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Facts, myths and useful tips about your brain - by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang
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About you and your child's brain
- Five myths about your child's brain
- NY Times: Delay kindergarten at your child's peril
- Effects of redshirting (with links)
- Six myths about your brain
- Praise for "Welcome to Your Brain"
- NY Times - Exercise And The Brain
- NY Times - Willpower Training
- NY Times - Your Brain Lies To You
- Washington Post - Left-handed Presidents
- El Mundo - 50 Myths and Truths
Watch and listen
On WNYC's Please Explain with Leonard Lopate talking about early development
On Fresh Air with Terry Gross discussing parenting and children's brains
Sandra on Conversations with Charlie Dyer talking about children's brains
Sandra on Radio New Zealand answering questions about children's brains
Sandra on Tech Nation discussing children's brains
Sandra on NPR discussing nearsightedness on Weekend Edition [Listen]
Sam and Sandra at Google HQ
Sam with Dr. Mehmet Oz on Oprah and Friends [Listen]
Sam with Marty Moss-Coane on Radio Times. [Real Audio 8/11/08]
Sandra, Sam, and Julie Taymor at the Rubin Museum - Brainwave: Sacred Science [Watch] [Photos]
KITP Public Lecture by Sam [Watch]
Radio interview on KUSP Santa Cruz with Rick Kleffel [Rick's Agony Column review]
NPR, Talk Of The Nation [Listen] [Transcript]
Sandra on KERA Dallas, Think with Krys Boyd [Listen]Upcoming events and appearances
Welcome To Your Brain
International editions
About us
Past events
November 17, 2009. TEDxSF - Sam on willpower
Saturday, February 14, 2009. American Association of Science/SB&F acceptance of SB&F Book Of The Year award, Chicago, IL. Book signing.
Sunday, January 25th. Good Morning America Weekend, ABC (national). Story on the lefthanded brain and President Obama.
Sunday, November 16th, 6:30-8:30pm. Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington DC. "How - and Why - To Communicate with Nonscientists About the Brain." At the Renaissance Hotel. Co-appearance with Dan Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain On Music.
Week of July 21Here and Now (NPR) - Sam with WBUR's Robin Young, on the neuroscience of false beliefs.
Monday, August 11th, 11:00am-noon, Radio Times - Sam with Marty Moss-Coane.
July 14, Radio 1 (Italian National Radio) - Sam with Aldo Forbice on Il tuo cervello
June 7, Catalonian television - Sam talks about the Spanish translation, Entra En Tu Cerebro
May 30, Rubin Museum of Art - Sam and author Maria Coffey discuss her new book Secret Spiritual Lives Of Extreme Athletes
April 28-30 - Publicity for Entra En Tu Cerebro, Ediciones B. Madrid and Barcelona
April 21 - About Health, KPFA Berkeley
April 9 - Podcast interview with Sandra for the New York Times.
March 27 - Authors@Google, Mountain View, CA
March 25 - WILL-AM with Celeste Quinn, Urbana, IL
March 11 - Smithsonian Associates, Washington, DC
March 6 - Labyrinth Books, Princeton, NJ
February 13 - Wisconsin Public Radio with Joy Prager
Blog Archive
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- Kindle edition of Welcome to Your Child's Brain
- Appearance at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park
- Saturday morning on Fox and Friends
- Children's brains are active learners
- Five myths about your child's brain
- Is failure the key to success?
- Listen to us on Fresh Air - Wednesday Sept. 14
- Instilling self-discipline...without Tiger Parenting
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6 comments:
Dear Dr. Wang,
As a retired teacher 38 yrs at The Hockaday School, a private girls' school in Dallas founded 1913, I enjoyed your program on NPR/Terry Gross. I'm sending your info to a former student Vivian Ludford, a freshman at Princeton, cellist, artist, writer, Chinese speaker, a delightful young woman. I especially loved your comments regarding your daughter. I can tell you are "enjoying the journey," as well as being on the "write" track. Thank you for your research. Perhaps you'll come to Hockaday to speak to the Lower School faculty and parents.
Kay Merkel Boruff Dallas
Dear Dr. Wang,
I heard just a short excerpt of your interview on Fresh Air while I was in the car, but I caught the part about preschoolers' dreams. My understanding was that you said that children younger than three cannot have a dream about playing with toys. I have a son who is 2 1/2 (32 months), and I can think of two distinct times when he woke up after a nap with comments that I can only assume came from his dreams: One, just today, was, "I want to ride it!" Me: "Ride what?" Son: "Want to ride the bike! I fell off the bike!" (We haven't done any bike riding in a couple of weeks!) Another time I recall was (again right upon waking from a nap), "I want the car! Give me the car!" which definitely sounded like he was dreaming about an interaction with a toy.
-Judith Lam, Indianapolis
Ms. Lam, thank you for writing. Your experiences with your son are quite interesting.
You might enjoy reading a classic work by David Foulkes, Children's Dreaming And The Development of Consciousness. He surveyed children's dreams at length. He speculates that dreams reflect what children are capable of thinking about. It is certainly possible that your son is unusual.
All the best,
Sam Wang
Heard you on NPR, sounds like a great book! When can I get on Kindle?
Barnaby, we hope the e-book form will come out soon. Watch this space...
Barnaby - out on Kindle now. go to it!
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