Science, Health and Business blogs

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 13, 2007

As every Mon­day, we bring you many blog car­ni­vals (col­lec­tions of blog posts around spe­cif­ic top­ics) we have con­tributed to. But before we do so, we have 2 announcements:  Learn­ing, The Gravy Way will host the next edi­tion of the Brain fit­ness car­ni­val on August 20th. You still have a few days to sub­mit your post on any­thing related…

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Beating forgetfulness and boosting the brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 25, 2007 |

Very good arti­cle in Mar­ket­Watch titled Beat­ing for­get­ful­ness and boost­ing the brain. Prob­a­bly the best we have seen so far pro­vid­ing an over­all indus­try per­spec­tive on a nascent field. I rec­om­mend read­ing the whole arti­cle, but here you have some teasers: “As boomers age, the dri­ve to cor­rect such dis­com­fort has impli­ca­tions for health and wellness,…

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Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology, Education, Videogames, and much more…

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 16, 2007 |

Well, today we have an excep­tion­al col­lec­tion of blog car­ni­vals to men­tion. Please only start brows­ing if you do have some time to spare…otherwise you will end up spend­ing more time read­ing the arti­cles than you real­ly can afford to :-) First, some superb edi­tions of: Grand Rounds (Med­i­cine). An amaz­ing col­lec­tion of med­i­cine-relat­ed arti­cles, with fun guidance.…

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Brain Health and Fitness Workshops

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 13, 2007 |

Today I have an announce­ment to make. You prob­a­bly are seeing all the arti­cles about Brain Fit­ness in the press and wondering, “What is this all about?”, “Can some­one help me nav­i­gate through all the pro­grams out there?”, “How is Brain Fit­ness rel­e­vant to me in my per­son­al life or at work?”. Well…we are deliv­er­ing a series of…

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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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Cognitive Neuroscience @ MIT OpenCourseWare

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 28, 2007 |

The great MIT Open­Course­Ware ini­tia­tive offers a lot of free mate­ri­als on Brain and Cog­ni­tive Sci­ences. You can browse lec­ture notes, read­ings, and more on a vari­ety of psy­chol­o­gy and neu­ro­science cours­es. “The human brain is the most com­plex, sophis­ti­cat­ed, and pow­er­ful infor­­ma­­tion-pro­cess­ing device known. To study its com­plex­i­ties, the Depart­ment of Brain and Cognitive…

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