New book encourages readers to embrace uncertainty in order to improve decision-making, mental health, and more

March 18, 2024  |

Life is uncer­tain. We nev­er know what will hap­pen, and many things are unknow­able. This can make us feel stressed or wor­ried, since the unknown is asso­ci­at­ed with dan­ger. But as jour­nal­ist Mag­gie Jack­son argues in her new book, Uncer­tain: The Wis­dom and Won­der of Being Unsure, there are many ben­e­fits to allow­ing our­selves to…

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Seven resources, brain teasers and puzzles to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2024

March 11, 2024  |

We invite you to cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week (March 11–17th, 2024) by explor­ing more about our minds and brains and by putting them to good use via some fun brain teasers, puz­zles and illu­sions :-) Draw the let­ter J in your mind. Now draw the let­ter D. Turn it 90 degrees to the left and put it in…

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Executive Functions and Dysfunction in Brain Health and Brain Disorders: Dates announced for Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg’s Symposium in Costa Rica

March 7, 2024  |

We are pleased to announce a fan­tas­tic 5‑day pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ty fea­tur­ing our Advi­sor and renowned author and neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Elkhonon Gold­berg, Ph.D., ABPP., and titled “Exec­u­tive Func­tions and Dys­func­tion in Brain Health and Brain Dis­or­ders. Frontal Lobes, Dis­trib­uted Net­works, and the Whole Brain.” The infor­ma­tion pre­sent­ed will aid prac­ti­tion­ers and researchers alike in advanc­ing their knowledge…

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Best books offering brain teasers and puzzles according to ChatSpot and ChatGPT

Feb­ru­ary 26, 2024  |

Hav­ing recent­ly queried Chat­G­PT and ChatSpot about sug­ges­tions for books on brain health, cog­ni­tive fit­ness, cog­ni­tive abil­i­ty and skills, we decid­ed to ask about best books offer­ing brain teasers and puz­zles so that inter­est­ed read­ers can expand their cog­ni­tive exer­cise resources. (Links open cor­re­spond­ing Ama­zon book pages) Best books with brain teasers and puz­zles, per ChatSpot:…

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Best books on cognitive ability and skills according to ChatSpot and ChatGPT

Feb­ru­ary 21, 2024  |

As a fol­low-up to the arti­cle Best books on brain health and cog­ni­tive fit­ness accord­ing to ChatSpot and Chat­G­PT we decid­ed to find out what these pop­u­lar AI chat­bots say about books to under­stand and improve cog­ni­tive abil­i­ty and skills. Here you are: (Links open cor­re­spond­ing Ama­zon book pages) Best books on cog­ni­tive abil­i­ty and skills, per…

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Best books on brain health and cognitive fitness according to ChatSpot and ChatGPT

Feb­ru­ary 14, 2024  |

Out of curios­i­ty we queried a cou­ple pop­u­lar AI chat­bots, ChatSpot and Chat­G­PT free ver­sions, about the best books in a cou­ple of key top­ics we dis­cuss a lot in this blog. Here are the fas­ci­nat­ing results, and some brief com­men­tary at the end. (Links open cor­re­spond­ing Ama­zon book pages.) Best books on brain health, per…

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Systematic review finds more clinical harm than benefits in Alzheimer’s “treatments” lecanemab, aducanumab, and donanemab

Feb­ru­ary 9, 2024  |

Study ques­tions ben­e­fit of new Alzheimer’s drug (UGA Today): Last sum­mer, the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion ful­ly approved the first drug shown to slow the progress of Alzheimer’s. But new research from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia sug­gests that patients and care­givers may not expe­ri­ence any ben­e­fit from the drug in their dai­ly lives. The drug, Leqembi,…

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On the importance of managing negativity bias to protect cognitive control and prevent depression relapse

Jan­u­ary 30, 2024  |

Many peo­ple around the world suf­fer from depres­sion. Though depres­sion can be extreme­ly debil­i­tat­ing, evi­­­dence-based treat­ments (like cog­ni­­­tive-behav­io­ral ther­a­py) pro­vide hope, because they can be very effec­tive in treat­ing the neg­a­tive think­ing that accom­pa­nies depression.

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Brain Health in 2030: Navigating Neuroplasticity & the Digital Health Market

Jan­u­ary 23, 2024  |

Brain Health in 2030: Nav­i­gat­ing Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty & the Dig­i­tal Health Mar­ket from Sharp­Brains Keynote deliv­ered by Álvaro Fer­nán­dez, CEO of Sharp­Brains, dur­ing cor­po­rate retreat. Key mes­sage: Our very human brains and minds are the most sophis­ti­cat­ed tech­nol­o­gy at our dis­pos­al, so we should invest more time learn­ing about how they work and har­ness­ing neu­ro­­­plas­tic­i­­­ty-based methods…

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Six favorite books of 2023 to help harness the stress response and boost resilience, curiosity and wonder

Jan­u­ary 16, 2024  |

It’s hard to address impor­tant issues in our lives or in soci­ety if we are stressed, deplet­ed, and iso­lat­ed. Per­haps that’s why many of 2023’s favorite books offer approach­es for real self-care. They focus on how to man­age stress, find more hap­pi­ness in life, seek won­der and inspi­ra­tion, appre­ci­ate art, under­stand our per­son­al strengths, or…

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