Brain Workout for Your Frontal Lobes

By Caroline Latham | February 9, 2007 |

Your frontal lobes are home to your exec­u­tive func­tions, includ­ing pat­tern recog­ni­tion. Here’s a puz­zle to chal­lenge your abil­i­ty to uncov­er a pat­tern. In this puz­zle, three num­bers: 16, 14, and 38, need to be assigned to one of the rows of num­bers below. To which row should each num­ber be assigned — A, B,…

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2007 New Year Resolution: Carnival of Brain Fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 1, 2007

Hap­py 2007 to every­one! We have just for­mu­lat­ed our New Year Res­o­lu­tion: make 2007 the year when brain plas­tic­i­ty and Brain Fit­ness became main­stream con­cepts. How do we start? well, let’s announce the launch of the Car­ni­val of Brain Fit­ness (a Blog Car­ni­val is basi­cal­ly the vehi­cle that blogs use to share posts around specific…

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Cognitive Training and Brain Fitness Computer Programs: Interview with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 8, 2006 |

Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg is a clin­i­cal pro­fes­sor of neu­rol­o­gy at New York Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine, and author of over 50 peer-reviewed papers. His areas of exper­tise include exec­u­tive func­tions, mem­o­ry, atten­tion deficit dis­or­der, demen­tia, trau­mat­ic brain injury, and oth­ers. Dr. Gold­berg was a stu­dent and close asso­ciate of the great neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Alexan­der Luria. His…

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“Everyone a Changemaker”, Ashoka and Google

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 15, 2006 |

What an event yes­ter­day night. My wife and I were for­tu­nate to vis­it the Google Cam­pus and attend the Sixth Annu­al North Amer­i­can Fel­low­ship Induc­tion Pro­gram of Ashoka: Inno­va­tors for the Pub­lic, a social ven­ture fund where we have been involved for a num­ber of years, and thanks to which (thanks Michele!) my wife and…

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Cognitive Neuroscience: the ultimate weapon for TV quiz shows

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 9, 2006 |

Fun arti­cle by Seed Mag­a­zine, WHO WANTS TO BE A COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENTIST MILLIONAIRE? (Thanks, Stephanie!). A cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science post­grad at Boston Uni­ver­si­ty relates his expe­ri­ence in Who Wants to Be A Mil­lion­aire? through the lens­es of brain sci­ence. Enjoy the article!-here you have some teasers:

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Lifelong Learning and Brain Training

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 6, 2006 |

Very fun ses­sion today at the Osh­er Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tute, titled Exer­cis­ing our Brains: new Brain Research and impli­ca­tions for our Lives. As usu­al, we com­bined some research back­ground with many fun group activ­i­ties, such as the ones you will find in our Brain Exer­cis­es sec­tion (click here).Want to try a brain teas­er? Please count…

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