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  • Top 25 Brain and Mind Haikus. Can you Write Yours? - The results of a recent "Brain and Mind Haikus" contest are in. Below you have my Favorite 10 Haikus on brain-related topics, plus many other fun ones for a total of 25...
  • Exercise Your Brain: Quick Brain Teasers to Test Your Memory and Thinking Skills - Here's a quick quiz to test your memory and thinking skills, which should work out important parts of your brain. See how you do! (Answers are below). 1. - Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. 2. - What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward? 3. - Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables? 4. - What fruit has its seeds on the outside? 5. - In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle.
  • Why Do You Turn Down the Radio When You're Lost?: Multi-Tasking and the Brain 101 - You're driving through suburbia one evening looking for the street where you're supposed to have dinner at a friend's new house. You slow down to a crawl, turn down the radio, stop talking, and stare at every sign. Why is that? Neither the radio nor talking affects your vision. Or do they? In a recent study about using a cell phone while driving, Steven Yantis, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, had this to say: - "Directing attention to listening effectively 'turns down the volume' on input to the visual parts of the brain. The evidence we have right now strongly suggests that attention is strictly limited -- a zero-sum game.
  • Combine Physical and Mental Exercise for Brain Health: Interview with Dr. Kramer - Dr. Arthur Kramer is a Professor in the University of Illinois Department of Psychology, the Campus Neuroscience Program, the Beckman Institute, and the Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at the University of Illinois. I am honored to interview him today about recent brain research findings focused on how to maintain a healthy, strong brain. Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Dr. Kramer, thank you for your time. Let's start by trying to clarify some existing misconceptions and controversies.
  • 10-Question Checklist to Select the Right Brain Fitness Program for You - Unless you have been living in a cave, you have read by now multiple articles about the brain training and brain exercise craze: sudoku, Nintendo BrainAge, multiple online games, software like MindFit and Posit Science... How do you know which of them can help you more, or whether you need any of them? Well, that's why we are publishing the SharpBrains Checklist below, to help you navigate through the overwhelming and conflicting media reports and company announcements. We have spent over 18 months interviewing scientists and reviewing available Brain Fitness and Exercise Programs worldwide, and we are going to share with you, right now, the research-based criteria we use to evaluate them. ***** 10 Questions to Choose the Right Brain Fitness Program for You (and a brief explanation of why each question is important)***** * 1.
  • Can Meditation Help to Read Hidden Emotional Messages in other People's Faces? - I recently attended a great workshop at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. The class was called "Reading Emotional Messages" and taught by Paul Ekman, Ph.D, a well-know scientist who regularly trains lawyers and police officials in his techniques. Concealed emotions, microexpressions, are the fleeting expressions that people make when they are consciously or unconsciously trying to hide their true emotional response. In conscious microexpressions they may be trying to lie, while with unconscious expressions, they may not even be aware of what they are truly feeling.
  • Mind Teaser Games - 3 Ways Which Mind Teaser Games Can Improve Your Life - Mind teaser games are games that build up on your strategizing techniques, planning, logic, visual workout, attention and memory. Your brain also gets worked out 90% of the time when you play these mind teaser games. Playing mind teaser games are definitely encouraged as according to Einstein, we humans only use 10% of our brain most of the time. So why waste the other 90%? All the planning, strategizing, and memory work done during the game will definitely help you to have the extra edge as compared to those who thinks that mind teaser games are just another substitute for kiddy’s playground. In this 21st century, there are over thousand of card games, memory games and role-playing games to choose from. Now, most of the mind teasers games are available on the advanced level to cater for the older players.
  • Top 7 Brainteasers and Puzzles 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 have become commonplace in Silicon Valley and other tech outposts, where companies...
  • Top 21 Books on Brain Health, Fitness and Training, Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis - Given the growing media coverage of brain fitness and brain training, we have produced this compilation of the Top 21 Books that help understand these trends, the research behind them, and the implications...

