Pedro Teixeira
Pedro Teixeira is Commercial and SEO Manager at CogniFit, an innovative company which develops software for measuring and training the cognitive abilities - brain fitness.
We believe that understanding and improving the Brain is the next stepchange revolution the world is going to have, and we work everyday not only to be part of that revolution, but most of all to create it. We believe it is our mission to improve people's lives through cognitive fitness.
You can provide your comments and thoughts to Pedro, by sending him a message on Facebook at http://facebook.com/teixeira.p
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We believe that understanding and improving the Brain is the next stepchange revolution the world is going to have, and we work everyday not only to be part of that revolution, but most of all to create it. We believe it is our mission to improve people's lives through cognitive fitness.
You can provide your comments and thoughts to Pedro, by sending him a message on Facebook at http://facebook.com/teixeira.p
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Training the Brain to Motivate YourselfMotivation is a force that drives each individual to a goal. It brings self-reward for a task well done, and represents our own internal incentive to do more and better each day. It is possibly the single biggest factor that makes the world move forward
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Relationship Between Dementia and Alzheimer'sIn the general public minds, AD is still a very distant and long-term effect of aging, in some sort linked with dementia. What is then the relationship (or the difference) between dementia and the Alzheimer's Disease?
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Hello, Comment Ca Va? Bilingualism as a Cognition EnablerHaving a resum© featuring the knowledge of several languages, while not being instrumental, can be influential in getting chosen for a position. When travelling, understanding several languages is an enabler for a better experience.
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We Can't Get Smarter, but Could We?A few days ago, several articles about the brain limits have been published in the newspapers around the world. This is based on a compelling research by the Cambridge University, indicating that humans are reaching a point of being unable to get smarter
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The 'One-Click' GenerationThere has never existed so much knowledge, and so easily available, than today. Knowledge is at a distance of a click. It is extremely easy to ask any question, look for it on Google, Wikipedia or another source, and get it. Is this all positive?
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Does Measuring Emotional Intelligence Make Sense?It has been an interesting debate in the scientific community the source and development of Emotional Intelligence. One other area of debate has been how to measure, in concrete, Emotional Intelligence.
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How Much is Life Worth?The title of this article may raise some questions. Is this about abortion? Is this about euthanasia? Is it about both, or neither of them? Let's see the real meaning of the question.
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Brief Remarks on Artificial IntelligencePortrayed in the movies as science fiction, the Artificial Intelligence is increasingly becoming part of our lives in many different ways, sometimes not easily perceived.
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Home is the Key for Academic AchievementAlthough many stories exist about uneducated people rising to the top, the reality for most is that education is the single most important enabler of equality in a society.
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The Intelligence of Emotional PerceptionWhen thinking of someone who is highly intelligent, one first takes into account the logical reasoning, math, problem solving or verbal skills, the capacity of our brain to produce something. This is probably incomplete.
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Do Something Crazy: Think About the FutureLong-term thinking is something very inhuman. Let's face it, while the greatest men and women in history have been known either by having an extreme courage, or an extreme vision, most people make decisions based on the immediate goal.
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Men and Women Divided on BeautySo are male and female brains different? Yes, in many ways they are. The usage of the cognition is different, and the neuroscience is helping to unveil these differences as time goes by. Maybe it will be possible in the future to really get to know and fu
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Creativity - Think Outside the BoxCreativity is one of those most mysterious abilities human beings have. It isn't just about having imagination for thinking and creating something new and difference. It is the ability to do so on a going basis, creating incremental value.
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Your Brain Defines Your Financial IndependenceThe effects of aging can reach far beyond the ones we normally see externally and the ones who leave the senior population more dependent to continue their lives. There are some hidden effects, which can be as much worrying and need to be addressed upfron
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Understanding Neuroscience Helps Maximize Employee PerformanceFor too long the neuroscience has been perceived as something too far away from every day's life. The modern neuroscience has slowly approached the society and is creating solutions that go far beyond the current expectations.
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Alzheimer's and the Future of Health CareThe Alzheimer's Disease is one of the most serious challenges the world population faces as the life expectancy increases. The good thing is: a great part of its solution is in our hands.
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Is it Possible to Protect Our Brain from Aging?As humans are living longer, the number of cases of dementia is also rising as a consequence. The neuroscience has developed many insights on how to reduce the incidence of the dementia.
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Today's Actions Are Tomorrow's ProbabilitiesIt is imperative to have a long-term mindset in order to identify the correct actions today, even though the future effects may seem so distant. This is one of the most difficult tasks to ask from our brain.
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Old Neuroscience from Egypt to MainstreamThere's more to Egypt than the pyramids and mummies, and there's a very intrinsic connection of the ancient Egyptian civilization to the first steps of neuroscience.
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Unconscious Brains Still Able to Process InformationIt is known for a fact that the last 30 years of neuroscience research have seen the most amazing developments in the knowledge of the brain. Still, this very unique part of our body remains a mystery to the scientific community.
