Your Brain At Work, by the Dana Alliance and The Conference Board

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 12, 2008 |

Sev­er­al months ago we came across an excel­lent resource for cognitive/ brain fit­ness aimed at help­ing com­pa­nies offer qual­i­ty brain health infor­ma­tion to their employ­ees. While it is true that we often tend to believe all this “brain fit­ness” stuff is most rel­e­vant to our par­ents and/ or grand­par­ents, trust me, if you are reading…

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Workshop on Brain Fitness: The Science and Practice

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 20, 2008 |

Fyi, I will be teaching this work­shop soon, as part of our col­lab­o­ra­tion with sev­er­al Osh­er Life­long Learn­ing Institutes:    San José State University’s Osh­er Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tute (web­site) presents  Title: Brain Fit­ness: The Sci­ence and Prac­tice. When: Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 2, 2008 9:30–3:30 What: Neu­ro­sci­en­tists have shown how the human brain retains neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty (the abil­i­ty to…

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Baby Boomers, Healthy Aging and Job Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 25, 2007 |

There has been an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion about the issues relat­ed to the aging of the legal pro­fes­sion. Stephanie intro­duced us to the arti­cle “the Gray­ing Bar: let’s not for­get the ethics” by David Giacalone. In short: sta­tis­tics about the increas­ing ratio of lawyers over 70 in active prac­tice, on the one hand, and the general…

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