  • 10 Brain Health and Fitness New Year's Resolutions: Train Your Brain - You have survived the 2007 shopping and eating season. Congratulations! Now it's time to shift gears and focus on 2008...whether you write down some New Year resolutions or contemplate some things that you want to let go of from last year and set intentions and goals for this year - as is a friend's tradition on the winter solstice.
  • Do Crossword Puzzles and Bridge Provide all the Brain Exercise You Need? - This is a question we often get asked in our classes and lectures. The quick answer is that while recreational activities like crossword puzzles, sudoku, bridge, chess, poker, etc. are all good for you and better than doing nothing, they are usually limited in their range of mental cross-training as well as difficult to control to ensure the right combination of both challenge and novelty. If you do them often, what you're doing is fun and can't hurt.
  • Brain Training and Mind Games: Interview with Japanese Expert Go Hirano - Today we are traveling to Japan to learn about latest gaming trends there. Go Hirano is a Japanese executive with experience in neuroscience and gaming. Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Hirano-san, what is the state of Brain Fitness and Brain Training in Japan? what are the most popular programs so far? Go Hirano (GH): So far, the most popular application is anti-aging, and most popular product is Dr.
  • Brain Age Mythology Compared to What Really Improves Cognitive Health - Many people have been asking us recently about whether we all have a "Brain Age" and how we can reduce our "brain ages". This concept is a myth, fueled by the (very fun) Nintendo game and a recent PBS campaign promoting a program produced by Posit Science. The concept of having a "brain age" is, itself, profoundly unscientific, despite the radio ads for the PBS program titled Brain Fitness Program, where listeners of all ages get the impression (as many friends and colleagues have reported) that, should they buy the Posit Science Brain Fitness Program, they can expect their brains "rejuvenated" by 10 years. This, I hear often, must be true, coming from PBS. Unfortunately, it isn't.
  • Earth 2.0: Yes We Can Launch a New And Improved Global Agenda - Imagine seeing a top sheik from Dubai, wrapped in traditional Arab clothing, exclaim "Yes We Can" in front of the 800 experts gathered during the Summit of the Global Agenda that just took place in Dubai on November 7-9th, co-organized by the World Economic Forum and the Government of Dubai.
  • Cognitive Fitness and Health: 10 Debunked Myths on How Your Mind Works. - Over the last year we have interviewed more than 10 leading neuroscientists and psychologists worldwide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have news to report. What can we say today that we couldn't have said only 10 years ago?
  • Exercise Body and Brain to Maintain Lifelong Cognitive Health - The American Medical News, a weekly newspaper for physicians published by the American Medical Association, just published an excellent article on the importance of Exercise - Physical and Mental: A few quotes from the article titled "Steps to a nimble mind: Physical and mental exercise help keep the brain fit": "Until recently, conventional wisdom held that our brains were intractable, hard-wired computers. What we were born with was all we got. Age wore down memory and the ability to understand, and few interventions could reverse this process. But increasingly, evidence suggests that physical and mental exercise can alter specific brain regions, making radical improvements in cognitive function." and "With nearly 72 million Americans turning 65 over the next two decades, physicians need the tools to handle growing patient concerns about how to best maintain brain health.
  • Asking 40 Important Health and Medical Questions to the Next US President - Dear Mr or Mrs Next US President, The health and medical blogosphere would like to make sure you and your team take into account the issues outlined below as you and your aids formulate your policies and put together the team that will further define and implement them. 40 different health bloggers have asked these questions that I now pose to you and your team. Dear Mr or Mrs Next US President, 1. Your main asset is your brain. What have you done lately to maintain your brain? (SharpBrains). Health Policy 2. Who do you support as US Science Advisor? (A Blog Around the Clock). 3. Not to depress you but...are you aware that healthcare reform is really hard? how will you change all this? (Medinnovationblog). 4.
