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Is Brain Mapping the Future of Leadership?
While looking at a person's brainwaves to study their leadership skills might sound like something out of a science fiction movie, such technology is closer than we may think. In fact, Pierre Balthazard, an associate professor at the Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, has...
Tags: Brain, Pierre Balthazard, McCullough, Leadership, Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-08-10
Exercise Your Brain’s CPU
Concerned about how many brain cells you've killed? Don't be, you are constantly regenerating them. Around a decade ago, researchers put an end to the myth that we were born with a set number of brain cells. More recent discoveries show exercise is the best way...
Tags: Brain, CPU, Brain Cell, Intensity Exercise, Leadership, Flash Memory, Strategy, Management, Jennifer Goddard
Blog posts 2008-08-18
Boot Camp for Your Brain
Last week I wrote about brain maintenance, and it seems like I'm not the only one with gray matter on my mind. An Associated Press article about the growing market for "brain fitness" revealed that software to train your brain resulted in $225 million in revenues in 2007. That's a...
Tags: Personal Technology, Tv & Home Theater, CC Holland, Home Entertainment, Games, TVs, Brain
Blog posts 2008-07-03
Simple Tricks to Tune Up Your Brain
I caught a great post the other day from Shilpan Patel, who contends that brain maintenance is a must if you want to keep your gray matter in shape. Luckily, cranium care needn't be too taxing; he offers 14 simple ways to supercharge your brain. Among them:...
Tags: Food & Beverage, Flash Memory, Manufacturing, CC Holland, Brain
Blog posts 2008-06-27
Scientific Learning Joins Google's Literacy Project, Bringing Brain Fitness Exercises to the Free, Online Resource
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Scientific Learning[R] (NASDAQ:SCIL) announced today they have joined Google's Literacy Project to provide free learning software, videos, and lessons. The Literacy Project is an online resource for teachers created in collaboration by Google, LitCam and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning. As a project team member, Scientific...
Tags: Google Inc.
Research articles 2008-10-06
Brain power test visits city
Byline: NO BYLINE EDINBURGH residents will get the chance to test their brain power tomorrow with the help of a computer game. Console giant Nintendo is visiting the Capital as part of its national Brain Age Challenge using new game More Brain Training by Dr Kawashima....
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2007-07-20
Rein for Pain Lays Mainly in the Brain, Stanford Researchers Find
STANFORD, Calif. -- Chronic pain sufferers may be able to reduce pain levels by studying their own live brain images, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine report in a new study. With training and the use of high-tech imaging equipment, subjects were able to influence their pain...
Tags: FINANCE, imaging, patient, SOFTWARE, Stanford, Stanford University
Research articles 2005-12-12
Being a Brain-Wise Therapist
Being a Brain-Wise Therapist Bonnie Badenoch W.W. Norton 500-5th Avenue, New York NY 10110 9780393705546, $29.95 www.wwnorton.com BEING A BRAIN-WISE THERAPIST: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO INTERPERSONAL NEUROBIOLOGY adds to Norton's Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology and provides college-level counseling students and practitioners with a...
Tags: Norton Co.
Research articles 2009-03-01
Being a Brain-Wise Therapist
Being a Brain-Wise Therapist Bonnie Badenoch W.W. Norton 500-5th Avenue, New York NY 10110 9780393705546, $29.95 www.wwnorton.com BEING A BRAIN-WISE THERAPIST: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO INTERPERSONAL NEUROBIOLOGY adds to Norton's Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology and provides college-level counseling students and practitioners with a...
Tags: Norton Co.
Research articles 2009-03-01
Does training your brain boost memory and slow down the ageing process? It's all in the mind
Byline: Lyndsay Moss Health Correspondent THEY promise to improve memory and give the brain a work-out like your body would get in the gym. But there is no evidence that brain training regimes will delay the development of Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia in...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2009-02-11
Oldsters see video, computer games as exercise for brain
WASHINGTON AFP — Move over, junior. Grandma and grandpa are joining the wave in video and computer games as makers step up efforts to promote the software as brain-healthy exercises. Based on growing scientific evidence, certain types of game-playing is increasingly being viewed as calisthenics for the brain that...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2007-10-18
NIC-TENDO
NICOLE Kidman proves she has brains as well as beauty with a lucrative deal to advertise the Nintendo DS. The 40-year-old actress has been signed to promote the console's appeal beyond its traditional young male audience. Nintendo is launching games aimed...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2007-06-25
The Right Way to Brainstorm
The Right Way to BrainstormThe Right Way to Brainstorm +Brian's post is excellent in how he simply explains the rules for setting up a brainstorming session. This is a creative process and any impediments, such as criticisms, in the initial stages are likely to sabotage the process. People are more...
Tags: Brainstorming
Discussion threads 2007-06-06
The Cost of Outsourcing Your Memory
The Cost of Outsourcing Your MemoryTech is not advanced enough, yetTechnology is not yet advanced enough to effectively augment meat-memory; particularly in the interface between meat and cyber and the quality of search results.I feel that lack of onboard memory can degrade the quality (spontaneity, clarity, etc.) of realtime communications,...
Tags: knowledge, outsourcing, phone
Discussion threads 2007-10-20
Daily Nintendo lessons that can help boost primary learning
PRIMARY pupils are to start the school day with a dose of Nintendo gaming to boost their learning ability, it was revealed yesterday. The children will play "brain training" exercises on the DS game console before going into their normal lessons. The scheme is to be...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2008-03-15
A computer game for the middle-aged
Byline: SARAH HARRIS A COMPUTER game designed to improve middle-aged people's brains was launched yesterday. It is specifically aimed at improving the brains of the older market - defined as aged 35 upwards - through a series of number, logic and memory based exercises. The...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2006-06-10
Kill Stress Dead
Stress sucks. It wreaks havoc on your mind and body and, consequently, dampens your productivity or sidelines you entirely. The Ririan Project offers help in the form of "19 Battlefield Tips to Survive Stress at Work." A sample:Smiling is good, laughing is even better. Nat King Cole had it right...
Tags: Rick Broida, General
Blog posts 2007-06-12
How to Build Rapport on the Phone.
For most sales reps, rapport-building is easier in person than on the telephone. The reason is simple. In human-to-human communications, appearance (facial expressions, body language, semiotics) often communicates as much, or more, than the specific words that are spoken. That's why basic sales training always starts with...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, potential friend, Lesson, Geoffrey James, Sales, Voice, Rapport, Phone
Blog posts 2007-09-18
Think away your pain.
Dec 13, 2005 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New research conducted by a team at Stanford University suggests that pain sufferers can potentially learn how to alter their pain perception. ...
Tags: Stanford University, team
Research articles 2005-12-13
Thailand rejoices as king leaves hospital
BANGKOK AFP — Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej left hospital Wednesday to cheering crowds of well-wishers shouting "Long live the king" as the nation rejoiced at his recovery. The monarch was admitted mid-October after experiencing weakness on the right side of his body. Doctors diagnosed irregular blood flow in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, HEALTHCARE, hospital, recovery, Thailand
Research articles 2007-11-06