Update: To train your brain, work as a physician, air traffic controller, financial analyst, or similar

By SharpBrains | April 30, 2014

  Time for Sharp­Brains’ April 2014 e‑newsletter. If you’re look­ing for new think­ing, research and tools to enhance life­long brain health, let us sug­gest you’re in the right place! New think­ing: Top insights about neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, emo­tion and cog­ni­tion, cour­tesy of our book read­ers  (In Span­ish: Prin­ci­pales con­cep­tos acer­ca de la neu­ro­plas­ti­ci­dad, las emo­ciones y la cog­ni­ción) The neuroscience…

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Protect Your Asset by Being Your Own Brain Fitness Coach

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 26, 2012

Last week I had the good for­tune of spend­ing four days in Nue­vo Val­lar­ta, Mex­i­co, with over 300 amaz­ing indi­vid­u­als from 40+ coun­tries who had been named Young Glob­al Lead­ers by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum. The sum­mit agen­da was insight­ful and inspir­ing, con­ver­sa­tions with oth­er par­tic­i­pants always proved to be eye-open­ing and stim­u­lat­ing, and the…

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NeuroActive Bike at Lady of America fitness centers

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 6, 2009 |

Neu­roAc­tive Bike: America’s First and Only Mind-Body Fit­ness Equip­ment Launched at Lady of Amer­i­ca Fit­ness Cen­ters (press release) — “The patent-pend­ing bike, engi­neered by Dr. Berg­eron and BCA (Brain Cen­ter America)’s inter­na­tion­al team of brain spe­cial­ists, makes its U.S. debut this month at Lady of Amer­i­ca (LOA) fit­ness cen­ters.” — “Users of the Neu­roAc­tive Bike…

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Top 10 Cognitive Health and Brain Fitness Books

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 2, 2009 |

Here you have The 10 Most Pop­u­lar Brain Fit­ness & Cog­ni­tive Health Books, based on book pur­chas­es by Sharp­Brains’ read­ers dur­ing 2008. Enjoy! 1. Brain Rules: 12 Prin­ci­ples for Sur­viv­ing and Thriv­ing at Work, Home, and School (Pear Press, March 2008) — Dr. John Med­i­na, Direc­tor of the Brain Cen­ter for Applied Learn­ing Research at Seat­tle Pacific…

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Brain Training and Cognitive Health: September News

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 28, 2008 |

A round-up of inter­est­ed news dur­ing the month: 1) Train­ing Young Brains to Behave (New York Times) 2) Head Games (OpEd in New York Times) 3) Will Geron­tol­ogy rec­og­nize the Brain? (Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging event) 4) Brain func­tion gets a boost from walk­ing (Los Ange­les Times) 5) An idea whose time has (final­ly) come (McK­night’s Long Term Care News) 6)…

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