Virtual Book Club on March 14th to Celebrate Brain Awareness Week

By SharpBrains | January 31, 2011

Please Join us on Mon­day March 14th for the largest glob­al and vir­tu­al book club dis­cus­sion ever focused on the brain. An open dis­cus­sion on what new brain research means to each of us. In hon­or of Brain Aware­ness Week. . Why March 14th? Because we want to cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week (BAW), the cam­paign found­ed by The Dana…

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Grand Rounds: 22 Health and Medicine Questions and Answers

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 5, 2010 |

Wel­come to Grand Rounds, the week­ly col­lec­tion of best health and med­ical blog posts. This week we invite you to enjoy a broad range of insights, tips, and first-hand sto­ries, pre­sent­ed as a Q&A con­ver­sa­tion with blog­gers will­ing to answer, below, a total of 22 good ques­tions. On Health and Med­i­cine What can one-word prescriptions…

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SharpBrains Summit starts today

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 18, 2010 |

The Sharp­Brains Sum­mit is ongo­ing, with 242 par­tic­i­pants in 15 coun­tries! thanks to the IT brains at the Insti­tute for The Future and col­lab­o­ra­tors such as Anett Gyu­rak, Pas­cale Mich­e­lon and Camille Fin­ley, event is going great. If you Twit­ter, you can fol­low my updates here. The Sum­mit hashtag/ feed is #sharp2010. Par­tic­i­pants who were actively…

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Kindle version of The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 23, 2009

Giv­en the fact I love Kin­dle, and some of our Twit­ter friends had been ask­ing for a Kin­dle ver­sion of our new book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fitness…well, here it is: Amazon.com: The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness (Kin­dle Edi­tion, $9.99) The book has also received two excel­lent new endorse­ments: “Kudos for an excel­lent resource!…

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Brain News: Lifelong Learning for Cognitive Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 30, 2009

Here you have the March edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. I know I am biased — but do believe this Newslet­ter issue might well be our best…

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