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Meta-analysis finds value in teaching the science of neuroplasticity, especially for math achievement among at-risk students

August 13, 2018 by SharpBrains

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The ‘Brain’ in Growth Mind­set: Does Teach­ing Stu­dents Neu­ro­science Help? (Edu­ca­tion Week):

“Teach­ing stu­dents the sci­ence of how their brains change over time can help them see intel­li­gence as some­thing they can devel­op, rather than innate and unchange­able, finds a new analy­sis of 10 sep­a­rate stud­ies online in the jour­nal Trends in Neu­ro­science and Education.

Teach­ing stu­dents the con­cept of neuroplasticity—the abil­i­ty of the brain to make new neur­al con­nec­tions as a result of experience—is a com­mon tac­tic in help­ing stu­dents devel­op a so-called “growth” rather than “fixed” mind­set … on aver­age, such inter­ven­tions improved stu­dents’ moti­va­tion, they par­tic­u­lar­ly ben­e­fit­ed stu­dents and sub­jects which pri­or stud­ies have shown are at high risk of devel­op­ing a fixed mind­set. [Read more…] about Meta-analy­sis finds val­ue in teach­ing the sci­ence of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, espe­cial­ly for math achieve­ment among at-risk students

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: achievement, brain-activity, growth-mindset, intelligence, Learning, math, meta-analysis, mindset, motivation, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, teaching

BrainTech: Six Take-aways on Neuroplasticity and Cognitive training

October 18, 2013 by Dr. Son Preminger

braintechIsrael’s first inter­na­tion­al Brain­Tech con­fer­ence took place this week, on Octo­ber 14 and 15th. It was orga­nized by Israel Brain Tech­nolo­gies (IBT), a non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion whose mis­sion is to posi­tion Israel as a glob­al brain tech­nol­o­gy and research cen­ter. The con­fer­ence includ­ed talks rep­re­sent­ing mul­ti­ple stake­hold­ers in the neu­rotech­nol­o­gy sec­tor world­wide – patients, clin­i­cians, aca­d­e­m­ic lead­ers, pub­lic offi­cials, entre­pre­neurs and indus­try exec­u­tives. An impor­tant ses­sion in the con­fer­ence was the Brain­Blitz — a round­table ses­sion where dif­fer­ent brain tech­nol­o­gy top­ics were dis­cussed in small­er inter­est groups.

Our table, devot­ed to Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Cog­ni­tive train­ing, [Read more…] about Brain­Tech: Six Take-aways on Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Cog­ni­tive training

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Brain-Plasticity, braintech, Cognitive-impairment, Cognitive-Training, Israel, motivation, neuroplasticity, Neurotechnology, Psychotherapy, schizophrenia, video-games

The Mental Game: How High-Level Athletes Remain Calm and Focused

August 10, 2012 by SharpBrains

The Men­tal Prepa­ra­tion of High-Lev­el Ath­letes (brief­ing paper by the Dana Foundation):

“Base­ball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra is cred­it­ed with say­ing that “90 per­cent of the game is half men­tal.” Over the years, the line has been appro­pri­at­ed beyond the world of base­ball to explain the impor­tance of fac­tors like focus and moti­va­tion [Read more…] about The Men­tal Game: How High-Lev­el Ath­letes Remain Calm and Focused

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: dana-foundation, focus, mental game, mental preparation, motivation, Olympics, sports psychologists, Yogi Berra

Gaming and Neuroscience: Opportunities and Challenges

October 4, 2011 by Aki Nikolaidis

A cou­ple weeks ago I attend­ed the Enter­tain­ment Soft­ware and Cog­ni­tive Neu­rother­a­peu­tics Con­fer­ence, ESCoNS, at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia San Fran­cis­co. The speak­ers’ talks were insight­ful, sur­pris­ing, and inspir­ing in many regards. The pur­pose of this meet­ing was to bring togeth­er great minds in a vari­ety of fields from neu­ro­science to game design and to come up with some ideas how to make game based cog­ni­tive train­ing a real­i­ty as an effec­tive ther­a­py for many of today’s most chal­leng­ing dis­or­ders and deficits. Many of the sci­en­tists also thought that game based ther­a­pies for cog­ni­tive deficits could be used as enhance­ment tools for healthy indi­vid­u­als as well. [Read more…] about Gam­ing and Neu­ro­science: Oppor­tu­ni­ties and Challenges

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: attention, BDNF expression, Brain-health, Brain-Training, Cognitive Neurotherapeutics, cognitive training games, cognitive-deficits, cognitive-enhancement, Cognitive-Training, cortical-thickness, developers, Entertainment Software, ESCoNS, FDA, game design, game developers, Games-for-Health, Gaming, Jim Blascovich, medical, Michael Kilgard, Michael-Merzenich, motivation, myelination, neuroimaging, neurological measurements, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, Neurotherapeutics, Serious-Games, therapeutic benefit, therapy, Torkel-Klingberg, treatment, Working-memory

Who Says This is The Classroom of the Future?

