Memory Problems? Perhaps you are Multi-tasking

By Dr. Bill Klemm | October 29, 2008 |

Today’s kids are into mul­ti-task­ing. This is the gen­er­a­tion hooked on iPods, IM’ing, video games — not to men­tion TV! Many peo­ple in my gen­er­a­tion think it is won­der­ful that kids can do all these things simul­ta­ne­ous­ly and are impressed with their com­pe­tence. Well, as a teacher of such kids when they reach col­lege, I…

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Encephalon #50 Edition: Brain & Mind Research

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 21, 2008 |

Wel­come to Encephalon 50th edi­tion, where you will find anoth­er superb col­lec­tion of blog posts on all things Brain and Mind. Enjoy these con­tri­bu­tions: Sci­ence & Tech­nol­o­gy Mind Hacks reports that Face­book ate my psy­chi­a­trist. We can learn about the ben­e­fits of social net­work­ing sites like Face­book, bring­ing great per­spec­tive to recent and mis­guid­ed media speculation…

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Improve Memory with Sleep, Practice, and Testing

By Dr. Bill Klemm | July 9, 2008 |

There are whole mar­kets (think cross­words, herbal sup­ple­ments, drugs, brain fit­ness soft­ware) aimed at help­ing us improve our mem­o­ry. Now, what is “mem­o­ry”? how does the process of mem­o­ry work? Dr. Bill Klemm, Pro­fes­sor of Neu­ro­science at Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty, explains a very impor­tant con­cept below. — Alvaro ——- Get­ting from Here to There: Mak­ing Mem­o­ry Con­sol­i­da­tion Work…

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A Brain Fitness Vacation

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 13, 2007 |

A year ago we wrote a Glos­sary where we defined Brain Fit­ness as “the gen­er­al state of good, sharp, brain and mind, espe­cial­ly as the result of men­tal and phys­i­cal exer­cise and prop­er nutri­tion” and a Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram as a “struc­tured set of brain exer­cis­es, usu­al­ly com­put­er-based, designed to train spe­cif­ic brain areas and…

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