Brain Fitness 2: Sight & Sound, at PBS

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 21, 2008 |

PBS recent­ly announced the sec­ond install­ment of their pop­u­lar Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram show, and released this trail­er via YouTube: Watch: Brain Fit­ness 2: Sight & Sound (2:30) Descrip­tion: Join host Peter Coy­ote in “Brain Fit­ness 2: Sight & Sound,” the fol­low-up to “The Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram,” as he explores the brain’s abil­i­ty to change and…

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Brain Blogs and Michael Merzenich

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 13, 2008

Two quick notes: — Encephalon #56 edi­tion: the lat­est edi­tion of this neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy blog car­ni­val is ready for your read­ing plea­sure. — Michael Merzenich Elect­ed to Insti­tute of Med­i­cine: Con­grat­u­la­tions! “The Insti­tute of Medicine’s total active mem­ber­ship is now 1,576 and the num­ber of for­eign asso­ciates is 89. With anoth­er 71 mem­bers hold­ing emeritus…

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Update: The Future of Brain Assessments

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 16, 2008

Here you are have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. News and Analy­sis Com­put­er­ized Cog­ni­tive Assess­ments: oppor­tu­ni­ties and con­cerns: health com­pa­nies and the mil­i­tary are start­ing to use new tools…

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PBS: Secret Life of the Brain and Neuroplasticity

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 5, 2008

Thanks to our 3‑month-old daugh­ter, my wife and I have been learn­ing much about baby brains. Most­ly learn­ing on the job, as you can imag­ine. We just watched a very nice PBS series titled Secret Life of the Brain that cov­ers brain devel­op­ment across the lifes­pan: babies, kids, teenagers, adults, seniors. A bit dat­ed (2002)…

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Brain Health Business Grows With Research and Demand

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 20, 2008 |

I wrote this arti­cle for the March/ April edi­tion of the pub­li­ca­tion Aging Today, pub­lished by the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging, and received per­mis­sion to repro­duce it here. —————- In recent years, most pro­fes­sion­als in aging have become aware of the grow­ing sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence show­ing that human brains retain the abil­i­ty to gen­er­ate neu­rons and change…

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Brain Resources and Websites

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 10, 2008 |

We recent­ly pre­pared a Direc­to­ry of Web Sites as part of our Resources sec­tion. You will find some gems here, in a vari­ety of areas: » The Dana Foun­da­tion offers sev­er­al excel­lent online resources: — Brainy Kids Online offers chil­dren, teens, par­ents and teach­ers links to games, labs, edu­ca­tion resources and les­son plans. — Brain­Web: gen­er­al information…

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