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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Cogmed, Freeze-Framer, IntelliGym, MindFit, Posit Science

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 16, 2007 |

We are spend­ing more time talk­ing to jour­nal­ists these days. A fre­quent ques­tion we receive is, “OK, which com­put­er-based pro­grams do you con­sid­er to be Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams, not just “games” for pure fun”?. Our answer: the rate of devel­op­ment of new pro­grams by neu­ro­sci­en­tists world­wide is real­ly increas­ing, and there are already a few out there…

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2007 New Year Resolution: Carnival of Brain Fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 1, 2007

Hap­py 2007 to every­one! We have just for­mu­lat­ed our New Year Res­o­lu­tion: make 2007 the year when brain plas­tic­i­ty and Brain Fit­ness became main­stream con­cepts. How do we start? well, let’s announce the launch of the Car­ni­val of Brain Fit­ness (a Blog Car­ni­val is basi­cal­ly the vehi­cle that blogs use to share posts around specific…

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emWave (formerly Freeze-Framer) for Stress Management and Peak Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 28, 2006 |

Just a quick note to sum­ma­rize a num­ber of con­ver­sa­tions we have been hav­ing at a num­ber of hol­i­day par­ties. In short, who may ben­e­fit from a biofeed­back-based stress man­age­ment pro­gram? any­one, no mat­ter the age (after 6‑years-old) who wants a more mea­sur­able way to man­age stress and anx­i­ety and per­form at peak lev­els. Our…

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New Year’s Resolutions for Brain and Body

By Caroline Latham | December 18, 2006

If you haven’t found one yet, here are some great posts with a lot of ideas to help find your own healthy resolutions.The Car­ni­val of Pos­i­tive Think­ing has some real­ly great entries this time. One of the arti­cles in par­tic­u­lar has some great sug­ges­tions to help your brain health into the new year- tak­ing time to reflect, find a healthy bal­ance of stim­u­la­tion and rest, appre­ci­at­ing life, and being inquisitive.The Car­ni­val of Sport­s­The Hap­pi­ness Car­ni­val­So, what are your res­o­lu­tions for 2007?

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New Brain Fitness Guide

By Caroline Latham | December 14, 2006 |

We are very excit­ed to announce our new guide: <strong>Brain Fit­ness for Sharp Brains: Your <em>New</em> New Year Resolution,</strong>. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg wrote it with Car­o­line Lath­am in order to pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to the con­cept, sci­ence, and prac­tice of brain fitness.

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