Brain Fitness around the Globe

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 19, 2008

A few days ago, Rajen­dra, an Indi­an read­er of our newslet­ter, told us that ASHA (the acronym for the Amer­i­can Seniors Hous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion, for whom we pre­pared this spe­cial report), means Hope in Hin­di. Asha, every­one! Then, we saw a few excel­lent arti­cles on Brain Fit­ness and Sharp­Brains in mul­ti­ple lan­guages and con­ti­­nents-time to prac­tice our…

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Improve Memory and Enhance Post-Stroke Rehab with Exercise

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 6, 2008 |

A cou­ple of recent stud­ies have rein­forced the life­long poten­tial for brain plas­tic­i­ty (the abil­i­ty of the brain to rewire itself through expe­ri­ence) and the impor­tance of phys­i­cal exer­cise for cog­ni­tive vital­i­ty. One study focused on 1) adults over 50 with mild cog­ni­tive impair­ment, the oth­er one on 2) stroke sur­vivors. 1)  Mem­o­ry prob­lems: Adults…

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Obesity Crisis or Cognitive Crisis?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 17, 2008

The arti­cle Clum­sy kids more like­ly to become obese adults: study (CBC)… — “The study was based on tests of about 11,000 peo­ple in Britain who were test­ed for hand con­trol, co-ordi­­na­­tion and clum­si­ness at age sev­en and 11, and were then fol­lowed until age 33.” — “Prof. Scott Mont­gomery of the Karolin­s­ka Insti­tutet in Stockholm…

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Your Trading Brain: Expert or Novice

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 5, 2008 |

All trad­ing strate­gies and deci­sion mak­ing are brain-based synap­tic strate­gies. The human brain has an infi­nite capac­i­ty to change, orga­nize and reor­ga­nize itself, pro­gres­sion to trad­ing excel­lence is possible.

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Cognitive Training Clinical Trial: Seeking Older Adults

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 10, 2008 |

Neu­ro­sci­en­tists at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Med­ical Cen­ter (see our pre­vi­ous inter­view with Yaakov Stern on the Cog­ni­tive Reserve) have asked for help in recruit­ing vol­un­teers for an excit­ing clin­i­cal tri­al. If you are based in New York City, and between the ages of 60 and 75, please con­sid­er join­ing this study. More infor­ma­tion below: ————————— Use it or…

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Don’t Outsource Your Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 4, 2008 |

We have sug­gest­ed before (The Ten Habits of High­ly Effec­tive Brains)… “Don’t Out­source Your Brain. Not to media per­son­al­i­ties, not to politi­cians, not to your smart neigh­bour… Make your own deci­sions, and mis­takes. And learn from them. That way, you are train­ing your brain, not your neighbour’s.” Well, let me add now: Don’t Out­source Your…

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