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Mindfully debunking four meditation myths

September 10, 2018 by Greater Good Science Center

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Mind­ful­ness med­i­ta­tion can help us lead hap­pi­er, health­i­er lives … at least accord­ing to sci­ence. Yet many of us still balk at the idea of prac­tic­ing it our­selves. Per­haps we fear that med­i­ta­tion is too new agey, or it might slow us down or lead to com­pla­cen­cy. Some might fear mind­ful­ness could come at the expense of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, [Read more…] about Mind­ful­ly debunk­ing four med­i­ta­tion myths

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: meditation, mindful, mindfulness, myths

Study: SOME brain training may work to promote healthy brain aging

February 16, 2017 by SharpBrains

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Keep read­ing arti­cle Study Debunks 4 Com­mon Myths about Brain Train­ing and Life­long Cog­ni­tive Enhance­ment, over at The Cre­ativ­i­ty Post.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: aging, brain, brain-aging, Brain-Training, myths

10 Common Brain Health Myths, Debunked

April 18, 2016 by SharpBrains

Andrew Rich via Getty Images
– Andrew Rich via Get­ty Images

10 Com­mon Brain Health and Brain Train­ing Myths, Debunked (The Huff­in­g­ton Post):

“Giv­en all the inter­est in—and con­fu­sion around—-the top­ics of brain train­ing, neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and brain health, let’s debunk ten myths that remain sur­pris­ing­ly pop­u­lar…Keep read­ing arti­cle at The Huff­in­g­ton Post.

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain, Brain-health, Brain-Training, myths, neuroplasticity

One more brain myth bites the dust: There’s no Male Brain, or Female Brain; There’s Human Brain

December 4, 2015 by SharpBrains

sn-genderbrainThe brains of men and women aren’t real­ly that dif­fer­ent, study finds (Sci­ence):

“As soon as sci­en­tists could image the brain, they began hunt­ing for sex differences…in the new study, researchers led by Daph­na Joel, a behav­ioral neu­ro­sci­en­tist at Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty in Israel, tried to be as com­pre­hen­sive as pos­si­ble. Using [Read more…] about One more brain myth bites the dust: There’s no Male Brain, or Female Brain; There’s Human Brain

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain, debunk brain myths, female brain, gender, human-brain, male brain, myths, neuroimaging, sex

Debunking 10 Brain Fitness and Brain Health Myths during Brain Awareness Week

March 11, 2013 by Alvaro Fernandez

brain fitness mythsIn hon­or of Brain Aware­ness Week, let’s debunk ten myths about brain fit­ness and brain health that remain sur­pris­ing­ly popular.

Top 10 brain fit­ness and brain health myths, debunked:

Myth 1. Genes deter­mine the fate of our brains.
Fact: Life­long brain plas­tic­ity means that our lifestyles and behav­iors play a sig­nif­i­cant role in how our brains (and there­fore our minds) phys­i­cally evolve.

Myth 2. We are what we eat. [Read more…] about Debunk­ing 10 Brain Fit­ness and Brain Health Myths dur­ing Brain Aware­ness Week

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Alzheimers-disease, biofeedback, brain, brain-age, Brain-Fitness, brain-functions, Brain-health, brain-myths, Brain-Plasticity, Brain-Training, cog­ni­tive ther­apy, cog­ni­tive training, cognitive-decline, heart health, med­i­ta­tion, myths, videogames

Syllabus for online course How to Be Your Own Brain Fitness Coach (starts March 7th)

February 24, 2012 by SharpBrains

Here you have the syl­labus for upcom­ing online course How to Be Your Own Brain Fit­ness Coach. There are still some seats avail­able, so please take a look and reg­is­ter if interested.

Ses­sion I. Debunk­ing Brain and Brain Fit­ness Myths: We will first debunk pop­u­lar mis­con­cep­tions that stand in the way of mak­ing informed deci­sions to spend our time and mon­ey wise­ly. We will explore hot top­ics such as genet­ics vs. envi­ron­ment vs. lifestyle, intel­li­gence, left/ right brain hemi­spheres, “brain age”, cog­ni­tive enhance­ment, sup­ple­ments, learn­ing styles, brain train­ing, neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis, neu­ro­plas­tic­ity, cog­ni­tive reserve, and Alzheimer’s Dis­ease. Addi­tion­ally we’ll con­trast the find­ings from a major recent sci­en­tific study with their media cov­er­age, equip­ping par­tic­i­pants to become bet­ter informed read­ers of news and sci­en­tific findings.

When: Wednes­day, March 7th, 11am-1pm US Pacif­ic Time (live ses­sion will be record­ed for lat­er view­ing). [Read more…] about Syl­labus for online course How to Be Your Own Brain Fit­ness Coach (starts March 7th)

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: atten­tion, biofeed­back, brain, brain-age, Brain-Fitness, Brain-fitness-plan, Brain-Training, cog­ni­tive enhance­ment, cog­ni­tive mon­i­tor­ing, cog­ni­tive ther­apy, cog­ni­tive train­ing, emo­tional self-regulation, infor­ma­tion pro­cess­ing, med­i­ta­tion, myths, work­ing mem­ory

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