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20 Must-Know Facts to Harness Neuroplasticity and Improve Brain Health

June 20, 2016 by Alvaro Fernandez

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June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Aware­ness Month, so let me share these 20 Must-Know Facts to Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty & Improve Brain Health that come from the hun­dreds of sci­en­tif­ic and med­ical stud­ies we ana­lyzed  [Read more…] about 20 Must-Know Facts to Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Improve Brain Health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Alzheimers, biofeedback, brain-awareness, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, brain-supplements, Brain-Training, chronic-stress, cognitive-decline, meditation, mental-exercise, Neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, Physical-Exercise

Mental rotation exercise to challenge your brain’s parietal lobe

March 25, 2016 by Dr. Pascale Michelon

Men­tal rota­tion refers to mov­ing things around in your mind. It is one of the main visu­ospa­tial skills we all have…in dif­fer­ent degrees, yes.

Here’s an exam­ple. Please pic­ture in your mind an arrow point­ing to the right. Now, turn this arrow so it points to the left. Done? You have just per­formed a men­tal rota­tion. [Read more…] about Men­tal rota­tion exer­cise to chal­lenge your brain’s pari­etal lobe

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: brain, Brain Teasers, Brain-exercises, cognitive abil­ity, cognitive-exercise, mental-exercise, mental-rotation, mind, Mind-Games, visuospatial, Visuospatial-skills

Quick brain teasers to train your attention and working memory

November 7, 2014 by SharpBrains

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Here you have a few fun men­tal exer­cis­es to train your atten­tion and work­ing mem­o­ry (the capac­i­ty to hold mul­ti­ple pieces of infor­ma­tion in the mind, and to use them real-time). Giv­en them a try today and over the weekend…they are not as easy as they may sound!

  1. Say the days of the week back­wards, then in alpha­bet­i­cal order. If you speak anoth­er lan­guage, try doing the same in that language.
  2. Say the months of the year in alpha­bet­i­cal order. Then, for extra cog­ni­tive chal­lenge, try doing so back­wards, in reverse alpha­bet­i­cal order.
  3. Find the sum of your date of birth, mm/dd/yyyy. Want more quick brain teasers? Do the same with friends’ and rel­a­tives’ date of birth.
  4. Quick, name two objects for every let­ter in your com­plete name. Work up to five objects, try­ing to use dif­fer­ent items each time.
  5. Wher­ev­er you are, look around and with­in two min­utes, try to find 5 green things that will fit in your pock­et, and 5 red objects that are too big to fit.

[Read more…] about Quick brain teasers to train your atten­tion and work­ing memory

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: attention, Brain-Training, cognitive challenge, cognitive-ability, mental-exercise, mental-exercises, train-working-memory, Working-memory

Update: Test your stress level with this fun brain teaser

July 31, 2014 by SharpBrains

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ July 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of thought-pro­vok­ing insights, sci­ence reports…and this fun brain teas­er to deter­mine your stress lev­el.

New think­ing:

  • Why “dis­or­ders of the brain” deserve at least equal atten­tion as car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­eases and cancer
  • Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da of the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th)
  • Debunk­ing Myers-Brig­gs per­son­al­i­ty test
  • How to remem­ber what you read

New tools:

  • Upgrad­ing Edu­ca­tion and Health in light of Neu­ro­science: The Fron­tier of Gaming?
  • Study: Neu­ro­feed­back treat­ment for ADHD in only 12 sessions?
  • News: Launch of Brain Start-up Chal­lenge on August 1st
  • Brain Resource rais­ing $7m to expand cor­po­rate brain well­ness offerings

New sci­ence:

  • Under what con­di­tions can mind­ful­ness cours­es help health care work­ers man­age stress and burnout?
  • Alzheimer’s dis­ease can be delayed through lifestyle: New, large study joins grow­ing chorus
  • One more rea­son to improve edu­ca­tion and car­dio­vas­cu­lar health in devel­op­ing countries
  • How big data can aug­ment brain health clin­i­cal research

Final­ly, you may also want to try this teas­er to test your cog­ni­tive bias­es.

Enjoy, and have a great month of August!

 

The Sharp­Brains Team

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Tagged With: alternative ADHD treatments, Alzheimer's disease prevention, brain, Brain-Fitness, cognitive-bias, corporate brain wellness, delay Alzheimer's Disease, Education & Lifelong Learning, Gaming, health, improve memory skills, manage-stress, mental-exercise, mild Alzheimer's disease, mindfulness, Myers-Briggs, Neurofeedback, reduce burnout

Alzheimer’s disease can be delayed through lifestyle: New, large study joins growing chorus

July 15, 2014 by SharpBrains

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Hard Evi­dence We Can Slow Alzheimer’s By Exer­cis­ing The Body And The Mind (Forbes):

“Alzheimer’s dis­ease is one of the most feared diag­noses among patients…once the dis­ease has been diag­nosed, there is noth­ing mod­ern med­i­cine can do to stop it.

But it can be slowed, and a new study pre­sent­ed [Read more…] about Alzheimer’s dis­ease can be delayed through lifestyle: New, large study joins grow­ing chorus

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimers-disease, cardiovascular disease, Cognitive-impairment, cognitive-performance, cognitive-testing, Cognitive-Training, Education & Lifelong Learning, mental-exercise, Physical-Exercise, risk factors, social-interaction, vascular risk factors

The New York Times starts to pay attention: Exercising The Mind to Treat Attention Deficits

May 13, 2014 by SharpBrains

mind_childExer­cis­ing The Mind to Treat Atten­tion Deficits (The New York Times):

“Poor plan­ning, wan­der­ing atten­tion and trou­ble inhibit­ing impuls­es all sig­ni­fy laps­es in cog­ni­tive con­trol. Now a grow­ing stream of research sug­gests that strength­en­ing this men­tal mus­cle, usu­al­ly with exer­cis­es in [Read more…] about The New York Times starts to pay atten­tion: Exer­cis­ing The Mind to Treat Atten­tion Deficits

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: adhd, alternative ADHD treatments, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, attention-deficit-disorder, brain-exercise, cognitive-control, drugs, mental-exercise, mind, mindfulness, treating ADHD

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