Posts Tagged ‘gray-matter’
Trend: Going on a brain health vacation
_____ A Look at Luxury Resorts That Now Offer Brain Health Programs (Next Avenue): “Like any self-disrespecting woman, I’ve spent a lifetime of mirror scrutiny (and cash) on my thighs, hips, heart, back, post-baby belly, even my eyebrows. For all this investment, I’ve paid scant attention to the one irreplaceable body part that keeps everything…
Read MoreStudy: Long-term meditation can help slow down aging-related brain volume decline
. Long-term meditation tied to less brain loss (Reuters): “People who reported meditating for an average of 20 years had higher brain volumes than the average person, researchers report in Frontiers in Psychology. Kurth and his colleagues write that they can’t say meditation caused its practitioners to lose less brain volume, however. Other habits of…
Read MoreQ: What do people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety have in common? A: A brain with similar gray-matter loss
. Different mental disorders cause same brain-matter loss, study finds (press release): “A meta-analysis of 193 brain-imaging studies shows similar gray-matter loss in the brains of people with diagnoses as different as schizophrenia, depression and addiction…The findings call into question a longstanding tendency to distinguish psychiatric disorders chiefly by their symptoms rather than their underlying…
Read MoreTop 10 Quotes on Lifelong Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis (and a Call to eBook Readers)
You may have noticed that Amazon.com is sharing aggregated data on how ebook readers interact with the books they are reading. For example, the “Popular Highlights” section (towards the bottom of our Kindle book page) ranks the Top 10 sentences that Kindle readers have highlighted and shared while reading The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: 18…
Read MoreBrain Health Research offered by the Alliance for Aging Research
We just noticed that the Alliance for Aging Research offers an excellent list of references on Brain Health Research, organized in these 10 sections below. Enjoy! #1 Nourish Your Noggin: Eat a Brain Healthy Diet
Read MoreWalking increases brain volume and reduces risks of decline
In the latest issue of Neurology a study by Erickson et al. (2010) suggests that walking regularly can increase brain volume and reduce the risks of developing cognitive impairment. The researchers stared with 2 mains facts: Gray matter volume shrinks with age, often leading to cognitive decline. Physical exercise seems to be neuro-protector (see our previous…
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