Posts Tagged ‘sympathetic’
New book shares science and techniques to breathe better and promote calmness not anxiety
Scrolling social media, amid frantic election-related posts and news of escalating COVID-19 cases, you may have come across a friend reminding everyone to just breathe. But can just-breathing really make a difference? In his new book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, journalist James Nestor argues that modern humans have become pretty bad…
Read MoreRelaxing 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 MoreMindFit by CogniFit, and Baroness Susan Greenfield
We are glad to see that MindFit is finally making it into the popular press, at least in the UK. The program is making big news in the UK (BBC, Times, Daily Telegragh, Guardian…) because Baroness Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution and a well-respected neuroscientist, is endorsing it. We evaluated it last year…
Read MoreCognitive training research: MindFit, Lumosity, Posit Science, Cogmed
The field of computer-based cognitive training (part of what we call “Brain Fitness”) is starting to get traction in the media and becoming an emerging industry, and we are happy to see how a growing number of researchers and science-based companies are leading studies that will allow to better measure results and refine the brain exercise…
Read MoreBrain Exercise and Brain Fitness July Monthly Digest
We are often told we share too much content, but it is tough for us to share less given all the news around cognitive and emotional training! To make things easier we will offer a Monthly Digest. Today, August 1st, we will list the most popular July posts. Consider it your monthly Brain Exercise Magazine…
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