Meditation and The Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 26, 2008 |

Superb blog arti­cle by Newsweek’s Sharon Beg­ley: The Lotus and the Synapse, intro­duc­ing a new Study that shows com­pas­sion med­i­ta­tion changes the brain. To read the orig­i­nal paper led by Richard David­son and Antoine Lutz, click Here. We will be cov­er­ing this in more detail next week.

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Brain Fitness/ Training Newsletter: January Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 31, 2008 |

As we have been doing for the last 6 months, here you are have the Month­ly Digest of our Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your month­ly Brain Fitness/ Train­ing Newslet­ter. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our month­ly newslet­ter at the top of this…

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Brain Training: No Magic Bullet, Yet Useful Tool. Interview with Elizabeth Zelinski

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 18, 2007 |

Sharon Beg­ley, Newsweek’s sci­ence reporter, recent­ly wrote that — “With the nation’s 78 mil­lion baby boomers approach­ing the age of those dread­ed ‘“where did I leave my keys?” moments, it’s no won­der the mar­ket for com­put­er-based brain train­ing has shot up from essen­tial­ly zero in 2005 to $80 mil­lion this year, accord­ing to the consulting…

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