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April 2, 2007 at 9:28 pm · Filed under Biofeedback, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain health, Brain Training, Emotions, emWave, Executive Functions, Freeze-Framer, Health & Wellness, HeartMath, Mind/Body, Neurotechnology, Peak Performance, Resiliency, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Stress, Trading psychology
Golf Digest has just published an article on how golfers can see their game improved thanks to stress management programs like emWave, developed by HeartMath. Check more here: emWave in Golf Digest
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February 28, 2007 at 5:52 pm · Filed under ACE, Aging, Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Biofeedback, Biology, Books, Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain Coach, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain health, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Casual Games, Cogmed, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Corporate Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Events, Executive Functions, Freeze-Framer, Glossary, HappyNeuron, Health & Wellness, HeartMath, IntelliGym, Leadership, Learning, Lifelong learning, meditation, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Microfinance, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Mind/Body, MindFit, Neurofinance, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Interview Series, Neurotechnology, Nintendo Brain, Nutrition, Pattern Recognition, Peak Performance, Philanthropy, Physical Fitness, Posit Science, Positive Psychology, Resiliency, RoboMemo, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Social Entrepreneurship, Stress, Trading psychology, Uncategorized, Vigorous Mind, Visual Illusion, Women's Health, Working memory
Hello dear readers: after a transition period, we have definitively moved to http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog
Please visit us there if you want to keep reading our (close to) daily articles. Please update your feed, and any technorati/ stumbleupon/ del.ic.ious account you may have pointing at this old address. Our new location:
http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog
We won’t be posting more articles here.
We’ll see you there!
-Caroline & Alvaro
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February 17, 2007 at 11:30 am · Filed under Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Biology, Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain health, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Casual Games, Cogmed, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Corporate Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Events, Executive Functions, Freeze-Framer, Glossary, Health & Wellness, Learning, Lifelong learning, meditation, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Mind/Body, MindFit, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Interview Series, Peak Performance, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Stress, Trading psychology, Working memory
We hope you are enjoying the growing coverage of Brain Fitness as much as we are. Below you have the monthly email update we sent a few days ago.
In this post, we will briefly cover:
I. Press: see what CBS and Time Magazine are talking about. SharpBrains was introduced in the Birmingham News, Chicago Tribune and in a quick note carried by the American Psychological Association news service.
II. Events: we are outreach partners for the Learning & the Brain conference, which will gather neuroscientists and educators, and for the Dana Foundation’s Brain Awareness Week.
III. Program Reviews: The Wall Street Journal reviewed six different programs for brain exercise and aging, and the one we offer is one of the two winners. A college-level counseling center starts offering our stress management one. And we interview a Notre Dame scientist who has conducted a replication study for the working memory training program for kids with ADD/ ADHD.
IV. New Offerings: we have started to offer two information packages that can be very useful for people who want to better understand this field before they commit to any particular program: learn more about our Brain Fitness 101 guide and Exercise Your Brain DVD.
V. Website and Blog Summary: we revamped our home page and have had a very busy month writing many good articles. We also hosted two “Blog Carnivals”- don’t you want to know what that means? Continue Reading
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February 3, 2007 at 11:14 am · Filed under ACE, Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Biofeedback, Brain Fitness, Brain health, Brain Training, Cogmed, Cognitive Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Executive Functions, Freeze-Framer, Health & Wellness, HeartMath, IntelliGym, Learning, Lifelong learning, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Mind Fitness, MindFit, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuropsychology, Peak Performance, RoboMemo, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Stress, Trading psychology, Vigorous Mind, Women's Health, Working memory
See our second press release below, and visit our Press Room for the great press we are starting to get.
SharpBrains introduces First Online Brain Fitness Center
– Unique, Full-Service, Science-Based Fitness Center Ushers in the Next Workout Revolution: Mental Exercise –
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Thirty years after the emergence of the exercise boom, the fitness revolution has finally gone to people’s heads: SharpBrains.com has launched the first online brain fitness center. Complete with a variety of science-based mental exercise equipment, personal brain trainers, and nearly 200 articles, interactive blog postings and interviews with industry experts, SharpBrains is spearheading the evolution of the fitness industry to include a sound mind as well as a healthy body.
