Brain, General, Health
Well – NASA think so! After extensive research they concluded that bouncing is more effective and efficient than jogging. And you can do it while watching TV! You already know, that to nourish your brain and body you need to MOVE! When you have a rebounder, you can bounce for [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence, General, Health
Exercise boosts memory and cognitive performance – so says new research. 10-40 minute bursts of activity immediately boosts concentration and focus – probably because of increased blood flow in the brain. So who could blame us for racing round the block for 20 minutes before an exam? Another bit of research showed that [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence, Health
Does what goes on in your brain change according to your environment? Panos Mavros, Jenny Roe, Peter Aspinall and Richard Coyne think so. They fitted some people in Edinburgh with a new type of EEG recorder, and monitored their brain activity during a 25 minute walk through 3 different areas [...]
Brain, General, Health
OK! So sleep’s important for our mental health, immune system, for maintaining a healthy weight, for consolidating new information when we’re learning… There has to be a good evolutionary reason for our spending a third of our lives asleep! But if you share a bed, have you ever wondered about sleeping positions and what they [...]
Brain
Every time you talk to a child, they create new connections in their brain. How does technology impact the brain? And what about toxic stress? How does that affect its development? Watch this excellent film from Tiffany Shlain and and please leave me a comment. Let me know how you imagine your brain [...]
Brain, Health
Rather than waiting for weekly therapy sessions with the rehabilitation specialist, now, thanks to Tej Tadi in Lausanne, Switzerland, stroke victims can treat themselves from the comfort of their bed. This is all thanks to virtual reality glasses guiding them through the relevant exercises, while a camera tracks their movements. [...]
Brain, Health
There’s an article on the Dana Foundation blog called, Epilepsy’s Big Fat Answer” and it would seem we’ve come a third time round the same circle. We’re treating epilepsy naturally with diet, as we did 100 years ago and as the Greeks did – how long ago? So we stopped [...]
Brain, General
A close friend of mine used to race homing pigeons. He tells me that most of them, most of the time would make it all the way home to the south coast of the UK, even from somewhere in the middle of rural France, across the Channel. How do they [...]
Brain, Health
Oh dearie me! Yet more bad news for people who have difficulty sleeping. The latest, from Loughborough University’s sleep research Centre, is that if you don’t sleep along enough or well enough, you won’t just mess up your memory, immune system and your body’s natural response to stress, but you’ll also [...]
Brain, Health
Finally, it seems, there are some indications that people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, invalided out of the military, are beginning to get the understanding, support and treatment they need. For too long, victims of this exhausting condition have been left to their own devices – most having to live [...]
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