Executive Functions and MacArthur “Genius Grants”

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 27, 2006 |

The MacArthur Foun­da­tion has award­ed the 2006 MacArthur “Genius Grants” to 25 indi­vid­u­als for their “their cre­ativ­i­ty, orig­i­nal­i­ty, and poten­tial to be sig­nif­i­cant con­trib­u­tors in their fields”. We are hap­py that some friends received the award, and that we will be able to inter­view them here, in this blog. How were they able to accom­plish such…

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On attention, trading psychology and “open” minds

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 10, 2006 |

Dr. Brett N. Steen­barg­er, author of The Psy­chol­o­gy of Trad­ing and numer­ous arti­cles on trad­ing psy­chol­o­gy , has post­ed a fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle titled Approach­ing Trad­ing With an Emp­ty Mind, where he describes the risks of becom­ing “pris­on­ers of the men­tal maps we cre­ate”, and miss­ing new pat­terns and real­i­ties, there­by pre­vent­ing us from adapt­ing, and…

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The Executive Brain and How our Minds Can Grow Stronger

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 8, 2006 |

Last week I had the plea­sure to meet with our sci­en­tif­ic advi­sor Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, renowned neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist and author of The Exec­u­tive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civ­i­lized Mind and The Wis­dom Para­dox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Old­er  Let me sum­ma­rize some of the key over­all research find­ings out­lined in…

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On being “smart” and building neural connections

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 24, 2006 |

Your ques­tions — Patri­cia: Is it pos­si­ble to improve intel­li­gence and become “smarter” and what does it real­ly mean to be “smarter”? — Thomas: What could I do to sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly cre­ate more and more neur­al con­nec­tions (increase IQ)? Dr. Gamon responds: As we age, our brains accu­mu­late an ever larg­er col­lec­tion of pat­terns. This gives…

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