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  • Use More of Your Brain to Get Things Done - Recent advancements in brain imaging show us that older people use more of their brain to perform tasks than younger people do.
  • 10-Question Checklist to Select the Right Brain Fitness Program for You - Unless you have been living in a cave, you have read by now multiple articles about the brain training and brain exercise craze: sudoku, Nintendo BrainAge, multiple online games, software like MindFit and Posit Science... How do you know which of them can help you more, or whether you need any of them?
  • Brain Fitness Vacations for Baby Boomers: Tips for Staying Sharp - A year ago we wrote a Glossary where we defined Brain Fitness as "the general state of good, sharp, brain and mind, especially as the result of mental and physical exercise and proper nutrition" and a Brain Fitness Program as a "structured set of brain exercises, usually computer-based, designed to train specific brain areas and functions in targeted ways, and...
  • Variety is the Spice of Brain Fitness: Part I – EPIQ performance - When it comes to the fitness of your brain (or your body) variety is key. Your brain health depends on many factors including: everything you put in your mouth; the physical and mental activities you choose to do or not to do; the amount of rest and reflection you allow yourself; and all the stuff you tell yourself in your own head. If I had to sum up how to get the healthiest and fittest brain possible in one word, it would have to be ‘variety'. This applies to all the things I mentioned above, which I will be getting into in detail over the next several weeks.
  • Use It or Lose It: The Theory and Practice of Brain Exercise and Fitness for Cognitive Health - Who has not heard "Use It or Lose It". Now, what is "It"? Last week I gave a talk at the Italian Consulate in San Francisco, and one of the areas attendants seemed to enjoy the most was learning what our brains are and how they work, peaking into the "black box" of our minds. Without understanding at least the basics, how can we make good decisions about our own brain health and fitness? Let's review at a glance: The brain is composed of 3 "brains" or main sub-systems, each named after the evolutionary moment in which the sub-system is believed to have appeared. 1) Neocortex, or Human Brain, is the most recent area, where we perform high-level thinking and complex integrative tasks. Other mammals do have this part too, but in smaller proportion of the whole brain volume.
  • Ten Findings on the State of the Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health Software Market - You probably have been reading much about "brain training" and "brain fitness" and wondered, "What is all the Fuss About?
  • Top Ten Tips for Women Who Lead Men - Ellen recently wrote a nice post titled Top Ten Tips for Men Who Lead Women, and asked for volunteers to offer a complementary perspective. I hope you enjoy! 1- Stress management: We men know we are hard to lead, and that can be stressful for you and for us. You should know that stress affects short term memory, so it is important to be able to manage stress well, with meditation, breathing or other methods. Also, please remember, laughing is good for your brain. 2- Don't overthink: Don't think too much-we don't. If we do, we try to find ways to self-talk us out of that uncomfortable state. 3- We like toys: Please remember our humble origins, men are just evolved apes... We are tool-using animals, which is why we like playing with all kinds of toys, from a car to that blackberry.
  • Valentine Brain Fitness - A recent article in the New York Times highlighted new studies directed at figuring out how long-time married couples can keep their romance alive. The answer was very simple. Do something different. In one ten-week study, researchers worked with 53 couples. They instructed one third of them to spend 90 minutes per week doing familiar but enjoyable activities, like going to dinner or a movie.
  • Eating - When Your Brain Won’t Say STOP - To eat or not to eat – what does your brain say? The desire to eat comes from many factors monitored by, and instructions put out by your brain – in essence your level of Brain Fitness. One specific brain region involved in monitoring nutrition signals is the hypothalamus. This part of the brain houses a complex set of brain cells that talk to each other and talk to your bloodstream and digestive tract to decide whether you need to eat.

  • Harry Potter and the Unfit Brain - Okay, I'm not trying to add another title to J.K. Rowling's astoundingly successful series. I just want to use the main characters to make a point.
  • Brain Fitness and Diabetes - An interesting paper came out recently in Nature talking about a newly discovered link between the brain and metabolism in type II diabetes. I thought the paper was interesting, not just for the new data, but because it supports the underlying concept of Brain Fitness – and more specifically, in this case, physical intelligence, which I have defined before as your brains ability to control your body. Type II Diabetes in the Body Type II diabetes is a condition where your body is unable to regulate blood sugar appropriately.
  • Brain Fitness Case Study: Kris Kringle - How BrainFit is the man in the big red suit? Does old St. Nick adhere to the four cornerstones of brain fitness to take good care of his egg's noggin? All in all he seems to do a fairly good job, but let's take a closer look. First off is Nutrition. I'd guess that the diet up in the north pole has to be similar to the Eskimos.
