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  • Tips for coping with a pet with seizures - Animal health care is complex, and the central nervous system in particular is still largely uncharted territory. Diseases of the nervous system are, fortunately, rare, and sadly often severe.
  • 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...
  • Brain Health: Are Women Right To Be More Concerned Than Men? - I recently offered free copies of my new book on brain health in return for a review. Guess what... over 70% of the respondents were women. A surprising result...? No not really! Compared with men...
  • 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? How many times do you use a calculator, even for really simple calculations, rather than mental arithmetic?
  • 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!
  • 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?
  • 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 the implications for all of us. For your easy browsing, we have categorized them into seven groups: 1) Fascinating books on neuroplasticity (the ability of the brain to rewire itself through experience): - Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves - by Sharon Begley. - The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - by Norman Doidge.
  • Mixed Thoughts on Brain Cancer - The radiation therapy can be administered in different ways. External radiation uses a high-energy radiation to pinpoint the tumor. The beam travels to different layers before reaching the tumor itself. It passes through the skin, skull, healthy brain tissue before reaching the tumor. The treatment lasts for about four to six weeks, given five days a week and will usually last for only a few minutes. The other kind of radiation technique is the internal or implant radiation, where the surgeon uses a small radioactive capsule which is placed inside the tumor itself.
  • 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...

  • Gingko And Menopause - 4 Symptoms It Can Help - Ginkgo biloba is often helpful in menopause as well as a variety of other health situations. Ginkgo, or gingko as it is sometimes spelled, is very safe. For these reasons it is well worth considering using it in menopause. Ginkgo And Menopause Gingko biloba is a circulatory stimulant and this helps it to relieve certain menopause symptoms. These menopause symptoms include: * Poor memory * 'Muzzy' brain * Cold hands and feet, and * Low libido These are symptoms which are often reported in menopause. There is a great deal of clinical research into ginkgo biloba which gives confidence that it can often help in the conditions mentioned. Ginkgo's helpful effects on 'muzzy' brain and poor memory can be explained by its good effects generally on improving blood supply to the brain.
  • Fish Oil for the Brain - Studies have shown that fish oil may make significant improvements on the mental health of people. The active ingredients are needed for the brain to function properly and have a good overall health. Fish oil is commonly known as Omega-3. It contains EPA or eicosapentaenoic acid and DHA or docosahexaenoic acid. The key stabilizing element in fish oil is EPA. Taking fish oil in supplement form may be healthier than consuming it through fish because all of the toxins of a fish are taken away when the fish oil liquid or capsules are created. Many people don’t eat enough fish or like it so supplementation is preferred. If you decide to take a daily supplement of fish oil capsules or tablets then you should know how much is okay to take.
  • 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.
  • 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. Scientists interpret this to mean one of two opposite things: First, older people recruit more brain activity to do the same things in order to compensate for degeneration of specific brain circuits that can no longer get the job done by themselves. This is the compensation hypothesis. Think of it like one brain region asking for help from another brain region in order to do something that, in its younger days, it could do on its own. Second, the older brain may become 'over-activated' when trying to perform a task because it doesn't do as good of a job at assigning the task to a specific region. This is the de-differentiation hypothesis.
  • How To Keep Your Brain Healthy And Your Mind As Sharp As A Tack - Whatever Your Age - Brain health shouldn’t be something you first start thinking about in middle- or old-age. Just as you need to exercise your body throughout life to keep it healthy so too does your brain require a daily workout to keep it vital and alert. It is common for people to experience a gradual decline in their mental abilities as they age. We are told that this is normal and is the result of age-related structural changes in the brain - and that such changes are inevitable. But you know what… there’s a lot of evidence coming from the latest research into brain health that brain aging is only ‘normal and inevitable’ if you do nothing to prevent it.
  • Understanding Your Emotional Brain - Welcome to my 7-part mini series, Understanding Your Emotional Brain. Today, I'm going to share with you the importance of using your beautiful brain to understand how your body reacts to events. Randy Pauch, a 47 year old college professor, dying of pancreatic cancer, said, "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want". You can learn about his amazing experience in his last lecture on YouTube. What is your experience of events in your life?
