Upgrading education with lifelong brain development in mind

By SharpBrains | December 29, 2016

Upgrade edu­ca­tion with life­long brain devel­op­ment in mind from Sharp­Brains Two researcher/ prac­ti­tion­ers, involved in spe­cial and life­long learn­ing, explore emerg­ing best prac­tices to help schools, edu­ca­tors, par­ents, and old­er adults nav­i­gate and apply core find­ings from cog­ni­tive and affec­tive neu­ro­science. Chair: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO & Edi­­tor-in-Chief of Sharp­Brains Deb­bie Gilmore, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the…

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Announcement: Nine new excellent Speakers @ 2016 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | October 20, 2016

We are delight­ed to announce nine new excel­lent Speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8, 2016): Dr. Corey McCann, CEO of Pear Ther­a­peu­tics Debra Gilmore, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of The Arrow­smith Pro­gram Edward Kli­phuis, Invest­ment Direc­tor at Mer­ck Ven­tures Eri­ka Jack­son, VP of Train­ing and Oper­a­tions for Wellcoaches…

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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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