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, 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, 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 [...]
Brain, Health
Thousands of years ago, one therapy often used to reduce symptoms of arthritis and other pain, involved sitting in a tank of electric eels! How bad would your pain have to be for you to consider doing that? Some 70 years ago electric shock therapy was sometimes used in psychiatric [...]
Brain, Health
A couple of million years ago, as the rain forests shrank and the food supply collapsed with it, early man began to do a lot less climbing and a lot more walking, specifically across the African savannas, searching for food and shelter as they went. It is believed that men [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health
Balancing a busy professional life with a home and family life is quite enough for a person to handle, but add in the pressure of RO4 exams and you’ve got the distinct possibility of overwhelm and stress. One thing I often advise when people come to me complaining of stress, [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence, Health
Do you already know just how difficult it is to concentrate on your R04 exam revision when you’re feeling stressed? Stress has a hugely negative effect on your mental performance. If you’re suffering from stress, you need to learn how to keep it under control so that you give yourself [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health, Memory
If you’re feeling stressed over your Advanced Diploma exam, you’re hardly likely to be studying efficiently. So the sooner you get on top of that stress, the better chance you’ve got of passing your exams. You’ve heard me say it before, physiologically with pretty much the same as we were [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health
So here’s the last exercise, I promised you, following on from last week’s mindset exercise, that will help you use the information you’ve gathered so far to change the way you think and therefore lessen your stress and make revising for your Level 4 Diploma RO exams much easier. So [...]
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