  • What Vitamin Cures Anxiety And Stress? - If you suffer from anxiety and stress then you really need to look at your diet and what vitamins you may be missing out on. If you ask your health practitioner, or your natural health advisor, "What vitamin cures anxiety and stress"? then both will tell you that there are a number of natural treatments that can help a person suffering from anxiety and stress. However, your health practitioner may also tell you that most of these vitamins need help from other sources and vitamins alone may not be the answer to your problem.
  • 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?" After many months of work (and we hope many new neurons and stronger synapses in our brains), we have just released our inaugural report on the emerging Brain Fitness Software Market, and we want to share a few of the key findings with you. In summary, the whole category is growing. We estimate the size of the US brain fitness software market at $225M in2007, up from $100m in 2005 (50% CAGR). The two segments that fueled the market growth: consumers (grew from $5m to $80m, 300% CAGR) and healthcare & insurance providers (grew from $36m to $65m, 35% CAGR).
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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. If the hypothalamus system senses a need for nutrition it will send out hormone signals that make you hungry, if not, it will try to keep you feeling full.
  • Top 25 Brain and Mind Haikus. Can you Write Yours? - The results of a recent "Brain and Mind Haikus" contest are in. Below you have my Favorite 10 Haikus on brain-related topics, plus many other fun ones for a total of 25...
  • Sicko and Bill Clinton on Health and Wellness Trends - Have you watched Sicko already? It is very worth doing so. In order to help put the health problem we are living in better perspective, let me share now some of the insights and advice that Bill Clinton gave us in San Francisco recently at the Healthetc event sponsored by California Pacific Medical Center and KCBS.
  • Discovering Balance In Your Daily Life With The Brain Gym 101 Seminar - What does having more balance in life mean to you? It differs for everyone. For some it’s being able to focus more and stay organized on tasks.
  • 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.
  • Brain Health and Your Longevity - Your longevity has everything to do with your brain health. My previous article "Heart Surgery and Your Longevity" emphasized the importance of heart health to your overall health and well-being. As you age, your heart health declines, thereby affecting your brain health. A failing heart ages a person physically as well as mentally.
  • 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. If that is the case, then how do you think young? Firstly, you need to understand that age does not affect your intelligence.
  • 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?
  • 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". This concept is a myth, fueled by the (very fun) Nintendo game and a recent PBS campaign promoting a program produced by Posit Science.
  • 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. Still, if you don't want any kind of clue as to how the last Harry Potter book ends, then don't read this article. Why did Harry always seem to get the best of his evil arch nemesis, Lord Voldemort? I suggest that Harry had a fitter brain.
  • Vitamin B12: Essential To Body and Mind - Vitamin B12 is an essential nutrient, and consistent deficiencies can have serious repercussions in terms of both physical and mental health. As with most nutrients, it’s best to get vitamin B12 from foods, but better to use supplements than to be lacking. However, there are plenty of excellent sources of vitamin B12 to choose from, even for vegetarians. (Vegetarian diets to be extremely low in B12.) This remarkable vitamin plays a number of very important roles in the health of the body and the functioning of the brain. Vitamin B12 contributes to our very foundation, as it helps in the process of making our DNA.
  • Brain Imaging Model Accurately Identifies Alzheimer’s - New Technique Helps Distinguish Alzheimer’s From Other Types of Dementia March 31, 2008, New York – The use of a brain imaging technique that measures sugar metabolism within a critical area of the brain could play an important role in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. According to Dr. Lisa Mosconi and her colleague Mony De Leon, both of New York University’s Center for Brain Health, the imaging technique has 94% accuracy in distinguishing Alzheimer's disease from other dementias. It was also able to identify brain patterns associated with very early cognitive decline. “Because the incidence of (Alzheimer's and related disorders) is expected to increase dramatically as the baby boomer generation ages, accurate diagnosis is extremely important, particularly at the early and mild stages of dementia when lifestyle changes and therapeutic interventions would be most effective,” Mosconi says.
  • 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. If you do them often, what you're doing is fun and can't hurt. But it may not be complete.
