Elkhonon Goldberg

A study on the mental abilities of the aging brain challenges beliefs about the mind's tendency to decline with age, explaining how older people have greater capacities for making intuitive and wisdom-based decisions.

How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older

The Wisdom Paradox

Made up of fascinating histories and anecdotes, Goldberg's book offers a panorama of state-of-the-art ideas and advances in cognitive neuroscience to show the importance of the human brain's frontal lobes. 3 halftones. Illustrations & graphs.

Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind

The Executive Brain

Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation is about creativity, one of the most cherished and mysterious manifestations of the human mind, and what it is in the human brain and its interaction with culture, that allows us to expand how we think about things, generate new knowledge,and to explore unchartered territories. Based on a growing body of scientific literature, Elkhonon Goldberg points to several brain structures and processes that are involved in the creative process: the frontal lobes, the right and left hemispheres and their respective contributions, subcorticalstructures, various biochemical systems, and intricate neural network processes that work in concert for the creative act to happen. To that end, he discusses the brain mechanisms of deciding what is important and what is not; of confronting cognitive novelty; and the marshalling of previouslyacquired knowledge to generate new insights culminating in a creative product.An active researcher neuroscientist and clinician neuropsychologist, who also has a keen interest in history, Elkhonon Goldberg offers an original, and arguably the first coherent account of how multiple brain mechanisms come together in order to culminate in the creative act. While a large body ofscientific material is discussed, the book offers much more than a mere review. It presents a novel understanding of how the creative process takes place, and is full of original insights challenging current assumptions and theories.

The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation

Creativity

frontal lobes in a complex world

The new executive brain

Álvaro Fernández Ibáñez

Sabia usted que hoy se crearan varios miles de neuronas nuevas en su cerebro? Y que lo que haga, piense y sienta hoy determinara tanto la supervivencia como el efecto de esas nuevas neuronas, y de las que ya tenia antes? Estos son algunos de los temas que aborda "Como invertir en su cerebro," el nuevo libro que recorre las ultimas tendencias de un campo tan apasionante e importante como la ciencia del cerebro y la neuroplasticidad. Todos sabemos que debemos invertir en nuestra salud, en nuestra educacion, en nuestra carrera profesional o en nuestros planes de ahorro. Pero pocos sabemos por que invertir, y como, en nuestro recurso mas importante: el cerebro. Para llenar ese vacio, "Como invertir en su cerebro" proporciona al lector una guia estimulante y practica, llena de informacion contrastada y consejos personalizados, para mejorar el rendimiento actual y futuro de su cerebro, enriqueciendo asi su mente y su vida. Cualquiera que sea su objetivo, como el manejar mejor su estres cotidiano, aumentar su atencion y memoria, demostrar un mejor desempeno en el trabajo o retrasar problemas cognitivos como la enfermedad de Alzheimer, esta obra le explicara al detalle como pasar de la teoria a la practica, combinando un entendimiento general con unas pautas especificas. "Como invertir en su cerebro: Una guia SharpBrains para mejorar su mente y su vida" es la primera publicacion en espanol de SharpBrains, una organizacion reconocida a nivel internacional que investiga como mejorar la salud, la educacion y la formacion a traves de la ciencia del cerebro y la innovacion. El libro se basa en un analisis objetivo de cientos de estudios cientificos publicados en los ultimos diez anos y en decenas de entrevistas en profundidad con distinguidos cientificos. Ademas "Como invertir en su cerebro" refleja las conclusiones de varias cumbres organizadas por SharpBrains desde el ano 2010, con centenares de expertos de primer nivel. Si alguna vez ha invertido usted en su bienestar fisico, en su formacion academica, en su matrimonio, en sus amistades o en su vivienda, quiza ahora sea el momento de preguntarse como puede invertir en su cerebro. Este libro sera su mejor guia. Elogios "Una lectura estimulante y un reto al mismo tiempo, con informacion solida y consejos practicos para mejorar la salud de nuestro cerebro." - Kirkus Reviews "Una referencia esencial." - Dr. Walter Jesssen, Fundador y Editor, Highlight Health "Un recurso imprescindible para ayudarnos a entender mejor nuestro cerebro y nuestra mente." - Susan E. Hoffman, Directora, UC Berkeley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute ..".el mejor analisis sobre las implicaciones de la neurociencia para el desarrollo personal y profesional." - Ed Batista, Experto en Liderazgo, Escuela Superior de Negocios de la Universidad de Stanford " Gracias Este libro esta lleno de informacion de primera clase y de consejos practicos." - Dr. Elizabeth Edgerly, Jefe de Programas de la Alzheimer's Association"

Una Guía Sharpbrains Para Mejorar Su Mente Y Su Vida

Cómo Invertir en Su Cerebro

La vita creativa del cervello. le neuroscienze nell'era dell'innovazione

This book is crammed with puzzles designed to stimulate each of your brain's cognitive functions, keeping it strong and fit. Many different types of puzzles are included, and each of the five levels increases the challenge of solving them. Includes three self-evaluations that allow you to assess your improvement in areas such as focus, attention, memory, and more. With these puzzles, exercising your brain can be fun! The consultant is Dr. Elkhorn Goldberg, a Ph.D. neuropsychologist who created the Manhattan-based Cognitive Enhancement Program, a fitness center for the brain and who wrote The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind; and The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older.

