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Sep 2, 2007

Brain Exercise and Fitness: August Monthly Digest

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Crossword PuzzleAs we announced last month, we have started to offer a Monthly Digest of the Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. Today, Sep­tem­ber 2nd, we will list the most pop­u­lar August posts. Con­sider it your monthly Brain Exer­cise Magazine.

(Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, check our Top­ics sec­tion, and sub­scribe to our monthly newslet­ter at the top of this page).

News You Can Use

The Ten Habits of Highly Effec­tive Brains: our most suc­cess­ful post so far, on how to main­tain fit brains, with over 70,000 read­ers in a few days!

Phys­i­cal Exer­cise Boosts Mem­ory: “It is impor­tant for peo­ple of all ages to do 20 to 30 min­utes of aer­o­bic exer­cise sev­eral times a week.”

Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket News

Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram 2.0, Mind­Fit, and more: overview and com­men­tary on recent New York Times and The Times articles.

Brain Train­ing Games and “Games”: 10-questions to help eval­u­ate pro­grams mak­ing brain train­ing claims.

Neu­rotech­nol­ogy, Health and Brain Fit­ness News: a few announcements.

Cor­po­rate Well­ness and Training

Train­ing the Aging Work­force: an overview of demo­graphic trends and impli­ca­tions, rel­e­vant to every HR and Train­ing pro­fes­sional and boomer.

On Learn­ing and “Being Smart”

Feed Your Brain with Fun Neu­ro­science: some of my favorite quotes from our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series.

Smart Brains, Becom­ing Smarter, and Intel­li­gence: an essay by David Gamon on what being “smart” means and what hap­pens as we age.

Research

Cog­ni­tive train­ing research: Mind­Fit, Lumos­ity, Posit Sci­ence, Cogmed: overview of some recently pub­lished and ongo­ing stud­ies.: overview of some recently pub­lished and ongo­ing studies.

Cog­ni­tive Enhance­ment and Exer­cise, by Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg: a nice pod­cast inter­view with our co-founder, neu­ro­sci­en­tist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg.

I hope you enjoy these arti­cles and find them use­ful. And stim­u­lat­ing!. Please feel free to sug­gest top­ics you would like me to cover in the future.

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  1. » Brain Exercise and Fitness: September Monthly Digest   « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains      says:
    October 2, 2007 at 5:07

    […] Fol­low­ing our July and August editions, here you have our Monthly Digest of the Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. Today, Octo­ber 2nd, we will list the most pop­u­lar Sep­tem­ber posts. You can con­sider it your monthly Brain Exer­cise Magazine. […]

  2. » Brain Fitness: November Monthly Digest   « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains      says:
    December 21, 2007 at 5:43

    […] — August  […]

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