September 6, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

The New York Times has recent­ly pub­lished sev­er­al very good and seem­ing­ly unre­lat­ed articles…let’s try and con­nect some dots. What if we ques­tioned the very premise behind nam­ing some class­rooms the “class­rooms of the future” sim­ply because they have been adding tech­nol­o­gy in lit­er­al­ly mind­less ways? What if the Edu­ca­tion of the Future (some­times also referred to as “21st Cen­tu­ry Skills”) was­n’t so much about the How we edu­cate but about the What we want stu­dents to learn and devel­op, apply­ing what we know about mind and brain to the needs they are like­ly to face dur­ing the next 50–70 years of their lives? [Read more…] about Who Says This is The Class­room of the Future?

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: 21st Century Skills, academic-performance., Arthur-Lavin, brain, Child-Development, classroom, Education & Lifelong Learning, emotional-self-regulation, focus, future, Internet, life skills, Michael-Posner, mind, motivation, resilience, self-control, self-regulation, Steve Pinker, technology, test-scores, training attention, Willpower, Working-memory, working-memory-training

Physical and mental exercise to prevent cognitive decline

November 19, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

We offered some Brain Fit­ness Pre­dic­tions in our Mar­ket Report , including…

“7. Doc­tors and phar­ma­cists will help patients nav­i­gate through the over­whelm­ing range of avail­able prod­ucts and inter­pret the results of cog­ni­tive assess­ments. This will require sig­nif­i­cant pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment efforts, giv­en that most doc­tors today were trained under a very dif­fer­ent under­stand­ing of the brain than the one we have today.”

The Amer­i­can Med­ical News, a week­ly news­pa­per for physi­cians pub­lished by the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion, just pub­lished an excel­lent arti­cle along those lines:

Steps to a nim­ble mind: Phys­i­cal and men­tal exer­cise help keep the brain fit
— Neu­ro­science is uncov­er­ing tech­niques to pre­vent cog­ni­tive decline.

A few quotes:

- It’s an exam­ple that high­lights a wave of new think­ing about the impor­tance of brain fitness.

- Until recent­ly, con­ven­tion­al wis­dom held that our brains were intractable, hard-wired com­put­ers. What we were born with was all we got. Age wore down mem­o­ry and the abil­i­ty to under­stand, and few inter­ven­tions could reverse this process. But increas­ing­ly, evi­dence sug­gests that phys­i­cal and men­tal exer­cise can alter spe­cif­ic brain regions, mak­ing rad­i­cal improve­ments in cog­ni­tive function.

- With near­ly 72 mil­lion Amer­i­cans turn­ing 65 over the next two decades, physi­cians need the tools to han­dle grow­ing patient con­cerns about how to best main­tain brain health. Armed with this new brand of sci­ence, front­line physi­cians will be bet­ter equipped to address the needs of aging baby boomers, already in the throes of the brain fit­ness revolution.

- “Encour­age them to exer­cise the brain in nov­el and com­plex ways,” he says.

Full arti­cle: here

One of the physi­cians quot­ed in the arti­cle is Gary J. Kennedy, MD, Direc­tor of the Divi­sion of Geri­atric Psy­chi­a­try at Mon­te­fiore Med­ical Cen­ter in NYC and a pro­fes­sor in the Dept. of Psy­chi­a­try and Behav­ioral Sci­ences at Albert Ein­stein Col­lege of Medicine.

To put the AMA arti­cle in bet­ter per­spec­tive for Sharp­Brains read­ers, we asked Dr. Kennedy a few fol­low-up ques­tions. Below you have his questions.

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez (AF): Can you sum­ma­rize how cog­ni­tive func­tions tend to evolve as we age?

Gary Kennedy (GK): As we age cog­ni­tive func­tions that rely on [Read more…] about Phys­i­cal and men­tal exer­cise to pre­vent cog­ni­tive decline

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Aging-Baby-Boomers, Albert-Einstein, American-Medical-Association, American-Medical-News, baby-boomers, brain, brain-cells, brain-fit, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, coaching, cognitive-assessments, cognitive-decline, cognitive-function, cognitive-health, cognitive-reserve, emotional-health, emotional-self-regulation, exercise-the-brain, fitbrain, fitbrains, Gary-Kennedy, Geriatric-Psychiatry, healthy-aging, improve-brain-function, life-style, medicine, mental-exercise, Montefiore-Medical-Center, motivation, Physical-activity, Physical-Exercise, physicians, prevent-cognitive-decline, problem-solving, processing-speed, reaction-time, social-reinforcement, Use-It-or-Lose-It, Yaakov-Stern

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