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  • Stay Sharp for Life: Debunk Ten Brain Myths - Have you noticed that every week some article seems to say exactly the opposite to what another article said the week before? Do supplements improve memory? Are physical and brain activity important and complementary or is either enough?
  • Five Easy Ways To Increase Your Brain Power - Neurogenesis is a word being tossed around a lot lately. It means that your brain is growing new neurons - and not just while you're young. Scientists used to believe that you were born with a certain set of neurons, and mental decline was an inevitable part of aging. Thankfully, they now know this isn't true. Your brain continues to produce new neurons throughout your entire life. So, why do you have trouble remembering and why don't you feel as "sharp" as you used to?
  • The Mystery Of Human Memory - Memory is an integral part of human life. This can be defined as one’s potential to store, retain and consistently retrieve information. For years, experts in the field of medical science have been studying and researching to find ways to enhance memory. A lot has gone into the study of how human memory works. Experts feel that the more you learn about your memory, the better understanding you can develop in order to improve it. There are several things we don’t forget in our lives such as our crucial school days, summer holidays, some of the tales by granny, the scent of earth when it rains, first love and a lot more. These are the memories that make our life happier.
  • Brain Gym Exercises - Can They Really Increase My Brainpower? - Brain Gym® is a national organization that brings together folks that are interested in improving their brain function for multi-day retreats in states across the country. During a retreat, participants benefit from mind and body stimulation that can improve memory, stimulate thinking, reduce stress, and lead to a more balanced way of thinking. Curios about the brain exercises? Brain Gym® focuses on improving creativity and brain function through movement and balance.
  • Discover How Brain Fitness Exercizes Work - It turns out that brain fitness exercises work in at least three ways, depending on the kind of exercise we are doing, a thinking exercise or a physical exercise, or a computerized training. Exercize could mean running or lifting weights or practicing one of the new brain exercise programs or monitoring and changing cognitions, which is what Dr. Judith Beck has shown to be effective in her diet solution plan. The physical exercise of running or lifting weights encourages neurogenesis, or the growth of new brain cells. The cognitive behavioral exerises that Dr. Beck used have been shown to reduce blood flow or activation in the fear center of the brain, called the amygdala. Her work was done using fMRI or functional magetic resonance imaging to observe differing levels of activation in folks suffering from a spider phobia.
  • Train Your Mind For A Happy And Successful Life - A well trained mind will always provide you great opportunities to work better and achieve a lot of success in life. The wise men have always said that “the mind is like a bad neighborhood-never go there by yourself”. In case, your mind has not been trained, it would definitely prove to be a bad neighborhood. Fortunately, there are several techniques available these days to train your mind such as meditation, NLP etc. You must remember that our minds keep absorbing several thoughts, responses and behaviors from the environment around us. These entire patterns may affect us in different ways. There are times when most of the thoughts we tend to absorb don’t go well with our goals. Hence it becomes very necessary to train our minds in order to give out equal response to what we require.
  • 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).
  • 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?
  • 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... Can you write a haiku describing anything crossing your mind now? Remember the simple rules: write 3 lines, which don't need to rhyme, containing 5,7, and 5 syllables. My Favorite 10 Brain and Mind Haikus: 1) GTB, the skeptic, says Haikus are easy/ But sometimes they don't make sense/ Refrigerator 2) Techne, the philosopher, wonders: Solve the big questions:/ How do I know when I know?/ Who knows the knower? 3) Millie, the spiritual, suggests: Playing music feeds/ my soul while reading music/ nurtures my old brain.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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. - The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind - by Elkhonon Goldberg).
  • 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.
  • A Course In Hypnosis - Join And Become Skilled In The Art - Hypnosis is fun. Most people also consider it as a hobby, treatment option, and career while others pursue it to make serious money out of it. Hypnosis is real. You must have most of the times see the hypnotist making people sleep suddenly, acts as directed and in bizarre ways. There are several forms of hypnosis that work differently in different situation. There are people who prefer hypnosis to fix up a problem they have been facing for a long time, some would like to use it to control a person, action or situation and others consider it a serious medical therapy.