Brain Games

Alvaro Fernandez

"Using charts, drawings, and up-to-date scientific studies, they present the case that any brain, at any age, can change for the better...The authors suggest myriad activities to help the process along...(This is) A stimulating, challenging resource, full of solid information and practical tips for improving brain health." -Kirkus Reviews Modern life places extraordinary demands on our brains. Not only do we live longer than ever before, but we must constantly adapt to complex and rapidly evolving personal and professional realities. Yet, we often ignore our most precious resource to do so: our brain. The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness cuts through the clutter of misconceptions, superficial and conflicting media coverage, and aggressive marketing claims, to help readers discover what really works, and what doesn't, to improve brain health and performance at any age, to delay or prevent cognitive decline, and become smarter consumers of both media coverage and scientific research in the process. With useful, pragmatic and personalized tips and suggestions that are easy to implement, the SharpBrains Guide offers a groundbreaking new approach for self-assessing current brain fitness needs and identifying the most relevant and evidence-based methods to preserve and enhance brain function throughout life. Whether your goal is to become more resilient, enhance memory, ward off Alzheimer's disease, or simply improve mental focus to perform better at work, this how-to guide shows you exactly how to "use it or lose it." This new and much-expanded edition of the guide AARP named a Best Book on Brain Fitness combines a user-friendly tutorial on how the brain works with advice on how to choose and integrate lifestyle changes and research-based brain training. Featuring an independent analysis of hundreds of scientific studies published in the last 10 years, the book also includes in-depth interviews with 20 leading scientists who often challenge conventional wisdom and prevailing brain health thinking and care. A thought-provoking, practical and captivating read, the SharpBrains Guide makes the fascinating and complex subject of brain function and neuroplasticity easy to digest with its common sense approach. It's time to rethink, and to truly apply, "use it or lose it." PRAISE FOR THE BOOK "One of those books you cannot ignore. Insightful, to the point, actionable. A book for leaders, innovators, thought provokers and everyone who wants to act and live smarter and healthier, based on latest neuroscience." -Dr. Tobias Kiefer, Director Global Learning & Development, Booz & Company "A great start for making sense new brain science and for taking active steps towards smart health, at the individual level, and Smart Health, at the societal level." -Misha Pavel, PhD, Program Director for the National Science Foundation's Smart Health and Wellbeing Program "This is the book you need to begin to think differently about your brain and actively embrace the exciting and promising reality that your brain's health is the cause of the century." -Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD, Founder and Chief Director, UT-Dallas' Center for BrainHealth "An essential reference on the field of brain fitness, neuroplasticity and cognitive health" -Walter Jessen, PhD, founder and editor, Highlight Health "A much-needed resource to help us better understand our brains and minds and how to nourish them through life." -Susan E. Hoffman, Director, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Berkeley"

How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age

The Sharpbrains Guide to Brain Fitness

Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind. In The New Executive Brain, Goldberg paints a sweeping panorama of cutting-edge thinking in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, one that ranges far beyond the frontal lobes. Drawing on the latest discoveries, and developing complex scientific ideas and relating them to real life through many fascinating case studies and anecdotes, the author explores how the brain engages in complex decision-making; how it deals with novelty and ambiguity; and how it addresses moral choices. At every step, Goldberg challenges entrenched assumptions. For example, we know that the left hemisphere of the brain is the seat of language--but Goldberg argues that language may not be the central adaptation of the left hemisphere. Apes lack language, yet many also show evidence of asymmetric hemispheric development. Goldberg also finds that a complex interaction between the frontal lobes and the amygdale--between a recently evolved and a much older part of the brain--controls emotion, as conscious thoughts meet automatic impulses. The author illustrates this observation with a personal example: the difficulty he experienced when trying to pick up a baby alligator he knew to be harmless, as his amygdala battled his effort to extend his hand. In the years since the original Executive Brain, Goldberg has remained at the front of his field, constantly challenging orthodoxy. In this revised and expanded edition, he affirms his place as one of our most creative and insightful scientists, offering lucid writing and bold, paradigm-shifting ideas.

Frontal Lobes in a Complex World

The New Executive Brain

While most of us have heard the phrase “use it or lose it,” very few understand what “it” means, or how to properly “use it” in order to maintain brain function and fitness. The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness is an invaluable guide that helps readers navigate growing brain research and identify the lifestyle factors and products that contribute to brain fitness. By gathering insights from eighteen of the world’s top scientists and offering tools and detailed descriptions of over twenty products, this book is an essential guide to the field of brain fitness, neuroplasticity and cognitive health.

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