Brain Health: Physical or Mental Exercise?

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 10, 2008 |

Our fel­low blog­ger Jere­my over at Psy­Blog has writ­ten a thought­ful post com­par­ing the val­ue of a num­ber of cog­ni­tive enhanc­ing tools. His over­all ver­dict? “The evi­dence for exer­cise boost­ing cog­ni­tive func­tion is head-and-shoul­ders above that for brain train­ing, drugs, nutri­tion­al sup­ple­ments and med­i­ta­tion. Sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly, on the cur­rent evi­dence, exer­cise is the best way to…

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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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