Brain Plasticity, Health and Fitness Books

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 17, 2008 |

As you may have noticed, we just changed a few things in our site, includ­ing prepar­ing a more sol­id Resources sec­tion. Please take a look at the nav­i­ga­tion bar at the top. One of the new pages, that we will update often, is an expand­ed Books page. Here are the books that we are rec­om­mend­ing now. Fas­ci­nat­ing books on…

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Random Learning? the 8 Random Facts Meme

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 24, 2007

Orli from Neu­ron­tic tagged me with a new meme –writ­ing about 8 Ran­dom Per­son­al Facts- that is cir­cu­lat­ing among sci­ence blog­gers.  Well, I will hap­pi­ly write about 8 facts that appeared in unex­pect­ed ways yet, seen with per­spec­tive, seem to be a type of non-ran­­dom ran­dom­ness, if that makes sense…   As the old­est child,…

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Creativity, Michael Ray and Motto

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 2, 2007

Mot­to Mag­a­zine brings a great inter­view between Ani­ta Sharpe and Michael Ray, on How To Reach Your High­est Goal. Very fun week­end read­ing mate­r­i­al, includ­ing plen­ty of quotes and reflec­tions on how cre­ativ­i­ty can be trained/ enhanced by one of my favorite Stan­ford MBA pro­fes­sors. Some quotes: “But as the 1980s began, Ray and Myers…

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Can a brain fitness program help me become more creative?

By Caroline Latham | March 22, 2007 |

Here is ques­tion 20 of 25 from Brain Fit­ness 101: Answers to Your Top 25 Questions.Question:Can a brain fit­ness pro­gram help me become more creative?Key Points: Cre­ativ­i­ty can be trained, like oth­er men­tal muscles.Set up struc­tured time, places, or rou­tines that pro­vide a frame­work for cre­ativ­i­ty to happen.Reducing your stress helps to keep your brain more flexible.Using many parts of the brain as well as try­ing new things will stim­u­late the areas of your brain involved in creativity.

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