  • Excellent ways to improve health - You can have different types of ways to improve health like purchasing different types of plants and keep them in to your home can be a excellent choice because these plants have the power to transfer carbon dioxide into oxygen and they also have the power to purify the air and destroy harmful pollutants. These plants can give you psychological advantages also. By cleansing the colon you can get many health advantages such as it helps to decrease the pressure in the abdominal area, it helps to lose our weight and helps to give regular elimination. Proper breathing is one of the best ways to improve our health. Sometimes we can not breathe properly because of improper posture, stress and negative influences.
  • The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains - The LA Times just completed a wonderful 4-part series on how learning and memory work. The NYT re-emphasized the importance of physical exercise for neurogenesis (the creation of new neurons). To put this news in better perspective, let's review some good lifestyle habits we can follow to maintain, and improve, our vibrant brains: 1- Learn what is the "It" in "Use It or Lose It".
  • 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.
  • Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks - Most people think of aging in association with a decline of the brain and body. While it's true that your body systems tend to breakdown faster the older you get, this is not out of your control.
  • Myth Of The Aging Brain - There seems to be a commonly held belief in the consensus reality of our culture, that as we age our mind, i.e. brain, begins to decline in it's ability to function efficiently, quickly and accurately. Maybe this becomes true if we accept and also share this belief and therefore do not attend to our overall health and the health of our bodies which includes our brain. Reality is that we can grow new brain cells as adults, and create new neuropathways, stimulate previously unused areas of our brain and experience new connection and coordination between the left and right hemispheres in order to utilize "whole brain" cognitive and auto functioning.
  • Brain Injury And The Legal Battle - Brain is the most vital organ of human body. Our body is nothing but a complex machine and brain is the control panel there. It instructs all the body parts how to respond to various internal and external conditions and control everyday activities. It is the brain that helps us think reasonably, dream and imagine. Hence, the complexity of the architecture of human brain is beyond any question, so is its usability. A minor wound in brain can even lead to serious health concerns like chronic headache, paralysis or can put the victim in coma. Victims of brain injury suffer a lot.
  • 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. Typically, when you eat and your blood sugar goes up from the sugars in the food, your pancreas senses a rise in blood sugar and releases insulin into your bloodstream.
  • Chocolate Gift Ideas For All Occasions - There is something special about chocolate. It is one of the things that each and everyone love to put in their mouths. The taste of a piece of chocolate brings us a little bit closer to heaven when the feelings of wellbeing flows throughout our bodies.
  • 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.
  • 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. But, we can observe a number of trends that executives, consumers, public policy makers, and the media should watch closely in the coming years, as brain fitness and training becomes mainstream, new brain trainers appear, and an ecosystem grows around it. 1.
  • Traumatic Brain Injuries Associated With Motorcycle Accidents - Motorcycle accidents are a well-known leading cause of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Together with auto accidents, they are the single largest cause of brain injury in the United States.
  • What Causes ADHD Symptoms? - The general idea out there is that ADD and ADHD are caused by social problems. Very often, people hear their family members or neighbors telling them that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is caused by: video games, TV, music videos, single parent families, parents who work too much, computers, inexperienced teachers, etc.
  • Brain Injury After A Car Wreck - There are over 1 million U.S. citizens affected by a brain injury accident annually, with half of these individual's being the victim of a motorcycle or auto accident. Scientists have found that most individuals usually are the victim of traumatic brain injury after a car wreck. Accident-Related Brain Injury: Mechanisms In an auto-accident-related TBI, the victim is jolted violently, sometimes against an object. This causes the brain to twist within the skull and bump against the skull walls, damaging the brain's axions, which are the connections between neurons. This affects the communication's function within the brain that reduces the victim's ability to function normally on a daily basis. Patients with more severe axion damage may go into comas or die immediately.
  • Brain Injury and Its Consequences - When an individual is the victim of traumatic brain injury, they may have either closed brain injury or open head injury.
  • 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. In patients with a milder TBI, memory loss is still one of the most common symptoms. And the more severe the patient's memory loss is, the more severe the brain damage is likely to be. Temporary Memory Loss and TBI Some traumatic brain injury-related amnesia is temporary; such patients are usually unable to recall what happened directly before, during and after their accidents.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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