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Neuroleadership, Human Capital and Technology in Washington, DC next week

October 30, 2013 by SharpBrains

washingtonHeads-up: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez will speak at the 2013 Neu­rolead­er­ship Sum­mit tak­ing place next week in Wash­ing­ton, DC, with an over­all theme of “The Neu­ro­science of Lead­er­ship Effec­tive­ness.” His ses­sion is titled Tech­nol­o­gy Solu­tions and promis­es to spark stim­u­lat­ing con­ver­sa­tions: [Read more…] about Neu­rolead­er­ship, Human Cap­i­tal and Tech­nol­o­gy in Wash­ing­ton, DC next week

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: human-capital, Leadership, neuroleadership, Neuroleadership Summit, technology

Update: Time to become mental capitalists and invest in our brains?

November 30, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

Time for the Novem­ber edi­tion of the month­ly Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of resources and insights on how to invest in our brains, includ­ing top­ics such as brain health, med­i­ta­tion, neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy, brain train­ing games, chemo brain, dyslex­ia, neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, cog­ni­tive bias­es, stress, and more. Not to for­get a cou­ple of fun teasers. Enjoy!

Brain Fit­ness Q&A Sessions:

  • Tran­script: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez on Men­tal Cap­i­tal­ism and Non-inva­sive Cog­ni­tive Enhancement
  • Tran­script: Dr. Gary Small on Enhanc­ing Mem­o­ry and the Brain
  • Tran­script: Dr. Paul Nuss­baum on Med­i­ta­tion and Neuropsychology

The Big Picture:

  • Steve Jobs: Com­put­ers are the Bicy­cles of the Mind
  • Brain Fit­ness: Def­i­n­i­tion, Pri­or­i­ties, and Links to Neu­rolead­er­ship, by Alvaro Fernandez
  • Is the Uni­ver­si­ty Cen­tered on The Learn­er or the Pro­fes­sor?, by Miguel Angel Escotet
  • Grand Rounds: Best of Health and Med­ical Blog­ging, by Alvaro Fernandez

New Research:

  • Can Brain Train­ing Games and Biofeed­back Help Pre­vent Depres­sion, by Dr. Pas­cale Michelon
  • ‘Chemo Brain’: MRI Shows Brain Changes After Chemotherapy
  • Dyslex­ia not relat­ed to intel­li­gence. Impli­ca­tions for dis­crep­an­cy model?
  • Vet­er­ans learn to use yoga and med­i­ta­tion exer­cis­es to recon­nect with their emotions
  • Applied Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: Rewiring the Brain to Ease Pain

New Books:

  • What makes your brain hap­py and why you should do the oppo­site, by David DiS­al­vo (We’ll have a Live Q&A on Decem­ber 9th)
  • How cog­ni­tive illu­sions blind us to reason
  • The Series on Stress & the Brain, by Dr. Jerome Schultz, con­tin­ues with: The Lit­tle Brain Down Under, The Stress Response Explained, The Human Brain Likes to Be in Bal­ance, To Fight, Flee or Freeze –That is the Question

Brain Teasers:

  • Math Teas­er: Unfin­ished The­sis, by Maria Lando
  • Math Teas­er: How to Choose a Mans Shirt, by Maria Lando
  • How many Share This Arti­cle links, right below, do you know how to use? Try a cou­ple of them and share via Face­book and Twitter!

Thank you for your inter­est and atten­tion and have a great December.

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Tagged With: biofeedback, Books, brain, brain-books, Brain-Training, brain-training-games, chemo-brain, chemotherapy, cognitive illusions, cognitive-enhancement, depression, dyslexia, intelligence, meditation, memory, mental capitalism, neuroleadership, neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, pain, Steve Jobs, Stress, veterans, yoga

Brain Fitness: Definition, Priorities, and Links to Neuroleadership and Human Capital

November 9, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

Yes­ter­day we had a fun ses­sion on Brain Fit­ness dur­ing the Neu­rolead­er­ship Sum­mit tak­ing place now in San Fran­cis­co, explor­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to enhance per­for­mance and health of lead­ers and work­forces by deploy­ing both old tools (like breath­ing and med­i­ta­tion) and new ones (such as biofeed­back and data­base-dri­ven per­son­al­ized brain train­ing solu­tions). Here are a cou­ple of the main ideas I want­ed to introduce:

A. Let’s define Brain Fit­ness as an “inte­grat­ed approach to enhance brain func­tion­al­i­ty”, com­bin­ing as appro­pri­ate lifestyle, inva­sive and non-inva­sive options. “Brain fit­ness” is above all an out­come, a cul­ture, sim­i­lar to “phys­i­cal fit­ness” (jok­ing­ly, I also said that “brain fit­ness” is the part of “phys­i­cal fit­ness” that “phys­i­cal fit­ness” does­n’t yet know what to do with)

B. Then, the ques­tion becomes, “what are the most impor­tant brain func­tions to enhance/ develop/ main­tain?”. Here I shared the fol­low­ing results [Read more…] about Brain Fit­ness: Def­i­n­i­tion, Pri­or­i­ties, and Links to Neu­rolead­er­ship and Human Capital

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Filed Under: Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: 21st century, biofeedback, brain functionality, Brain-Fitness, brain-functions, Brain-Training, Breathing, concentration, distractions, Emotions, fitness, goals, human-capital, information-processing, leaders, manage emotions, manage-stress, meditation, multi-task, neuroleadership, Neuroleadership Summit, Physical-Fitness, Remember faces, remember-names, Stress, survey, thought, thought processes, workforce

Upcoming Talks on Applied Neuroscience, Brain Fitness and Adaptive Organizations

September 9, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

A quick FYI — I will be speak­ing at the fol­low­ing events. Please do come and say Hel­lo if you get the chance!

> Sep­tem­ber 19–20th, San Fran­cisco, CA: Trans­lat­ing Neu­ro­science Into Mar­ketable Ther­a­peu­tic Inter­ven­tions, at the Enter­tain­ment Soft­ware and Cog­ni­tive Neu­rother­a­peu­tics Soci­ety (ESCoNS). Details Here.

> Sep­tem­ber 23rd, Los Gatos, CA: The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness, at Los Gatos Pub­lic Library. Details Here.

> Novem­ber 8th, San Fran­cisco, CA: Brain Fit­ness for Adap­tive Orga­ni­za­tions, at the 2011 Neu­roLead­er­ship Sum­mit. Details Here.

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: adaptive organizations, Applied Neuroscience, Brain-Fitness, Cognitive Neurotherapeutics Society, entertainment, Entertainment Software, ESCoNS, Inter­ven­tions, los gatos, Mar­ketable, Neu­roLead­er­ship Sum­mit, neuroleadership, neuroscience, public-library, software, Ther­a­peu­tic, translational neuroscience

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