  • Ready, Set, Think - Studies are piling up showing how exercising your body boosts the fitness of you brain as well. Exercise has documented benefits for learning and memory, executive decision making function, mood regulation, and even protection against brain injury from an accident. The latest piece comes from Dr.
  • Brain Age Mythology Compared to What Really Improves Cognitive Health - Many people have been asking us recently about whether we all have a "Brain Age" and how we can reduce our "brain ages".
  • 10 Truths About Aging You May Mot Know - With no exception, all of us age. Now, why is "aging" such a bad word? What about growing? and lifelong development? If you are a caregiver, you know this process is not always easy, but the good news from neuroscience these days is that there is much each of us can do. 1- Change: We should talk more about change than about decline, as we discussed recently with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, who wrote his great book The Wisdom Paradox precisely on this point. 2- Improvement: Some skills improve as we age-In our brain fitness classes, we typically explain how some areas typically improve as we age, such as self-regulation, emotional functioning and Wisdom (which means moving from Problem solving to Pattern recognition). For example, as a lawyer accumulates more cases under his/ her belt, he or she develops an automatic "intuition" for solutions and strategies.
  • Top 21 Books on Brain Health, Fitness and Training, Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis - Given the growing media coverage of brain fitness and brain training, we have produced this compilation of the Top 21 Books that help understand these trends, the research behind them, and...
  • How to Think Young and Stay Young - Ben Douglas, professor at the University of Mississippi Medical School at Jackson, once said, "You're as young as you think." Apparently, if you think you are young, you will stay young. Thinking young is a self-fulfilling prophecy. But the problem is: How to think young and stay young. Aging is gradual, but inevitable. Aging has a direct debilitating effect on your brain. Free radicals can damage your brain over decades of changes: when you reach 65, your brain cells undergo many more mutations than they did in your younger years. These cumulative changes may bring about a neurological disease, such as dementia.
  • What Causes ADHD Symptoms? - The general idea out there is that ADD and ADHD are caused by social problems.
  • This is Your Brain on Stress - Remember the Bugs Bunny cartoons where Yosemite Sam would get so angry and stressed out that steam would come out of his ears. In fact, this seemed to happen to a lot of cartoon characters that lost there cool. Were these guys actually frying there brains? If so, could they get those fried brain cells back after they calmed down? It seems that cartoonists may have correctly predicted some neurobiology of stress. Stress biology has been a hot topic in neuroscience for many years and research emerges all the time to further our understanding of why stress is so bad for the brain.
  • Climbing the Corporate Ladder of Brain Fitness - Does your job have anything to do with your odds of getting Alzheimer's disease down the road? Studies have come out recently linking intellectually challenging careers to reduced risk of dementia. Other studies link education level to cognitive health in later years. Overall, people with more education have lower rates of Alzheimer's disease than those with less education. This really isn't that surprising if you think about it.
  • Can Your Conscience Protect You from Alzheimer’s Disease? - Conscientiousness refers to your willful desire to work in a dependable manner with attention to detail. Since the 1940s, the psychology field has considered conscientiousness as one of five major personality traits, the others being neuroticism, extraversion, openness and agreeableness. Now, new research shows that your level of conscientiousness may affect your level of Brain Fitness. A little extra effort may be good for your brain Researchers tested nearly a thousand older adults that were free of any kind of dementia, rated them on the five personality traits and then followed them for 12 years.
  • Is there Science Behind the Growing Brain Fitness Industry? - To address this question, we interview today Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, one of the earliest proponents of the Brain Fitness and Exercise field. He is a clinical professor of neurology at New York University School of Medicine, and author of The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind and The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older.
  • Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks - Most people think of aging in association with a decline of the brain and body.
  • An Apple a Day Keeps the Brain Doctor Away - Age-old wisdom tells us that we should eat fruit to stay healthy. Once again, science catches up to the old adage. A new study suggests that compounds in fruit, especially apples, may promote brain fitness as you age. Specifically, researchers found that phenolics, extracted from apples, bananas and oranges protected neuron-like cells from dying in a dish. But before we get into the new results let's cover a little background on what the fruits may be doing to protect your brain. Too much oxidative stress can lead to Alzheimer's disease One of the things that can damage bodily tissues and cause disease is oxidative stress. This is essentially a process that usually happens during the manufacturing of energy.
  • Top 10 Brain Training Future Trends: New Mind/Body Focus, Brain Trainers, and More - In an emerging, dynamic, high growth market, like brain training, it is difficult to make precise projections.
