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Top 7 Brainteasers for Job Interviews and Brain Challenge
A recent CNN article explains well why a growing number of companies use brainteasers and logic puzzles of a type called “guesstimations” during job interviews: - “Seemingly random questions like these...
View ArticleTraining Young Brains to Behave
Great article in the New York Times titled Training Young Brains to Behave. A couple of quotes: - “But just as biology shapes behavior, so behavior can accelerate biology. And a small group of...
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Neurofeedback/ Quantitative EEG for ADHD diagnosis
Like all psychiatric disorders, ADHD is diagnosed based on the presence of particular behavioral symptoms that are judged to cause significant impairment in an individual’s functioning, and not on the...
View ArticleDaniel Goleman: Yes, You Can Build Willpower (meditate on neuroplasticity!)
(Editor’s note: Daniel Goleman is now conducting a series of audio interviews including a great one with Richard Davidson on Training the Brain. We are honored to bring you this guest post by Daniel...
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Cognitive Enhancement via Pharmacology AND Neuropsychology, in The New...
(Editor’s Note: given the growing media attention to three apparently separate worlds –cognitive enhancement via drugs, brain fitness training software, computerized neurocognitive assessments-, I...
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Neuroplasticity in the Brain of Children with Neurological Disorders
The brains of children with neurological disorders seems to exhibit signs of neuroplastic changes, suggesting compensatory mechanisms for the disorder. This result opens up the possibility that brain...
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Experience Corps: Promoting Healthy, Meaningful Aging Through Social Involvement
The current issue of Cerebrum –a great publication of the Dana Foundation– includes the excellent in-depth article Promoting Healthy, Meaningful Aging Through Social Involvement: Building an Experience...
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Study: Contrasting Brain Growth in Baby Humans and Baby Chimpanzees
Charting Brain Growth in Humans and Chimps (New York Times): – “Although baby humans and baby chimpanzees both start out with undeveloped forebrains, a new study reports that the human brain increases...
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Promoting Healthy, Meaningful Aging Through Social Involvement: Building an...
(Editor’s note: Pathways responsible for higher-order thinking in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), or executive center of the brain, remain vulnerable throughout life—during critical early-life...
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Research on ‘Chemo Brain’: MRI Shows Brain Changes After Chemotherapy
‘Chemo Brain’: MRI Shows Brain Changes After Chemotherapy (Medscape): - “Breast cancer survivors who have been treated with chemotherapy show significant changes in brain activity, measured by...
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Can electricity-based brain stimulation harness neuroplasticity safely?
DIY Brain Stimulation Raises Concerns (Medscape Today): “Recent increased interest in the electricity-based brain stimulation method of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) as a means of...
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Use and misuse of ADHD drugs and nootropics among teenagers and toddlers
Ritalin may pose brain risks for young people without ADHD, study shows (Fox News): “Smart” drugs, like Ritalin, also known as nootropics, are known to increase a person’s attention span, memory and...
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Trend: School-based programs to enhance resilience and emotional/ cognitive...
— Dozens of programs to encourage resilience have been introduced in schools all over the world, both to help children recover from trauma, but also cope better with their day-to-day stresses. Many use...
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Should Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (not antidepressant drugs) be the...
— Depression: A change of mind (Nature): “Cognitive therapy, commonly known as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), aims to help people to identify and change negative, self-destructive thought...
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Can electricity-based brain stimulation harness neuroplasticity safely?
DIY Brain Stimulation Raises Concerns (Medscape Today): “Recent increased interest in the electricity-based brain stimulation method of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) as a means of...
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Use and misuse of ADHD drugs and nootropics among teenagers and toddlers
Ritalin may pose brain risks for young people without ADHD, study shows (Fox News): “Smart” drugs, like Ritalin, also known as nootropics, are known to increase a person’s attention span, memory and...
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Trend: School-based programs to enhance resilience and emotional/ cognitive...
— Dozens of programs to encourage resilience have been introduced in schools all over the world, both to help children recover from trauma, but also cope better with their day-to-day stresses. Many use...
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Should Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (not antidepressant drugs) be the...
— Depression: A change of mind (Nature): “Cognitive therapy, commonly known as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), aims to help people to identify and change negative, self-destructive thought...
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Study: Wisdom requires both higher heart rate variability and adopting a...
——- Many cultures consider the human heart to be the seat of wisdom. Now scientists are finding some evidence for this, though the reality may be more complicated than it seems. Previous research has...
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Study debunks the “earlier is always better” myth about brain development and...
Good News: You’ve Got a Better Brain Than You Think (Time): “Getting older? No worries…When does our learning potential start to go soft? A new paper published in Psychological Science suggests that it...
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