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Trend: Going on a brain health vacation

April 5, 2019 by SharpBrains

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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 else run­ning: my brain.

Why not learn how to show it some love, then, in the nicest pos­si­ble way — by tak­ing it on a brain vacation?

Gray mat­ter is the lat­est twist in the red-hot well­ness tourism cat­e­go­ry, which is grow­ing by 7.5% a year, accord­ing to the Glob­al Well­ness Insti­tute .… “It’s pos­si­ble to alter 70% of your genet­ic des­tiny by chang­ing non­genet­ic fac­tors, with the deci­sions you make. That’s the new field called epi­ge­net­ics,” says Dr. Richard Car­mona, the 17th U.S. Sur­geon General…

Although any­one can learn brain-health basics at home, doing so with pro­fes­sion­al sup­port while on vaca­tion costs, well, big vaca­tion bucks. 10-room Life­works runs $5,000 for four nights of all-inclu­sive meals and activ­i­ties. Canyon Ranch’s “Boost Your Brain” pro­gram costs $500, and that’s above its stan­dard tab of $1,099 per per­son per night — also all-inclusive.

Maybe it’s best to think of this as a brain invest­ment as well as a hol­i­day. What’s the price of a brain that works bet­ter, longer?”

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Boost Your Brain, brain, brain health, brain health program, brain vacation, Brain-Fitness, epigenetics, gray-matter

Study: Long-term meditation can help slow down aging-related brain volume decline

February 18, 2015 by SharpBrains

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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 long-term med­i­ta­tors may also influ­ence brain volume…

Near­ly 18 mil­lion adults and 1 mil­lion chil­dren prac­ticed med­i­ta­tion in the U.S. in 2012, [Read more…] about Study: Long-term med­i­ta­tion can help slow down aging-relat­ed brain vol­ume decline

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: brain, Brain-Plasticity, brain-scans, brain-volume, complementary medicine, gray matter atrophy, gray-matter, human-brain, life-expectancy, meditation, mental activities, Psychology

Q: 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

February 6, 2015 by SharpBrains

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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 brain pathol­o­gy. [Read more…] about Q: 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

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: addiction, anxiety-disorders, bipolar-disorder, brain pathology, Brain-Imaging, cognition, executive function deficits, Executive-Functions, gray-matter, magnetic-resonance, major depression, mental-illness, neurobiological, Neurotechnology, non-invasive neurotechnology, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychiatric conditions, psychiatric disorders, psychiatric symptoms, psychopathology, schizophrenia

Top 10 Quotes on Lifelong Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis (and a Call to eBook Readers)

December 6, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

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 Inter­views with Sci­en­tists, Prac­ti­cal Advice and Prod­uct Reviews, to Keep Your Brain Sharp (April 2009; 182 pages; ranked #1 in Kin­dle Store’s Pre­ven­tive Med­i­cine section).

This infor­ma­tion is invalu­able to authors and pub­lish­ers — as you can imag­ine, we’ll make sure to not only main­tain but to elab­o­rate on these top­ics as we pre­pare future edi­tions of the book.

So, what are so far the Top Ten Quotes on Life­long Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis, [Read more…] about Top 10 Quotes on Life­long Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis (and a Call to eBook Readers)

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: AARP, Amazon, amazon.com, attention, best book, brain, brain health book, Brain-atrophy, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Canada, chronic-stress, cognition, cognitive-health, cognitive-skills, ebook, emotion, France, Germany, gray-matter, higher cognition, iPad, Italy, kindle, Kindle Store, Learning, lifelong, Lifelong-learning, memory, nerve growth factor, Neurogenesis, Neurons, neuroplasticity, neuroprotective, Nook, Physical-Exercise, preventive, Preventive-Medicine, publishing, quotes, relaxation, self-empowerment, sharp-brain, sharpbrain, smashwords, social, Spain, UK, usa, white-matter

Brain Health Research offered by the Alliance for Aging Research

August 24, 2011 by SharpBrains

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 more…] about Brain Health Research offered by the Alliance for Aging Research

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: ACTIVE, Alliance for Aging Research, brain healthy diet, Brain-health, brain-myths, brain-research, diet, exercise, genes, gray-matter, health, mentally, mind, nourish your noggin, social, Stress, Use-It-or-Lose-It

Walking increases brain volume and reduces risks of decline

October 15, 2010 by Dr. Pascale Michelon

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 post: Fit­ter bod­ies = fit­ter brains. True at all ages?)

They asked 2 questions:

  • Can phys­i­cal activ­i­ty assessed ear­li­er pre­dict gray mat­ter vol­ume 9 years later?
  • Is greater gray mat­ter vol­ume asso­ci­at­ed with reduced risks of devel­op­ing cog­ni­tive impairment?

[Read more…] about Walk­ing increas­es brain vol­ume and reduces risks of decline

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Brain-exercises, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, gray-matter, Neurogenesis, neuroimaging, neuroplasticity, Physical-Exercise, walking

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