Wired News reports on the latest trends in mental fitness. ""Most people's idea of fitness stops at the neck," said Patti Celori, executive director of the New England Cognitive Center. "But the brain is the CPU of our body, and most people don't do much to keep it as fit as possible."

Check out Four Quarters of the Earth - A Heuristic-Hermeneutic Inquiry into World Art By Kathleen I. Kimball

Watch Joel Garreau on webcast from the Bay Area Future Salon discussing his book Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds and Bodies – And What It Means to be Human. Why do we care why we exist?

Via an ESPN Poll: Is putting a foreign substance on a ball or corking a bat as bad as using performance-enhancing drugs? Total Votes: 18,618. 59% Yes, 41% No. An interesting popular-secular result.

Don't miss my friend, and maybe yours, Steven Johnson on tonight's Daily Show where he'll be improvising his new book, Everything Bad is Good for You.

I highly recommend a visit to the McGovern Brain Research Institute at MIT and meet the McGoverns who have donated almost $350 million to make it a reality.

Psychnotes has some good blogs on recent research in the areas of sarcasm, magic, and stigma. Worth a read.

Check out Next Billion, an organization whose goal is to identify and discuss sustainable business models that address the needs of the world's poorest citizens.

Plexon Neurotechnology Research Systems is sponsoring two conferences in China this week. The Third International Symposium on Brain Functional Genomics in Shanghai on May 26 and The First International Conference and USA-China Joint Workshop on Neural Interface and Control (CNIC) in Wuhan, China on May 26-28. If you attend either of these, please send me your notes.

Visit the best Japanese Neuroscience Blog Around - Ryohei Yasuda

Neurological Diseases and Psychiatric Illnesses Represent Fastest Growing Unmet Medical Market - 1.5 Billion People Worldwide (from...The Neurotechnology Industry 2005)

Cita Neuropharmaceuticals Files Prospectus

Growth of the niceappleflickrrgooglesocialtextfestyahoo

Interested in Huntington's Disease? Check out the HD blog.

I highly recommend Derek's latest "Rewiring the Brain?"

Finally a neuroethics and law blog....

Don't miss Carl Zimmer's insights on the hobbit's brain.

A must read if you care about connecting the dots.

GE launches HDMR (High Definition Magnetic Resonance) imaging technology at Dubai's Health Care conference.

Check out this interesting piece in Body, Space & Technology -- Blind Date: Developing a Multisensorial Interfacing Experience by Isabel Valverde.

MIT's McGovern Institute selected Dr. Judith Rapoport as winner of 2005 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience today for her groundbreaking studies of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Childhood Onset Schizophrenia.

An insightful essay by Jakob Lodwick argues that tagging, as seen on Flickr, allows you to organize things in a way that makes sense to your brain.

Reinstitutionalization in Europe and Acculturation in the U.S.

Dubai Biotechnology and Research Park (DuBiotech), the world’s first free zone dedicated to the biotechnology industry was launched today with the goal of becoming a regional leader in the health sciences

David Dobbs at Slate dives into neuromarketing and more...highly recommended.

"Never Retire", says William Safire as he leaves NYTimes for the Dana Foundation. "Neuroscience will just as certainly make possible the mental agility of the aging. Nobody should fail to capitalize on the physical and mental gifts to come."

New research on the Reorganization of Visual Processing in Macular Degeneration, the leading cause of visual impairment in the developed world.

Harvard Medical School Dubai Center (HMSDC) appoints Robert L. Thurer, MD to lead its facility based in Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC)

Future Pundit on Compulsive Gamblers Feel Less Pleasure From Gambling?

Postrel on Social Software and Medical Health