Update: Does Cognitive Training Work?

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 28, 2009

Here you have the Feb­ru­ary edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Cog­ni­tive train­ing (or struc­tured men­tal exer­cise) def­i­nite­ly seems to work — as long as we define…

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When Empathy moves us to Action-By Daniel Goleman

By Greater Good Science Center | July 11, 2008 |

Daniel Gole­man requires no intro­duc­tion. Per­son­al­ly, of all his books I have read, the one I found most stim­u­lat­ing was Destruc­tive Emo­tions: A Sci­en­tif­ic Dia­logue With the Dalai Lama, a superb overview of what emo­tions are and how we can put them to good use. He is now con­duct­ing a great series of audio interviews…

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Emotional Intelligence and Faces

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 15, 2007 |

Paul Ekman has con­duct­ed exten­sive research on iden­ti­fy­ing emo­tions through facial expres­sions. As part of that research, and as part of the pow­er of dis­ci­pline and train­ing, he learned how to con­scious­ly manip­u­late 42 facial mus­cles, includ­ing many that in most of us are beyond our con­trol, and even aware­ness. In the 60s and 70s…

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Neurotechnology, Health and Brain Fitness News

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 28, 2007 |

Today we have a num­ber of indus­try announce­ments: 1) New edi­tions of these Blog Car­ni­vals (col­lec­tions of blog posts around spe­cif­ic top­ics) Encephalon (neu­ro­science) Grand Rounds (med­i­cine) Edu­ca­tion (guess!) Hap­pi­ness 2) The Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Indus­try Orga­ni­za­tion has launched a Neu­rotech Job Board ded­i­cat­ed to com­mer­cial neu­ro­science (most­ly focused on clin­i­cal appli­ca­tions, like drugs and devices, not…

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Daniel Goleman and Social Intelligence

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 6, 2007 |

The Finan­cial Times has a fun inter­view today as part of their “Lunch with the FT” series. Daniel Gole­man is the author of best­seller Emo­tion­al Intel­li­gence and is now pro­mot­ing his recent book Social Intel­li­gence. An quote from the inter­view: — The jour­nal­ist asks, “So how do the rest of us get bet­ter?”. — The…

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