Cognitive Labs

At this stage in the game, we're going to add links to blogs/sites we notice/read/react to that in one way or another make a major contribution to understanding (a) cognitive health (b) health & science and (c) the internet because all of these topics are so inter-related.

July 21st was probably an all time high water-mark, surprising because it's the middle of summer and historically, this has been the off season as far as brain-training is concerned. In the nineteenth century they used to say philosophy was popularized in the northerly climes, where there was nothing to do in the long dark days of winter but read, think, and write by the fire.

But now, Cognitive Labs is tearing it up right in the midst of the lazy ants-at-the-picnic and bears-at-the-campsite season.

So, look for that in the days and weeks ahead. Contact us for any specific syndication needs you may have, (e.g., route 66 'kicks' game or anything else) as that program is blazing as the Bonneville salt flats [saltflats.com] - assuming you can determine this...

Labels: 2008, blog, fox, philosophy, reading, summer

Traumatic nerve injury was once believed incurable. Now, UCLA researchers have shown that axons can rewire severed links by creating slender filaments that re-connect a disrupted network such as the CNS (central nervous system).

Experiments conducted on mice at the University of California in Los Angeles showed for the first time that the central nervous system can rewire itself to create small neural pathways between the brain and the nerve cells that control movement.

This startling discovery could one day open the way to new therapies for damaged spinal cords and perhaps address conditions stemming from stroke and multiple sclerosis, according to the study.

Normally, the brain relays messages that control walking or running via neural fibers called axons...

Labels: axon, blog, dendrites, nature, ucla

Dr.Robert Lanza, a figure associated with stem cell research, asserts that our present approach to cosmology is insufficient to explain life and fails as a unifying theory. Rather, he suggests, we need to look to biology for these answers.

Wired.

Labels: blog, lanza, stemcells

Third Age is a good resource of information on everything you need to know as you maintain an active life - finance, lifestyle, relationships, and health. You can read about games for your brain in Jacqueline Marcell's blog, as well as lots of practical advice. Third Age is based in Boston, with a South of Market office in San Francisco - not too far from where one of our old offices was located. The site has 1.5 million + members.

Labels: blog, elderrage, marcell, sf, soma, thirdage