Understanding the “It” in “Use It or Lose It”

By SharpBrains | May 26, 2017 |

From Macro to Micro: A Visu­al Guide to the Brain (IEEE Spec­trum) In the human brain, high­­er-lev­­el infor­ma­tion pro­cess­ing occurs in the neo­cor­tex, neur­al tis­sue that forms the out­er lay­er of the cere­bral cor­tex. In its intri­cate folds, brain cells work togeth­er to inter­pret sen­so­ry infor­ma­tion and to form thoughts and plans. The neo­cor­tex is…

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Marian C. Diamond to open SharpBrains Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 25, 2009

What a bet­ter open­ing for our Jan­u­ary Sharp­Brains Sum­mit than to have Mar­i­an C. Dia­mond, one of the pio­neers of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty research since the 1960s, intro­duce us to the human brain, its anato­my and func­tion, and impli­ca­tions from neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty for brain health and per­for­mance at any age. Mar­i­an C. Dia­mond, Ph.D., is Pro­fes­sor of Neu­ro­science and…

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Your Trading Brain: Expert or Novice

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 5, 2008 |

All trad­ing strate­gies and deci­sion mak­ing are brain-based synap­tic strate­gies. The human brain has an infi­nite capac­i­ty to change, orga­nize and reor­ga­nize itself, pro­gres­sion to trad­ing excel­lence is possible.

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