Posts Tagged ‘Mindfulness-schools’
Mindfulness and Meditation in Schools: Mindful Kids, Peaceful Schools
Mindfulness and Meditation are good technique for school children to manage anxiety and stress. Read another article from Greater Good Magazine on brain development.
Read MoreEvery man can, if he so desires, sculpt his own brain
Our daily thoughts and actions, learnings, meditation, cognitive therapy, the growing number of software-based programs, and more, are “sculpting” tools to sharpen our brain
Read MoreCognitive training research: MindFit, Lumosity, Posit Science, Cogmed
The field of computer-based cognitive training (part of what we call “Brain Fitness”) is starting to get traction in the media and becoming an emerging industry, and we are happy to see how a growing number of researchers and science-based companies are leading studies that will allow to better measure results and refine the brain exercise…
Read MoreThe new Mental Game: sport psychology, coaches, get ready!
One of the many Sharp Brains around, who is up to date of everything related to brain health and fitness (yes, Jeanne, that’s you! thanks for being such a great bureau chief!) has sent us a very interesting press note on how brain fitness and training can be applied in the sports performance world. I…
Read MoreBrain training to live long and strong
If you want to live long and strong, you’ve got to do more than work out your body; you’ve got to exercise your brain, insists Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, clinical professor of neurology at New York University School of Medicine. While we’ve heard for years that mental stimulation can stave off dementia and Alzheimer’s, Dr. Goldberg…
Read MoreSharpBrains in Scientific American Mind/ Brain Health Blog and Newsletter
We were very happy to discover that Scientific American Mind has highlighted SharpBrains in their June/July 2007 issue!If you are here due to that issue, we’d like to welcome you and show you around a bit. You might enjoy: Our Neuroscience Interview Series in which we interview some of the leading neuroscientists in brain fitness, including: Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg on Brain Fitness Programs and Cognitive Training, Cognitive Simulations for Basketball Game-Intelligence: Interview with Prof. Daniel Gopher, Working Memory Training and RoboMemo: Interview with Dr. Torkel Klingberg, Memory training and attention deficits: interview with Notre Dame’s Bradley Gibson, and an upcoming interview with Yaakov Stern, the leading researcher behind the Cognitive Reserve theory
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