  • Nap Today, Perform Better Tomorrow. - A couple of new reports came out this week addressing sleep in our culture. Everyone knows that they feel a little cranky when they don’t get enough sleep. It’s therefore no surprise that sleep affects your mood.
  • Are Kid's Growing Bellies Increasing Their Odds of Alzheimer's? - The title question may be a bit of a stretch, but you only need to connect a couple of research dots to get from childhood obesity to reduced brain fitness in older age. Belly Fat and Brain Fitness are Related First, a recent meta-analysis from researchers at Johns Hopkins University verified that the odds of getting Alzheimer's and other types of dementia increase as you gain weight. A meta analysis takes all previous studies on a particular topic and looks at them together to improve the statistical power over any one study by itself. This particular meta analysis looked at all studies that evaluated whether or not risk for Alzheimer's or other types of dementia is increased in obese individuals.
  • Losing Your Memory From A Traumatic Brain Injury - Depictions of head-injury patients in movies and television almost always show the patient experiencing some type of amnesia, or memory loss. Indeed, memory loss is the most common cognitive side effect of a severe traumatic brain injury.
  • Cognitive Fitness and Health: 10 Debunked Myths on How Your Mind Works. - Over the last year we have interviewed more than 10 leading neuroscientists and psychologists worldwide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have news to report. What can we say today that we couldn't have said only 10 years ago?
  • Variety is the Spice of Brain Fitness: Part II – Nutrition and IQ - This is not going to be an article about all the good foods you should eat and the stuff you should avoid. Many articles, including some of my own, have already beaten that horse. Most people know that carrots are better than cheeseburgers and I'm not going to get into that again at this time. What I want to do instead is give you a different perspective on the value of nutrition in improving and maintaining brain fitness – and what that really means. Data supports the value of healthy foods for improving performance on intelligence tests and for reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
  • Exercise for Physical, Emotional and Intellectual Fitness - In July, my daughter and I went snow skiing (yes, I did say July - southern hemisphere winter). During the week we skied, both of us took lots of lessons. My daughter because she is new to skiing and me because the last time I skied was 18 years ago! Those of you who ski know that the way one skis is different than it used to be because the design of the skis has changed. Easier in many ways once you embrace the differences!
  • The Dana Guide to Brain Health: A Practical Family Reference From Medical Experts. Book Review. - Dana Press kindly sent us a couple of books. One of them, The Dana Guide to Brain Health: A Practical Family Reference From Medical Experts, is our topic today. We are impressed by what Dana is doing to insert neuroscience findings and implications into the public discourse. No big surprise then, to find out so much quality content inside a 700-page one-of-a-kind guide. The guide is really 4 books inside a common binding.
  • A Soda for Your Thoughts? - Everyone knows that sucking down too much soda contributes to a growing waistline. But did you know that studies also suggest that it may contribute to your mental decline? High sugar beverages are well-established risk factors for developing obesity and type II diabetes. There is also a link between type II diabetes and risk of Alzheimer's disease that we don't yet fully understand. Sugar Not So Sweet for Your Brain A new study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry asked whether high sugar drinks could actually precipitate Alzheimer's disease. Researchers used a mouse model that has gene mutations found in certain human cases of Alzheimer's disease. This leaves the mice highly susceptible to developing dementia.
  • Brain Improvement and Cognitive Fitness: Fact or Fiction? - You may already have a Nintendo Brain Age game, or at least have heard of it. You may also have read recently that start-up Lumos Labs raised $3m to develop "brain training games". From the press release: - "Lumos Labs is at the center of a booming interest in cognitive exercise and the emerging science about the remarkable plasticity of the brain," said Amish Jani of Pequot Ventures. This and other developments (such as the success of Nintendo Brain Age, and the PBS special devoted to brain plasticity) are signs of growing interest and an incipient market still in an immature stage--and that has resulted in much misinformation and confusion. Consumers, educators and health professionals will be reading more and more about programs like Posit Science, Dakim, Cogmed, Fast ForWord, MindFit, Lumosity, Happy Neuron, FitBrains, MyBrainTrainer, and more.
  • New Treatment May Offer Cardiac Arrest Victims Suffering From TBI Relief - Scientists believe that a traumatic brain injury (TBI) following heart failure and cardiac arrest can be avoided as well as repaired, according to a new study. The study, titled, "Neurological Recovery," describes a common condition known as ischemia that occurs often after unwitnessed cardiac arrest when an individual suffers from cessation of blood flow causing severe neurological injury. The neurological or brain damage occurs because heart function and resuscitation have been delayed for 10 minutes, according to the study.
