plasticity

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• Play in Videogames

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
    This next blog will continue my series on play. John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade, authors of Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business looked at 2500 US business professionals looking at differences between those who grew up playing videogames and those who did not. Professionals who grew up ...
  9 hours ago

• For older adults, participating in social service activities can improve brain functions

  
  Shrink Rap — Authority: 138
  Volunteer service, such as tutoring children, can help older adults delay or reverse declining brain function, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers found that seniors participating in a youth ...
  1 day ago

• Aerobic fitness in adolescence linked to higher intelligence

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 133
  In the first study to demonstrate a clear positive association between adolescent fitness and adult cognitive performance, Nancy Pedersen of the University of Southern California and colleagues in Sweden find that better cardiovascular health among teenage boys correlates to higher scores on a range of intelligence ...
  2 days ago

• News on physical, cognitive and emotional fitness

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 525
  Nice weekend reading material – recent news reiforcing emerging trends on physical, cognitive and emotional fitness, but with new twists. Fit teens could be smarter teens “Researchers from Sweden and USC examined data on 1.2 million Swedish men born between 1950 and 1976 who also enlisted for the country’s ...
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• Aircraft fuel production. Algae. Tsukuba. Japan. “On January 30, 2009, Japan Airlines made a successful biofuels flight test using a blend of camelina, algae, and jatropha …”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 127
  Research Institute of Tsukuba Bio-Tech (RITB) may “… develop and distribute systems in Japan for aircraft fuel production, algae to oil production, and other industry applications.”More from a Release dated December 9:OriginOil to Collaborate in Algae to Jet Fuel Project Funded by Japan Science & Technology ...
  6 days ago

• Nerve-cell transplants help recover lost ability to learn in brain-damaged rats

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 10 (ANI): In a study conducted in India, researchers found that nerve cells transplanted into brain-damaged rats helped them to fully recover their ability to learn and remember, probably by promoting nurturing, protective growth factors.The study confirmed that cell transplants could help the brain to ...
  6 days ago

• Positive Psychology – The Science of Optimal Human Functioning with Dr. John Schinnerer - One hour teleclass 12/8/09

  
  Shrunken Mind w/Dr. John Schinnerer - Using Positive Psychology to Master Life — Authority: 106
  John Schinnerer, Ph.D.Partial script for 1-hour teleclass on 12/8/09 Welcome to what I hope will be a wonderful talk on positive psychology. I will be your host tonight. My name is John Schinnerer. I hold a Ph.D. in educational psychology from U.C. Berkeley. In 2007, I wrote a positive psychology book called ‘Guide ...
  1 week ago

• Cardiovascular Fitness is Linked to Intelligence

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The case for cardio exercise just keeps on getting stronger. First a University of Princeton team shows that exercise lets lab rats (Note: I mean actual laboratory rats here) produce neurons with improved stress response (i.e. they dont respond), and now a group of Swedish neuroscientists is telling us that improved ...
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• Brainstem pitch representation in native speakers of Mandarin is less susceptible to degradation of stimulus temporal regularity

  
  COMD News — Authority: 155
  It has been demonstrated that neural encoding of pitch in the auditory brainstem is shaped by long-term experience with language. To date, however, all stimuli have exhibited a high degree of pitch saliency. The experimental design herein permits us to determine whether experience-dependent pitch representation in the ...
  1 week ago

• Fit boys make smarter, successful adults

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 8 (ANI): Here’s another reason to care about your health: A new study has shown that teenage boys with better cardiovascular health make smarter and successful adults.The study, conducted by Nancy Pedersen of the University of Southern California and colleagues in Sweden, showed that better ...
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• Physical Exercise and Your Mental Fitness

  
  North Star Mental Fitness Blog — Authority: 106
  After reading Steve Siebolds book " Die Fat or Get Tough ", I began an exercise program.  I was motivated to apply Steves idea that 99% compliance with my goal was insufficient for success.  I was determined to reach 100% compliance with my goal.  I exercised daily for over three months.  I felt better.  I felt ...
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• 10 Secrets for Brains at High School

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 116
  Canadian Alanna Mitchell, this year’s winner of the Atkinson Fellowship in public policy named brains as the secret to better schools. Not all agree. Mitchell recalled a Minister of Education who asked a neuroscientist: “The brain? What does the brain have to do with education? ” In my renewal work ...
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• Urgent Call to White House – Help Teens!

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 116
  Government Funds Promote Failing Secondary Schools People say stimulus money simply creates new layers of bureaucracy that prolong broken secondary school programs. My question is: How will the White House Campaign to Promote Science and Math Education support teens to climb new mental  peaks?  Will ...
  2 weeks ago

• Update: Live Well to 100 by Using Your Brain

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 525
  Here you have the November edition of our monthly newsletter covering cognitive health and brain fitness topics. Please remember that you can subscribe to receive this Newsletter by email, using the box at the top of this page. Living Well to 100 100 is the new 65 : Why do some people live, and well, to ...
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• Molecular brakes that affect brain plasticity identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 28 (ANI): Even brain needs a set of molecular brakes that stabilize its circuitry during development, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.In fact, the researchers also found that experimentally removing those brakes in mice enhanced the animals’ performance in a ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Your Brain Grows From A Sensory to A Cognitive World

  
  Dr Shock MD PhD — Authority: 495
  The development of the brain from sensory perception into a cognitive world or plasticity and it’s advantagesRelated posts:Brain Blogging, The Fourty-Fifth Edition The new Grand Round of Brain Blogging is up...Video of Transcranial Dirrect Current Stimulation and Efficacy in Cognitive Neurorehabilitation What is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Holiday Blues for Business Boom

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 116
  Ever notice how Thanksgiving and Christmas tend to bring out blues in some and blessings in others? Or how lonely people see vast spaces between themselves and others – even at festive  holiday tables? First glances  show people blessed with close family and  friends feel blessed over holidays while those ...
  3 weeks ago

• Freaky Friday: Old Dogs

  
  A Dude's Guide — Authority: 127
  by Richard All of you John Travolta fans (are there really such things in the wild?), sorry. Ditto for the Robin Williams fans. This is not about the new movie starring both of them. Although, now that I think about it, this might be a good way to bring people here to read some stuff. The old bait and switch. But ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Future of Psychiatry: 5 Reasons for Optimism

  
  Beyond Blue — Authority: 473
  After reading the last chapter of "Demystifying Psychiatry," I felt so much better about where psychiatry might be when my kids are my age. Perhaps, if either is ever diagnosed with a mental illnesses, there will be more targeted treatments, and more optimism for a speedy recovery. The following excerpts of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brain Fitness Software – The Gift They’ll Always Remember

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 170
  When youre racking your brain for gift ideas this holiday season dont forget to put brain training software on your list. You can be pretty sure that they dont already have it, and for the right person its sure to make you a hit.
  4 weeks ago

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