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Book details

  • Title: The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fitness
  • Sub­ti­tle: 18 Inter­views with Sci­en­tists, Prac­ti­cal Advice, and Prod­uct Reviews, to Keep Your Brain Sharp
  • For­mat: Paper­back, 182 pages
  • Pub­lisher: Sharp­Brains, Incor­po­rated; 1 edi­tion (April 30, 2009)
  • Retail Price: $14.95
  • Lan­guage: English
  • ISBN-10: 0982362900
  • ISBN-13: 978–0982362907
  • LCCN: 2009900171
  • Prod­uct Dimen­sions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
  • Ship­ping Weight: 10.4 ounces

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Sup­ple­men­tal Materials

This Pro­gram Eval­u­a­tion Check­list, included in The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness and designed to help con­sumers and pro­fes­sion­als nav­i­gate through the grow­ing num­ber of pro­grams mak­ing “brain fit­ness” or “brain train­ing” claims, can be freely printed and shared.

SharpBrains Checklist 10 Ques­tions to Choose the Right Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram
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The New York Library presents The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fitness

Descrip­tion: 90-minute lec­ture hosted by The New York Pub­lic Library and sup­ported by the Ein­stein Aging Study at Albert Ein­stein Col­lege of Medicine.

Speaker: Book co-author Alvaro Fernandez

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Pub­lic Libraries: Community-Based Health Clubs for the Brain

Descrip­tion: arti­cle writ­ten for the May/ June 2009 issue of Aging Today, the bimonthly news­pa­per of the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging

Author: Book co-author Alvaro Fernandez

–> Read arti­cle

Dig­i­tal Natives and Immi­grants: What Brain Research Tells Us

Descrip­tion: arti­cle writ­ten for the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of Infor­ma­tion Today, Inc.

Author: Nancy Herther, Uni­ver­sity of Min­nesota Libraries, 170b Wil­son Library

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Why We Need to Retool “Use It Or Lose It”: Healthy Brain Aging

Descrip­tion: arti­cle writ­ten for the July/ August 2009 issue of The Jour­nal of Active Aging

Author: Book co-author Alvaro Fernandez

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Welcome to SharpBrains!

As seen in The New York Times, The Wall Street Jour­nal, CNN and more, Sharp­Brains is an inde­pen­dent mar­ket research and inno­va­tion think tank track­ing brain fit­ness and applied neu­ro­plas­tic­ity research and mar­ket­place. AARP recently named The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness a Best Book on the subject.

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Top 30 Articles

  1. Top 50 Brain Teasers, by Sharp­Brains Team
  2. The Ten Habits of Highly Effec­tive Brains, by Alvaro Fernandez
  3. Why do You Turn Down the Radio When You’re Lost?, by Car­o­line Latham
  4. Brain Plas­tic­ity: How learn­ing changes your brain, by Pas­cale Michelon
  5. Top 10 Brain Fit­ness Future Trends, by Alvaro Fernandez
  6. 7 FAQs on Men­tal Exer­cise, by Alvaro Fernandez
  7. It is Not Only Cars That Deserve Good Main­te­nance: Brain Care 101, by Alvaro Fernandez
  8. Eval­u­a­tion Check­list for Brain Fit­ness prod­ucts and games, by Alvaro Fernandez
  9. MIT Event on Brain Games: Con­text, Trends, Ques­tions, by Alvaro Fernandez
  10. Stress Man­age­ment Work­shop for Inter­na­tional Women’s Day, by Alvaro Fernandez
  11. Mind­ful­ness and Med­i­ta­tion in Schools for Stress Man­age­ment, by Jill Sutie
  12. Stress and Neural Wreck­age: Part of the Brain Plas­tic­ity Puz­zle, by Gre­gory Kellet
  13. How can I improve my short term mem­ory?, by Car­o­line Latham
  14. Cog­ni­tive and Emo­tional Devel­op­ment Through Play, by David Elkind
  15. Judith Beck: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Per­son, by Alvaro Fernandez
  16. Easy Steps to Improve Brain Health, by Car­o­line Latham
  17. Info­graphic: State of the Mar­ket 2009, by Paul Van Slembrouck
  18. Improve Mem­ory with Sleep, Prac­tice, and Test­ing, by Bill Klemm
  19. 10 Brain Tips To Teach and Learn, by Lau­rie Bartels
  20. Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg on Cog­ni­tive Train­ing and Brain Fit­ness, by Alvaro Fernandez
  21. Max­i­mize the Cog­ni­tive Value of Your Men­tal Work­out, by Schlomo Breznitz
  22. Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram and Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity @ PBS, by Alvaro Fernandez
  23. Mind­ful­ness Med­i­ta­tion for Adults & Teens with ADHD, by David Rabiner
  24. Can Intel­li­gence Be Trained? Mar­tin Buschkuehl shows how, by Alvaro Fernandez
  25. How Strong is the Research Sup­port for Neu­ro­feed­back in Atten­tion Deficits?, by David Rabiner
  26. Exer­cis­ing the body is exer­cis­ing the mind, by Adrian Preda
  27. Brain Evo­lu­tion and Why it is Mean­ing­ful Today to Improve Our Brain Health, by Larry McCleary
  28. Phys­i­cal Exer­cise and Brain Health, by Pas­cale Michelon
  29. Posit Sci­ence, Nin­tendo Brain Age, and Brain Train­ing Top­ics, by Alvaro Fernandez
  30. Sleep, Tetris, Mem­ory and the Brain, by Shan­non Moffet
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