Quotes from Elkhonon Goldberg

no importa su edad o estado cerebral, hay muchas cosas que usted puede hacer para mejorar de manera significativa el funcionamiento de su cerebro y frenar el envejecimiento del mismo.

collaborator of our lab, Dr. Yiyuan Tang, studied the impact of mindfulness meditation with undergraduates to improve executive attention, finding significant improvements as well. We hope that training methods like this will be further evaluated, along with other methods, both as possible means of improving attention prior to school and for children and adults with specific needs.

Una consecuencia de la plasticidad del cerebro es que cada experiencia, pensamiento y emoción cambia físicamente su cerebro, de lo que se desprende que usted, querido lector, tiene la capacidad, y la responsabilidad, de cuidar y mejorar su cerebro.

Working memory is the type of memory that allows us to both hold information in mind and work on it as needed.

Cognition and emotion are both critical parts of normal functioning. As neatly summarized by Dr. Robert Sylwester (whose interview can be found at the end of this chapter): "Emotion is the system that tells us how important something is. Attention focuses us on the important and away from the unimportant things. Cognition tells us what to do about it. Cognitive skills are whatever it takes to do those things.

consumo ligero o moderado de alcohol parece reducir el riesgo de Alzheimer.

cualquier cosa que hagamos que implique novedad, variedad y desafío, estimula el cerebro y puede contribuir a aumentar la reserva cognitiva.