Lee Woodruff: the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and You, can help Traumatic Brain Injury survivors

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 10, 2008 |

You have may have seen a few weeks ago the inter­view between for­mer US pres­i­den­tial con­tender John Edwards and reporter Bob Woodruff. All the result­ing media cov­er­age cen­tered on Edwards’ dec­la­ra­tions. How­ev­er, there is some­thing much more remark­able that sur­faced at that inter­view: Bob Woodruff’s spec­tac­u­lar recov­ery. This is the same reporter who suf­fered a…

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Cognitive, Brain News RoundUp

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 18, 2008

Inter­est­ing recent news: 1) A Par­a­digm Shift in Genet­ics (Philadel­phia Inquir­er) 2)  Con­fer­ence on Brain Devel­op­ment and Learn­ing: Mak­ing Sense of the Sci­ence (thanks Pete) 3) 1 in 5 vet­er­ans found with men­tal dis­or­der (Boston Globe) 4) Com­mon Med­ica­tions May Harm Mem­o­ry in Old­er Peo­ple (U.S. News & World Report) 5) Men More Like­ly to Devel­op Cog­ni­tive Prob­lems (Forbes) For more…

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Brain Health for lawyers

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 12, 2007

The Com­plete Lawyer, a legal pub­li­ca­tion dis­trib­uted to bar mem­bers in sev­er­al states, just pub­lished an arti­cle on Ten Impor­tant Truths About Aging: How we age is at least par­tial­ly under our con­trol, By Elkhonon Gold­berg and Alvaro Fer­nan­dez. We were hap­py to con­tribute to the ongo­ing debate about ethics and aging in the legal…

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