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  • What Is Cognitive Dementia?
    By: Gwen Sherwood | - Cognitive dementia can be confusing and scary. Dementia can cause you to lose your freedom and independence. It can cause you to become a burden to your children or other loved ones.

    As you read, you will find out the facts about cognitive dementia. You will discover different types and their causes. You may be amazed to find there are types that are reversible. You may also be surprised to find that you may be able to delay or avoid dementia altogether!

    What is Cog ...

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  • Your Brain Is Slowly Degenerating... Here's How To Stop It
    By: Andre Auerbach | - Most people don't know that their brains are degenerates if they stop challenging it. Neuroscientists know that just as we can lose muscle mass as we age, we can also lose brain mass.

    Neurons die from, among other things, the constant barrage of free radicals. Synapses breaks down when not strengthened. The end result can be anything from memory loss to dementia and Alzheimers. These "brain diseases" are not caused by some sort of virus... they are caused from the lack of use!

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  • 3 Prevalent Mistakes Of Brain Health And Fitness
    By: Andre Auerbach | - There is no question that maintaining your brain's fitness should rank first in priority but are you unknowingly sabotaging your own efforts? Fact is, most popular beliefs about brain fitness is completely and utterly wrong. Some are even harmful.

    In this article, I want to highlight some of these false beliefs so that you can skyrocket your brain improvement efforts. With that said, let's get started.

    1. Most people believe that their diet do not affect their brain ...

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  • The Most Enjoyable Way To Improve Brain Health
    By: Andre Auerbach | - As the work hours get longer and as communication technology improves, people are socially interacting less. We are just too busy to make friends and build truly meaningful relationships. After all, who needs face to face interaction when you can do it in Twitter, Facebook and the various online chatting services?

    This isolation trend is unfortunate at best because you brain, requires social interaction to work at its peak. So significant is its on our health that some experts in ...

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  • 4 Simple Tips On Keeping Your Brain In Top Shape
    By: Andre Auerbach | - If you want to keep your memory as you age, if you want to stay independent and if you want to stay active, then listen up. All this is possible only if possess a healthy brain right to the day you pass.

    In this article, I'll introduce you to 4 crucial tips on how you can maintain your brain health, or even potentially reverse some cognitive problems. These tips are supported by years of scientific research though unfortunately, most people simply don't care.

    With t ...

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  • The Building Blocks Of A Healthy Brain
    By: Andre Auerbach | - Every thought and every action that you take in controlled by your brain. Every movement that goes on in your body, from the beating heart to jogging is controlled by your brain.

    Yet few of us ever think about maintaining our brain's health. There are campaign for stronger bones, a leaner heart and needless to say, a prettier skin.

    But without a healthy brain, you will lose yourself. Have you an elderly forgetting his/her own name? Losing memory is but one symptom o ...

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  • Optimize Your Mental Health With A Good Brain Fitness Program
    By: Jane Stewart | - Today we find people becoming physically more fit and healthy and mentally weak and unsteady. This is mainly due to the fact that more emphasis is given to physical fitness and gym routines and practically nothing for mental fitness.

    Optimizing mental performance through brain fitness exercises is possible and can be seen with various result oriented programs.

    Dementia and other horrible mental illnesses can be slowed if people would give equal importance to menta ...

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  • How To Prevent Your Brain From Getting Old
    By: Andre Auerbach | - If you're experiencing memory loss and other tell tale signs of an aging brain, worry not. Modern research has found that there are, in fact, some things you can do to prevent or even reverse mental decline.

    In this article, I'll introduce you to some of these techniques. I'll show you some of the research that has been done and I'll show you how you can make use of their results to boost your brain functions.

    1. There are few things that prevents (or potentially re ...

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  • The Most Crucial Tip To Boost Your Brain Fitness
    By: Andre Auerbach | - Your brain fitness, more so than other parts of your body, is crucial for your quality of life. Why? Because in the brain is where your consciousness resides. The thing that makes you... you... is there. There's nothing more scary to suffer from a debilitating cognitive decline that makes you lose yourself.

    In this article, I'll attempt to show you 4 tips to help you avoid that decline. Or if you're currently already experiencing decline and nothing has worked so far, feel free to ...

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  • 4 Tips To Improve Your Brain
    By: Andre Auerbach | - Compared to most other scientific fields, neurology (the study of the brain) is relatively young. With approximately 100 years under its belt, it's no wonder that relatively little is known about it even today. Yet it is, I believe, our most important organ.

    It determines not just your quantity of life, but more so than other organs, your brain determines the quality of your life. In my years of reading and researching the subject, I've read and met people of all walks of life, so ...

