The best brain supplement to delay memory and thinking decline: A mentally stimulating job

By SharpBrains | April 29, 2015

. Chal­leng­ing Work Tasks May Have an Upside for the Brain (new study): “Pro­fes­sion­als whose jobs require more speak­ing, devel­op­ing strate­gies, con­flict res­o­lu­tion and man­age­r­i­al tasks may expe­ri­ence bet­ter pro­tec­tion against mem­o­ry and think­ing decline in old age than their co-work­ers, accord­ing to a new study

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12 Ways Yoga Meditation Helps Nourish The Body, Brain and Mind

By Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa @ Alzheimer's Research & Prevention Foundation | October 25, 2013 |

An easy, low cost, nat­ur­al prac­tice can help us boost our brain pow­er, be health­i­er and more spir­i­tu­al­ly attuned as we age, and improve our qual­i­ty of life and hap­pi­ness. It could also reduce some of the stag­ger­ing health care costs seen today. Curi­ous about what that prac­tice is? Recent­ly The Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF),…

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Why working memory matters in the knowledge age: study

By Dr. Tracy Alloway | August 21, 2010 |

We use work­ing mem­o­ry to remem­ber direc­tions while dri­ving or someone’s name and phone num­ber. With­out it, we would be lit­er­al­ly lost; we wouldn’t know how to get to that impor­tant meet­ing and would for­get impor­tant con­tacts. Work­ing mem­o­ry is crit­i­cal for many activities.

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Update: Public Libraries as Health Clubs for the Brain

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 7, 2009

Here you have the July edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. Pub­lic libraries have long offered the pub­lic more than books. And now, recent demo­graph­ic and sci­en­tif­ic trends are…

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