­ly fit tend to have big­ger hip­pocampi and bet­ter spa­tial mem­o­ry than those who are less fit.” — “Cer­tain activ­i­ties are believed to mod­i­fy hip­pocam­pus size in humans. For exam­ple, a study of London…

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Brain Health/ Brain Training News

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 14, 2008 |

Roundup of inter­est­ing news in this emerg­ing field: 1) Brain Health Lead­ers Team Up to Pre­vent Crash­es. 2) Adults Improve Crit­i­cal Pro­fes­sion­al and Per­son­al Skills Through New Cog­ni­tive Train­ing Pro­gram. 3) Nature Neu­ro­science Pod­cast and Lon­don Taxi Dri­vers. 4) What Have You Changed Your Mind About, late­ly?. 5) The 2008 Mind & Life Sum­mer Research Institute…

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“Tis better to give than receive”: oxytocin and dopamine

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 21, 2007 |

Jef­frey Gonce, a Psy­chol­o­gy teacher at Red Land High School (West Shore School Dis­trict, PA) just asked his stu­dents to “com­plete a project describ­ing a recent brain (or genet­ic) study that affects behav­ior.”  The stu­dents could opt to post their arti­cles online, and Jef­frey was kind enough to send us a link to read the…

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