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  • Meditation: Your Way To A Younger Brain
    By: Andre Auerbach | - The mind and the brain have always been perceived to be two separate beings. But modern science are beginning to see the relationship between the two of them.

    They are, in fact, one. The health of your physical brain affects your psychological being. If the chemistry of your brain goes out of balance - if your brain suffers from injury, your psychological health suffers. In fact, certain "psychological disease" and family dysfunction can be traced to an abnormal workings of the br ...

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  • Brain Training: Explore The Power Within
    By: Clifton Flack | - Well, this famous saying has been drilled down our ears for ages and signifies the importance of maintaining a good health. A healthy body and healthy mind go hand go side by side and just as physical exercise is important, similarly it is very important to keep our brains in a top working condition. Brain training can be achieved by playing exciting mind games which prove to be a very enriching experience.

    Brain training has emerged as a major focus area amongst the most famous psy ...

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  • Play Brain Games: Push The Limits
    By: Clifton Flack | - The childhood days spent in solving those wonderful puzzles will perhaps never come back in our lives. However, we can still relive those moments and can play brain games to instantly connect to our childhood. Brain games are specifically designed to encourage our minds to engage in some active work. These games are the best way to spend your time constructively.

    The brain games are an exciting innovation which sends a stimulus through the neurons of our brain and starts up the powe ...

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  • Brain Teasers: Take Up The Challenge
    By: Clifton Flack | - The human mind is perhaps one of the most enigmatic things in the world whose capabilities are not yet fully explored. The sky is the limit for our brain and it can achieve the impossible also. All that it requires is a bit of training and conditioning to perform in a desired manner. Brain teasers are excellent tools which can not only condition our minds but also prove to be very entertaining.

    Brain teasers and brain games are modern tools which exercise our brains and help it to e ...

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  • Brain Fitness: See What You Believe
    By: Clifton Flack | - Our brain is perhaps one of the most sophisticated machines that can be ever designed. It is an amazing network of million of neurons which work relentlessly to process information. It is rather unfortunate that we pay so much attention on physical fitness but tend to ignore the importance of brain fitness. The brain games can prove really helpful in strengthening the muscles of our brain.

    The brain is the supreme center which relays all the information through our sense organs. In ...

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  • Fun Brain Games: Mind Over Matter
    By: Clifton Flack | - The above words by a great thinker signify the endless capabilities of the human brain. It is wonderful gift to the humankind and enables man to achieve unbelievable miracles. However, it is very important to exercise the human brain on a regular basis to keep it in an excellent working condition and this can be achieved with the help of fun brain games. Scientifically designed, these games enable our brain to take a break from the mundane and enjoy itself!

    Fun brain games provide a ...

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  • Brain Games: Excellence In Everyday Life
    By: Clifton Flack | - For million of years mankind survived just like the animals. Then something happened which changed our lives forever. We learned to think. Well the evolution of human brain has brought about significant changes in our lived and placed us right on top of the hierarchy. The brain games can help us to utilize this wonderful machine to the maximum capacity.

    Brain games are specifically designed puzzles which encourages us to push the limits of our brains beyond the normal capabilities. ...

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  • Brain Training Software: It Pays To Pay Attention
    By: Clifton Flack | - Teflon brain- Nothing sticks

    Well, the above words clearly signify the difficulties faced by most of the people in their normal day to day lives. In fact most people use only a small portion of their total brain capacity which affects their overall efficiency. The brain training software can help us to utilize the power of our neurons in a more scientific manner by providing us innovative games which helps us to expand our capacity.

    One of the most important aspe ...

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  • Brain Training Game: A Memory That Lasts Forever
    By: Clifton Flack | - Just as physical exercise boosts our well being and ensures that we always remain in the best shape, mental exercises have the similar effect on our brain. Brain training games can help us to condition our mind and train it to think in a focused manner. Moreover these games also provide a very good option for utilizing our time constructively.

    Computer generated brain training games are becoming increasingly popular and a rough estimate provides that the amount spent by the consumer ...

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  • Brain Training: Food For Thought
    By: Clifton Flack | - All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
    These words of wisdom acquire even greater significance in today's world when stress is taking its toll on people across the world. In today's busy life the brain training games have evolved as the suitable option as you can do them right inside your living room and pack them easily in your busy schedule. These games are scientifically designed to invigorate your senses and actively engage your Grey cells.

    Brain training games ...

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  • 3 Simple Changes To Improve Your Brain
    By: Andre Auerbach | - The brain is probably the most complex matter in existence yet nature has given us all the ability to easily alter it for the better. Long gone are the days when the science community thought the brain is fixed.