  • Are Yoga and Meditation Good for my Brain? A Scientific Take on Stress Management - Yes! Yoga, meditation, and visualization are all excellent ways to learn to manage your stress levels. Reducing stress, and the stress hormones, in your system is critical to your brain and overall fitness. Why is this so? It’s clear that our society has changed faster than our genes. Instead of being faced with physical, immediately life-threatening crises that demand instant action, these days we deal with events and illnesses that gnaw away at us slowly, without any stress release.
  • We Need a Global Consortium for Brain Fitness and Training Innovation - The World Economic Forum asked me to write "an 800 words summary of your most compelling actionable idea on the challenges of aging and gerontology", in preparation for the Inaugural Summit of the Global Agenda taking place November 7 to 9th in Dubai. Here you have my proposal to create a Global Consortium for Brain Fitness and Training Innovation and help ensure that "No Brain is Left Behind": I. The Context - Growing Demands on Our Brains: Picture 6.7 billion Primitive Brains inhabiting a Knowledge Society where lifelong learning and mastering constant change in complex environments are critical for productive work, health and personal fulfillment. Welcome to Planet Earth, 2008. - Further stretched by increased longevity: Now picture close to 1 billion of those brains over the age of 60 - and please remember that, less than 100 years ago, life expectancy was between 30 to 40 years.
  • Ready to Measure Your Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health? - You know your weight. And your physical fitness. And a variety of health-related metrics. What about your brain fitness? In years to come, we can expect a growing number of assessments to help each of us address that precise question, using tools that today are only available to researchers and clinicians, raising both opportunities and concerns. Two recent announcements bring out important events in that direction: 1) Last week, OptumHealth announced an exclusive 3-year agreement (estimated at $18m) with the Australian company Brain Resource. Quote: "OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions will work with Brain Resource to provide clinicians with a Web-based assessment that measures general cognition (how people process information) and social cognition (how people manage their emotions).
  • Can Games, Meditation and Parenting Help Improve Attention? - I am honored to interview today Michael I. Posner, a prominent scientist in the field of cognitive neuroscience. He is currently an emeritus professor of neuroscience at the University of Oregon (Department of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences). In August 2008, the International Union of Psychological Science made him the first recipient of the Dogan Prize "in recognition of a contribution that represents a major advance in psychology by a scholar or team of scholars of high international reputation." Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Dr.
  • Why Smart Brains Make Stupid Decisions On Money, Work and Health - It happens. Often. Why? We just secured an interview with Ori Brafman, co-author of Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (Doubleday Business, 2008), to discuss our Dark Side (well, he calls if "different hidden forces" and "psychological undercurrents"). While reading some reviews about his book, I particularly enjoyed finding, after the usual impressive long collection of endorsements, this "disclaimer": *DISCLAIMER: If you decide to buy this book because of these endorsements, you just got swayed. One of the psychological forces you'll read about in Sway is our tendency to place a higher value on opinions from people in positions of prominence, power, or authority. (But you should still buy the book.) Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Ori, what is SWAY? can you give us a couple quick examples? Ori Brafman (OB): Sway is about why perfectly rational people make irrational choices.
  • Obesity Crisis or Cognitive Crisis? How to Get Weight Under Control - In early August, a scientific study published in the British Medical Journal added a novel perspective on how to think of, and consequently address, the so-called obesity epidemic that many developed countries, including the US, are experiencing. The media reported on the study main findings: - "The study was based on tests of about 11,000 people in Britain who were tested for hand control, co-ordination and clumsiness at age seven and 11, and were then followed until age 33." - "Prof.
  • Brain Improvement and Cognitive Fitness: Fact or Fiction? - You may already have a Nintendo Brain Age game, or at least have heard of it. You may also have read recently that start-up Lumos Labs raised $3m to develop "brain training games". From the press release: - "Lumos Labs is at the center of a booming interest in cognitive exercise and the emerging science about the remarkable plasticity of the brain," said Amish Jani of Pequot Ventures. This and other developments (such as the success of Nintendo Brain Age, and the PBS special devoted to brain plasticity) are signs of growing interest and an incipient market still in an immature stage--and that has resulted in much misinformation and confusion.
