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Great news: The New York Times acknowledges that (as clearly documented for 10+ years) Exercise and Brain Training are BOTH crucial for Lifelong Brain Fitness

November 22, 2017 by SharpBrains

Exer­cise May Enhance the Effects of Brain Train­ing (The New York Times):

“..an inter­est­ing new study pub­lished in the Jour­nal of Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science sug­gests that com­bin­ing intense exer­cise and brain train­ing might, over time, ampli­fy the ben­e­fits of both for the brain, even in peo­ple whose minds already are work­ing well…scientists at McMas­ter Uni­ver­si­ty in Hamil­ton, Ontario, began to won­der recent­ly whether brain train­ing and exer­cise train­ing might be com­ple­men­tary, with exer­cise prompt­ing the cre­ation of baby neu­rons that brain train­ing would then strengthen…the study’s find­ings sug­gest that exer­cis­ing both our bod­ies and minds may pro­vide the great­est boost to our mem­o­ries…” [Read more…] about Great news: The New York Times acknowl­edges that (as clear­ly doc­u­ment­ed for 10+ years) Exer­cise and Brain Train­ing are BOTH cru­cial for Life­long Brain Fitness

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Brain-Fitness, Brain-Training, Cognitive-Training, memory, Neurons, neurotrophic, new-york-times, Physical-Exercise

Alzheimer’s Disease population to triple: We need smarter research, public health initiatives and lifestyles

February 25, 2013 by Dr. Pascale Michelon

Human brainAccord­ing to a new study, the pop­u­la­tion with Alzheimer’s Dis­ease in the US will triple by 2050: from 4.7 mil­lions in 2010 to 13.8 mil­lions. This empha­sizes the urgent need for more research to find pre­ven­tive mea­sures, and for more enlight­ened pub­lic health ini­tia­tives and indi­vid­ual lifestyles designed to decrease demen­tia risks and delay onset of symptoms.

Between 1993 and 2011, researchers fol­lowed more than 10,000 indi­vid­u­als 65 and old­er. Par­tic­i­pants were inter­viewed and assessed for demen­tia every three years. [Read more…] about Alzheimer’s Dis­ease pop­u­la­tion to triple: We need smarter research, pub­lic health ini­tia­tives and lifestyles

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimers-disease, APOE e4, baby-boomer, cognitive-decline, Cognitive-impairment, Cognitive-Training, cognitive-vitality, dementia, depression, diabetes, drugs, Mediterranean diet, neurotrophic, omega-3s

Why Scientific Literacy and Learning Enhance Brain Function and Neural Health

January 29, 2013 by Hemal Pathak, PhD

Often in dis­cussing health relat­ed find­ings with non-sci­en­tists, I’ve found that sci­en­tif­ic lit­er­a­cy in the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion tends to be inad­e­quate for eval­u­at­ing sci­en­tif­ic claims. A sur­pris­ing num­ber of peo­ple are reluc­tant to study sci­ence despite the poten­tial to ben­e­fit from the vast amount of use­ful knowl­edge being accu­mu­lat­ed by sci­en­tists. Neil DeGrasse Tyson dis­cussed a sim­i­lar issue with the New York Dai­ly News sev­er­al years ago (A Cry to Pass the Sci­ence Test, 2006). In a time when sci­en­tif­ic infor­ma­tion is con­stant­ly reshap­ing our under­stand­ing [Read more…] about Why Sci­en­tif­ic Lit­er­a­cy and Learn­ing Enhance Brain Func­tion and Neur­al Health

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: BDNF, health-literacy, Learning, memory, mental ability, mental-activity, neural-health, neurotrophic, scientific literacy

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