The briefer (the meeting) the better to maximize brain potential”

Ques­tion by Michael King I am curi­ous… as the Direc­tor of a Brain Health Cen­ter, what do you do to opti­mize your own brain per­for­mance? And what about your co-work­ers’ brain per­for­mance? Answer by Dr. San­dra Chap­man I nev­er accept sta­tus quo or pre­dictable meet­ings. The briefer the bet­ter to max­i­mize brain poten­tial. It is…

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Sandra Chapman: Using innovative thinking, and brain training, we can rewire the brain at every level

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there?  As the founder and chief direc­tor at the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at UT-Dal­las, what gets me excit­ed every day is being on the fore­front of defin­ing and encour­ag­ing cog­ni­tive brain health fit­ness for peo­ple of all ages. We are…

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Dr. Chapman Q&A Transcript: Best Brain Health Fitness Tip? “Never let status quo be an option”

Here’s the light­ly edit­ed tran­script of the Jan­u­ary 4th online Q&A ses­sion with Dr. San­dra Chap­man, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at UT-Dal­las and author of the new book Make Your Brain Smarter (Free Press; Jan­u­ary 2013). Enjoy! 1:59 AlvaroF: You can start writ­ing ques­tions so we have a few to choose from as we…

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Join brain health Q&A with Dr. Sandra Chapman (January 4th, 2013)

 We are pleased to announce that Dr. San­dra Chap­man, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at The Uni­ver­sity of Texas at Dal­las and one of the most thought-pro­­vok­ing speak­ers at the 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, will be answer­ing ques­tions from Sharp­Brains read­ers on Jan­u­ary 4th, 2013. When: Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 4th, 2013. 11am-noon US Pacif­ic Time/ 2–3pm US…

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Brain fitness meets HRV and EEG biometrics and neuroinformatics

As an active par­tic­i­pant in the Open­ViBE project (a soft­ware plat­form to design, test and use Brain-Com­put­er Inter­faces), in sci­en­tif­ic as well as tech­ni­cal capac­i­ties, I have long been focused on ways to process, ana­lyze and put brain sig­nals to prac­ti­cal use. When I start­ed read­ing on the sub­ject of brain fit­ness a few years…

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