Archive for April, 2010

Eight Brain Food Your Brain Loves Part 2 of 2

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

In an earlier blog post we starting listing eight brain food your brain love and here is the sequel.

5. Fresh organically grown fruit as apples, bananas, cherries, pineapple and grapefruit. Preferably, the shell, where it is possible to eat. They contain large amounts of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and antioxidants, and some fibers.

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Eight Brain Food Your Brain Loves Part 1 of 2

Monday, April 26th, 2010

“You are what you eat”, you have certainly heard before, but are you aware that you also think that you eat? Diet affects both your concentration and intelligence, so be sure to give the little gray right type of fuel. We have the list of these brain food.

8 brain food your brain loves. Here are the first 4 things in this first part:

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Do You Think Like a Woman or a Man?

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

article 1211010 053BFD770000044D 200 468x434 150x150How does your mind work? Do you think like a woman or a man?

Some researchers say that men can have ‘women’s brains’ and that women can think more like men.

Click here for the taking the SEX I.D. test

You can find out more about ‘brain sex’ differences by taking the Sex ID test. This is a series of visual challenges and questions used by psychologists in the BBC One television series Secrets of the Sexes:

  • Get a brain sex profile and find out if you think like a woman or a man.
  • See if you can gaze into someone’s eyes and know what they’re thinking.
  • Find out why scientists are interested in the length of your fingers.
  • See how your results relate to theories about brain sex.

The Human Brain is Complex

Monday, April 19th, 2010

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.

-Pugh, Emerson M.

Brain Video: Violinist Plays Through Surgery

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

In June 2009, doctors diagnosed musician Robert Frisch with essential tremors, a condition that occurs when sections of the brain that control movement start sending abnormal signals. While surgeons operated on Frisch’s brain, Frisch began to play the chords. Every note he played told the surgeons whether the electronic pulses they were sending to his brain worked to ease his body’s tremors.

Read more about this cutting edge: Treating Tremors Through Deep Brain Stimulation

How To Retain Memory Above 55 – Part Three

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

This is the third part of the article series about how to retain memory after age 55.

Normal blood pressure is good for your brain’s capacity

High blood pressure is causing people above age 60 to have a higher rate of cognitive decline than people with normal blood pressure. The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society mention that hypertension also increase the risk for stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. Data from national health survey shows that subjects with normal blood pressure have least amount of cognitive decline over time. Read more on retain memory

Knowing is Not Enough

Monday, April 12th, 2010

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“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

-Leonardo da Vinci

World Record in Memory

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Mr. Sababbi Mangal is a behavioral specialist Master Brain Developer, NLP & Research Memory Trainer. Inventor of World’s Longest Unlimited Years of Calendar. He has created 2  World Record for Fastest Memory and Mental Calculations by memorizin Worlds Longest Unlimited Years Calendar and Calculating Calendar for 10 Billion Years: One Minute: 60 Random dates. This record is for Calculating the exact day of 60 random dates of 10 Billion years calendar in 60 seconds only.
This event was Performed in Nagpur during the event Aarohi – RHR ‘09 at VNIT, Nagpur, India on 1 March 2009.
Read more: http://worldmemoryman.blogspot.com/

Use the Brain

Monday, April 5th, 2010

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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

- Albert Einstein

Chimps Beat Humans in Memory Test

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

monkeymemory1Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests.

Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists. The tasks involved remembering the location of numbers on a screen, and correctly recalling the sequence.

The findings in 2007, published in Current Biology, suggest we may have under-estimated the intelligence of our closest living relatives. Until now, it had always been assumed that chimps could not match humans in memory and other mental skills.

“There are still many people, including many biologists, who believe that humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions,” said lead researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University.

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