Update: Brain Fitness Seminars

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 15, 2008

Here you are have the bi-mon­th­­ly update with our 10 most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter, at the top of this page, if you want to receive this digest by email). We hope you have some time to share with us today. Just…

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Neuroplasticity through Mind Hygiene

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 1, 2008 |

Stephanie West Allen, our lawyer-blog­ger friend and Dr. Jef­frey M. Schwartz, a research psy­chi­a­trist at the School of Med­i­cine at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia at Los Ange­les and a neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty expert, have writ­ten a thought-pro­­vok­ing arti­cle for The Com­plete Lawyer. See Arti­cle: Exer­cise Mind Hygiene On A Dai­ly Basis. Excerpt: — “Here’s an exam­ple of a…

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A very sharp brain: Prof. Hans Rosling

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 18, 2007

A few years ago I had the chance to meet  Hans Rosling at a sum­mit by the Schwab Foun­da­tion for Social Entre­pre­neur­ship. He is a Pro­fes­sor of Inter­na­tion­al Health who devel­oped Tren­d­a­lyz­er soft­ware, a tool that brings sta­tis­tics to live with great visu­al and ani­ma­tion tech­niques. Google bought the soft­ware last March. You can find it here now.…

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