  • 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.
  • 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 measured by brain fitness assessments.
  • Brain Training: It Works (to Improve Mental Skills) and It Doesn't (to reduce Brain Age) - Researchers from the Mayo Clinic and USC Davis have just announced publication of their IMPACT study at the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The press release announces: - "Of the 487 healthy adults over the age of 65 who participated in a randomized controlled trial, half used the Brain Fitness Program for 40 hours over the course of eight weeks. The Brain Fitness Program consists of six audio exercises done on a computer, and is intended to "retrain the brain to discriminate fine distinctions in sound, and do it in a way that keeps the user engaged," Zelinski explained." The other half of participants spent an equal amount of time learning from educational DVDs followed by quizzes.
  • 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?
  • Brain Tips - Have you been searching for just the right brain tips, the ones that get you a raise, or fame and fortune? A magic potion or a magic wand, or like the super villins of cartoon land, the machine which makes your skull twice as large? Unfortunately, I have not discovered any brain tips like that either, but I have learned that the brain can be worked with, exercised, even trained, fed, and rested, to be the brain which provides the maximum level of neurons firing in tight synchrony, the kind of brain which grows new neurons, and new synapsess and dendrites because that brain receives novel challenge regularly. That is a brain tip that I can use.
  • Photographic Memory Training 101 - The Basics - You need to know that the mind works with the senses a lot as the flow of information comes from the outside world to the one inside us in the cortex of the brain. How it works is that the mind does a lot of association in the first place, which means that whatever information there is in the first place that we get exposed to, the brain associates to whichever sense that is closest to it.
  • 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. Priced at a reasonable level, and with superb in-depth text and images in all relevant areas, the book can be used as a 1) Brain 101 tutorial, 2) brief summary of the basics of Brain Care and Wellness, 3) description of the stages of brain development, 4) reference guide for around 70 brain-related conditions.
  • Brain Training Program - Curious about brain training programs? Is there anything to them besides smoke and mirrors? I have been using four of them, and I like them, but here is information from two University of Michigan researchers who offer an e-book which draws on their professional expertise to explain in a humorous way that brain fitness is certainly something we can cultivate. Everything starts in the brain. After all, thoughts are things. They are electrical and chemical pulses that change your brain by their very existence.
  • Teach your Children How Their Brain Works - They''ll Learn faster and Forget Less - In a recent article we tried to give you a first outline of an Operating Manual for the Brain.
  • Easy Methods To Improve Your Memory - Our memory is so important since it helps us to keep those life events in our mind for the years to come. Of course when you remember a memory from 15 years before but you forget the grocery list, it can be so irritating. There are many who want to find a way that they can improve upon their memory.
  • Brain Exercise - To Work Your Brain, Work Your Body The problem: I lost my car keys. What kind of brain exercise will make my brain work better? The solution: Brain-boosting software programs are a booming business. And studies show that both computer exercises and old-fashioned mental activities-reading or crafting - can affect memory. But the best thing you can do for your brain is to move your body. "If I had to pick between fitness training and brain training, I'd go with fitness," said Sam Wang, an associate professor of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton University. So far, he said, exercise has been shown to have an effect several times larger than computer-brain exercise. So are we talking about physical activity or physical exercise? According to Simon Evans, Ph.D.
  • 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. Alvaro Fernandez (AF): We are witnessing the birth of a whole new brain training industry. I understand that one of the key foundations is the new neuroimaging techniques we have today. Elkhonon Goldberg (EG): Precisely. It is often said that new neuroimaging methods have changed neuroscience in the same way that the telescope changed astronomy.
  • 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.