The new mental exercise movement is founded on using structured, computer-based brain fitness routines tailored to each member’s specific needs and level of ability. Just as crunches and kick-boxing tone abs and increase cardio strength, programs offered at the brain fitness center target and help train essential core mental muscles to improve memory, concentration, stress management, and decision-making skills. Mental exercise has also been shown to help delay the onset of age-related decline and even dementias such as Alzheimer’s Disease.
“People are realizing that cross-training their brains in addition to their bodies is essential to over-all health,” said Keep Reading
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February 2, 2007 at 10:43 am · Filed under ACE, Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Biofeedback, Biology, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain health, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Cogmed, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Executive Functions, Freeze-Framer, HappyNeuron, Health & Wellness, HeartMath, IntelliGym, Learning, Lifelong learning, meditation, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mind/Body, MindFit, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuropsychology, Posit Science, Positive Psychology, RoboMemo, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Stress, Trading psychology, Vigorous Mind, Working memory
…a few questions: how did you find us, what we are doing well, what we can do better?
We have just found out that more than 600 people are receiving our feeds, but we only know-and just a bit- the 50-60 who leave comments and link to us. We enjoy having so many readers not just in the US but in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia…(thanks Google Analytics!).
Would you mind writing a comment HERE to allow us to learn about you and your interests, and also include your feedback for us? If you have a blog, please write the URL so we can pay a visit.
Please remember we have moved to a new URL-that’s why we want your comment there, and not in this blog.
Enjoy the weekend, and thanks a lot for your time and attention!
Caroline and Alvaro
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January 23, 2007 at 7:48 am · Filed under ACE, Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Biology, Books, Brain Fitness, Brain health, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Cogmed, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Corporate Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Executive Functions, Health & Wellness, IntelliGym, Learning, Lifelong learning, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Mind Fitness, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Interview Series, Neurotechnology, Pattern Recognition, Peak Performance, RoboMemo, Serious Games, Stress, Trading psychology, Working memory
Given that we are getting new readers let’s re-introduce our Neuroscience Interview Series. If you click on the category (in the right bar) that says Neuroscience Interview Series, you will find the updated list of interviews we have conducted (and also some that have found elsewhere, such as the one with Posit Science’s Dr. Michael Merzenich and Dr. John Ratey).
The interviews we have conducted and published so far, with most recent first:
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January 19, 2007 at 3:41 pm · Filed under Biofeedback, Biology, Books, Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain Coach, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain health, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Corporate Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Executive Functions, Health & Wellness, Leadership, Learning, Lifelong learning, meditation, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Mind/Body, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuropsychology, Neurotechnology, Peak Performance, Positive Psychology, Resiliency, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Stress, Trading psychology, Women's Health, Working memory
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Brain Fitness Blog Carnival. The timing couldn’t be better — you have probably seen the featured CBS News/TIME Series on Brain Neuroplasticity.Thanks to the over 40 people who submitted posts. We have had to select the posts we enjoyed the most to help facilitate an engaging and informed conversation.
Learning is physical. Our experience literally shapes our brains. And vice versa. The media seems to be focusing mostly on brain fitness for seniors, but its implications go beyond that, as you will see in this post by Caroline: What is Brain Fitness?, and the articles in this carnival.
Science-based understanding is evolving from “Use it or Lose It” to “Use It and Improve It”. As Fast Company’s Alan Deutschman provocatively puts it in his last book, Change or Die. We couldn’t agree more with his summary recommendation: “Relate. Repeat. Reframe.” Alan presents a blog article announcing his book (here is his original article).
Keep Reading the Inaugural Edition: Brain Fitness Blog Carnival #1.
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January 16, 2007 at 11:22 am · Filed under ACE, Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Biofeedback, Brain Fitness, Brain health, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Cogmed, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Executive Functions, Freeze-Framer, Health & Wellness, HeartMath, IntelliGym, Learning, Lifelong learning, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Mind Fitness, MindFit, Neurotechnology, Peak Performance, Posit Science, RoboMemo, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Stress, Trading psychology, Vigorous Mind, Women's Health, Working memory
We are spending more time talking to journalists these days. A frequent question we receive is, “OK, which computer-based programs do you consider to be Brain Fitness Programs, not just “games” for pure fun”?.
