Brain Training/ Fitness Seminars

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 16, 2008 |

Sev­er­al hun­dred peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ed in our first Brain Fit­ness Webi­nar Series, and are glad how the exper­i­ment well. We are already think­ing of top­ics and speak­ers for a sec­ond one, so stay tuned! In case you could­n’t attend them, we are shar­ing the slides we used (we did not record the webi­nar ses­sions). Here you go: 1)…

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11 Neuroscientists Debunk a Common Myth about Brain Training

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 6, 2007 |

Last Mon­day, NPR (very good US-based radio sta­tion) had a pro­gram on “do brain train­ing pro­grams work?” that reflect­ed very old-fash­ioned think­ing. In short, the guest speak­ers talked and talked about the impor­tance of nutri­tion and phys­i­cal exer­cise (both very impor­tant, as we have cov­ered in this blog mul­ti­ple times), and expressed skep­ti­cism about the…

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