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New Brain Health Series: The Child, Adolescent, Adult and Aging Brain

Peo­ple of all ages read SharpBrains.com, so we are prepar­ing a series of arti­cles on Brain Health across the Lifes­pan.

The series will include 4 parts:

  • The Child Brain, pub­lished in Novem­ber 2010
  • The Ado­les­cent Brain, in Decem­ber 2010
  • The Adult Brain, in Jan­u­ary 2011
  • The Aging Brain, in Feb­ru­ary 2011
  • Each part will :

    • Include sur­pris­ing facts on how the brain works
    • Debunk com­mons myths about cog­ni­tion and brain health
    • Link to resources such as books and documentaries.

    If you want to read these arti­cles as we pub­lish them via SharpBrains.com, you can either fol­low us in Face­book and Twit­ter or, if you have not done so already, sub­scribe to our monthly update (eNewslet­ter).

    Tell your friends and col­leagues about the series!

    Update: Brain Fitness Seminars

    Here you are have the bi-monthly update with our 10 most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter, at the top of this page, if you want to receive this digest by email).Crossword Puzzles Brain fitness

    We hope you have some time to share with us today. Just came back from a superb event on Brain Health Across the Lifespan…and many stim­u­lat­ing things are hap­pen­ing in the world of brain fitness.

    News and Events

    Exer­cise your brain in the Cog­ni­tive Age: The New York Times pub­lished two thought-provoking arti­cles on brain and cog­ni­tive fit­ness, one of them fea­tur­ing SharpBrains.

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    Brain Fitness News and Events

    Quick links to excel­lent resources:

    1) FEATURE-Brain fit­ness seen as hot indus­try of the future (Reuters)

    2) Learn­ing & the Brain Con­fer­ence for Edu­ca­tors and Clin­i­cians. April 26–29, 2008. Cam­bridge, MA

    3) Brain Health Across the Lifes­pan Sem­i­nar for Health & Aging Pro­fes­sion­als. May 15th, 2008. San Fran­cisco, CA

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    Pattern Recognition Brain Teaser — The Empty Triangle

    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 Triangle

    The Empty Triangle

    Ques­tion:
    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. Let us know how you do!

    Click here to read the Answer and Solu­tion.

    Brain Teaser for the Frontal Lobes: Tipping the Scales

    Here is a new brain teaser from puz­zle mas­ter Wes Car­roll. He found this one in the Mensa pub­li­ca­tion Num­ber Puz­zles for Math Geniuses by Harold Gale.

    Tip­ping the Scales

    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 read the Answer and Solu­tion.

    Welcome to SharpBrains!

    As seen in The New York Times, The Wall Street Jour­nal, CNN and more, Sharp­Brains is an inde­pen­dent mar­ket research and pub­lish­ing firm 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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