Our answer: the rate of development of new programs by neuroscientists worldwide is really increasing, and there are already a few out there that combine good underlying science with embedded quality assessments and user-friendly guidelines and exercises from a fitness and prevention (vs. medical “prescription”) perspective. Some of these are:
Cogmed Working Memory Training program (RoboMemo), helps children with attention deficits to overcome the working memory gap. and is distributed exclusively through selected clinical providers.
Freeze-Framer is a biometric-based system that helps people of all ages and occupations (from students to nurses and traders) get into The Zone of optimal learning and performance by managing the negative effects of stress and anxiety. Our partner is the Institute of HearMath.
IntelliGym provides a mental workout to improve core basketball abilities, such as coordination, attention control, peripheral vision, and perception. Yes, this can be trained. It is basketball specific, so we don’t recommend it for other sports. Our partner is ACE.
MindFit helps train 14 different cognitive functions that are important for healthy aging. Even if the activities are helpful for people of all ages (I personally use it as my “brain gym” during flights, being in my mid-30s), the look & feel is more appropriate for people over 50, so we recommend it mainly for that group. Our partner is Vigorous Mind.
Posit Science offers an intensive program for training core auditory processing abilities. Auditory processing is one of the areas that typically decline with age, so this would be a great starting point for anyone, usually above 60 given the marketing we see in their website, who may be experiencing problems with his/ her hearing and understanding capabilities. We do not offer this program through our website, but certainly respect their scientists and research.
We are constantly looking for new ones, so keep tuned.
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January 1, 2007 at 1:17 pm · Filed under Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Biofeedback, Biology, Books, Brain anatomy and imaging, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain health, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Casual Games, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Corporate Training, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Events, Executive Functions, Glossary, Health & Wellness, Leadership, Learning, Lifelong learning, meditation, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Microfinance, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Mind/Body, Neurofinance, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Interview Series, Neurotechnology, Nintendo Brain, Nutrition, Pattern Recognition, Peak Performance, Philanthropy, Physical Fitness, Positive Psychology, Resiliency, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Social Entrepreneurship, Stress, Trading psychology, Uncategorized, Visual Illusion, Women's Health, Working memory
Happy 2007 to everyone!
We have just formulated our New Year Resolution: make 2007 the year when Brain Fitness became a mainstream concept.
How do we start? well, let’s announce the launch of the Carnival of Brain Fitness (a Blog Carnival is basically the vehicle that blogs use to share posts around specific topics).
Goal: to facilitate a dialogue about this emerging field across multiple perspectives, from scientists and health professionals, to education and training ones, to basically everyone who has conducted an experiment on his on her brain and mind, and has news to report.
Context: The scientific foundations lie in neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, cognitive training and stress management. Medical and health applications range from stroke and TBI rehabilitation to ADD/ADHD and early Alzheimer’s to Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and cognitive therapy. Educational and training applications go from helping kids improve reading abilities to helping manage stress and anxiety – including work with the “mental game” in sports and high-demand activities pr professions. Each of us may also have experiences to report, where we saw first hand, no matter our age, our innate ability to refine and transform ourselves (and our brains).
Mechanics: If you’d like to contribute,
Read the rest of this entry »
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December 28, 2006 at 8:09 am · Filed under Biofeedback, Brain Fitness, Brain health, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Decision-making, Education, Emotions, Executive Functions, Freeze-Framer, Health & Wellness, HeartMath, Learning, Lifelong learning, meditation, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Mind Fitness, Mind/Body, Neurotechnology, Peak Performance, Positive Psychology, Resiliency, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Stress, Trading psychology, Women's Health
Just a quick note, to let you know the holiday offer for Freeze-Framer ($249 instead of $295, and Free shipping inside the USA) is only valid until January 1st.
In short, who may benefit from this program? anyone, no matter the age (after 6-years-old) who wants a more measurable way to manage stress and anxiety and perform at peak levels. Our Head Coach, a clinical psychologist, literally mentioned yesterday that this tool is one of the most useful he has ever seen.
We have seen some specific groups benefit the most, such as students and school staff, traders and golfers: Read the rest of this entry »
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