New Study on the Benefits of Brain Exercises/Brain Fitness

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 20, 2006 |

Ten ses­sions of exer­cis­es to boost rea­son­ing skills, mem­o­ry and men­tal pro­cess­ing speed staved off men­tal decline in mid­­dle-aged and elder­ly peo­ple in the first defin­i­tive study to show that hon­ing intel­lec­tu­al skills can bol­ster the mind in the same way that phys­i­cal exer­cise pro­tects and strength­ens the body. The researchers also showed that the…

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New Brain Fitness Guide

By Caroline Latham | December 14, 2006 |

We are very excit­ed to announce our new guide: <strong>Brain Fit­ness for Sharp Brains: Your <em>New</em> New Year Resolution,</strong>. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg wrote it with Car­o­line Lath­am in order to pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to the con­cept, sci­ence, and prac­tice of brain fitness.

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This is a Brain Fitness Center.

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 12, 2006 |

Today we issued the fol­low­ing press release, and are work­ing hard to get every­thing ready by Jan­u­ary (every­thing works now, but we want to pol­ish it). Please view this web­site as research in action, a liv­ing hypoth­e­sis. We are doing this because we love to learn and help. Please help us learn-feel free to give…

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Emwave and Emotional self-regulation

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 21, 2006 |

In the post Trad­er Peak Per­for­mance and biofeed­back pro­grams we showed the Heart Rate Vari­abil­i­ty pat­terns cor­re­lat­ed with lev­els of a) anx­i­ety or b) Peak Per­for­mance, “The Zone”. Biofeed­back sup­ports our emo­tion­al self-reg­u­la­­tion: we can visu­al­ly track what is going on inside us and train our­selves to man­age our emo­tion­al state. On the left you…

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Blog Carnivals, Thanksgiving and Mission Accomplishing

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 20, 2006 |

Big par­ty today. Car­ni­vals everywhere.  Car­o­line and I admit we are quite biased. We see the world through our own lens­es. Which, these days, means a lot of pas­sion for the sci­ence-based Brain Fit­ness Rev­o­lu­tion. We have been try­ing hard to com­bine fun brain teasers with seri­ous posts on how brain research is start­ing to…

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