Courses and Workshops > Winter 2012

Become Your Own Brain Fitness Coach

Onsite facilitator: Mary Heller, with instructor Alvaro Fernandez and other guest speakers online

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How can you apply today’s emerging science on lifelong neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve to stay mentally sharp? This fast-paced online course — available in an OLLI classroom or at your home — will equip you to become your own “brain fitness coach” in order to enhance brain performance and delay decline. The class is based on SharpBrains’ ABBC framework (Address Basics, Build Capacities) and includes weekly assignments. A private online social network will enable students to interact between January 17 and February 28, 2012.

Alvaro Fernandez is the cofounder of SharpBrains.com, a leading brain fitness education clearinghouse, and coauthor of The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness, recently recognized by AARP as one of the Best Books on Brain Fitness. He is frequently quoted by media and was a two-term member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Aging Society.

* You can attend the course in person in the classroom with a facilitator OR from your computer at a location of your choice. The classroom will be linked to the Internet but students can also bring their own laptops and be logged in individually.