    Today, researchers have been able to show there's significant tangible changes that takes place in your brain - every thought and every food that you need impacts the growth of the most powerful organ.

    Thus, it is often wise to take note of not only our diet ...

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  • Build A Better Brain: Brain Fitness Tips
    By: Alex Colket | - In a way, your mind is like a child, and as its parent, you are in charge of its development and well-being. As is the case with most parenting, some people do this well while others do it poorly. Because the brain is so powerful, it's sometimes easy to step away from the wheel and cruise through life on auto-pilot, but to do so is to do yourself injustice. History shows that the human species has produced a host of incredible people, and that most of them were of their own making. Each of ou ...
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  • How To Evaluate Brain Fitness Programs'
    By: Andre Auerbach | - With the discovery of the brain's capability to change (brain plasticity), there has in recent years a boom in so called "brain fitness programs". It is true that your brain can change and improve itself, even in old age, but how do you know if these programs work? How do you know it's not a sham?

    In this article, I want to show you how, in 3 simple steps, you can discriminate between genuine brain fitness programs and those that doesn't do anything for you.

    1. Is t ...

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  • How Brain Exercises Improve Brain Functions
    By: Andre Auerbach | - It has long been assumed that the brain the fixed and unchanging. Declining memory, eventual dementia and the inability to process auditory signals are just some of "inevitable" consequences of aging. It was not until 1998 did modern neurology discovered "brain plasticity".

    "Brain plasticity" is the term for the brain's capability to literally change its structure. It achieves this by producing new neurons, producing new synapses (links) between current neurons or by strengthening ...

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  • Want To Improve Your Brain? Take An Afternoon Nap
    By: Andre Auerbach | - An interesting study was conducted by Prof. Avi Karni and Dr. Maria Korman of the Center for Brain and Behavior Research. They had two groups of subjects: One took an afternoon nap and the other stayed awake. Then in the evening, the two groups performed certain tasks laid out to them.

    The results? The group that took the afternoon nap showed "distinct improvement in their task performance" than the groups that stayed awake.

    But can the improvement due to the fact t ...

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  • Nutrition For Optimal Brain Functions
    By: Andre Auerbach | - Certain food are known to be more beneficial than others. This we all know. But did you know that the food you eat also affect your brain?

    Before I go into what to eat and how they affect your brain, let's first explore the question of "why should you care?"

    Your brain is THE most powerful organ. So powerful, in fact, that even though it's only 2% of your body's mass, it consumes up to 50% of your carbohydrate consumption. Its needs for specific vitamin and mineral ...

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  • 3 Enjoyable Ways To Boost Your Brain Fitness
    By: Andre Auerbach | - The brain is often neglected in our pursuit for health. People today care more about the heart, the fats and even their bones rather than their brain.

    Yet the brain is our greatest asset in our life. Only with a clear brain can we function at our best. In this article, I will introduce to 3 extremely enjoyable ways you can boost your brain fitness. They are enjoyable because frankly, they are the way of nature.

    You've probably done it in the past, but constant socie ...

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  • The Effects Of Music On Your Brain
    By: Andre Auerbach | - Music has long been known to affect our psyche. It's been used in wars to inspire bravery. It's been used in parties to lift your mood. It's been used in meditation to calm you down.

    But modern neuroscientists are now askin deeper questions: Can music affect your brain... physically? Can it not only change our psyche, but also change our brain's capability? Recent studies found the answer is probably yes, although why it is so, is still a mystery.

    For example, a Sta ...

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  • Strengthen Your Brain With Powerful Brain Fitness Regimens
    By: Jane Stewart | - Dementia is a set of symptoms resulting from damage or death of certain nerve cells in the brain. The person affected by this dreaded disease exhibits symptoms such as trouble with memory, trouble finding the right words and problem with their day to day activities.

    Dementia patients exhibit symptoms of confusion and tend to get lost even in familiar places. They misplace objects and are usually depressed and irritable. Dementia can result in pronounced personality changes. An ot ...

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  • State Of The Art Brain Fitness Training
    By: Amit Raghuvanshi | - Training your striking skills can lead to an increased confidence in your ability to strike an opponent which can be beneficial to those whom may be reluctant to fight back or suffer greatly under the bodies adrenal responses.
    The evolution of mankind has created our brain and bodies to react in a pre-programmed response to danger and is most commonly termed 'Fight or Flight' and causes a host of responses in the body to allow us to either run at a higher speed (flight), or fight at a hi ...

