Good blogs on health, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, education, business...
Here you have a few recent great blog carnivals (collections of selected blog posts focused on specific topics): - Grand Rounds: health and medicine - Encephalon: neuroscience and psychology -...
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Top 7 Brainteasers for Job Interviews and Brain Challenge
A recent CNN article explains well why a growing number of companies use brainteasers and logic puzzles of a type called “guesstimations” during job interviews: - “Seemingly random questions like these...
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Book Announcement: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness
Our first book is available in Amazon.com! Background: In 2005 I read two books by my now co-author, Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, that changed my career and life. Dr. Goldberg presented an exciting overview...
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Free Brain Fitness Webinar
Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg and I, co-authors of The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness, will cover the main highlights from our new book and address the questions submitted by readers. When: Tuesday July...
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The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom: New 4-Part Series
During a debriefing after the 2011 SharpBrains Summit, Rick Moody, Director of the Office of Academic Affairs at AARP, suggested that I contribute a thought-leadership piece to a special issue on brain...
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The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom — Part 1: The Business
The recent discovery that experience can change brain structure and function at any age has sparked numerous health, education, and productivity applications whose value and limitations we are only...
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The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom — Part 2: The Ethics
The terminology “fundamental attribution error” describes the tendency to overvalue personality-based explanations for observed human behaviors, while undervaluing situational explanations for those...
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The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom — Part 3: The Real Need
Engaging people where they are in the life-course Eighty percent of the 38,000 adults over age 50 who were responders in the 2010 AARP Member Opinion Survey indicated “staying mentally sharp” was their...
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The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom — Part 4: The Future
Building Blocks for a Better Future The best alternative for tomorrow should be better than the best alternative available today. How do we get there, when “cognition” and “brain fitness” remain...
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The Next Frontier: Neuroscience, Business and the Arts
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Oh The Places You’ll Go, Dr.Seuss. The space between creativity and entrepreneurship is...
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How mindfulness meditation is infiltrating the corporate world
I thought I’d read everything about mindfulness, but this was news to me: Steve Jobs was a meditator. Back in 1981, long before mindfulness meditation became a popular subject of scientific inquiry,...
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— This Is Your Brain on Business (Fortune): “…here’s a sign of how quickly things move in neuroscience: Earlier this year, another paraplegic man, Rodrigo Hübner Mendes, became the first person to...
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Book Announcement: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness
Our first book is available in Amazon.com! Background: In 2005 I read two books by my now co-author, Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, that changed my career and life. Dr. Goldberg presented an exciting overview...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Brain Fitness Webinar
Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg and I, co-authors of The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness, will cover the main highlights from our new book and address the questions submitted by readers. When: Tuesday July...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom: New 4‑Part Series
During a debriefing after the 2011 SharpBrains Summit, Rick Moody, Director of the Office of Academic Affairs at AARP, suggested that I contribute a thought-leadership piece to a special issue on brain...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom — Part 1: The Business
The recent discovery that experience can change brain structure and function at any age has sparked numerous health, education, and productivity applications whose value and limitations we are only...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom — Part 2: The Ethics
The terminology “fundamental attribution error” describes the tendency to overvalue personality-based explanations for observed human behaviors, while undervaluing situational explanations for those...
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The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom — Part 3: The Real Need
Engaging people where they are in the life-course Eighty percent of the 38,000 adults over age 50 who were responders in the 2010 AARP Member Opinion Survey indicated “staying mentally sharp” was their...
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The Business and Ethics of the Brain Fitness Boom — Part 4: The Future
Building Blocks for a Better Future The best alternative for tomorrow should be better than the best alternative available today. How do we get there, when “cognition” and “brain fitness” remain...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Next Frontier: Neuroscience, Business and the Arts
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Oh The Places You’ll Go, Dr.Seuss. The space between creativity and entrepreneurship is...
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