For the past two holiday seasons we have partnered with OneSight—a terrific charity organization that provides eye care to those in need through outreach, research and education. Our previous holiday donations have allowed OneSight to recycle thousands of pairs of glasses for people in need. This holiday season we hope to match that—or do even better! [...]

1. Posit Science Giving Back: Helping OneSight Deliver Vision Care and Eyeglasses to 300+ Million People in Need
2. Posit Science Giving Back – Eyeglass Donation Drive
3. Having Correctly Prescribed Glasses Improves Quality of Life

Ed. Note: this article is cross-posted on Dr. Merzenich’s blog On The Brain. I had the great pleasure of visiting a wonderful research team studying the neurological origins and treatment of tinnitus at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis last week.  About 30 million U.S. citizens have tinnitus (chronic, persistent ringing in the ears).  For [...]

1. Tinnitus, Music, and Brain Plasticity
2. Tinnitus: A Special Example of a Failure Mode for your Plastic Brain
3. Chemobrain and cognitive training

Ed. Note: this article originally appeared on Dr. Merzenich’s blog On The Brain on August 11, 2008. It references an article by Nicholas Carr, who has recently tackled the topic in greater depth in a new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. In light of the recent book release, we thought [...]

1. Dr. Merzenich on SharpBrains – Thoughts on Brain Training, Assessments, Personal Brain Trainers, and More
2. Brain Wiring & New Year’s Resolutions
3. Pathological Gambling and the Brain

Ed. Note: this article originally appeared on Dr. Merzenich’s blog On The Brain on June 13, 2009. Millions of individuals (2% of humankind) are plagued by continuous sounds generated in their skulls, not coming from the real world. Because these ringing or roaring sounds are inescapable and because they strongly influence emotional-control processes in the brain, they [...]

1. Tinnitus, Music, and Brain Plasticity
2. Promising Results in Controlling Tinnitus with Brain Training
3. Pathological Gambling and the Brain

Ed. Note: this article originally appeared on Dr. Merzenich’s blog On The Brain on May 26, 2010. I had the great pleasure of attending a symposium held in the College of Education at my alma mater, the University of Portland, focused on this interesting subject, and the implications that it bears for effective learning and teaching. My [...]

1. Soccer Juggling, Brain Training and A Challenge
2. Reading “The Belief Instinct” – with Theory of Mind in Mind
3. Promising Results in Controlling Tinnitus with Brain Training

The holidays are rapidly approaching, and if you’re like me, you may still be struggling with deciding what ‘perfect gift’ you should give your mate or aunt or sister that could really mean something for them.  In the Land of Plenty, it is sometimes hard to determine what those individuals that we love can really [...]

1. Brain Healthy Holiday Gift Guide!
2. Live Blogging the SharpBrains Summit – Day 1
3. Chemobrain and cognitive training