  • Does Cognitive Decline Begin at Age 27? - Has your Cognitive Decline begun? Are you older than age 27? According to a recent interpretation of Professor Timothy Salthouse's work, cognitive decline has begun for us, in some tests, even earlier than age 27. According to Professor Salthouse at the University of Virginia, therapies designed to prevent or reverse age-related conditions may need to start earlier than we thought, long before people become pensioners.
  • Powerful Tips For Self Improvement! - The world can be divided in to two main parts according to the kind of people living in it.
  • 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. You slow down to a crawl, turn down the radio, stop talking, and stare at every sign. Why is that? Neither the radio nor talking affects your vision. Or do they? In a recent study about using a cell phone while driving, Steven Yantis, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, had this to say: - "Directing attention to listening effectively 'turns down the volume' on input to the visual parts of the brain. The evidence we have right now strongly suggests that attention is strictly limited -- a zero-sum game.
  • What Happens In Brain Training Programs Anyway? - According to Evans and Burghardt, our brains are constantly engaging in an internal recalibration.
  • Memory Loss: Why You Lose Your Train Of Thought - And What To Do About It - Have you ever been in the middle of a thought when, all of a sudden, you can't remember what you were thinking about anymore? If so, rest assured that you're not alone. Just about everyone has experienced memory loss or loss of focus at some point or another.
  • Setting Goals for Home Business Success - Before you can achieve consistent home business success you need to have a plan for success. Before you can develop an effective plan, you need to set strong business goals. Whether or in business or in other areas of your life, goals will give you the focus to get to where you want to be. There is an old saying that if you do not know where you’re going you will never know when you get there. If you want to get to home business success, your goals will give you the target to aim for. It starts by putting your goals in writing. Many people claim to have goals, but they never get around to writing them down.
  • Brain Fitness for Seniors - Brain Fitness for Seniors? Not sure where you are in the Senior Continuum, but I am 61, which I believe qualifies me, and I want to nurture my neurons. I began to notice some worrisome changes in my ability to recall words awhile back. I feel a great deal of fear when I contemplate not being able to discern danger in the world around me, or perhaps being dependent on the good will and intentions of others, who may not want to extend that much of themselves 24/7, and I also know that I cannot stop the inexorable changes associated with aging.
  • Enhancing Brainpower – Some Powerful Tips - Brainpower is very important for an individual. It is the key to several factors including memory, planning, development of ideas and dealing with stress. Most people don’t realize that there is something lacking in them. However, there are several situations that confirm this such as when you walk into a room, you are suddenly unable to find your keys. Another situation is that some people even forget why they entered into a room. This happens due to the short-term memory. Sometimes, people may also feel overwhelmed by certain things such as those that demand their precious time.
  • Causes Of A Brain Injury - The Brain is the centre of the nervous system and one of the most complex organs in the human body, if damaged it is one of the hardest organs to repair. If you find yourself suffering from any form of brain injury it can be scary enough without having to decipher what the medical jargon means or understand what the doctors are talking about.
  • The Subconscious Brain And Hypnosis Is Powerful - When someone speaks of hypnosis, there are a few ideas that will come to mind right off hand. These ideas are usually the farthest from the truth. Mainstream hypnosis is often seen as a magician performing magic tricks or a crazy doctor putting someone under a spell. These ideas are both ridiculous and do not portray the real aspects of hypnosis. In reality, the subconscious brain and hypnosis is powerful and has life altering aspects. It has become well known to many and is more readily used. The use of hypnosis is seen on many fronts including: smoking, pain, phobias, depression, anxiety and more. In actuality, the limit to the subconscious brain and hypnosis is unlimited.
  • 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?
  • Speed Training Drills For All Levels Of Play - Speed training drills are a key ingredient to a training regiment for any soccer team. Almost all professional soccer clubs utilize speed training drills. Soccer speed training is just that essential. There are many different drills for speed training. Speed training drills can also be very fun for players. Keeping practice fun is a challenge for any coach of any soccer team. Its challenging for the coaches of little children leagues and even for professional leagues. The key is to training your players with the best tools that are available and will continue to attract players to the practices. If practice can be fun for players they will be more willing to participate in the practice.
