Alright ladies, grab a Hot Pocket and bag of Cheetos and dive into this article!! Good news for overweight women – being overweight could help protect your brain! Finally someone has come up with a study that shows positive memory effects from being overweight. According to “Brain Structure and Obesity†an article included in the [...]
Studies all over are reporting that keeping your cell phone glued to your ear can cause brain damage? Can this be true? It seems everyone you see has a phone glued to his or her ears – no matter where you are. How much damage are these devices doing, and can it be reversed? If [...]
When we look at the news and hear stories of atrocities performed on humans, by humans, we wonder how people can do such a thing. How were so many Germans who gassed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people during the Holocaust able to live with themselves? Did they not have a conscious? What about [...]
Working memory exercises can not only improve memory and cognitive performance but strengthen connections in the brain that are essential for memory, according to a study from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. With the use of state-of-the-art technology for brain imaging known as fractional anisotropy, researchers based out of the laboratory of Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, [...]
Bottling up your emotions does not help your ability to memorize or retain memories, according to a study at Stanford University. Holding back emotions can actually poison you ability to make decisions, learn and perform certain functions. Researchers in the Stanford study, Drs. Jane Richards and James Gross, stated that although cardiovascular changes do occur [...]
Over the years there has been a running debate among users and non-users of marijuana as to the effects the drug has on the brain. Non-users say it reacts in the body much the same as alcohol abuse, with slower memory and reflexes. Users say there is no change in the brain chemistry or function, [...]
As an adult you go over the same lessons and skills again and again that you did as a child. The more you do an activity the more it remains ingrained in your memory throughout your lifetime. Simple traditions you learned from your grandparents and are now passing on to your children or grandchildren; the [...]
Epilepsy can be caused by a several different reasons, but the fact is that in most cases doctors can not come up with a definite reason for the seizures. The patient could have been born with a genetic disposition to it, or have suffered brain damage or some kind of serious brain injury. Some types [...]
In the world of neuroscience, the word “cognitive†means how you think, reason and perceive the world around you. When the brain is damaged, from a traumatic injury, illness or stroke, often cognitive functions are interrupted and in order for the person to be able to return to some sort of normal life there is [...]
It seems the world is getting smaller, but our stress levels are getting higher. We now are not limited to working a regular job schedule, we can take our work home. We are bombarded with requests from social networks to engage ourselves in online interactive games, and we carry devices along with us everywhere that [...]
