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We’ve all been “there”, where we find ourselves more down than usual, we don’t feel like doing anything and have a constant feeling of […]
Continue reading »We’ve all been “there”, where we find ourselves more down than usual, we don’t feel like doing anything and have a constant feeling of […]
Continue reading »Brain Gym for a healthy mind. A few years ago, we started to learn about the importance of training our brains. Today we know […]
Continue reading »What is brain based learning, and why it matters. Brain bases learning is a new perspective in teaching and learning that is based on using technology and knowledge of […]
Continue reading »Anterograde Amnesia: Imagine yourself wandering up and down the streets not finding back home. Well, the solution is simple, looking for a taxi or […]
Continue reading »We are always hearing about how sugar is bad for us, but how does it affect us? How does sugar affect our brains? In […]
Continue reading »We often hear about how people can’t seem to fall asleep, thus leading to people pulling all-nighters. In reality most are trying to go […]
Continue reading »Dyspraxia. It is commonly seen nowadays: On the one hand, you have the group of children that seems to be able to have no […]
Continue reading »Whether you realize it or not, cognitive learning has played an important role in your life ever since you were a baby. You learn […]
Continue reading »Ever been shocked by your outlet when you’re going to plug in a charger? It feels like a little prick on your finger, followed […]
Continue reading »Optogenetics is a new form of stimulating and controlling cells in the living tissue. Research is advancing in ways that we have not thought […]
Continue reading »One of the ways psychology has progressed came from the use of various neuroimaging methods. In terms of experimental psychology history, neuroimaging started with the […]
Continue reading »Assembly of The Human Brain Project has a goal to unravel what lies within the intricately woven network that still remains a secret. Humans […]
Continue reading »Fight or Flight. The sympathetic nervous system is one of two subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system, which is part of the peripheral nervous […]
Continue reading »Is having a photographic memory real? A photographic memory is usually used to describe when someone has the stunning ability to recall visual information […]
Continue reading »What is your basal ganglia? This tiny part of the brain is the mastermind behind all your daily activities. For all the work that it […]
Continue reading »“…I have experience recovering from a stroke. At the age of seven I underwent a stroke that almost took my life and paralyzed me […]
Continue reading »The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. It controls everything, from the way we walk to the way we speak. Its […]
Continue reading »Neurologist takes self-experimentation to the extreme by installing implants in his own brain for data collection – MIT Technology Review Phil Kennedy, a neurologist […]
Continue reading »Help dyslexic children with the new CogniFit Professional tool. Peer-reviewed research has shown that cognitive training with CogniFit boosts reading skills in dyslexic students. You can […]
Continue reading »Interview of CogniFit’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Evelyn Shatil, on Financial Sense. You can listen to her analysis of brain training here (beginning approximately 28 […]
Continue reading »How seeing changes your brain. Your eyes aren’t just advanced visual systems capturing images of what’s around you. New research published in the Journal […]
Continue reading »Red brain, blue brain: republicans and democrats process risk differently, research finds. A team of political scientists and neuroscientists has shown that liberals and […]
Continue reading »Neuroeconomics: how brain science matters to business. At first glance, a neuroscientist and a business school might seem like an odd fit. But the […]
Continue reading »Newfound brain cells linked to high blood pressure. High blood pressure has just gotten a new culprit: a newly discovered brain cell. While the […]
Continue reading »The neuro-benefits of meditation. Studies have shown that regular meditation promotes mindfulness (sustained observing awareness), whose benefits include decreased stress-related cortisol, insomnia, symptoms of […]
Continue reading »How new mothers process stress. Postpartum women process stress differently from females who have not recently given birth. This is according to new research […]
Continue reading »Why your brain is a sensory smoothie. Neuroscientists used to think of the brain as a Swiss Army knife with different regions dedicated exclusively […]
Continue reading »Electrical impulses in the brain encode protocols for behaviors. Neuroscientists have long been perplexed by how our brains encode thoughts, including memory loss and […]
Continue reading »A 3-D light switch for the brain. A new tool for neuroscience delivers a thousand pinpricks of light to a chunk of gray matter smaller […]
Continue reading »We have the pleasure to announce today the release of our newly developed brain fitness iPad app. Specifically designed for the iPad, you will find […]
Continue reading »Drinking decreases number of new brain cells. You don’t have to be a heavy drinker to hurt your brain. Even moderate amounts of alcohol can […]
Continue reading »The Greek philosopher Democritus (460-370 B.C.E.) might have been the first to hypothesize that the two fundamental human motives are to approach rewards and avoid […]
Continue reading »Chopra: Reinventing the brain is closer than you think. Thanks to brain scans like the fMRI, brain activity can be localized and even the most […]
Continue reading »CogniFit in the news The press release regarding the launch of the CogniFit Brain Fitness iPhone app
Continue reading »Another great review of our iPhone app From the review: “The more challenges you take part in, the more accurate your cognitive score will be. […]
Continue reading »Great review of our Brain Fitness iPhone app From the review: “CogniFit Brain Fitness is currently available as a free app. However, this affordable value […]
Continue reading »A new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in New Orleans, Louisiana shows that improved working memory function, following […]
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