Archive for December 2007
10 Brain Fitness New Year’s Resolutions
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…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Newsletter: December Edition
I hope you are having a joyful holiday season, and wish you a Happy and Prosperous 2008. The Brain Fitness field has made a great deal of progress in 2007, and we are looking forward the New Year. Here you are have the Monthly Digest of our Most Popular Blog Posts. You can consider it your…
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Prevention and Diagnostic Tests
Roundup of several insightful articles and recent research: Fish Oil May Help Prevent Alzheimer’s (Washington Post) — “The omega‑3 fatty acids found in fish oil might play an important role in preventing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a research team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).” — “Publishing in the Dec. 26 issue of the…
Read MoreBrain Evolution and Why it is Meaningful Today to Improve Our Brain Health
Over the last months, thanks to the traffic growth of SharpBrains.com (over 100,000 unique visitors per month these days, THANK YOU for visiting today and please come back!), a number of proactive book agents, publishers and authors have contacted us to inform us of their latest brain-related books. We have taken a look at many…
Read MoreCognitive Reserve and Intellectually Demanding Jobs
I hope you are having happy holidays, and are getting ready for New Year celebrations. Best wishes to you and your loved ones. Via MedJournalWatch we just found this interesting paper, Associations of job demands and intelligence with cognitive performance among men in late life. Guy G. Potter PhD*, Michael J. Helms BS, and Brenda L. Plassman…
Read MoreLifelong Learning: Changing My Brain
Hi! This is Andreas, the Norwegian MD/PhD in neuroscience candidate who worked as an intern at SharpBrains a few months ago. Now I’m back in chilly Oslo where I’ve just begun my PhD program on cognitive training for patients with memory problems. Today I felt it was time to reflect upon my 3 month stay…
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