Aging

Thinking Smart In The 5 Stages Of Life

June 12, 2020

From the early childhood years on through old age, scientists have learned that the brain adapts itself to the challenges facing it and discards connections which are not reinforced through mental activity. Learning how to effectively stimulate brain growth — which continues all through adulthood

Can Sleep Boost Your Creativity?

June 9, 2020

In art, literature, or science, it’s an elusive question: how do you create something new? How do you get past a block or solve a seemingly impossible problem? Well, putting it aside and sleeping on it just might help. “Sleeping on it” has led to many famous inventions and artistic creations.

12 Ways to Keep Your Brain Fit

June 8, 2020

Just like your muscles need exercise, your brain needs mental workouts to stay in shape. Your gray matter gets so good at doing your daily routine that it barely has to work at it. So, you have to go above and beyond your everyday activities to stimulate it. Here are 12 ways to keep your brain fit.

It’s All In Your Head? Controlling Pain Through the Mind-Body Connection

June 6, 2020

Calming a frantic person, whether he or she is dealing with worries, sadness or even chronic pain, is a pretty tall order. About one in three Americans — more than 116 million people — lives with long-lasting pain that never seems to go away. Here’s the thing: When pain becomes persistent, even after a person’s

How Exercise Improves Your Motor Skills

May 31, 2020

It’s hardly news that a routine of physical daily exercise benefits the body — and there’s hardly anything that it doesn’t benefit — your motor skills, memory, disease immunity, overall mood, and daily energy level, even if your routine is as simple as running for a few minutes every day. What’s still obscure are

A Primer on Neuroplasticity: Experience and Your Brain

May 29, 2020

Parents and educators are among the most voracious consumers of the latest research about the brain, searching for strategies to enhance learning and brain development. They are finding a wealth of new answers. Discoveries from the field of neuroscience are reported in the media almost daily.

What’s Telling About Telomeres (and the Aging Process)

May 23, 2020

Is aging a natural process that we simply have to accept as a fact of life? A philosopher would say yes. Many doctors would also agree: that our cells eventually reach a point where they can no longer divide and either die or reach senescence, a retirement phase. Many scientists believe in the “Hayflick limit”

Call in the (Cognitive) Reserves!

May 4, 2020

How many paths does your brain have? Our thoughts run across a massive, diverse network of synaptic pathways, with trillions of synapses that form a staggering number of possible connections. Every human brain has more potential synaptic combinations than there are atoms in the universe

Unlocking the Wisdom of the Brain

April 10, 2020

We all know that age brings about the decline of certain brain functions such as memory recall and reaction time. What might be less known is that studies show that people become more satisfied with themselves and their lives as they get older. Eurobarometer and Gallup conducted a study

Can Exercise Pump Up “Mental Muscle”?

April 3, 2020

Physical education has long been an integral part of most educational curricula, but could it actually be a key conduit to academic success? That’s the hypothesis of New York University professor Wendy Suzuki, who introduced the highly popular class“Can Exercise Change Your Brain?”

Learning New Tricks: Healthy Aging and the Creative Brain

March 19, 2020

In a world of increasingly extended human lifespans, where so much depends upon invention, one of the most important issues is brain health. What are the mental, emotional, and spiritual consequences of developing medical, social, and technological means to help more people live longer lives?

Knowing and Restoring Your Moods

March 14, 2020

It is a myth that our emotions are beyond our control. Those who claim this are really saying, “I choose not to exercise control over my feelings.” Often this attitude is born of a sense that negative emotions are just part of who we are — that feeling persistently angry or sad is something that just comes through

What “Tip of the Tongue” Tells Us About How Memory Works

February 29, 2020

She’s your favorite actress. You’ve been following her career since she was in her early teens. You know her face with as much familiarity as family members. You can see the time she was being interviewed on the red carpet and gave her passing co-star a high five in your minds eye photographically.

Boost Your Attention by Training Your Brain Waves

February 27, 2020

If you’re like most people, you may have a hard time channeling your attention span for more than a few minutes — maybe even finding it harder to stay focused each time. Periods where you personally invest in a task at work or a presentation can sometimes shift as abruptly as our own moods. You might have

What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

February 19, 2020

The internet has revolutionized the ways in which we communicate, gather information, make purchases, and consume entertainment. Nearly everything we could ever want – whether it be an out-of-print book or a babysitter for tomorrow evening – is available with the click of a button.

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