Posts Tagged ‘stress-test’
Relaxing for your Brain’s Sake
What stresses you out ? Whatever it is, how you respond to it may have more consequences than you think. Let me show you how. Recapping from last months article (see Stress and Neural Wreckage: Part of the Brain Plasticity Puzzle)…our bodies are a complex balancing act between systems working full time to keep us alive and well.…
Read MoreCognitive Fitness as a New Frontier of Fitness
Very good article in the LA Times today. Like a StairMaster for the brain: Can mental workouts improve the mind’s agility? Baby boomer concerns stimulate an industry expansion. The reporter, Melissa Healy, reviews the healthy aging segment in the Brain Fitness field. A few selected quotes: — “There is plausibility, both biological and behavioral, to…
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Disease: too serious to play with headlines
We just came across an article titled Best Computer Brain Games for Senior Citizens to Delay Alzheimer’s Disease. The headline makes little scientific sense-and we observe this confusion often. The article mentions a few programs we have discussed often in this blog, such as Posit Science and MindFit, and others we haven’t because we haven’t…
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