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  • 10 Ways To Improve Brain Fitness And Age Gracefully
    By: Diane Carbo | - Brain fitness and aging gracefully is a hot topic today. It was not long ago that it was believed that as we aged we were no longer able to learn or retain new information.

    Research now shows that the brain never stops learning and is just like every other muscle in our body. Use it or lose it!

    The capacity to learn and maintain brain fitness continues throughout our lives. There are steps we can take to assure ongoing brain fitness. Your brain is like a network of ...

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  • Brain State Training Procedure And Benefits
    By: Amit Raghuvanshi | - Keeping your brain fit is as important as keeping your body fit. Health of your brain plays a critical role in almost everything we do - be it thinking, remembering, working, playing and even sleeping. But we usually ignore this fact that brain too needs to be kept hale and hearty. Research suggests that high cholesterol may contribute to stroke and brain cell damage. Therefore, a low fat & low in cholesterol diet is advisable. Diet that is rich in dark vegetables and fruits, which contain antio ...
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  • Brain Fitness Center For Mental Health Fitness And Recovery
    By: Amit Raghuvanshi | - Old notions that brain function inevitably declines as we age and we become less creative and sharp are being turned upside down. In fact, the brain continues to reorganize throughout life by creating new connections between brain cells, or neurons, a phenomenon called neuroplasticity. Brain fitness has become a hot new phrase. Now we can apply it to healthy aging, and recovery from illness and addiction. The urge for expression, for purpose and for creative solutions doesn't ebb with age, but i ...
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  • Secret Of Brain Training
    By: Amit Raghuvanshi | - Keeping your brain fit is as important as keeping your body fit. Health of your brain plays a critical role in almost everything we do - be it thinking, remembering, working, playing and even sleeping. But we usually ignore this fact that brain too needs to be kept hale and hearty. Peak performance
    brain training is essential for anyone wanting to be at their best in the 21st Century. We've had lots of focus on getting fit and eating the right foods over the last 20 years, but very littl ...

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  • Brain Training: The Secrets Of Peak Performance
    By: Amit Raghuvanshi | - Research has shown that if you expose the human brain to a constant frequency whether it is a flashing light or an audio tone, after several minutes the frequencies in the brain will adjust to match the frequencies of this external stimulus. This is known as the ' frequency following response' and some people refer to it as brainwave synchronization or brainwave entrainment. So, that is what binaural beats are. They usually come in the form of an audio file that can be played on your standard MP ...
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  • Brain Training Technique And Benefits
    By: Amit Raghuvanshi | - If you want to improve your mental concentration, have better mental focus, and enjoy stronger willpower so that you have more success in your life, then the fundamental skill you need to acquire is the ability to control your thoughts so that your mind works for your rather than against you. Brain training through dynamic mental fitness exercises is extremely practical in that it teaches you valuable lessons about aspects of your mind and thinking of which you are currently unaware.
    Neur ...

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  • Brain Training And Fitness Program
    By: Amit Raghuvanshi | - Brain Training is already proving to be a great success even though it's not your typical game seeing as there are no princesses to rescue from a castle, no cars to steal or aliens to hunt and kill. The game requires the use of the stylus and of course the DS touch screen. So if you want to tone your intellectual muscle, Brain Training is a fine way to get started.

    The exercise is quick and easy challenges that aid stimulation of your brain. Brain training games have been demonst ...

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  • How To Keep Your Brain Healthy
    By: Amit Raghuvanshi | - The goal of brain fitness is to revive certain mental abilities before they slow down. In LePoncin's own words, "Our team does not claim to work miracles. We simply develop the previously unknown fertility of land that had been lying fallow." The exercises are simple and fun to do. And, by repeating the exercises over several weeks time, real progress can be seen in a relatively short time.

    By increasing blood flow to your brain, you are giving it a vital shot of oxygen. To the "r ...

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  • Brain Training And Mind Games: Interview With Japanese Expert Go Hirano
    By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Today we are traveling to Japan to learn about latest gaming trends there. Go Hirano is a Japanese executive with experience in neuroscience and gaming.

    Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Hirano-san, what is the state of Brain Fitness and Brain Training in Japan? what are the most popular programs so far?

    Go Hirano (GH): So far, the most popular application is anti-aging, and most popular product is Dr. Kawashima's book of calculations and oral reading for adults.


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  • Ready, Set, Think
    By: Simon Evans | - Studies are piling up showing how exercising your body boosts the fitness of you brain as well. Exercise has documented benefits for learning and memory, executive decision making function, mood regulation, and even protection against brain injury from an accident.

    The latest piece comes from Dr. Ronald Duman's group at Yale, just published in Nature Medicine. Using a high tech screening approach, researchers looked at how certain genes change their activity levels in the brain af ...

