Tomor­row, Decem­ber 9th, at 11am Pacific Time/ 2pm East­ern Time, we will host a Live Q&A with David DiS­alvo, author of What makes  your brain happy and why you should do the oppo­site. Read the rest of this entry »

Pre­dict­ing Alzheimer’s Dis­ease More Accu­rate Through Cog­ni­tive Changes Than Bio­mark­ers (Med­ical News):

• “Mea­sur­ing people’s changes in cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties is a bet­ter pre­dic­tor of Alzheimer’s dis­ease than changes in bio­mark­ers, researchers from the Ben­ito Menni Com­plex Assis­ten­cial en Salut Men­tal, Barcelona, Spain, reported in Archives of Gen­eral Psy­chi­a­try, a JAMA journal.”
• “The inves­ti­ga­tors used a range of tests to assess Read the rest of this entry »

Reminder:  2009 Brain Aware­ness Week started today. You can find excel­lent resources and a cal­en­dar of events, Here.

Next time you are in a pub­lic space (per­haps now you are at home, as I am as I write these lines), look left, look in front, look right. Per­haps you can see some­one who would ben­e­fit from the aware­ness that he or she is endowed with  that won­der­ful, unique, organ!

(Note: don’t watch TV, or you will spend your day call­ing all those 1–800 numbers…)

And, of course, what a bet­ter week to read some of our Neu­ro­science Inter­views, dis­cover a new brain book, and try a Brain Teaser?