Neuroplasticity at work: Can the pill change women’s brains?

Read this recent Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can arti­cle show­ing clear­ly how the brain can change based on our dai­ly expe­ri­ences and actions: … a new study in the jour­nal Brain Research demon­strates that […] birth con­trol pills have struc­tur­al effects on regions of the brain that gov­ern high­­er-order cog­ni­tive activ­i­ties … Where­as the sub­tle struc­tur­al effects of…

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Improve Brain Health Now: Easy Steps

There are four essen­tial pil­lars to main­tain­ing a healthy brain that func­tions bet­ter now and lasts longer. Those pil­lars are: Phys­i­cal Exer­cise, Men­tal Exer­cise, Good Nutri­tion, and Stress Man­age­ment. Phys­i­cal Exer­cise: If you can only do one thing, do some­thing car­dio­vas­cu­lar, mean­ing some­thing that gets your heart beat­ing faster.Mental Exer­cise: If you can only do one thing, learn some­thing new every day. Good Nutri­tion: If you can only do one thing, eat more veg­eta­bles, par­tic­u­lar­ly leafy green ones. Stress Man­age­ment: If you can only do one thing, set aside 5–10 min­utes to just breathe deeply and recharge

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Brain exercises: Want a workout for your brain?

Very fun arti­cle in the Birm­ing­ham News today on Sharp­Brains and brain exer­cis­es, titled Want a work­out for your brain?. The jour­nal­ist explains things very well and with great humor (for the humor, you need to read the arti­cle!). Here are some quotes: — “Think of it as a gym­na­si­um for your mind,” Sharp­Brains CEO…

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Cogmed, Freeze-Framer, IntelliGym, MindFit, Posit Science

We are spend­ing more time talk­ing to jour­nal­ists these days. A fre­quent ques­tion we receive is, “OK, which com­put­er-based pro­grams do you con­sid­er to be Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams, not just “games” for pure fun”?. Our answer: the rate of devel­op­ment of new pro­grams by neu­ro­sci­en­tists world­wide is real­ly increas­ing, and there are already a few out there…

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2007 New Year Resolution: Carnival of Brain Fitness

Hap­py 2007 to every­one! We have just for­mu­lat­ed our New Year Res­o­lu­tion: make 2007 the year when brain plas­tic­i­ty and Brain Fit­ness became main­stream con­cepts. How do we start? well, let’s announce the launch of the Car­ni­val of Brain Fit­ness (a Blog Car­ni­val is basi­cal­ly the vehi­cle that blogs use to share posts around specific…

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MindFit Brain Fitness Program review

Get­ting ready for the hol­i­days, not the best time to write great orig­i­nal content…so let us share the only review we have found so far on one of the pro­grams we offer, Mind­Fit. First, a good arti­cle titled The dawn of cog­ni­tive tech­nol­o­gy, on the sci­ence behind the need for struc­tured com­put­er-based pro­grams, with quotes…

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