Posts Tagged ‘healthy’
Six favorite books of 2023 to help harness the stress response and boost curiosity, wonder, and brain health at work,
It’s hard to address important issues in our lives or in society if we are stressed, depleted, and isolated. Perhaps that’s why many of 2023’s favorite books offer approaches for real self-care. They focus on how to manage stress, find more happiness in life, seek wonder and inspiration, appreciate art, understand our personal strengths, or…
Read MoreDance training: The ultimate way to delay brain decline by combining physical, cognitive, and social engagement
Study: Dancing may offset some effects of aging in the brain (CSU release): “A new study led by a Colorado State University researcher shows that kicking up your heels can actually be good for your noggin. The research team demonstrated for the first time that decline in the brain’s “white matter” can be detected over…
Read MoreStudy debunks 4 common myths about brain training and lifelong cognitive enhancement
— If the media is your main source of information about brain training and cognitive enhancement, you will probably believe the following: 1) All brain training is the same… 2) …and it simply doesn’t work. 3) Commercial brain training programs, especially, don’t work. 4) How could they work? Genetics is destiny, aging is a predetermined process…so by age 60…
Read MoreNext phase in the brain health revolution: Objective, physiological, and widespread measures of brain function
Brainwaves could be the next health vital sign (ScienceDaily): “Simon Fraser University researchers hope that a brain vital-sign test becomes as routine during a doctor’s check-up as taking a blood pressure or heart rate measurement
Read MoreHappy, Healthy, Sharp 2016!
Will Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit enhance physical & cognitive health? Probably — if people go
The annual wellness visit: An opportunity to improve revenue and patient care (PhysBizTech): “Medicare recently introduced the Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) to keep Medicare beneficiaries healthy, or help Medicare beneficiaries become healthier, by promoting positive health habits and a healthy lifestyle. Unlike
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