  • 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.
  • Stay Sharp As a Tack With Strength Training - A fear of losing our marbles as we age is well grounded in statistics, with Alzheimer's disease being the fourth leading cause of death in those over 60. Approximately $148 billion is spent per year in the US alone for treatment of this disease and it is threatening to become the healthcare crisis of the 21st century. The extent of the expected epidemic is massive as more than 26 million people worldwide already have the disease, a number projected to quadruple by 2050 and the effects on society will be staggering. In 2011, the baby boomer age group will fuel this crisis as they start turning 65, the age of greatest risk for Alzheimer's.
  • 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.
  • The Neuropsychologist: An Essential Component of Any Traumatic Brain Injury Team - The most successful recovery from a brain injury usually requires the involvement of a neuropsychologist. A good question: what is neuropsychology? Neuropsychology comes from the Greek words "neuron" [meaning "nerve"] "psyche" [meaning "mind"] and "logos" [meaning "the study of"]. Put together, you have "the study of mind and nerves.
  • Brain Training and Mind Games: Interview with Japanese Expert Go Hirano - Today we are traveling to Japan to learn about latest gaming trends there. Go Hirano is a Japanese executive with experience in neuroscience and gaming.
  • Human Brain Memory - How the Human Brain Memory Can Be Used Effectively - What is David’s number? Where did you keep your spectacles? What’s your neighbors’ family name? Are all these questions bothering you? Then this call for some workout on your brain memory. Being forgetful does not mean that you are just getting older. It just means that you have yet to give your brain the right amount of workout. The ability to keep your brain memory fresh and sparkling new is as good as keeping yourself healthy and in shape. Discover some of the ways on how the human brain memory can be used effectively, for your own advantage. As days go by, you will soon forgot about the different memories.
  • 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. I know I have company out there in the slacker realm. When I was in school I never truly appreciated how good I had it. All that was expected of me was to go to class and learn, and that seemed like such a hardship. I distinctly remember not going to classes when it rained, or they were too early or just about anything outside of my perfect condition.
  • The Top 10 Brain Health Books of 2008: Ready for some Mental Exercise? - Here you have The 10 Most Popular Brain Fitness & Cognitive Health Books of 2008, based on book purchases by SharpBrains' readers during 2008. We hope you find them as stimulating as we did! 1.
  • Intelligence increase through sport and exercise - Only a few decades ago neurologists believed that a brain could not grow in an adult but rather began to wither with age. They saw this as a safe conclusion because brain autopsies always seemed to suggest that a brain only lost but never seemed to gain over the years. When grandchildren would overhear their grandparents or even their parents quip "I must be getting old" they would take this as a true statement that - and in fact this would work like a self-fulfilling prophesy, if you firmly believe old age to be synonymous to becoming senile then your body would obey as much as it would if you believed the contrary. But we will leave the subject of autosuggestion and what it can do for you till a later article in this series.
  • Brain Injury May Cause Onset of Alzheimer's, Report Finds - Washington D.C. researchers at Georgetown University may have found a link between the onset of Alzheimer's disease among patients who have suffered previously from a brain injury. According to a Reuter's news report on the study, Alzheimer's disease is "associated with accumulations of an abnormal protein, amyloid beta, in the brain. Traumatic brain injury triggers accumulation of enzymes required for production of amyloid-beta." However, individuals who suffer from traumatic brain injuries can still find hope in this newly appointed research as scientists may have found a way to decrease the effects of brain damage by "blocking the enzymes in the biochemical pathway reducing the effects of long-term Alzheimer's disease damage," according to Reuters. Traumatic Brain Injury Risks Approximately 5 million Americans are currently living with a traumatic brain injury; each year an additional 1 million U.S.

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