Brain, General, Health
When there’s so much information, and indeed, misinformation – and sometimes deliberate misinformation, perpetuated by marketing companies paid to sell stuff, is it any wonder that we don’t know what to eat for the best? There’s a Good Chance You’re Not Eating the Type of Fish you Ordered Fish are [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence
The more we think, the less we believe! Well, in God anyway… Apparently, we humans use two separate cognitive systems for processing information. There’s intuitive thinking, which is fast and er… intuitive! (In other words, a spontaneous and innate skill.) And there’s also a slower and more analytical process. Either [...]
Brain, Health, Learning
What’s the best way to protect your brain against age-related memory loss? When the research digs down, it turns out that there are a few things you can do to hang on to those precious brain cells. And one of them is to learn another language. [...]
Brain, Learning
We all have our favourite, of course. And what works for us, is what’s best for us. But how do you know if you’ve stumbled upon the best system for you? Well, it turns out, so says Jeffrey Karpicke at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, that no matter what [...]
Brain
The brains of autistic children usually show more excitement for inanimate objects than for their mother’s face. But in the Early Start Denver Model program, researchers observe that, when caught early enough, the youngsters undergoing specific behaviour therapy for a couple of years, developed similar activity in their brain, to [...]
Brain
Bui Ha Duc and Xiaoping Li of the National University of Singapore, have been studying the physiological changes in the brain that occur with mental fatigue. Using an fMRI scanner to monitor the activity in the brains of 19 to 25-year-olds who had first been deprived of sleep for 25 [...]
Brain, Health
It’s official! Older people only need to be mildly deficient in vitamin B12, to be likely to experience cognitive decline, so says Martha Savaria Morris, Ph.D., an epidemiologist in the Nutrition Epidemiology Program at the HNRCA at Tufts University, Boston, USA. One in 10 people over the age of 70 [...]
Brain
If the Bible is to be believed, God, angry at people building the Tower Of Babel in order to reach heaven, destroyed their tower and their ability to cooperate freely by making them speak in different languages, thus creating confusion and preventing communication. It’s a good story! But perhaps from [...]
Brain, Health
No I’m not! Taking the piss, that is. But that’s exactly what some scientists are doing! Instead of using embryonic stem cells, which can have a serious side-effect, such as developing tumours when transplanted, it seems that your bog-standard (‘scuse the pun!) cells found in urine can be relatively easily [...]
Brain, Health
According to recent research, certain sorts of food fasting, mildly stresses the brain and encourages extra activity. I guess that makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. If you’re deprived of food, your brain works harder to help you find something to eat. Eating only 600 calories in only one meal [...]
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