  • Healthy Aging for Brain and Body: Answers to your Main Questions - Given the growing and often contradictory media coverage regarding aging and Alzheimer's Disease topics, you probably have a good number of questions you would like to see answered on Healthy Aging for Brain and Body. Let's address some of them in a lively Question & Answer format. * Question: What is aging? - Answer: Wikipedia says that "Ageing or aging (American English) is the accumulation of changes in an organism or object over time. Ageing in humans refers to a multidimensional process of physical, psychological, and social change. Some dimensions of ageing grow and expand over time, while others decline. Reaction time, for example, may slow with age, while knowledge of world events and wisdom may expand." Aging may not be the sexiest of words in our vocabulary. Unless, of course, you consider the most common alternative.
  • Improving Brain Functioning For Healthy Aging: Interview with scientist Jerri Edwards - Today we are fortunate to interview Dr. Jerri Edwards, an Associate Professor at University of South Florida's School of Aging Studies and Co-Investigator of the influencial ACTIVE study. Dr. Edwards was trained by Dr. Karlene K. Ball, and her research is aimed toward discovering how cognitive abilities can be maintained and even enhanced with advancing age. Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Please explain to our readers your main research areas.
  • 8 Simple Ways To Boost Your Brain Power - There are lots of different ways to increase your brain power. Your brain is like any other "muscle" in your body and grows stronger the more it is used. Here are some that you can start using immediately to boost the power of your brain: 1. Use your brain more (duh!) Sounds easy. But how many times do you reach for the keyboard to search for something you already know but can't be bothered to remember? How many times do you use a calculator, even for really simple calculations, rather than mental arithmetic? Set yourself a goal to complete a new puzzle each day. Whether it's a crossword, Sudoku, a brainteaser or whatever. 2. Think young Play with thinking like a child, even if only occasionally. Question everything.
  • Easy Brain Power Strengthening Tips - It's quite simple: if you want to begin strengthening your brain's power, you need to give it some exercise. OK. It's not a simple matter of going down to the gym and getting your brain to pump weights. But actually, the process of brain power strengthening isn't too different from that model. You need to stretch your brain.
  • The Biggest Loser Tv Show is Required Viewing on Some Diet Programs - "The Biggest Loser" Tv Show is the first show to come along that can actually help dieters lose weight. In the past television was notorious for leaving dieters depressed and sabotaging their efforts. First there are the food commercials featuring the latest Wendy's triple or quadruple burger (they seem to get bigger every year) and who doesn't salivate at the sight of McDonald's hot, golden fries. So much for will power. Advertising agencies are paid millions to design these little brain teasers, that subconsciously send you straight to the nearest drive thru window! When dieters aren't watching commercials, Tv shows filled with beautiful, thin people saturate the airwaves.
  • Spring Break Packages - Teasers, Incentives, And the Best Trips - These days when we look at advertisements for spring break packages online, on television, in newspapers, or magazines we see many incentives thrown at us to help us choose one package over another. Twenty hours of free drinks, free pizza at Pizza Hut while your there, free entry to exclusive parties and clubs...these are an example of what you may see posted with the ads. These are called travel teasers. They help one travel agency establish dominance over another by giving away something you can't get from the other guy. This is usually done when the basic elements of the package have a preset price that can't be changed due to contract restrictions from the hotels, airlines, or cruise lines.
  • Traumatic Brain Injuries Associated With Motorcycle Accidents - Motorcycle accidents are a well-known leading cause of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Together with auto accidents, they are the single largest cause of brain injury in the United States.
