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Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity

Here you have SharpBrains’ 5 most popular articles on neurogenesis and neuroplasticity stress management since 2006. Remember that you can subscribe to our free monthly Newsletter to receive new articles on the topic.

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Brain Plasticity: How learning changes your brain
- By Dr. Pascale Michelon
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.[...]
2.
Neuroplasticity and Lifelong Learning
- By Alvaro Fernandez
We promised you with our blog title 7 months ago that we would be your “Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution”, but we couldn’t have predicted that CBS, Time Magazine, WSJ, NYT and other mainstream media would be such great allies in this neuroplasticity effort. Let’s start with (Wall Street Journal Science Editor) Sharon Begley’s article titled How The Brain Rewires Itself, based on her Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain book.[...]
3.
New Neurons: Good News, Bad News
- By Dr. Bill Klemm
In the last few years, researchers have discovered that new nerve cells (neurons) are born, presumably from residual stem cells that exist even in adults. That should be good news for all of us as we get older and fear mental decline. The bad news is that these new neurons die, unless our minds are active enough. Ever since the neuron doctrine was firmly established by [...]
4.
Neuroplasticity and the Brain That Changes Itself
- By Laurie Bartels
The neuroscience behind Doidge’s book involves neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s ability to rewire itself. This means that the brain – our intelligence – is not something fixed in concrete but rather a changing, learning entity. On the face of it, this concept should not sound unusual, for it is what happens to individuals all the time as we go about the learning process, from infancy onwards. [...]
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Brain Fitness Program and Neuroplasticity @ PBS
- By Alvaro Fernandez
Information on the PBS special program on neuroplasticity, brain fitness, aging and the brain titled “Brain Fitness Program”. [...]

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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