Cognitive maintenance 2.0: From crossword puzzles to targeted mental stimulation

By SharpBrains | October 26, 2014

The Sil­ver Econ­o­my: Brain train­ing fired up by hard evi­dence (Finan­cial Times): “Not so long ago, peo­ple kept age­ing brains active through read­ing and writ­ing, talk­ing with friends and fam­i­ly, and per­haps play­ing cards or doing puz­zles. Now a rapid­ly grow­ing num­ber are tak­ing a high-tech approach to cog­ni­tive main­te­nance, through com­put­er pro­grams designed to stimulate…

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Update: How Stress and Emotions Impact Brain Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 28, 2011

Spon­sored Ad (How to Adver­tise on SharpBrains.com) Time for the Octo­ber edi­tion of the month­ly Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing this time sev­er­al arti­cles on the impact of stress, emo­tions, and self-reg­u­la­­tion, on our brain’s struc­ture and per­for­mance. We are pleased to bring to Sharp­Brains read­ers a new 6‑part series on the Neu­ro­bi­ol­ogy of Stress, based on a…

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Upcoming Talks on Applied Neuroscience, Brain Fitness and Adaptive Organizations

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 9, 2011

A quick FYI — I will be speak­ing at the fol­low­ing events. Please do come and say Hel­lo if you get the chance! > Sep­tem­ber 19–20th, San Fran­cisco, CA: Trans­lat­ing Neu­ro­science Into Mar­ketable Ther­a­peu­tic Inter­ven­tions, at the Enter­tain­ment Soft­ware and Cog­ni­tive Neu­rother­a­peu­tics Soci­ety (ESCoNS). Details Here. > Sep­tem­ber 23rd, Los Gatos, CA: The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness, at…

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Learning with Video Games: A Revolution in Education and Training?

By Marshall Weinstein | July 29, 2011 |

In recent years, we have wit­nessed the begin­nings of a rev­o­lu­tion in edu­ca­tion.  Tech­nol­o­gy has fun­da­men­tal­ly altered the way we do many things in dai­ly life, but it is just start­ing to make head­way in chang­ing the way we teach.  Just as tele­vi­sion shows like Sesame Street enhanced the pas­sive learn­ing of infor­ma­tion for kids…

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Update: Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age, and Industry Webinar

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 13, 2009

Here you have the August edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. Sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tion Fron­tiers in Neu­ro­science recent­ly pub­lished a spe­cial issue on Aug­ment­ing Cog­ni­tion, and invit­ed me to contribute…

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First Book Review is in…Two Stethoscopes Up!

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 8, 2009

The San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle brings two great pieces today — includ­ing an excel­lent review of our new Book! Is Your Brain A Couch Pota­to? (online book review) “At 165 pages, we’re talk­ing a short, sweet, enter­tain­ing read of a com­plex top­ic, with time­ly (writ­ten in 1/09) reviews of 21 top tech­nol­o­gy prod­ucts, as well as…

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