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Top 21 Books on Brain Health, Fitness, Training, Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis
Given the growing media coverage of brain fitness and brain training, we have produced this compilation of the Top 21 Books that help understand these trends, the research behind them, and the implications for all of us. For your easy browsing, we have categorized them into seven groups. Enjoy!
Alvaro Fernandez
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The Dana Guide to Brain Health - A Practical Family Reference From Medical Experts - Book Review
Dana Press kindly sent us a couple of books. One of them, The Dana Guide to Brain Health: A Practical Family Reference From Medical Experts, is our topic today. We are impressed by what Dana is doing to insert neuroscience findings and implications into the public discourse.
Alvaro Fernandez
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10 Brain Health and Fitness New Year's Resolutions - Train Your Brain
You have survived the 2007 shopping and eating season. Congratulations! Now it's time to shift gears and focus on 2008.
Alvaro Fernandez
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Brain Training for Stress Management - Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programs
Stanford University's Robert Sapolsky and others have shown how chronic stress may contribute to the death of neurons in our brains. The question is how can one evaluate the many stress management programs out there? which ones are science-based? Probably the most promising area of scientific inquiry for stress management is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and in this article we summarize what MBSR is and where it comes from.
Alvaro Fernandez
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What Every Parent and Educator Needs to Know About Learning and the Teenager Brain
Today we are fortunate to interview Dr. Robert Sylwester, a recognized educator of educators who has received multiple awards during his long career as a master communicator of the implications of brain science for education and learning. His most recent book is The Adolescent Brain: Reaching for Autonomy (Corwin Press, 2007).
Alvaro Fernandez
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Brain Training and Mind Games - Interview With Japanese Expert Go Hirano
Unless you are hiding in a cave, you will have heard about the latest Brain Training gaming trend that has taken over the USA, Europe and Japan. Today we are traveling to Japan, where the movement originated, to interview Go Hirano, a Japanese executive with experience in neuroscience and gaming.
Alvaro Fernandez
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Emotional Intelligence, Reading Faces, and Meditation
Concealed emotions, also called facial "microexpressions", are the fleeting expressions that, believe it or not, you make when consciously or unconsciously trying to hide your true emotions. In conscious microexpressions you may be trying to lie, while with unconscious expressions, you may not even be aware of what they are truly feeling. Want to learn more?
Alvaro Fernandez
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Enhance Happiness and Health by Cultivating Gratitude - Interview With Robert Emmons
Today we interview Prof. Robert Emmons, Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology and author of Thanks: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier. Some of his key messages: the practice of gratitude can increase happiness levels by around 25%, this is not hard to achieve, and brings other health effects, such as longer and better quality sleep time.
Alvaro Fernandez
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Prepare Your Brain to Manage Information Faster and Better
Hundreds of thousands of new books, analyst reports, scientific papers published every year. Millions of websites at our googletips. The flow of data, information and knowledge is growing exponentially, stretching the capacity of our brains. Let me offer 7 Strategies that can help manage this flow of information better.
Alvaro Fernandez
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Use It or Lose It - The Theory and Practice of Brain Exercise and Fitness for Cognitive Health
Who has not heard "Use It or Lose It". Now, what is "It"? How do we best exercise it and help maintain it sharp? In this article we will give you a fun overview of how the brain works and 5 Tips to Exercise Your Brain.
Alvaro Fernandez
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