Brain Coach Answers: How Can I Be More Creative? Is Creativity a Part of Brain Fitness?

Cre­ativ­i­ty is not just about the cre­ation of an art object, or a piece of music, or a film, or the cre­ation of a sci­en­tif­ic project, but also about the cre­ation of social rela­tions and of cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions,” says Anto­nio Dama­sio. “Peo­ple rarely asso­ciate these lat­ter areas with cre­ativ­i­ty, but any­time we pro­duce some­thing new,…

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Microfinance, and a very sharp brain

We would like to join oth­er blog­gers in con­grat­u­lat­ing Muham­mad Yunus for hav­ing been award­ed the Nobel Peace Price. The gen­e­sis of micro­fi­nance, in Pro­fes­sor Yunus’ own words. Not often can we find per­son­i­fied exam­ples of what we write about. For 3 out of the last 4 entries in this blog, I can not think…

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The Art of Changing the Brain: Interview with Dr. James Zull

Learn­ing through a vir­tu­ous Learn­ing Cycle. That’s the mes­sage from Dr. James Zull, Pro­fes­sor of Biol­o­gy and Bio­chem­istry at Case West­ern Uni­ver­si­ty, Direc­tor of UCITE (The Uni­ver­si­ty Cen­ter for Inno­va­tion in Teach­ing and Edu­ca­tion), and Pro­fes­sor of a Human Learn­ing and The Brain class. Dr. Zull loves to learn. And to teach. And to build…

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Cognitive Training and ADD/ADHD: Interview with Prof. David Rabiner

On Fri­day we had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to inter­view Pro­fes­sor David Rabin­er. He is a Senior Research Sci­en­tist and the Direc­tor of Psy­chol­o­gy and Neu­ro­science Under­grad­u­ate Stud­ies at Duke Uni­ver­si­ty, and also advo­cate for chil­dren and adults with ADD/ADHD. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez (AF): wel­come, Pro­fes­sor Rabin­er. Could you first pro­vide us with some back­ground on your research interests?

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Brain and Mind Fitness Programs: resiliency, on top of attention, memory…

Today: 6.30pm: I leave the office, down­town San Fran­cis­co, and take the train. 6.44pm: just before arriv­ing in my sta­tion, I remem­ber I have an appoint­ment with my hair­dress­er, which means I have to walk in a dif­fer­ent direc­tion than usu­al. 6.48pm: I find myself walk­ing towards my house, oppo­site direc­tion from my hair­dress­er. You may have…

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