Brain-Fitness

Without Brain Health, you do not have Health

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As you go through life, your brain under­goes extra­or­di­nary devel­op­ment. Your brain is the most adapt­able, mod­i­fi­able organ in your body, and it can change both pos­i­tive­ly and neg­a­tive­ly by how you use it each day. Just by read­ing a book such as this one, your brain has been changed.

How has your brain been altered through­out your life? How may it change in years and decades ahead? The good news is that much of the age-relat­ed decline is like­ly avoid­able and even reversible. The fact that you bought and have read this book to the very end tells me you are moti­vat­ed to do some­thing about your brain per­for­mance. Our cog­ni­tive brain health tends to decline over time because we let it, but you can be your own brain health fit­ness coach to max­i­mize brain func­tion. Grow­ing brain research shows that a major­i­ty of indi­vid­u­als can make their brain smarter every sin­gle day. [Read more…] about With­out Brain Health, you do not have Health

Reminder: UT-Dallas BrainHealth presents virtual talks with Alvaro Fernandez (this Thursday, April 21st) and Sanjay Gupta (next Tuesday, April 26th)

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Each month, some of the most fas­ci­nat­ing speak­ers par­tic­i­pate in inter­ac­tive con­ver­sa­tions about the lat­est advances in brain health sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and real-world application.

All talks are vir­tu­al and free of charge. Reg­is­ter for the sea­son and attend as many talks as you like. [Read more…] about Reminder: UT-Dal­las Brain­Health presents vir­tu­al talks with Alvaro Fer­nan­dez (this Thurs­day, April 21st) and San­jay Gup­ta (next Tues­day, April 26th)

UT-Dallas BrainHealth presents virtual talks with Alvaro Fernandez and Sanjay Gupta next month

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Each month, the most fas­ci­nat­ing speak­ers par­tic­i­pate in inter­ac­tive con­ver­sa­tions about the lat­est advances in brain health sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and real-world application.

All talks are vir­tu­al and free of charge. Reg­is­ter for the sea­son and attend as many talks as you like.

» Learn More & Reg­is­ter HERE

NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL BRAIN HEALTH MARKET
with Alvaro Fernandez

April 21, 2022 | 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

Mr. Fer­nan­dez, named a Young Glob­al Leader, runs Sharp­Brains, an inde­pen­dent mar­ket research firm track­ing applied neu­ro­science will present the lat­est trends in dig­i­tal brain health and soci­ety’s march toward per­va­sive neurotechnology.

He is the edi­tor-in-chief of sem­i­nal mar­ket reports on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and Dig­i­tal Brain Health, and co-author of the books The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness and El Cere­bro Que Cura.

KEEP SHARP
with San­jay Gup­ta, MD

April 26, 2022 | 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

San­jay Gup­ta – neu­ro­sur­geon, med­ical reporter and author – is a lead­ing voice on health, well­ness and active liv­ing, and a trust­ed resource for expert advice on how to stay healthy and safe dur­ing the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the coun­try’s pre­mier nar­ra­tor of health, he makes impor­tant sci­en­tif­ic devel­op­ments relat­able. He will share insights from his recent NY Times best-sell­er Keep Sharp: Build a Bet­ter Brain at Any Age.

New book outlines the five lifestyle pillars to “build a better brain at any age”

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Like many peo­ple over 60, I some­times lose my keys or for­get the names of favorite films. When I do, it makes me won­der: Is this the begin­ning of cog­ni­tive decline? Or, worse, am I fat­ed to fol­low in the foot­steps of my moth­er, who died of Lewy-body demen­tia in her 70s?

Accord­ing to neu­ro­sur­geon San­jay Gup­ta, CNN med­ical cor­re­spon­dent and author of the new book Keep Sharp: Build­ing a Bet­ter Brain at Any Age, the answer is no. For­get­ful­ness is nor­mal at all ages, and your genes don’t doom you to demen­tia. What’s impor­tant is tak­ing care of your brain in the best way pos­si­ble, he argues.

“You can affect your brain’s think­ing and mem­o­ry far more than you real­ize or appre­ci­ate, and the vast major­i­ty of peo­ple haven’t even begun to try,” he writes.

Gup­ta dis­tills results from hun­dreds of research stud­ies to help read­ers under­stand what’s known (and not known) [Read more…] about New book out­lines the five lifestyle pil­lars to “build a bet­ter brain at any age”

Here’s a toast to a Healthy, Happy & Meaningful New Year!

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“Think­ing about you” — clas­sic Mafal­da by Joaquín Sal­vador Lava­do Tejón, known as Quino, who left us in 2020 to explore future endeavors

And, if you’re look­ing for New Year Res­o­lu­tions, here you can find some inspi­ra­tion and ideas… 

1. To har­ness neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, start with enthusiasm

2. How learn­ing changes your brain

3. What you should know about neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and dance

4. Three ways to pro­tect your men­tal health dur­ing –and after– COVID-19

5. Can you grow your hip­pocam­pus? Yes. Here’s how, and why it matters

6. Five rea­sons the future of brain enhance­ment is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and (hope­ful­ly) bright

7. What are cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties and how to boost them?

8. Six tips to build resilience and pre­vent brain-dam­ag­ing stress

9. Solv­ing the Brain Fit­ness Puz­zle Is the Key to Self-Empow­ered Aging

10. Read, Play, Train: 3 New Year Res­o­lu­tions and 36 Ideas for a Hap­pi­er & Health­i­er 2021

Large study finds that placebo works as well as vitamin D supplements to prevent depression and improve mood

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Large Study Con­firms Vit­a­min D Does Not Reduce Risk of Depres­sion in Adults (Mass Gen­er­al press release):

Vit­a­min D sup­ple­men­ta­tion does not pro­tect against depres­sion in mid­dle-age or old­er adult­hood accord­ing results from one of the largest ever stud­ies of its kind … “There was no sig­nif­i­cant ben­e­fit from the sup­ple­ment for this pur­pose. It did not pre­vent depres­sion or improve mood,” says Olivia I. Okereke, MD, MS, of the Mass­a­chu­setts Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (MGH) Psy­chi­a­try Department.

[Read more…] about Large study finds that place­bo works as well as vit­a­min D sup­ple­ments to pre­vent depres­sion and improve mood