Tracking Health and Wellness Applications of Brain Science

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How to Boost Brain Health … right now

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Here’s the pre­sen­ta­tion by our very own Alvaro Fer­nán­dez Ibáñez dur­ing the vir­tu­al event Find Well­be­ing Dur­ing Covid19 on Tues­day, April 28th.
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Tuesday April 28th, online: Explore strategies and tools to boost mental wellbeing during (and after) Covid-19

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Heads-up about a very time­ly vir­tu­al event next week.

When: Tues­day, April 28th, 9am — 6pm US Pacif­ic Time (San Fran­cis­co time zone)

Where: Online

What: Find Well­be­ing Dur­ing Covid19 — Dis­cov­er 200+ Free and Dis­count­ed Tools to help you find some relief and emerge even stronger

How: Learn More and Reg­is­ter HERE

Confirmed Speakers include:

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Growing concern (and hope) about astronauts’ cognitive health during spaceflight

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NASA astro­naut Scott Kel­ly checks out the Microsoft HoloLens aboard a space sta­tion on Feb­ru­ary 20, 2016. (Pho­to by NASA via Get­ty Images)

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About the con­cern: Brain MRI scans may help NASA plan safer mis­sions to space (Health Imaging):

“Not a lot is known about cog­ni­tive impair­ment in humans dur­ing space­flight,” Don­na R. Roberts, MD, Med­ical Uni­ver­si­ty of South Carolina’s Depart­ment of Radi­ol­o­gy, said in a state­ment [Read more…] about Grow­ing con­cern (and hope) about astro­nauts’ cog­ni­tive health dur­ing spaceflight

Study: Adult education classes, in any subject, can boost mental and physical health

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Health ben­e­fits of evening class­es revealed (Sci­ence Daily):

“Those with a taste for adult edu­ca­tion class­es have long known it, but now Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty sci­en­tists have con­firmed that tak­ing part in the week­ly ses­sions can boost well­be­ing — regard­less of the sub­ject stud­ied [Read more…] about Study: Adult edu­ca­tion class­es, in any sub­ject, can boost men­tal and phys­i­cal health

Trend: School-based programs to enhance resilience and emotional/ cognitive flexibility

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Dozens of pro­grams to encour­age resilience have been intro­duced in schools all over the world, both to help chil­dren recov­er from trau­ma, but also cope bet­ter with their day-to-day stress­es. Many use tech­niques such as [Read more…] about Trend: School-based pro­grams to enhance resilience and emotional/ cog­ni­tive flexibility

How Do Words, such as Yes and No, Change Our Brains and Lives?

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The neu­ro­science of lan­guage, con­scious­ness, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion rais­es many fun­da­men­tal ques­tions, the answers to which con­sis­tent­ly defy def­i­n­i­tion. For exam­ple: when we speak, where do our words come from? Our brain, or our mind? And what do we mean by mind? Sim­i­lar dilem­mas arise when we try to study the nature of con­scious­ness. What is it, and where is it? Is it gen­er­at­ed sole­ly by neur­al activ­i­ty, or is it a sep­a­rate force that influ­ences the activ­i­ty of the brain? Hypothe­ses abound, but nobody seems to know for certain.

How­ev­er, we do have a few clues that illu­mi­nate the rela­tion­ship between the brain, the mind, and [Read more…] about How Do Words, such as Yes and No, Change Our Brains and Lives?