#5. Five quick brain teasers for teens and adults to flex two key mental muscles: Attention and Working Memory

. Look­ing for some fun, and free, cog­ni­tive stim­u­la­tion? Here you have a few quick brain teasers to exer­cise your atten­tion and your work­ing mem­ory–the abil­ity to keep infor­ma­tion in your mind while manip­u­lat­ing mul­ti­ple units of infor­ma­tion at the same time. Giv­en them a try … they are not as easy as they may seem :-)

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New course to provide an updated review of conventional & complementary ADHD treatments

Dear Sharp­Brains read­er, I hope you are doing well. I am writ­ing to let you know about an upcom­ing online course on how to nav­i­gate ADHD treat­ments that I am devel­op­ing with Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, founder of the Sharp­Brains ser­vice track­ing applied brain sci­ence. The course will take place this May, and is intend­ed to equip parents…

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Announcement: New online course to Navigate Conventional and Complementary ADHD Treatments for Healthy Brain Development

. Dear col­leagues and friends, ?We are pleased to announce an excit­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion between Sharp­Brains and the Atten­tion Research Update to offer a new online course in May 2015, designed to equip par­tic­i­pants with the under­stand­ing and infor­ma­tion required to nav­i­gate and pri­or­i­tize ADHD treatments–both con­ven­tion­al and complementary–to max­i­mize healthy brain devel­op­ment for chil­dren with ADHD.…

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Open question: How to personalize brain training based on age, personality, biology, and more?

— Brain Train­ing Goes to School (Web­MD): “Kristy Lea was search­ing for a way to help her 5‑year-old son improve his ADHD, and she want­ed to reserve med­ica­tion as a last resort…Increasingly, ther­a­pists, school sys­tems, and par­ents are turn­ing to brain-train­ing games to help chil­dren with learn­ing chal­lenges. “If you look at the [sci­en­tif­ic research],…

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Study finds n‑back cognitive training can increase fluid intelligence (especially outside the USA)

Improv­ing flu­id intel­li­gence with train­ing on work­ing mem­o­ry: a meta-ana­ly­­sis (Psy­cho­nom­ic Bul­letin & Review): “…due to the broad inter­est in cog­ni­tive train­ing, lab­o­ra­to­ries around the world are inves­ti­gat­ing the effects of train­ing and trans­fer. In fact, the first study of n‑back train­ing on Gf (flu­id intel­li­gence) was con­duct­ed in Switzerland…and from our own expe­ri­ences conducting…

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