By: Alvaro Fernandez
Here 
you have SharpBrains’ 30 most popular articles, ranked by the number of people who have read each article in 2008.
Please note that, since the first article already includes most of our most popular brain teasers, we have excluded teasers from the rest of the ranking. (If those 50 are not enough for you, you can also try these brain teasers).
—
|
Blog Channel
|
Article |
|
|
1. Top 50 Brain Teasers and Games to Test your Brain
It is always good to stimulate our minds and to learn a bit about how our brains work. Here you have a selection of the 50 Brain Teasers that people have enjoyed the most. |
|
|
2. The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains
Let’s review some good lifestyle options we can follow to maintain, and improve, our vibrant brains. My favorite: don’t outsource your brain (even to us). |
|
|
3. Why do You Turn Down the Radio When You’re Lost?
You’re driving through suburbia one evening looking for the street where you’re supposed to have dinner at a friend’s new house. You slow down to a crawl, turn down the radio, stop talking, and stare at every sign. Why is that? Neither the radio nor talking affects your vision. Or do they? |
|
|
4. Brain Plasticity: How learning changes your brain
You may have heard that the brain is plastic. As you know the brain is not made of plastic! Neuroplasticity or brain plasticity refers to the brain’s ability to CHANGE throughout life. |
|
|
5. Top 10 Brain Training Future Trends
In an emerging market like brain fitness training, it is difficult to make precise projections. But, we can observe a number of trends that executives, consumers, public policy makers, and the media should watch closely in the coming years, as brain fitness and training becomes mainstream, new tools appear, and an ecosystem grows around it. |
Read the rest of this entry »
By: Alvaro Fernandez
Several recent NYT articles focus on several fascinating frontiers of brain science. We know much more about brain and mind than only 20 years ago, yet exponentially less than 20 years from now.
A few worthy explorations on mindfulness, perceptual capacities, and the power of placebo: Read the rest of this entry »
By: Dr. David Rabiner
We have talked about the value of meditation before (see Mindfulness and Meditation in 
Schools), as a form of well-directed mental exercise than can help train attention and emotional self-regulation.  Which other studies have shown how it strengthens specific parts of the brain, mainly in the frontal lobe.
Dr. Rabiner shares with us, below, an excellent review of a new study that analyzes the benefits of mindfulness for adolescents and adults with attention deficits. He writes that “although this is clearly a preliminary study, the results are both interesting and encouraging.”
- Alvaro
Â
Does Mindfulness Meditation Help Adults & Teens with ADHD
– By Dr. David Rabiner
Although medication treatment is effective for many individuals with ADHD, including adolescents adults, there remains an understandable need to explore and develop interventions that can complement or even substitute for medication. This is true for a variety of reasons including:
1) Not all adults with ADHD benefit from medication.
2) Among those who benefit, many have residual difficulties that need to be addressed via other means.
3) Some adults with ADHD experience adverse effects that prevent them from remaining on medication.
Read the rest of this entry »
By: Alvaro Fernandez
We often are told that we offer too much content for you to read given various time pressures… but it is tough for us to write less given the wealth of areas we cover around cognitive and emotional training.
To make your life easier (and please feel free to give us feedback!), what we will do is to offer a Monthly Digest of Most Popular Blog Posts. Today, August 1st, we will list the most popular July 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
Trading performance psychology and self-talk
Stress Management for Lawyers
Mental Training for Gratitude and AltruismÂ
Â
Brain Fitness/ Training Market News
MarketWatch on Beating forgetfulness and boosting the brain
Nintendo BrainAge, Lumosity, Happy Neuron, MyBrainTrainer…
Brain Health through Serious Games and Brain Exercise
Brain Fitness Workshops
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Brain Fitness class at UC Berkeley
Â
Healthy Aging
Interview with Neuroscientist Yaakov Stern: Build Your Cognitive ReserveÂ
Judson Laipply’s Dancing Brain
Jack and Elaine LaLanne and Brain HealthÂ
Exercise Your Brain! Enjoy Learning!
Â
Attention Deficits
Read the rest of this entry »
Recent Comments