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The Long-Term DilemmaIt is much easier to accept and adopt actions leading to immediate or short term results, than it is to wait and believe significant improvements will occur over time or in the long run.
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Redefining Our LimitsIt hasn't been so long ago that I have been first introduced to this world of Brain Fitness. Back then, my knowledge of this area could be described as nonexistent. It may still be the case to some extent.
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The Heart of EducationIn a competitive world where the best achievers usually are rewarded with a better compensation, it is determinant to create the conditions for having more of the best achievers, and this is important from very early ages.
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Brain Power - the Last FrontierIn the history of human development, it has been intensively studied what are the main conditions and factors answering a simple question: why do some countries thrive while others don't?
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Technology and Aging at HomeThe increase in the life expectancy is one of the most important developments over the last century; it has been a challenge of the human kind to nature itself. Naturally, we would die much sooner than what actually happens to most of us.
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Aging as a Challenge of MankindThe many advances that medicine brought to the human kind over the last centuries, and especially in the last one, have created a new paradigm in the life cycle of a person, defying the nature of life itself.
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In Search of a Better Excellence"In search of excellence" is one of the most successful management books ever. However it should be noted one very important flaw of in this book (and in most of the other actually).
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Brain Power - the Last FrontierIn the history of human development, it has been intensively studied what are the main conditions and factors answering a simple question: why do some countries thrive while others don't?
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Brainomics - the Brain as a Strategic AssetThe Brainomics as the biggest and most important opportunity for economic and social development will certainly be a returning topic I can forecast with exponential growth. -
Pollution Can Also... Lead to Brain DamageThe pleasures and convenience of modern life comes at a cost, almost like a trade-off. Most of the developments bring with it negative effects, one of the most important and structural one is pollution. -
The One Advice that Beats All Self Improvement BooksOne very basic understanding of what it takes to be successful and happy, is that it all starts and ends in the brain. However there is some irrationality in the way human beings perceive their own brain health. -
To CogniFit, or Not to CognIFit - that is the QuestionIt is amazing how much we use, everyday, new words that the developments in technology, products and services, have brought to our lives. Imagine for a moment that travelling in time would be finally possible, and you could go back ... 100 years in time. -
Changing Our Thinking'Å"I think therefore I am', wrote Descartes long ago. Our potential is only defined and limited by the parameters of our thought. -
Where Can You Find a Genius?Talented people can be incredibly talented, because their minds are actually connected in a different way. -
Brain Fitness is the New Habit of the DecadeAs our societies age and this aging poses different challenges to the whole group, we hope someday the access to brain fitness will become a constitutional right everyone should have. -
Be Careful, Your Baby is ListeningNext time you'll think of arguing when the baby is asleep, think twice before doing so! Their brain is as alert and listing to to your signals as when you are awake. -
The Myth of a Photographic MemorySurely everyone has already met someone who said something like 'œI remember you, but I don't recall your name. See, I have a photographic memory, I can remember all the faces, but I cannot remember their names or circumstances'. Is this real? -
New Habits Change the Thinking ModeThe formation of new habits is an intensive brain training exercise. But it is not an easy one. In fact, it takes many conditions and joint efforts to bring an individual, and a society, to change the way they do things. -
Forming New Habits is Intensive Brain TrainingThe Human Being is an animal of habits, of routines and behaviors that are learnt over time. Habits are a part of every one's day, most of them are so deeply connected to each person, that they easily become unnoticed and require no effort to perform. -
Brain Fitness the Uber Competitive AdvantageA competitive advantage is by definition a strategic unique characteristic or attribute, difficult to achieve and copy, providing the organization having it an edge over its rivals.This is where Brain Fitness appears as the ultimate competitive advantage.
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The Brain is like an Exclusive WineWe live in a world eager for easy and fast solutions. But the brain and the memory should instead be seen as a good old wine.
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Choose: Incentives or FreedomFreedom is not only a matter of being able to choose, but also being able to choose without external interferences. Such thing doesn't exist, the incentives are everywhere influencing the path you take.
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Brain Power as the Anti-Computer BrainAs computers substitute the thinking skills every human being should develop, there are clear incentives for the "stupidification" of the human being. But science creates the solution.
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'"Popcorn Brains" Threatening Thinking AbilitiesThe amount of time spent online has created a new brain concept - the "popcorn brains". How does that affect you?
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The Resilience of the Cognitive ReserveIt has been widely accepted the myth that what goes up, must come down, and that applied as well to the brain. However that is not necessarily the case: learn more about the cognitive reserve.
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The Past and the Self-IdentityThe self-identity of each one of us is based on the past life and in our dreams. Now imagine if you had to live with no memory of anything. In other words, imagine for a moment that the past is erased from your life.
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City Life May Harm Your BrainThe last 2 centuries have seen the human kind move quickly from the country to the cities. But life in the cities poses serious threats to the human brain and its vitality, as a recent research indicates. -
Disabling the Human Time BombWithin the next decades, most of the developed world will face the most important challenge of all - the aging of their population, posing a threat on the prosperity and productivity, as well as to the social security systems. There are solutions though!