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What may be the connection between yesterday’s post on Trading’s Mid-Life Crisis: Getting Bigger Vs. Getting Broader, written by a trader and authority in trading psychology, and Time Magazine’s article on How to bring schools into 21st century. Let’s first read a couple of quotes from the shools article: -”Many analysts believe that to achieve the right balance [...]

We’ve all either seen one, or been one ourselves — the person who shows up for work despite a high fever, hacking up a lung and spewing disease along his path. Often, the sickened employee is rewarded with such accolades as “what a trooper,” or “such dedication,” while others slowly roll their chairs (and eyes) [...]

Alan E. Kazdin, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Child Psychiatry, and Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale, has been named President of the American Psychological Association (APA), the largest association of psychologists worldwide. Kazdin, who also directs the Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic, will begin his leadership of the 150,000-member [...]

A study found that money may be a factor in encouraging anti-social behavior.By studying reactions to phrases about money and games such as Monopoly, Kathleen Vohs, a professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota, said her study establishes a solid link between money and anti-social behavior. “The mere presence of money changes people,” she said. It [...]

Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg is a clinical professor of neurology at New York University School of Medicine, and author of over 50 peer-reviewed papers. His areas of expertise include executive functions, memory, attention deficit disorder, dementia, traumatic brain injury, and others. Dr. Goldberg was a student and close associate of the great neuropsychologist Alexander Luria. [...]

1) Zack from NeuroInsights is talking with Chris Murray at the Harvard School of Public Health about researching Neurotechnosocioeconomics and the Global Burden of Brain Disease. The report, which would be sponsored by the Neurotechnology Industry Organization, would seek to calculate the economic burden for specific illnesses including Alzheimer’s disease, addiction, anxiety, attention disorders, depression, [...]

Offering additional depression screening and care may save employers about $3,000 per 1,000 workers over five years, according to a cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis reported in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In addition to its toll on patients’ health and well-being, depression is estimated to cost tens of [...]

A convicted pedophile has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for convincing a teenage boy to kill and dismember his mother. Edwin Gimenez pleaded guilty Sept. 18 to second-degree murder in the death of Madeline Irene, 46, whose remains were found in bags in the Black Rock Channel. “It would be an understatement to [...]

Fort Pierce Westwood sophomore Isaac Virgin takes head injuries a bit more seriously after suffering his first concussion this fall. The Panthers quarterback was knocked unconscious after a hard hit by three defenders in a game against East Ridge on Sept. 8. He was out a short time, but lay motionless for more than 20 [...]

The gap in IQ scores between African-Americans and whites narrowed over the 20th century, agreed experts at a debate held here last week. They disagreed, though, on exactly when that narrowing occurred. In a paper published in October in Psychological Science, William T. Dickens and James R. Flynn suggest that black Americans began to catch up [...]

Psychologists who study relationships long have focused on how couples handle love’s headaches, the cold silences and searing blowups, the child-care crises and work stress, the fallouts over money and ex-lovers. But the way that partners respond to each other’s triumphs may be even more important for the health of a relationship, suggests a paper appearing in [...]

A study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, has found that people’s gender and ethnicity predicted their immediate response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their general state of health over the next two years.The longitudinal study, “Ethnicity and Gender in the Face of a Terrorist Attack,” is [...]

Busy day today. And very fun. - Great chat with Rolf Hallencreutz, Chairman of the Board of Cogmed Working Memory Training program, RoboMemo-now only for kids with ADD/ ADHD-, discussing how working memory training may influence medicine, education, corporate training, and health & wellness in general (Dear Skype: thanks one more help for contributing to US-Sweden relations!). - [...]

Enjoy this and other great visual illusions at Cognitive Daily’s Cool visual illusions (with animations!), and an effort to explain why they occur

Diabetic people are prone to depression, and the phenomenon is more prevalent among women patients. This is what a team of experts from The Netherlands found out when they conducted a survey on Delhiites. The main reasons according to the survey is “economic dependence” of the women and the “joint family system” in some cases.The [...]

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Today we are traveling to Japan. Go Hirano is a serial Japanese entrepreneur who has been exploring neuroscience-based opportunities in Japan, having recently created the company NeuWell (neuroscience for wellness). NeuWell and SharpBrains are exploring opportunities together to bring world-class programs to Japan, and we thought that SharpBrains’ blog readers may be interested in learning [...]

The myths include: Memory Loss Is InevitableSlow Metabolism Makes You FatterCan Heartburn Lead to Cancer?Men Can Drink More Alcohol Than WomenMarijuana Gives You the MunchiesA High SPF Will Fully Protect You from Skin CancerNothing Will Age You Faster Than the SunSuperfit = SuperhealthyCholesterol Is the Major Cause of Heart DiseaseThere's a Wrong Way to BreatheOf course, the first myth interested me the most, and here is an excerpt:"Just like you challenge a muscle to grow it, well, the brain gets new connections," said Dr. Roizen.And that busts another big brain myth -- that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.... Exercise it.Try learning to play a musical instrument, doing crossword puzzles, learning a language -- even playing computer games."The data now indicate that an hour of games for 40 weeks can make your brain equivalent, your brain's real age, 10 years younger," Roizen said.And one final brain myth: Does the size of a person's brain have anything to do with their intellectual capacity?"There is no correlation with the size of a human brain and its intellect.

Since the beginning of the SharpBrains blog, we have enjoyed frequent, insightful and nice comments by “Eleanor”. One day we decided to track her back and see what work she was involved with, and we enjoyed learning about what she does in the UK. Therefore, we asked her to write a guest entry here to [...]