• Early-bird rates for online brain fitness course end in 24 hours

    Updated: 2012-01-30 15:11:18
    Just a quick reminder: early-bird discounted registration rates for online course How To Be Your Own Brain Fitness Coach in 2012 end in 24 hours. Regular rates will start to apply then. We are very close to 100 participants so far!

  • Update: The Future of Preventive Brain Medicine

    Updated: 2012-01-27 13:03:19
    Time for SharpBrains’ January 2012 eNewsletter, featuring in this occasion multiple thought-provoking perspectives on how emerging neuroscience can and should make us rethink prevailing practices in education, healthy aging and preventive medicine.   Featured Perspectives: The Future of Preventive Brain Medicine: Breaking Down the Cognition & Alzheimer’s Disease Alphabet Soup, by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa When 1 + [...]

  • Q&A on Online Course: How to Be Your Own Brain Fitness Coach in 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-26 17:15:02
    We have received many excellent questions about SharpBrains’ upcoming online course How to Be Your Own Brain Fitness Coach in 2012 (March 2012); let us answer the most common ones below. Question: Who has registered to participate so far? Answer: 80 individuals have registered so far, representing a fascinating diversity of backgrounds. We have health and [...]

  • Lifelong cognitive exercise may ward off Alzheimer’s protein beta amyloid

    Updated: 2012-01-24 17:48:18
    Very significant findings reported today. Keeping brain sharp may ward off Alzheimer’s protein (Reuters): “People who challenge their brains throughout their lifetimes — through reading, writing and playing games — are less likely to develop protein deposits in the brain linked with Alzheimer’s, researchers said on Monday.” “Prior studies have suggested that people who are well [...]

  • Winter Conference on Brain Research in Snowbird, Utah

    Updated: 2012-01-24 16:06:30
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  • Upcoming Talk & Book Signing in Washington, DC

    Updated: 2012-01-23 17:52:21
    On Tuesday, February 7, at 7 p.m., Cleveland Park Library in Washington, DC will host Alvaro Fernandez as he discusses  The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: 18 Interviews with Scientists, Practical Advice, and Product Reviews to Keep Your Brain Sharp (book also available via DC library system). The book expands on the concept of neuroplasticity that [...]

  • Cognitive Training & Brain Teasers Can Increase Openness Among Older Adults

    Updated: 2012-01-20 16:08:56
    Brain Teasers Make Seniors More Open to New Ventures (medpage today): - ” A cognitive training program that included Sudoku and crossword puzzles made older adults more open to new experiences, according to a preliminary study.” - “Older adults undergo changes in personality, including shifts in openness or willingness to seek out new and cognitively [...]

  • Council Update: Upcoming call, industry news, and more

    Updated: 2012-01-20 14:42:15
    (You can learn more about the SharpBrains Council Here. If you participated in the 2011 SharpBrains Summit and want to join Council on a complimentary basis before 01/31, please contact us.) Dear Council Members, First of all, have an excellent 2012. Here you have a few important updates, including our first conference call in 2012: [...]

  • Education for Mental Fitness: “A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond”

    Updated: 2012-01-19 16:32:07
    Kudos to Patricia Cohen for one of the best articles I have read in The New York Times in a long time: A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond, by Patricia Cohen. These are a few quotes — please do read the article in full, it is worth it. “Some people are much better than their peers at delaying [...]

  • Structural changes in adult brains caused by acquiring knowledge

    Updated: 2012-01-06 10:30:00
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