Schools as Brain Training Hubs?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 11, 2008 |

In the post Top 10 Brain Train­ing Future Trends I asked for sug­ges­tions to refine our pre­dic­tions for the 2007–2015 peri­od. A good num­ber of peo­ple con­tributed, and the win­ner is… Scott Spears, retired pub­lic schools super­in­ten­dent. His prediction:  “Pre­dic­tion 11: The notion of school­ing will be struc­tural­ly dra­mat­i­cal­ly altered through the use of diag­nos­tics relat­ed to…

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Brain Connection: Eric Jensen on Learning and the Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 12, 2008 |

Eric Jensen is a for­mer mid­dle school teacher and for­mer adjunct pro­fes­sor for sev­er­al uni­ver­si­ties includ­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Diego. He co-found­ed the Learn­ing Brain Expo, a con­fer­ence for edu­ca­tors, and has writ­ten 21 books on the brain and learn­ing. Jensen is cur­rent­ly com­plet­ing his PhD course­work. His most recent book, Enrich­ing the…

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SharpBrains in Scientific American Mind/ Brain Health Blog and Newsletter

By Caroline Latham | June 12, 2007

We were very hap­py to dis­cov­er that Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can Mind has high­light­ed Sharp­Brains in their June/July 2007 issue!If you are here due to that issue, we’d like to wel­come you and show you around a bit. You might enjoy: Our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series in which we inter­view some of the lead­ing neu­ro­sci­en­tists in brain fit­ness, includ­ing: Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg on Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams and Cog­ni­tive Train­ing, Cog­ni­tive Sim­u­la­tions for Bas­ket­ball Game-Intel­li­gence: Inter­view with Prof. Daniel Gopher, Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing and RoboMemo: Inter­view with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg, Mem­o­ry train­ing and atten­tion deficits: inter­view with Notre Dame’s Bradley Gib­son, and an upcom­ing inter­view with Yaakov Stern, the lead­ing researcher behind the Cog­ni­tive Reserve theory

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