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  • Will Stress Take You Down?
    By: Simon Evans | - Why does stress overwhelm some people while others come through it just fine? A very elegant new study came out this month in the high impact scientific journal, Cell, addressing this question. Researchers investigated some brain functions underlying why some people are highly susceptible to stress and others seem relatively resistant. Although the studies were done in mice, the potential application to humans, which I will discuss below, is not a stretch.

    Stress can lead to depre ...

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  • Eating - When Your Brain Won't Say Stop
    By: Simon Evans | - To eat or not to eat what does your brain say?

    The desire to eat comes from many factors monitored by, and instructions put out by your brain in essence your level of Brain Fitness. One specific brain region involved in monitoring nutrition signals is the hypothalamus. This part of the brain houses a complex set of brain cells that talk to each other and talk to your bloodstream and digestive tract to decide whether you need to eat.

    If the hypothalamus system sens ...

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  • 7 Quotes From Neuroscientists That Will Revolutionize Brain And Mind Health, Fitness And Wellness
    By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Interested in improving your attention, memory, thinking skills, ability to manage stressful situations? Good news: "Recent research in neuroplasticity - the brain's ability to change in response to information and new activities - shows that brain cells and new pathways continue to develop throughout life...", say mainstream newspapers like the New York Times, who are increasing their coverage on the growing movement of "brain training" games and technologies.

    An article titled " ...

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  • Is There Science Behind The Growing Brain Fitness Industry?
    By: Alvaro Fernandez | - To address this question, we interview today Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, one of the earliest proponents of the Brain Fitness and Exercise field. He is a clinical professor of neurology at New York University School of Medicine, and author of The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind and The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older.

    Alvaro Fernandez (AF): We are witnessing the birth of a whole new brain training industry. I understand th ...

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  • 10-question Checklist To Select The Right Brain Fitness Program For You
    By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Unless you have been living in a cave, you have read by now multiple articles about the brain training and brain exercise craze: sudoku, Nintendo BrainAge, multiple online games, software like MindFit and Posit Science...

    How do you know which of them can help you more, or whether you need any of them? Well, that's why we are publishing the SharpBrains Checklist below, to help you navigate through the overwhelming and conflicting media reports and company announcements.

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  • How To Exercise Your Brain: 7 Most Frequently Asked Questions
    By: Alvaro Fernandez | - We appreciate very much the role the media (Time Magazine, CBS, USA Today...) is starting to play in explaining the research behind brain exercise to improve memory and attention and help delay potential problems such as Alzheimer's Disease. Given the confusion we still see out there, we have consulted our neuroscience and health experts to prepare answers to these 7 Frequently Asked Questions:

    1. Why is it so important to exercise our brains?

    Answer: Our brains are ...

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  • Brain Exercise And Lifelong Learning For Alzheimer's Prevention
    By: Alvaro Fernandez | - We all know how prevalent Alzheimer's Disease is becoming among older adults. Fortunately, researchers are paying growing attention to this area. Neuropsychologist Robert S. Wilson, at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, recently published a promising study titled "Frequent Brain Stimulation In Old Age Reduces Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease":

    - "The study found a cognitively active person in old age was 2.6 times less likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease than a cogniti ...

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  • The Brain Fitness Revolution Is Here
    By: Alvaro Fernandez | - "When we learn, we create physical changes inside our heads. By practicing a skill, we repeatedly stimulate the same area of the brain, which strengthens existing neural connections and creates new ones. Over time, we can become more cognitively efficient, using fewer neurons to do the same job. And the more often we fire up certain mental circuits, the easier it is to get them going again."- as read in the Washington Post earlier this year.

    We will be reading more and more articl ...

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  • What Is Learning? Can We Learn Better Than Apes?-part 2
    By: Alvaro Fernandez | - We continue the conversation on Learning with Dr. James Zull, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry at Case Western University and author of The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning.

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    AF: Fascinating. Given what you just said, how do you help your students become better learners?

    JZ: Despite the fact that every brain is different, let me simplify and say that I usually observe 2 types of ...

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  • Easy Steps To Improve Your Brain Health Now
    By: Alvaro Fernandez | - We get this question all the time. Do you sometimes forget where you put your car keys? Do you worry too much? Is it true that crossword puzzles can help prevent Alzheimer's?

    In summary, the scientific literature recommends the following 4 pillars for Brain Health: work out, eat well, stimulate your brain, and reduce chronic stress.

    Any good brain health program must provide you a variety of new challenges over time. Recreational activities like bridge, classes, and ...

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