Shlomo Breznitz
Shlomo Breznitz | |
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2006–2007 | Kadima |
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| Born | 3 August 1936 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
Shlomo Breznitz (
brain fitness
software company.
Early life
Breznitz was born in
Auschwitz,[6] but his mother survived and they made aliyah to Israel in 1949. He studied psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
, gaining a BA in 1960, an MA in 1962 and a PhD in 1965, the first person to receive a doctorate in the new field of psychology in Israel.
Later career
From 1969 until 1971, Breznitz served as a consultant to the
Washington D.C.
He has written eleven books and has contributed chapters to over 20 other books in addition to numerous professional articles and research reports.[7] In 1999 he retired from Haifa University to found brain fitness software company, CogniFit. He has been in the forefront of cognitive training using a personal computer and has developed patented technology that turns the personal computer into a tool for providing individualized training programs for a wide range of cognitive skills needed for everyday function and cognitive skills specific to particular fields of interest.
Politics
After
Slovak to become an MK.[9] He was the founder of the India-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group in the Knesset.[10] However, he retired from politics and left the Knesset on September 28, 2007.[11]
Bibliography
Books authored by Breznitz include:
- Social Psychology Am-Oved, 1969 (Hebrew)
- Stress in Israel Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1981
- Handbook of Stress with L. Goldberger (Eds.). New York: Free Press of Macmillan, 1982
- Denial of Stress International Universities Press, 1983
- Cry Wolf: The Psychology of False Alarms Englewood Hills, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1984
- Molecular Biology of Stress with O. Zinder (Eds.). New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1988
- Memory Fields New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992
- Handbook of stress (2nd Revised Edition) with Leo Goldberger (Eds.) Free press, January 1993
- Maximum Brainpower: Challenging The Brain for Health and Wisdom with Collins Hemingway. Ballantine Books, 2012[12]
- The Tapestry of Life. Hakibutz Hameuchad, 2012
- Sinamatella: A Quest for Meaning. Dekel publishing house & Samuel Wachtman’s Sons, 2014.
References
- ^ Cross-Training Your Brain to Maintain Its Strength Washington Post, 12 September 2007
- ^ "Shlomo Breznitz Profile Page". Knesset. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
- ^ "Management Team". CogniFit. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
- ^ Reardon, Patrick T. (January 8, 1993). "A Holocaust Survivor Faces The Pain, The Questions". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-679-40403-3.
- ^ Hidden Children: Shlomo Breznitz and his sister, Yehudit Karban, Czechoslovakia Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine Secret Lives
- ^ "Shlomo Breznitz's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). TNIS-Club General M.R. Stefanik. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
- ^ "Shlomo Breznitz Knesset Actitivities". Knesset. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
- ^ 'We need friends' The Slovak Spectator, 9 April 2007
- ^ "Politics". Bloomberg. 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- ^ "Shlomo Breznitz Knesset Actitivities". Knesset. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
- ^ "Maximum Brain Power". Maximumbrainpower-cognifit.blogspot.sg. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
External links
- Shlomo Breznitz on the Knesset website
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