Brain Fitness/ Training Newsletter: January Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 31, 2008 |

As we have been doing for the last 6 months, here you are have the Month­ly Digest of our Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your month­ly Brain Fitness/ Train­ing Newslet­ter. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our month­ly newslet­ter at the top of this…

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2 more Contributors on Brain, Education issues

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 29, 2008

We are pleased to announce that we’ll have 2 addi­tion­al excel­lent con­tri­bu­tions dur­ing Feb­ru­ary: — Adri­an Pre­da, M.D., will write about a brain plas­tic­i­ty top­ic. Adri­an Pre­da, M.D. is an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try and Human Behav­ior in the UC Irvine School of Med­i­cine. His exper­tise in human behav­ior, psy­chol­o­gy and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty is based on years…

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Is Your Brain Ready To Drink Cheap Wine?

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 28, 2008

Prof. Baba Shiv, one of our advi­sors, just pub­lished a fas­ci­nat­ing paper on the pow­er of our beliefs to influ­ence brain acti­va­tion, and on how mar­ket­ing can influ­ence those beliefs: Price Tag Can Change The Way Peo­ple Expe­ri­ence Wine, Study Shows (Sci­ence Dai­ly) — Accord­ing to researchers at the Stan­ford Grad­u­ate School of Busi­ness and the…

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The Emerging Brain Fitness Software Market: Building Better Brains

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 24, 2008 |

This is an event you may be inter­est­ed in, if you are based in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area. The MIT Club of North­ern Cal­i­for­nia, Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging, The Busi­ness Forum on Aging and Smart­Sil­vers presents: The Emerg­ing Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket:  Build­ing Bet­ter Brains (Con­tact infor­ma­tion and Reg­is­tra­tion Here) Date: 02/12/2008 Tues­day Time: 6:00pm Venue:…

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