Minding the Aging Brain

By Dr. Joshua Steinerman | February 20, 2008 |

Cog­ni­tive train­ing (the basis for what we call “brain fit­ness” these days) has a wide array of appli­ca­tions. The most recent one, which is cap­tur­ing pub­lic’s imag­i­na­tion, monop­o­liz­ing media cov­er­age, and cre­at­ing cer­tain con­fu­sion, is Healthy Brain Aging. We are for­tu­nate to have Dr. Joshua Stein­er­man, one of our new Expert Con­trib­u­tors, offer today his…

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Brain Fitness Program: How to Evaluate and Choose One

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 10, 2007 |

The hol­i­days are approach­ing and you can expect many soft­ware and game devel­op­ers to adver­tise their prod­ucts aggres­sive­ly, try­ing to get you buy their “brain train­ing” prod­ucts for you or as a gift for a loved one. The good news is that there are more and more tools we can use to keep men­tal­ly stim­u­lat­ed and…

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Cognitive Health and Baby Boomers: 6 Points to Keep in Mind

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 6, 2007 |

Very inter­est­ing col­lec­tion of recent news…let’s con­nect some dots 1) Great arti­cle titled Boom time for retirees (Finan­cial Times) — “By 2015, boomers will have a net worth of some $26,000bn (£12,750bn, ¬17,670bn)  equiv­a­lent to a year’s gross domes­tic prod­uct for the US and euro­zone com­bined. They will con­trol a larg­er pro­por­tion of wealth, income and consumption…

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Brain Fitness News: Posit Science, Slate

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 25, 2007

A cou­ple of quick links DISCOVER Mag­a­zine, May 2007 issue, brings a great arti­cle titled “The Elas­tic Brain: Michael Merzenich believes you can tone your mind and stave off mem­o­ry loss. All it takes is time in his men­tal gym”. The arti­cle (which is not avail­able online) pro­vides a great overview of the amaz­ing work of…

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Books on neuroplasticity and memory training

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 3, 2007 |

Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: the brain’s abil­i­ty to reor­ga­nize itself by form­ing new con­nec­tions through­out life. (see more con­cepts in our Glos­sary). We coud­n’t be hap­pi­er about the grow­ing num­ber of books pop­u­lar­iz­ing the key lessons about brain train­ing that Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg has been research­ing and writ­ing about for years, and that moti­vat­ed us to embark ourselves…

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Discover the Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 28, 2007 |

Hot off the press! We just found on the new­stand an amaz­ing spe­cial issue of Dis­cov­er mag­a­zine on The Brain-An Own­er’s Man­u­al (Spring 2007), with fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cles on how the mind changes from infan­cy to old age, female vs. male brains (yes, we men have brains too), videogames as brain train­ing (by Steven John­son), an article…

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