¿Eres de las personas que se preocupan por su salud? ¿Te gusta cuidarte? ¿Quieres llevar una vida sana? En cualquier caso, muchas de estas cuestiones siempre nos llevan a un objetivo común: tener una vida saludable. Pero esto no siempre es fácil, o no siempre se encuentra la manera adecuada.

Tener buenos hábitos de salud no garantiza vivir más años aunque sí es un elemento muy importante a la hora de mejorar nuestra calidad de vida y nuestro estado de salud. Un cuerpo sano y una mente sana son los objetivos que deberíamos plantearnos para vivir de una manera óptima, lo cual sin duda, ayuda a ser más felices.

Varios factores son muy importantes a la hora de buscar una manera de llevar una vida saludable, como por ejemplo, los que nombramos a continuación:

-controlar nuestra tensión

-cuidar nuestros dientes

-llevar una dieta saludable y equilibrada

-intentar no fumar, evitar el consumo de drogas, no consumir mucho alcohol…

-hacer ejercicio de manera continuada y constante

Éste último factor sin duda puede ser uno de los más importantes. No solo nos ayuda a estar buena forma, sino que muchos médicos y profesionales de la medicina recomiendan la práctica del ejercicio como elemento clave para ser felices. El ejercicio físico fortalece los huesos, corazón y músculos, ayuda a conciliar mejor el sueño y alivia la depresión.

Pero ¿y el ejercicio mental? No solo es importante salir a correr, ir al gimnasio, hacer aerobic…ahora debemos preocuparnos también por el ejercicio de nuestro cerebro. Podríamos hacer miles de tareas diarias o cotidianas para mejorar nuestra salud mental, pero…¿por qué no entrenar nuestro cerebro mientras nos divertimos y competimos con otras personas?

Para ello, Beebrite es la mejor solución. De momento está en fase de prelanzamiento, ya que se espera que todos podamos disfrutar de su red social con juegos de entrenamiento mental a partir del verano de 2012. No sólo vamos a mejorar nuestra salud mental, que nos permitirá mejorar nuestro modo de vida saludable, sino que además podremos divertirnos a través de los juegos, competir con otras personas, seguir los ejercicios que nos plantee el entrenador personal, y conseguir pequeños logros y premios.

Beebrite está avalado por los institutos españoles más importantes de neurociencia, probando que realmente podemos mejorar aspectos como nuestra memoria, nuestra agilidad mental, nuestra agudeza visual…y en general nuestra salud mental, a través de grandes juegos.

Muchas personas ya se han registrado a la espera del lanzamiento. ¿Te gustaría probarlo?

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Can´t you remember where you put the keys just a moment ago? Maybe you don´t remember an old acquaintance’s name? Or the name of a film you love? Don´t  worry, it happens to most of us. And Beebrite is working to give you a efficient and fun solution.

Neuroscientists are increasingly showing that there’s actually a lot that can be done.  It turns that the brain needs exercise in much the same way our muscles do, and the right mental workouts can significantly improve our basic cognitive functions.  Thinking is essentially a process of making neural connections in the brain.  

To a certain extent, our ability to excel in making the neural connections that drive intelligence is inherited.  However, because these connections are made through effort and practice, scientists believe that intelligence can expand according to mental effort.

With Beebrite you will be able make this mental effort and keep your brain active and healthy. But it won´t be a boring activity of training. With the gamification, you will have to reach high scores, compete with your friends, and get Beebrite Stickers that you can collect and watch afterwards in your albums. Don´t want to know more about Beebrite?

We hope to launch Beebrite very soon! Stay tuned!

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Educators and scientists have begun to realize that the man was becoming increasingly dependent on information on the Internet, but until now there were few studies that confirmed. 

A research psychologist Betsy Sparrow, assistant professor of Columbia University in New York (USA) reveals that the Internet functions as an “external memory” that makes us hold less and less information.

The study suggests that the population has begun to use Internet as their “personal data bank”, a phenomenon known as “Google effect”, and computers and online search engines have become a sort of system memory “ external “to be accessed at the user and that human memory is adapting. 

It was his personal experience, realizing that often resorted to the movie database IMDB to remember the names of some actors, which led him to delve into the study habits and learning new generations. Sparrow took into account the psychologist Daniel Wegner, a Harvard professor, who thirty years ago developed the theory of “transactive memory”, which refers to the ability to split the task of reminding some type of shared information.

Is suggested by the study published in the online edition of Science, entitled “Effects on Google Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Information at Our Fingertips Having.”

Following this theory, Sparrow wondered if the internet was playing that role for all the world, by way of a collective memory and, together with his team, made a series of experiments with more than a hundred Harvard students to examine the relationship between human memory, retention of data and Internet. The team found that when participants did not know the answers to your computer automatically thought of as the place to find that information, as published by Science.

In addition, they found that if students knew that the information could be available at another time or could re-search with the same ease, not so well remembered as the answer when they thought the information would be available. Another highlight patterns of behavior in the study is that people do not necessarily remember how they got some information as long as they remember what it was. However, they tend to remember where to find the data they need when they are unable to remember exactly the information.

According to Sparrow, not surprised to see that more people do not memorize information because they trust that can get them, but their ability to find them. “We are really efficient,” he concludes.

In this situation, is when tools come into play that involve solutions. In the quest to regain that cognitive memory, as Beebrite are incredible tools, that through personal training with mind games it offers, we can recover that memory loss, even better.

A suitable daily training keeps the mind active and have that memory that we need and that we are losing because of the effect Google, among other things, and helps prevent Alzheimer’s, very important in research with the universities is conducting Beebrite to improve the effects of the games.

Full text of article “Effects on Google Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Information at Our Fingertips Having”: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/776/suppl/DC1

In Beebrite we investigate in the field of cognitive neuroscience with the goal of be ready to offer you a great enjoying time with our brain gym, and you can keep your brain active and improve your brain skills like memory through of our daily personalized training.

In this field, there´s an important person that we want you know, and his contribution to the neuroscience has meant very much for our activity. For the Beebrite Investigating Team, he is a renowned person to our job. He is John Jonides.

John Jonides has substantially altered the field of cognitive neuroscience in ways that have important continuing impact. He has shown that neuroimaging data can be used to enhance what is known from behavioral data and contribute to the development of cognitive models that include an understanding of brain function.

For example, Jonides has demonstrated that the differentiation between working memory for maintenance of mental representations and manipulation of information, as well as the distinction between verbal and spatial representations theorized from behavioral studies, is verified by brain activity, and that the differences in function are greater than previously hypothesized. Similarly, his use of imaging methods to study executive function in healthy participants as well as brain-injured, aging, and mentally ill participants has provided seminal data and theories.

Jonides has been a leader in developing better parametric analytic methods for the use of neuroimaging in cognitive psychology, to establish dissociations between different cognitive mechanisms. He has developed an intensive summer course that introduces researchers from across the country to these innovative imaging and analytical tools. This course is just one representation of his history as a superb and innovative teacher and mentor. And his University Undergraduate Opportunity Program is regarded as the gold standard for hands-on training of women and minority students, increasing their retention in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical fields. Jonides has been an energetic mentor to students and faculty.

Now we´re trying to follow the line in cognitive neuroscience of John, and we´re investigating about the join between technology and science for offer you the best brain training platform of the world with our N-Back Training and neuroimaging data, which are going to talk about in next posts.

Source info: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/awards-and-honors/fellow-award/recipent-past-award-winners/jonides