  • What Causes ADHD Symptoms? - The general idea out there is that ADD and ADHD are caused by social problems. Very often, people hear their family members or neighbors telling them that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is caused by: video games, TV, music videos, single parent families, parents who work too much, computers, inexperienced teachers, etc. While many people talk about ADHD being due to many problems in society, they are not only wrong, they are actually doing a real disservice to people with ADHD. Research has proven that these factors do NOT cause Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In fact, it is a real medical condition, and as such, it is found in the body. The first place to start when talking about what causes ADHD symptoms is the fact that ADHD is a brain disorder.
  • Brain Injury and Its Consequences - When an individual is the victim of traumatic brain injury, they may have either closed brain injury or open head injury. A closed brain injury refers to an individual that has been violently traumatized by a non-invasive blow or jolt to the head whereas an open head injury refers to when the skull is penetrated or broken.
  • Losing Your Memory From A Traumatic Brain Injury - Depictions of head-injury patients in movies and television almost always show the patient experiencing some type of amnesia, or memory loss. Indeed, memory loss is the most common cognitive side effect of a severe traumatic brain injury. In patients with a milder TBI, memory loss is still one of the most common symptoms. And the more severe the patient's memory loss is, the more severe the brain damage is likely to be.
  • Use More of Your Brain to Get Things Done - Recent advancements in brain imaging show us that older people use more of their brain to perform tasks than younger people do. Scientists interpret this to mean one of two opposite things: First, older people recruit more brain activity to do the same things in order to compensate for degeneration of specific brain circuits that can no longer get the job done by themselves. This is the compensation hypothesis. Think of it like one brain region asking for help from another brain region in order to do something that, in its younger days, it could do on its own.
  • Discovering Balance In Your Daily Life With The Brain Gym 101 Seminar - What does having more balance in life mean to you? It differs for everyone. For some it’s being able to focus more and stay organized on tasks. For others it’s reducing stress and learning how to relax. Yet, for many facing learning and behavior challenges, it can be successfully living with ADD, ADHD or Autism.
  • Early Onset Dementia May be Risk of Brain Injury - A study recently published in the journal of Biological Psychiatry has discovered a link between accelerated dementia and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and brain infections.
  • Anoxic Brain Injury and Treatment - Anoxic brain injury, similar to traumatic brain injury (TBI) is when the brain is deprived of oxygen and blood flow, thus causing the brain cells to suffocate and die. The longer an individual goes without oxygen to the brain, the more damage occurs. It has been noted that permanent brain injury can occur in as little as five minutes, in which case the seriousness of the brain injury is determined. With anemic anoxia, the blood is unable to carry enough oxygen to the brain.
  • New Treatment May Offer Cardiac Arrest Victims Suffering From TBI Relief - Scientists believe that a traumatic brain injury (TBI) following heart failure and cardiac arrest can be avoided as well as repaired, according to a new study. The study, titled, "Neurological Recovery," describes a common condition known as ischemia that occurs often after unwitnessed cardiac arrest when an individual suffers from cessation of blood flow causing severe neurological injury. The neurological or brain damage occurs because heart function and resuscitation have been delayed for 10 minutes, according to the study. Scientists have previously held the belief that massive injury or death would be the result of 30 minutes of ischemia following cardiac arrest.
  • The Question is: To Hit or not to Hit..? - Every blackjack player- either veteran or rookie - has faced the "hit or stay" dilemma at some point or another while playing. Blackjack players know that the right moves can place you above the house, while the wrong one could send you home empty-handed.
  • Understanding Your Emotional Brain - Welcome to my 7-part mini series, Understanding Your Emotional Brain. Today, I'm going to share with you the importance of using your beautiful brain to understand how your body reacts to events. Randy Pauch, a 47 year old college professor, dying of pancreatic cancer, said, "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want". You can learn about his amazing experience in his last lecture on YouTube. What is your experience of events in your life? My perspective is: "Life is a series of events.
