Biofeedback for Emotional Management and Peak Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 15, 2006 |

Tech­nol­o­gy & Learn­ing mag­a­zine, wide­ly read among school admin­is­tra­tors, has just pub­lished a good arti­cle Take a Deep Breath: Biofeed­back soft­ware is help­ing stu­dents calm down for bet­ter test per­for­mance. Some quotes — (School prin­ci­pal says) “It just goes to show that the emo­tion­al state can real­ly affect a child’s per­for­mance on the test,” says…

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Cognitive Neuroscience and ADD/ADHD Today

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 30, 2006 |

Some days ago we men­tioned atten­tion deficits and exec­u­tive func­tions, as part of a review of Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science and Edu­ca­tion. Let me explore that in more depth now, hav­ing just met a num­ber of very inter­est­ing researchers, doc­tors and experts at CHADD con­fer­ence, and wit­nessed the first baby steps of a com­ing rev­o­lu­tion. First, 3…

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Executive functioning and ADD/ADHD: is Brain Fitness coming here too?

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 26, 2006

Great day at CHADD today. Very good con­ver­sa­tions on Brain Fit­ness with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg and the Cogmed team, pedi­a­tri­cians such as Dr. Arthur Lavin, who was the first clin­i­cal provider of Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing in the US, and neu­rop­shy­chol­o­gist Dr. Sam Gold­stein-this con­ver­sa­tion around how biofeed­back devices can help golfers bet­ter man­age their…

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Executive functioning and ADD/ ADHD: is Brain Fitness coming here too?

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 26, 2006

Great day at CHADD today. Very good con­ver­sa­tions on Brain Fit­ness with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg and the Cogmed team, pedi­a­tri­cians such as Dr. Arthur Lavin, who was the first clin­i­cal provider of Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing in the US, and neu­rop­shy­chol­o­gist Dr. Sam Gold­stein-this con­ver­sa­tion around how biofeed­back devices can help golfers bet­ter man­age their…

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Marian Diamond and the Brain Revolution

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 22, 2006 |

I have been rec­om­mend­ing, in this blog and in “real” life, the won­der­ful book Mag­ic Trees of the Mind: How to Nur­ture Your Child’s Intel­li­gence, Cre­ativ­i­ty, and Healthy Emo­tions from Birth Through Ado­les­cence, by Berke­ley’s Mar­i­an Dia­mond and Janet L. Hopson.

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