  • Feed Your Brain With Food - Most of us all assume that the older we get, the more forgetful we become. But did you know that forgetfulness does not necessarily have to happen? Studies have found that older people forget more often when they are expected to. For example, in China, older people score great on memory tests: and in this culture, they are never told how forgetful they are.
  • Early Onset Dementia May be Risk of Brain Injury - A study recently published in the journal of Biological Psychiatry has discovered a link between accelerated dementia and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and brain infections. Individuals affected by dementia may see an acceleration of their condition when inflammation of the brain occurs because of a brain injury that also leads to an infection. Scientists had already been aware of systemic inflammation, in which the body becomes inflamed as a whole, to have an affect on brain function, according the study;
  • Do Crossword Puzzles and Bridge Provide all the Brain Exercise You Need? - This is a question we often get asked in our classes and lectures. The quick answer is that while recreational activities like crossword puzzles, sudoku, bridge, chess, poker, etc. are all good for you and better than doing nothing, they are usually limited in their range of mental cross-training as well as difficult to control to ensure the right combination of both challenge and novelty.
  • Reading Minds with Fitter Brains - Part of Brain Fitness is being able to read the emotions of other people. The better you are at this, the better you will be at interacting with people, either socially or in business. Like any skill, you can improve this social aspect of your emotional intelligence. Most of the time we don't even think about interpreting the intentions of others. We just do it naturally by reading their facial expressions and gestures to know when they are happy, angry or troubled.
  • Brain Tumours - Meningioma Symptoms - Meningioma symptoms are not as well defined as other conditions and every diagnosed person will expereince something different happening to their body.
  • Some Parts of the Brain Improve with Age - One of my recent articles gave a statistic from the sports psychology world stating that it requires about 5 positive comments to overcome 1 negative comment when coaching young players.
  • Anoxic Brain Injury and Treatment - Anoxic brain injury, similar to traumatic brain injury (TBI) is when the brain is deprived of oxygen and blood flow, thus causing the brain cells to suffocate and die. The longer an individual goes without oxygen to the brain, the more damage occurs. It has been noted that permanent brain injury can occur in as little as five minutes, in which case the seriousness of the brain injury is determined. With anemic anoxia, the blood is unable to carry enough oxygen to the brain.
  • 8 Simple Ways To Boost Your Brain Power - There are lots of different ways to increase your brain power. Your brain is like any other "muscle" in your body and grows stronger the more it is used. Here are some that you can start using immediately to boost the power of your brain: 1. Use your brain more (duh!) Sounds easy. But how many times do you reach for the keyboard to search for something you already know but can't be bothered to remember?
  • Easy Brain Power Strengthening Tips - It's quite simple: if you want to begin strengthening your brain's power, you need to give it some exercise. OK. It's not a simple matter of going down to the gym and getting your brain to pump weights. But actually, the process of brain power strengthening isn't too different from that model. You need to stretch your brain.
  • Why Do You Turn Down the Radio When You're Lost?: Multi-Tasking and the Brain 101 - You're driving through suburbia one evening looking for the street where you're supposed to have dinner at a friend's new house.
  • Will Stress Take You Down? - Why does stress overwhelm some people while others come through it just fine? A very elegant new study came out this month in the high impact scientific journal, Cell, addressing this question. Researchers investigated some brain functions underlying why some people are highly susceptible to stress and others seem relatively resistant. Although the studies were done in mice, the potential application to humans, which I will discuss below, is not a stretch. Stress can lead to depression . . . sometimes The researchers used a basic model to stress mice by placing them in the same cage with a ‘bully’
  • Traumatic Brain Injury: Main Causes and Those Most at Risk - A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be any injury where a sudden trauma causes brain damage. Traumatic brain injuries affect a wide variety of Americans every year, causing a multitude of symptoms that can vary from mild to extreme.
  • Does Increasing Lifespan Also Increase Brainspan? - We have are fortunate enough today to expect to live about 20 years longer than our grandparents did. Since the 1950s, we have enjoyed a two-decade increase in lifespan. The downside is there is a big difference between lifespan and healthspan, which is the number of years that you remain healthy. A new editorial in Archives of Internal Medicine looks at the health of people reaching 100 years of age. Today there are 55,000 centenarians in the US. The people that make it that far today generally fare pretty well. That's because it's still difficult to reach that status without some strong genes and a healthy lifestyle. But modern medicine is pushing more and more people to a ripe old age.
  • Is the Road to Diabetes and Depression the Same One? - Type II diabetes and depression are co morbid, which means they happen together more than expected based on the rates of each disease alone.
  • The one workout that you have been neglecting - Students across the nation are heading back into the classrooms, sitting at their desks and, if they're anything like me, zoning out.

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