This weekend, I read a fascinating article in Wired magazine about stress and your health. (The article isn’t online yet, but the author of the article, Jonah Lehrer, has pieces of the article on his blog.) Lehrer talked to primatologist Robert Sapolsky about stress in humans and animals, and how it affects health. (We’ve previously [...]

1. Learning, Thinking, Feeling: People vs. Animals
2. Garlic, Onions, Rosemary, and Sage – Interesting Health Findings for Brain and Body
3. Gentlemen: Start Your Engines! It’s Men’s Health Week

I just saw an article about an interesting study on the correlation between names and career choices. The research, published in Names: A Journal of Onomastics, showed that people with last names like “Doctor” and “Lawyer” were more likely to become doctors and lawyers. This reminds me of a dentist I met once, whose name [...]

 I walked by the Books, Inc store in San Francisco’s Marina district a couple of weeks ago, and saw this brain book bonanza in the window display! I asked the clerk about it and he said there was a lot of demand for books about the brain and mind, and especially, how to keep it [...]

1. Friday Fun: Activity Roundup
2. The Brain and Smell, Revisited

2:00 PM: We are wrapping up. Thank you to everyone who attended the webinar and followed along here. We will be posting a video of the webinar on our website next week. Special thanks to Dr. Rourke, Maggie Atkinson, and Greg Robinson for your contributions. In closing, Dr. Rourke recommends an article by Maggie in [...]

1. HIV-Related Cognitive Decline – Webinar with Dr. Sean Rourke
2. Chemobrain and cognitive training
3. Tinnitus, Music, and Brain Plasticity

Earlier this month, researchers at the University of South Florida came out with a recommendation for pregnant women: wait longer before cutting the umbilical cord. The researchers conducted a review of the evidence to date and released a paper called Mankind’s First Natural Stem Cell Transplant in the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. In [...]

1. Oxytocin and Autism
2. Brain Performance, Kindness and Autism
3. A New Link Between Proteins and Brain Injury

Recent research has provided concrete evidence for some of the brain and body health benefits of many foods and herbs, including garlic, onions, rosemary, and sage.

1. Gentlemen: Start Your Engines! It’s Men’s Health Week
2. Chemobrain and cognitive training
3. Brain/Body Connection

Here in the U.S., this coming Monday marks the observance of Memorial Day. Many of us think of it as just another long weekend and an extra day off from work, but I’d like to take a moment to reflect on what Memorial Day means. Originally called “Decoration Day”, the first recorded observance was in [...]

1. A Fun, Challenging Game – For A Good Cause!
2. Supporting Our Troops – With Brain Training & A Donation Program
3. Traumatic Brain Injury & the Military

New research shows that people 50 and over are happier and less stressed than younger cohorts.

1. Having Correctly Prescribed Glasses Improves Quality of Life
2. A Day in the Life of Posit Science!

Researcher Dan Buettner talks about some of the world’s identified “blue zones”–areas of the world in which people live to be over 100 and remain mentally and physically healthier than the rest of us even into very old age.

1. Kids, TV, Video Games, and Attention
2. Daily TED Talk – Michael Merzenich on Re-wiring the Brain
3. Daily TED Talk – Christopher DeCharms Looks Inside the Brain

I walked by our research area today, and was surprised to see this… What is going on here? Costume party? Alien invasion? Diabolical plotting? Nope… just esteemed guest scientist Philippe Goldin being outfitted by research assistants with an EEG (electroencephalogram) cap for some testing. It’s pretty exciting to work at Posit Science, where we get [...]

1. Posit Science training programs provide many real-world benefits
2. Posit Science Giving Back – Eyeglass Donation Drive
3. Posit Science Holiday Party – With Pictures!