Mar 13, 2014

When:  Thurs­day, March 13, 2014 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM (EDT) Heads-up: You can still reg­is­ter to join this upcom­ing webi­nar and dis­cuss the lat­est mar­ket news in the dig­i­tal brain health and brain train­ing space, includ­ing Rosetta Stone’s acqui­si­tion of Viv­ity Labs (devel­oper of Fit Brains mobile cog­ni­tive games), Bayer’s global part­ner­ship with Cog­niFit Read the rest of this entry » Mar 7, 2014 0 By: SharpBrains Heads-up: as proud Brain Aware­ness Week Out­reach Part­ners, we are happy to announce that Brain Aware­ness Week 2014 is tak­ing place this week, March 10-16th. Spear­headed by the Dana Alliance for Brain Ini­tia­tives every March, BAW unites the efforts of part­ner orga­ni­za­tions world­wide in a cel­e­bra­tion of the brain for peo­ple of all ages. Activ­i­ties include open days at neu­ro­science labs; exhi­bi­tions about the brain; lec­tures on brain-related top­ics; social media cam­paigns; dis­plays at libraries and com­mu­nity cen­ters; class­room work­shops; and more. Sharp­Brains will col­lab­o­rate with activ­i­ties around our books  The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age  and the just released  Cómo inver­tir en su cerebro:Una guía Sharp­Brains para mejo­rar su mente y su vida  (yes, our first book in Span­ish!). Cheers to hav­ing a human brain! Mar 5, 2014 0 By: SharpBrains Most of the time, we are so used to our brain func­tion­ing smoothly and auto­mat­i­cally that we don’t take a lot of time to think about what is going on under­neath. Walk­ing, eat­ing, dis­cussing a book…all of these things seem very nat­ural and easy, but in truth, each and every one is done through a series of func­tions that the brain per­forms. In order to really under­stand the abil­i­ties of the brain, as well as the lim­i­ta­tions, you can try these brain teasers and games …but it is also impor­tant to look at some of the things you prob­a­bly didn’t know about: 1 — Work­ing Memory Think about math class for a moment. Whether you love math, or hate it, you def­i­nitely will Read the rest of this entry » Mar 3, 2014 0 By: SharpBrains Cada día se crean var­ios miles de neu­ronas en nue­stro cere­bro. El ejer­ci­cio aeróbico incre­menta ese número y el estrés no bien reg­u­lado lo disminuye. Nue­stros genes no deter­mi­nan el des­tino de nue­stro cere­bro. La neu­ro­plas­ti­ci­dad a lo largo de la vida per­mite a nues­tras acciones y estilo de vida jugar un papel muy impor­tante en cómo se dear­rolla nue­stro cere­bro física y funcionalmente. Debe­mos pen­sar más allá de la memo­ria y la “inteligen­cia”. Las fun­ciones cere­brales Read the rest of this entry » Feb 28, 2014 0