Posts Tagged ‘Mind-Fitness’
Counseling center offers biofeedback (Freeze-Framer) to help decrease stress
After the carnival, which was fun but a bit of work, I will do an easy post…just came accross a good brief article on how a Counseling center offers biofeedback to help decrease stress. We do see stress and anxiety management as integral part of brain fitness. Some quotes from the article — “The Savannah College…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Blog Carnival #1
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Brain Fitness Blog Carnival. The timing couldn’t be better you have probably seen the featured CBS News/TIME Series on Brain Neuroplasticity. Thanks to the over 40 people who submitted posts. We have had to select the posts we enjoyed the most to help facilitate an engaging and informed…
Read MoreBrain fitness programs: why are so many appearing now?
Question:Why are so many brain fitness programs appearing now?Key Points:Research on cognitive exercise and its clinical applications and tools have been around for a long time in hospitals and the military.Gaming has become so popular and widespread, that it is an easy and natural medium to utilize for brain fitness.Science is being published that shows how brain exercise can lead to enhanced neuroplasticity (growth of new neurons and connections between them) throughout life.
Read MoreCBS News/TIME Series on Brain Neuroplasticity and Memory Exercises
CBS News and TIME magazine are teaming up for a five-part series on the “The Complicated, Mesmerizing World of the Brain”.If you want to catch it:The CBS News reports began Wednesday, Jan. 17, with three parts to air on the CBS Evening News (6:30–7 p.m. ET) and two parts on The Early Show (7–9 a.m. ET/PT), as well as extended, Web-exclusive reports on CBSNews.com and companion programming on CBS Radio News.
Read MoreImproving Your Brain Tools: Reading Emotional Messages in the Face
Concealed emotions, microexpressions, are the fleeting expressions that people make when they are consciously or unconsciously trying to hide their true emotional response.In conscious microexpressions they may be trying to lie, while with unconscious expressions, they may not even be aware of what they are truly feeling.Ekman has made a study of these microexpressions and can provide you the training you need to recognize them, and the counseling you need on how to use that insight appropriately.According to Ekman, “These expressions tend to be very extreme and very fast. Eighty to 90 percent of people we tested don’t see them.”
Read MoreCogmed, Freeze-Framer, IntelliGym, MindFit, Posit Science
We are spending more time talking to journalists these days. A frequent question we receive is, “OK, which computer-based programs do you consider to be Brain Fitness Programs, not just “games” for pure fun”?. Our answer: the rate of development of new programs by neuroscientists worldwide is really increasing, and there are already a few out there…
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