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Stress Management as part of Brain Fitness Programs

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The arti­cle Job Stress Fuels Dis­ease reports on the results from a new study of 677 work­ers that show that “When work stress becomes unman­age­able, job burnout can lead to a com­bi­na­tion of three symptoms:

  • Emo­tion­al exhaustion
  • Phys­i­cal fatigue or exhaustion
  • Cog­ni­tive weari­ness (slow thinking)”

and that “Stud­ies have shown that work­place stress can lead to an increase in rates of heart dis­ease, flu virus, meta­bol­ic syn­drome and high blood pressure.”

Which is why we are equal­ly focused on Men­tal Stimulation/ Brain Exer­cise Pro­grams and on Stress Man­age­ment-both are need­ed for Brain Fitness.

You can read more on the top­ic, and learn some tips:

Brain Coach Answers: I’m a moth­er of 2, with a career. Are there any quick ways to reduce stress?

Good Stress and Bad Stress

Brain Yoga: Stress — Killing You Softly

Lifelong Learning and Brain Training

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Very fun ses­sion today at the Osh­er Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tute, titled Exer­cis­ing our Brains: new Brain Research and impli­ca­tions for our Lives. As usu­al, we com­bined some research back­ground with many fun group activ­i­ties, such as the ones you will find in our Brain Exer­cis­es sec­tion (click here).Want to try a brain teas­er? Please count the num­ber of times that the let­ter “f” appears in this sentence:

“Fin­ished files are the result of years of sci­en­tif­ic study com­bined with the expe­ri­ence of years” (The solu­tion appears as first com­ment for this post).

We reviewed some areas that typ­i­cal­ly improve as we age, such as Self-reg­u­la­tion, Emo­tion­al func­tion­ing and Wis­dom, defined as Pat­tern recognition build­ing on the accu­mu­la­tion of experiences.
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