A scientific friend and colleague, Professor Thomas Elbert from Konstanz University in Germany, has had...
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How can the same brain plasticity-based training programs help individuals with cognitive losses arising from normal aging, exposure to IED explosions, or chemotherapy?
Over the years, I have specifically discussed the potential value of intensive brain plasticity-based brain...
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Why science can be confusing, just another example
A provocative article in an Issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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Second-language learning as brain exercise
While I was working in Mexico, my wife Diane spends much of each day in...
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“What’s Normal?” The diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children is on the rise
In an article in an issue of the New Yorker, Jerome Groopman writes lucidly about...
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Alvaro asked a tough question: How do you define SMART?
Alvaro asked this question as a comment after a blog entry discussed recent evidence that...
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“WAR’S NEW WOUNDS. A shock wave of brain injuries”
That was the headline in a Washington Post article written by Ronald Glasser, published on...
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Reactions to a book about an autistic boy and his mom
Last month, I recommended a book called "Strange Son", written by a mother who struggled...
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