Work (and Juggle) for Cognitive Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 7, 2008 |

Spec­tac­u­lar arti­cle by Dr. Denise Park in this mon­th’s Cere­brum: Work­ing Lat­er in Life May Facil­i­tate Neur­al Health — “Car­mi School­er at the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health, using a tech­nique that allowed him to assess causal rela­tion­ships, found that adults who per­formed intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­leng­ing jobs across their life span showed more cog­ni­tive flex­i­bil­i­ty in late…

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Neuroscience Core Concepts: What is “It” in Use It or Lose It?

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 25, 2008

We all have heard “Use It or Lose It”. Now, what is “It”? how does “it” work? why is “it” our best (and too often unrec­og­nized) friend? The Soci­ety for Neu­ro­science (SfN) has just released a user-friend­­ly pub­li­ca­tion titled Neu­ro­science Core Con­cepts, aimed at help­ing edu­ca­tors and the gen­er­al pub­lic learn more about the brain. Description:…

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Physical and mental exercise to prevent cognitive decline

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 19, 2008 |

We offered some Brain Fit­ness Pre­dic­tions in our Mar­ket Report , includ­ing… “7. Doc­tors and phar­ma­cists will help patients nav­i­gate through the over­whelm­ing range of avail­able prod­ucts and inter­pret the results of cog­ni­tive assess­ments. This will require sig­nif­i­cant pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment efforts, giv­en that most doc­tors today were trained under a very dif­fer­ent under­stand­ing of the…

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Update: Emerging Tools, Not Magic Pills

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 17, 2008

Here you are have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our 10 most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Our first Brain Training/ Fit­ness Webi­nar Series was a suc­cess with sev­er­al hun­dred par­tic­i­pants and great feed­back. If you…

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Brain Fitness Update: Use It and Improve It

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 30, 2008 |

Here you are have the bi-mon­th­­ly update with our 10 most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter, at the top of this page, if you want to receive this digest by email). In this edi­tion of our newslet­ter we bring a few arti­cles and…

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