Good interview (in Spanish) about lifelong brain health and mental fitness

By SharpBrains | March 20, 2014 |

Álvaro Fer­nán­dez Ibáñez: “Cor­rien­do creamos más neu­ronas que andan­do” (La Van­guardia): — ¿Por qué inver­tir en nue­stro cere­bro es un buen nego­cio? Porque lo igno­ramos has­ta que es demasi­a­do tarde, has­ta que uno tiene alzheimer o una depre­sión cróni­ca. Pero cualquier per­sona puede mejo­rar cosas de su cere­bro. Y esto tiene dos grandes ven­ta­jas: mejorar…

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Matthew Barrett: Human memory is not a recording device

By SharpBrains | November 20, 2013
Matthew Barrett

What excites you the most about your job? As a Pro­fes­sor and the founder of Brain Train­ers Men­tal Fit­ness LLC, I love see­ing how the right infor­ma­tion can have a life-chang­ing effect on peo­ple. Please tell us about your inter­est in applied brain sci­ence. What areas are you most inter­est­ed in? What moti­vat­ed you to pursue…

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Teresa Kennedy: Total health includes physical AND mental fitness

By SharpBrains | October 7, 2013

What excites you the most about your job? As Pres­i­dent of Pow­er Liv­ing Enter­pris­es, it excites me that we are improv­ing peo­ple’s lives through our mind-body train­ing, coach­ing and con­sult­ing ser­vices, as well as the con­tent we cre­ate. Please tell us about your inter­est in applied brain sci­ence. What areas are you most inter­ested in? What…

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Brain Spa Trend: Travel for Mental Fitness

By SharpBrains | May 2, 2012

Inter­est­ing trend mini-report pre­pared by Inter­Con­ti­nen­tal Hotels Group, quot­ing Sharp­Brains data. Trends that will influ­ence 2012 (IHG press release): “BRAIN SPA: The desire to learn more will influ­ence des­ti­na­tion deci­sions. Brain Spa looks at our grow­ing appetite to expand and keep our intel­lect in good health – in fact we are pre­pared to trav­el for it.…

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Update: The Future of Preventive Brain Medicine

By SharpBrains | January 27, 2012

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Jan­u­ary 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion mul­ti­ple thought-pro­­vok­ing per­spec­tives on how emerg­ing neu­ro­science can and should make us rethink pre­vail­ing prac­tices in edu­ca­tion, healthy aging and pre­ven­tive med­i­cine.   Fea­tured Per­spec­tives: The Future of Pre­ven­tive Brain Med­i­cine: Break­ing Down the Cog­ni­tion & Alzheimer’s Dis­ease Alpha­bet Soup, by Dr. Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa When 1 +…

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