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August 19, 2019

What is high cognitive performance or “peak brain performance”?

More and more people wish to improve their academic or professional performance by training their cognitive capabilities. This means improving cognitive functioning until each person’s optimal. Do you know what cognitive performance is and how it can be trained? This post will provide more information on high cognitive performance and the most frequent techniques employed to achieve it.

Executive looking at the clock after doing peak brain performance training

August 15, 2019

What is cognitive rehabilitation and what are the most employed techniques?

Usually, cognitive deterioration is one of the most common subjects discussed in primary care. This condition progressively evolves with age, and requires specific interventions to be reverted, improving cognitive performance. Cognitive rehabilitation has the objective of improving cognitive functions such as memory, attention and language, which have a great impact on the life of patients. We summarize within this post the most common cognitive rehabilitation strategies and application areas.

Person resting on the bench in a square after a cognitive rehabilitation session

August 13, 2019

Cognitive stimulation therapy training courses: 5 key questions

Cognitive stimulation starts to open its way as a tool to care for the mental health of people. For such, professionals should receive adequate training and have the necessary knowledge to employ it and obtain positive results but… what should I keep in mind at the time of choosing a cognitive stimulation workshop? We’ll cover that.

Woman studying a cognitive stimulation therapy training course

August 6, 2019

Everything about cognitive rehabilitation in depression

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression affects more than 300 million people in the world, being considered a frequent mental disorder. The emotional symptoms are usually the first to be treated with current existing treatments, but how can we intervene on the cognitive impairment that often affects the people that suffer from depression?

Person with depression who has done cognitive rehabilitation and brain stimulation with exercises to train the brain

May 2, 2019

20+ popular heuristics and cognitive biases

We believe that reality is exactly what we perceive but really, this is just an illusion of our own brain. This happens because our brain takes shortcuts to interpret information and adapt to our surroundings: heuristics on which the brain relies to understand the reality perceived, but… can we always trust our brain when it utilizes these resources?

glasses of a person who sees reality in a distorted way because of cognitive biases

March 29, 2019

What are emotions and feelings, and how to measure them?

Most people believe that even basic emotions are capable of clouding our judgement, thus affecting our ability to make rational decisions. However, the reality is more complicated than this, and neuroscience holds the key to understanding why.

woman with emotions, feelings of happiness, sadness, anger