Connecting the (Brain) Dots: Understanding Brain Functional Networks

By SharpBrains | April 24, 2012

A sta­tis­ti­cal mod­el of the net­work of con­nec­tions between brain regions (Kurzweil): — “Researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge have devel­oped a sim­ple math­e­mat­i­cal mod­el of the brain which pro­vides a remark­ably com­plete sta­tis­ti­cal account of the com­plex web of con­nec­tions between var­i­ous brain regions.”

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Training Attention and Emotional Self-Regulation — Interview with Michael Posner

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 18, 2008 |

(Edi­tor’s Note: this is one of the 20 inter­views includ­ed in the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age) Michael I. Pos­ner is a promi­nent sci­en­tist in the field of cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science. He is cur­rent­ly an emer­i­tus pro­fes­sor of neu­ro­science at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon (Depart­ment…

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Teaching is the art of changing the brain

By Laurie Bartels | October 6, 2008 |

James Zull is a pro­fes­sor of Biol­o­gy. He is also Direc­tor Emer­i­tus of the Uni­ver­si­ty Cen­ter for Inno­va­tion in Teach­ing and Edu­ca­tion at Case West­ern Reserve Uni­ver­si­ty in Ohio. These roles most assured­ly coa­lesced in his 2002 book, The Art of Chang­ing the Brain: Enrich­ing the Prac­tice of Teach­ing by Explor­ing the Biol­o­gy of Learning.…

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