The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age
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Alvaro Fernandez, presenting the new book The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age (April 2013; 284 pages). This session took place at the 2013 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: http://sharpbrains.com/summit-2013/agenda/
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The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age
- 1. The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age (284 pages; April 2013)
- 3. ① Lifelong neurogenesis and neuroplasticity ② 2010 NIH evidence review ③ Digital innovation What’s New Since 2009
- 4. New mindset and new toolkit Content transfer Personality Heart health Reactive, invasive DSM-5 Health Brain Health Mental Health Brain Fitness Education Leadership
- 7. Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle Source: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness (second edition)
- 8. Ch 1. Start with the Brain in Mind
- 11. Ch 2. Be a coach, not a patient
- 12. What is Brain Fitness The general state of feeling alert, in control, productive. Having fit brain functions, as required to function in society, in our occupations, in our communities.
- 16. The life of a brain
- 18. Brain fitness matters Improve performance Delay disease
- 19. “…we have found no ceiling for abilities such as attention, including among adults. The more training, even with normal people, the higher the results.“ - Dr. Michael Posner
- 20. Ch 3. Mens sana in corpore sano
- 21. Ch 4. You are what you eat and drink (up to a point)
- 22. Ch 5. Oh, the places you’ll go!
- 23. Which job would you choose? Source: Maguire, Woollett, & Spiers, 2006
- 24. Ch 6. Oh, the people you’ll meet!
- 25. Ch 7. Manage Stress, Build Resilience
- 26. Ch 8. Cross-train Your Brain
- 28. “…meditation requires practice and dedication. It is not an easy fix… You need to match practice with need: understand the specific goals you have in mind, your schedule and lifestyle, and find something practical.” - Dr. Andrew Newberg
- 32. Does “Brain Training” “Work”?
- 33. How To Maximize Transfer To maximize real-world value of training… 1. Targeted neural processes support real-world activities 2. Minimum “dose” of 15 hours of training per targeted improvement 3. Addressing an individual’s bottleneck/ deficit 4. Adaptive challenge 5. Continued practice Source: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness
- 34. Ch 9. How to be your own brain fitness coach
- 35. Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle Source: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness (second edition)
- 36. Examples AGE PERFORMANCE 25 50 75 100 PERFORMANCE AGE
- 38. "A stimulating, challenging resource, full of solid information and practical tips for improving brain health." –Kirkus Reviews "On a personal note, I have to say I wish I had read this awesome guide when I was much younger.” –Scientific American "...nice to see this new book where all of the relevant information is in one place." –Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley www.Amazon.com Directly from us (>50 units; 40% discount)
- 39. 39 Q&A 10 minutes (Included in session recording)
- 40. To Learn More… Summit Recordings Book Market Report sharpbrains. com/book/ sharpbrains. com/summit/ sharpbrains.com /market-report/
Notes de l'éditeur
- KEY IDEA(S)The hippocampus is a brain structure that deals with memory and with spatial information used to navigate.Based on the idea that repeated stimulation help build brain reserve (more neurons), if you lived in London, and wanted to grow your hippocampus, which job would you choose? Taxi or bus driver?Answer: Taxi driverWhy: Taxi drivers need to find new routes everyday = they EXERCISE their hippocampus everyday.Bus drivers follow set routes. Their hippocampus is active but is not exercised. Bus drivers fall in routines.This illustrate the difference between mental activity and mental exercise.
- KEY IDEA(S)This is a workout circuit seen from above. This is to illustrate the importance of Variety and Challenge. Cognition is made of several cognitive abilities: All need to get stimulated, the same way all muscles groups in the body need to exercise for a good and effective workout.Challenge is required to get enough stimulation (the same as at the gym).
- KEY IDEA(S)Whether a program “works” depends on:What abilities are supposedly trained: What is claimed by the developers of the program? Are there any well conducted studies showing that indeed the program train these abilities?What abilities YOU want to train: If there is not a match between what you need and what the program offers it is likely that the program will not work for you (but it may work for somebody else).