Update: A Fresh Look at Enhancing Brain & Mental Health Across the Lifespan

By SharpBrains | May 30, 2013

Time for Sharp­Brains’ May 2013 e‑newsletter, which fea­tures a vari­ety of arti­cles offer­ing a more opti­mistic and evi­­dence-based approach to brain and men­tal health than cur­rent prac­tices. First of all, let us high­light that Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can just pub­lished an excel­lent review of our new book. The author sums it up by say­ing that “…I wish I had read…

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Six tips to build resilience and prevent brain-damaging stress

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 20, 2013 |

These days, we all live under con­sid­er­able stress — eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, job demands, fam­i­ly ten­sions, always-on tech­nol­o­gy and the 24-hour news cycle all con­tribute to cease­less wor­ry. While many have learned to sim­ply “live with it,” this ongo­ing stress can, unless prop­er­ly man­aged, have a 

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Upgrading education and health with the brain in mind

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 22, 2013

Heads up: these are some of my upcom­ing talks, start­ing tomor­row with a brief insight blast on Upgrad­ing edu­ca­tion and health with the brain in mind at the World Eco­nom­ic Forum on Latin Amer­i­ca. If you’re a Sharp­Brains friend and speak­ing at/ attend­ing any, please let me know so we can con­nect. April 23–25, Lima, Peru: Upgrad­ing education…

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Digital health meets consumer electronics and brain training

By Dr. Evian Gordon | January 30, 2013

There’s no doubt that the biggest buzz at this year’s Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Show in Las Vegas didn’t come from the slimmest of tele­vi­sions, the most fash­ion­able head­phones or even a danc­ing robot. The buzz of CES 2013 was firm­ly cen­tred on all things health and the Dig­i­tal Health Sum­mit is where the action was hap­pen­ing. On…

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Update: Invest in Brain Health to Drive Health, Innovation and Prosperity

By SharpBrains | July 31, 2012

Time for Sharp­Brains’ July 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion an in-depth arti­cle on why and how to Invest in Brain Health to Dri­ve Inno­va­tion and Pros­per­i­ty, by Veroni­ka Litin­s­ki. Fea­tured Per­spec­tives: Invest in Brain Health to Dri­ve Inno­va­tion and Pros­per­i­ty, by Veroni­ka Litin­s­ki Under­stand­ing, and Nur­tur­ing, Resilience, by Andrew Zol­li How Do Words, such as Yes and No,…

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Understanding, and Nurturing, Resilience and Adaptability

By Andrew Zolli | July 12, 2012

Over and over again—in nat­ur­al dis­as­ters, after the SARS epi­dem­ic, fol­low­ing the loss of a child or spouse—Bonanno’s lon­gi­tu­di­nal stud­ies on loss and trau­ma revealed the exact same pat­tern at the pop­u­la­tion lev­el. No mat­ter how bad the trau­ma, rates of PTSD nev­er exceed­ed one-third, and rates of resilience were always found in at least…

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