Update: Brain teasers and brain fitness tips to improve attention and memory in 2016

By SharpBrains | December 29, 2015

Dear Sharp­Brains friend, Time for Sharp­Brains’ Decem­ber e‑newsletter…and we are hon­ored to announce that the Japan­ese edi­tion of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness just became avail­able, and is doing well! (more below) Let us wish you Hap­py Hol­i­days and Hap­py New Year, and share a few resources and insights that may come handy in 2016. Resources to enhance brain…

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Brain Researchers Start Mapping the Human ‘Connectome’

By SharpBrains | July 2, 2012

Brain Researchers Start Map­ping the Human ‘Con­nec­tome’ (Press release): “Anal­o­gous to the Human Genome Project—which mapped the human genet­ic code—the Human Con­nec­tome Project seeks to map “the com­plete, point-to-point spa­tial con­nec­tiv­i­ty of neur­al path­ways in the brain,” accord­ing to Arthur W. Toga, PhD, and col­leagues of David Gef­fen School of Med­i­cine, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Los…

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On Music, Dopamine, and Making Sense of Sound

By Laurie Bartels | May 15, 2012

Daniel Lev­itin, in This Is Your Brain On Music, sug­gests the fol­low­ing sound exper­i­ment. Sit­u­ate your­self some­place where you can close your eyes and focus on the sounds around you. When you open your eyes, write down each sound you heard and the object that made that sound. If you are in a rel­a­tive­ly quiet…

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