(Editor’s note: below you have part 3 of the 6-part The Neurobiology of Stress series. If you are joining the series now, you can read the previous part Here.) Stayin’ Alive Understanding the Human Brain and How It Responds to Stress The Little Brain Down Under The tour continues … Sitting under the occipital and temporal [...]Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing Receives Grant for the Model eHealth Community for Aging (press release): - ” The Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing (Front Porch Center), a 501©(3) founded on the belief that technology innovation plays a vital role in enhancing wellbeing, was awarded eHealth equipment valued at [...]
Sponsored Ad (How to Advertise on SharpBrains.com) Time for the October edition of the monthly SharpBrains eNewsletter, featuring this time several articles on the impact of stress, emotions, and self-regulation, on our brain’s structure and performance. We are pleased to bring to SharpBrains readers a new 6-part series on the Neurobiology of Stress, based on a [...]
Finding the cause and the cure for a deadly disease is a little bit like investigating a murder. Clinicians collect clues from their patients, bring them back to the lab, and try to reconstruct the crime and identify the killer. For amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (aka ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease), this investigation has lasted over [...]As we announced a few weeks ago, we are honored to present an upcoming Brain Fitness Q&A Series for all SharpBrains friends to ask questions to three of the authors featured in AARP’s Best Books on Brain Fitness. Participants will submit written questions, moderators will select the most important and relevant questions, and book authors [...]Several SharpBrains friends recommend the recent 3-part National Geographic TV mini-series Brain Games focused on Perception, Attention and Memory. You can learn about the series and experiment a good number of visual illusions Here. You may also enjoy this article on Visual Illusions in Art and Science, and these classic illusions from our own brain [...]Now, test your brain with these math brain teaser. You will be amazed with the power of brain. Brain Study Points to Potential Treatments for Math Anxiety (Education Week): “The study, published this morning in the journal Cerebral Cortex, is a continuation of work on highly math-anxious people being conducted by Sian L. Beilock, associate psychology professor at the University of Chicago, and doctoral candidate Ian M. Lyons. In prior research, Beilock has [...]
What made the human brain? According to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, it was a giant obsidian monolith inspiring primates to use tools and weapons. Scientists have taken a more nuanced approach, looking for the biology behind the complex structures and enhanced function of the human brain. But merely comparing the genes expressed in [...](Editor’s note: We are pleased to bring to SharpBrains readers a new 6-part series on the Neurobiology of Stress, excerpted from the recent book Nowhere to Hide: Why Kids with ADHD and LD Hate School and What We Can Do About It, by SharpBrains contributor Dr. Jerome Schultz.) Stayin ’ Alive Understanding the Human Brain and How [...]
Biology used to be the scientific discipline where data was at a premium, a rare resource painstakingly collected in the field or the laboratory. But today’s biologists are confronted with a flood of data, a fire-hose torrent of genetic and clinical information that only builds with the spread of fast sequencing and electronic medical records. [...]