Posts Tagged ‘Robert-Emmons’
Top 10 Cognitive Health and Brain Fitness Books
Here you have The 10 Most Popular Brain Fitness & Cognitive Health Books, based on book purchases by SharpBrains’ readers during 2008. Enjoy! 1. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Pear Press, March 2008) — Dr. John Medina, Director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific…
Read MoreBrain Research Interview Series
We are working on improving several sections of our website, especially our Resources section. It will look much better in a few days. Our first step has been to re-organize our Neuroscience Interview Series, and below you have how it looks today. During the last 18 months I have had the fortune to interview over 15…
Read MoreBrain Plasticity, Health and Fitness Books
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…
Read MoreBrain Evolution and Why it is Meaningful Today to Improve Our Brain Health
Over the last months, thanks to the traffic growth of SharpBrains.com (over 100,000 unique visitors per month these days, THANK YOU for visiting today and please come back!), a number of proactive book agents, publishers and authors have contacted us to inform us of their latest brain-related books. We have taken a look at many…
Read MoreEnhance Happiness and Health by Cultivating Gratitude: Interview with Robert Emmons
Gratitude is a positive psychology. Happiness and good mental health can be cultivated through gratitude.
Read MoreMath Anxiety
Interesting commentary on Entrepreneurs and Math Anxiety Based on a research report that included “Math anxiety feelings of dread and fear and avoiding math can sap the brain’s limited amount of working capacity, a resource needed to compute difficult math problems, said Mark Ashcroft, a psychologist at the University of Nevada Los Vegas who…
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