  • Gingko And Menopause - 4 Symptoms It Can Help - Ginkgo biloba is often helpful in menopause as well as a variety of other health situations. Ginkgo, or gingko as it is sometimes spelled, is very safe. For these reasons it is well worth considering using it in menopause. Ginkgo And Menopause Gingko biloba is a circulatory stimulant and this helps it to relieve certain menopause symptoms. These menopause symptoms include: * Poor memory * 'Muzzy' brain * Cold hands and feet, and * Low libido These are symptoms which are often reported in menopause. There is a great deal of clinical research into ginkgo biloba which gives confidence that it can often help in the conditions mentioned.
  • Use It or Lose It: The Theory and Practice of Brain Exercise and Fitness for Cognitive Health - Who has not heard "Use It or Lose It". Now, what is "It"? Last week I gave a talk at the Italian Consulate in San Francisco, and one of the areas attendants seemed to enjoy the most was learning what our brains are and how they work, peaking into the "black box" of our minds.
  • Traumatic Brain Injury: Main Causes and Those Most at Risk - A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be any injury where a sudden trauma causes brain damage. Traumatic brain injuries affect a wide variety of Americans every year, causing a multitude of symptoms that can vary from mild to extreme. TBI is one of two kinds of acquired brain injury, with the other type manifesting itself in acquired brain injuries, such as brain damage caused by a stroke, meningitis or any form of anoxia (lack of oxygen to the brain). An important part of understanding TBI is to understand its causes and how it can affect those most at risk. There are varying statistics between some research studies, but there is a generally accepted view that at least 1.4 million American sustain a traumatic brain injury each year.
  • Mixed Thoughts on Brain Cancer - The radiation therapy can be administered in different ways. External radiation uses a high-energy radiation to pinpoint the tumor. The beam travels to different layers before reaching the tumor itself. It passes through the skin, skull, healthy brain tissue before reaching the tumor. The treatment lasts for about four to six weeks, given five days a week and will usually last for only a few minutes. The other kind of radiation technique is the internal or implant radiation, where the surgeon uses a small radioactive capsule which is placed inside the tumor itself.
  • What Every Parent and Educator Needs to Know About Learning and the Teenager Brain - Dr. Robert Sylwester is an educator of educators, having received multiple awards during his long career as a master communicator of the implications of brain science research for education and learning.
  • Brain Tumours - Meningioma Symptoms - Meningioma symptoms are not as well defined as other conditions and every diagnosed person will expereince something different happening to their body. This is all down to location of the meningioma within the skull and what part of the brain is being affected. Researchers are still baffled by this tricky brain tumour and there is still no conclusive evidence as to why they appear.
  • Top Ten Tips for Women Who Lead Men - Ellen recently wrote a nice post titled Top Ten Tips for Men Who Lead Women, and asked for volunteers to offer a complementary perspective. I hope you enjoy! 1- Stress management: We men know we are hard to lead, and that can be stressful for you and for us. You should know that stress affects short term memory, so it is important to be able to manage stress well, with meditation, breathing or other methods. Also, please remember, laughing is good for your brain. 2- Don't overthink: Don't think too much-we don't. If we do, we try to find ways to self-talk us out of that uncomfortable state. 3- We like toys: Please remember our humble origins, men are just evolved apes...
  • The Mystery Of Human Memory - Memory is an integral part of human life. This can be defined as one’s potential to store, retain and consistently retrieve information. For years, experts in the field of medical science have been studying and researching to find ways to enhance memory. A lot has gone into the study of how human memory works. Experts feel that the more you learn about your memory, the better understanding you can develop in order to improve it.
  • The one workout that you have been neglecting - Students across the nation are heading back into the classrooms, sitting at their desks and, if they're anything like me, zoning out. I know I have company out there in the slacker realm. When I was in school I never truly appreciated how good I had it. All that was expected of me was to go to class and learn, and that seemed like such a hardship. I distinctly remember not going to classes when it rained, or they were too early or just about anything outside of my perfect condition.

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