The brain virtues of physical exercise

By Dr. Adrian Preda | March 10, 2008 |

Dr. Adri­an Pre­da, our newest Expert Con­trib­u­tor, writes today the first in a series of thought-pro­­vok­ing arti­cles, chal­leng­ing us to think about phys­i­cal exer­cise as the best and most unap­pre­ci­at­ed form of “brain exer­cise”. A superb arti­cle. And one thing is clear, he points out: “the brain real­ly likes it when it’s asked to be…

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“Brainfood” Makes the Dictionary!

By Caroline Latham | June 5, 2007

A fun arti­cle from the BBC high­lights some of the lat­est entries to the 2.5 bil­lion-word data­base of words in the Collins Eng­lish Dic­tio­nary, 9th edition.We were of course biased and hap­py to see “brain­food” as a new­ly mint­ed word. Accord­ing to Web­ster’s New Millenniumâ„¢ Dic­tio­nary of Eng­lish, they define “brain food”…any food that is con­sid­ered to aid intel­li­gence, mem­o­ry, or cre­ativ­i­ty; by exten­sion, any intel­lec­tu­al sustenance.We’d like to add Sharp­Brains to the list of brain foods!

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