Once you have decided you want to run a marathon you know you will have to train and prepare for it. You can’t just decide a week before that you are going to do it; there is the need to get to your body in shape, and your mindset as well. A marathon is the [...]
A recent study published in Science (October 2011) indicates a new discovery has been made as to how the brain connects to form memories of events that happen close together, and could play a major role in furthering research on Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led [...]
Studies have found that elderly people tend to have trouble switching between different tasks – or multi-tasking. Researchers knew it was happening, but have been unable to explain it, or even prove it. A new study, led by University of California at San Francisco neuroscientist Adam Gazzeley, has taken advantage of newer technology in brain [...]
Okay, here are 4 brain exercises that I have learned over the last few years. If you think I just made these up you might want to do a Youtube search on 'brain yoga' and you will find some doctors actually talking about how this stuff works! You know I am a HUGE advocate of [...]
The terms “dementia†refers to a disease in which the nerve cells in the brain are not able to connect to one another and start to die off. This results in a loss of memory and eventually other brain functions, like the brain’s ability to tell your kidneys to work or your body to breath, [...]
It may sound strange to find that a grain you eat, and found in most of your food in some form or another, can have a negative effect on a brain function, but it can happen. Research has found that gluten sensitivity could be at the root of many neurological and psychiatric conditions, including attention [...]
Intel collected by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention from 1999 to 2005 indicates that the suicide rate has risen by 20% during this period for people between the ages of 45-54 – the Baby Boomer generation. The cause is unknown, but the data has been supported by other studies done later. One fact [...]
Does the thought of having to speak in public cause you to break out in sweat and your stomach start to turn? You are not alone. A survey once told that more people are afraid of making a presentation in public than they are of spiders. Fear of death actually came in second! It used [...]
In 2003 an 85-year-old man Santa Monica, California man pressed his foot on the gas pedal of his 1992 Buick, mistaking it for the brake, and drove three blocks along a crowded Farmer’s Market, running into people and business stands along there way before a body crashed into his windshield and stopped the car. Nine [...]
Well, the 2012 USA Memory Championship is just a few months away and despite the fact I wasn't sure if I would compete again I all the sudden feel like Brett Favre. I think I am looking more forward to this tournament than any in the past. In 2008, I was returning from a deployment [...]
