Relaxing for your Brain’s Sake

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 20, 2008 |

What stress­es you out ? What­ev­er it is, how you respond to it may have more con­se­quences than you think. Let me show you how. Recap­ping from last months arti­cle (see Stress and Neur­al Wreck­age: Part of the Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Puz­zle)…our bod­ies are a com­plex bal­anc­ing act between sys­tems work­ing full time to keep us alive and well.…

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The new Mental Game: sport psychology, coaches, get ready!

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 20, 2007 |

One of the many Sharp Brains around, who is up to date of every­thing relat­ed to brain health and fit­ness (yes, Jeanne, that’s you! thanks for being such a great bureau chief!) has sent us a very inter­est­ing press note on how brain fit­ness and train­ing can be applied in the sports per­for­mance world. I…

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