Neurogenesis and Brain Plasticity in Adult Brains

By Laurie Bartels | August 7, 2008 |

Back in July, I wrote a post enti­tled 10 Brain Tips To Teach and Learn. Those tips apply to stu­dents of any age, includ­ing adults, for ide­al­ly adults are still learn­ers. Why is adult learn­ing rel­e­vant in a brain-focused blog, you may won­der: The short of it As we age, our brain: still forms new brain cells can…

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Executive Functions and Google/ Microsoft Brain Teasers

By SharpBrains | September 5, 2007 |

Inter­est­ing arti­cle: Want a job at Google? Try these brain­teasers first (CNN) Quote: “Seem­ing­ly ran­dom ques­tions like these have become com­mon­place in Sil­i­con Val­ley and oth­er tech out­posts, where com­pa­nies aren’t as inter­est­ed in the cor­rect answer to a tough ques­tion as they are in how a prospec­tive employ­ee might try to solve it. Since businesses…

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The Upside of Aging-WSJ

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 19, 2007

Sharon Beg­ley writes anoth­er great arti­cle on The Upside of Aging — WSJ.com (sub­scrip­tion required) “The aging brain is sub­ject to a drea­ry litany of changes. It shrinks, Swiss cheese-like holes grow, con­nec­tions between neu­rons become spars­er, blood flow and oxy­gen sup­ply fall. That leads to trou­ble with short-term mem­o­ry and rapid­ly switch­ing atten­tion, among other…

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Brain Workout for Your Frontal Lobes

By Caroline Latham | February 9, 2007 |

Your frontal lobes are home to your exec­u­tive func­tions, includ­ing pat­tern recog­ni­tion. Here’s a puz­zle to chal­lenge your abil­i­ty to uncov­er a pat­tern. In this puz­zle, three num­bers: 16, 14, and 38, need to be assigned to one of the rows of num­bers below. To which row should each num­ber be assigned — A, B,…

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Brain Fitness Blog Carnival #1

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 19, 2007 |

Wel­come to the inau­gur­al edi­tion of the Brain Fit­ness Blog Car­ni­val. The tim­ing could­n’t be bet­ter  you have prob­a­bly seen the fea­tured CBS News/TIME Series on Brain Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty. Thanks to the over 40 peo­ple who sub­mit­ted posts. We have had to select the posts we enjoyed the most to help facil­i­tate an engag­ing and informed…

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CBS News/TIME Series on Brain Neuroplasticity and Memory Exercises

By Caroline Latham | January 17, 2007 |

CBS News and TIME mag­a­zine are team­ing up for a five-part series on the “The Com­pli­cat­ed, Mes­mer­iz­ing World of the Brain”.If you want to catch it:The CBS News reports began Wednes­day, Jan. 17, with three parts to air on the CBS Evening News (6:30–7 p.m. ET) and two parts on The Ear­ly Show (7–9 a.m. ET/PT), as well as extend­ed, Web-exclu­sive reports on CBSNews.com and com­pan­ion pro­gram­ming on CBS Radio News.

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