SharpBrains

Boost your visuospatial skills and learn about your brain
-- By Dr. Pascale Michelon

Visuospatial skills are used everyday in many ways, ranging from going from one room to another in your house to solving a jigsaw puzzle and navigating in a new city.

One specific visuospatial skill has to do ...

Posit Science Corporation announced today, at the annual International Long Term Care Insurance Conference, the launch of a new program called  InSight(TM) for visual processing training.

We have not yet had the chance to analyze the program, but several pertinent open questions posed by Alvaro last month to Posit Science representatives (see ...

Please enjoy this brain teaser compliments of puzzle master Wes Carroll. He found this one in the Mensa publication Number Puzzles for Math Geniuses by Harold Gale.The Empty TriangleQuestion:Which figure should be placed in the empty triangle?This puzzle works your executive functions in your frontal lobes by using your pattern recognition, hypothesis testing, and logic.Click here to read the ...

There is a great article on some findings from The Brain Fitness in Older Adults (B-fit) study posted at Psych Central: Fitness Training for the Brain.Here are a few key points:As we age, we experience changes in how we perceive the information that our eyes and ears gather from the environment.... This can lead to difficulties in blocking out ...

Wes Carroll found this one in the Mensa publication Number Puzzles for Math Geniuses by Harold Gale.Tipping the Scales.Question:The top two scales are in perfect balance.How many diamonds will be needed to balance the bottom set?This puzzle works your executive functions in your frontal lobes by using your pattern recognition, hypothesis testing, and logic.Click here to get the Answer.

We were very happy to discover that Scientific American Mind has highlighted SharpBrains in their June/July 2007 issue!If you are here due to that issue, we'd like to welcome you and show you around a bit. You might enjoy: Our Neuroscience Interview Series in which we interview some of the leading neuroscientists in brain fitness, including: Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg ...

(These are not trick questions) Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons.... Can you name at least half of them?Name the ...

A new version of emWave® PC Stress Relief System (formerly Freeze-Framer) has been released with a new name, new games, new features, new interactive coach, and all new content.New features and enhancements include: Categorized content sections with over 100 pages of reference information including Health and Well-Being, Health Professional, Sports Performance, Workplace Performance, and Testing and Learning.The Coherence Coach™ teaches ...

A fun article from the BBC highlights some of the latest entries to the 2.5 billion-word database of words in the Collins English Dictionary, 9th edition.We were of course biased and happy to see "brainfood" as a newly minted word. According to Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, they define "brain food"...any food that is considered to aid intelligence, memory, ...

We all know chronic stress is bad for our heart, our weight, and our mood, but how about our memory?Interestingly, acute stress can help you focus and remember things more vividly.Chronic stress, on the other hand, reduces your ability to focus and can specifically damage cells in the hippocampus, a brain structure critical to encoding short term memory.When is stress ...