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 [...]
Can you imagine your brain giving out from exhaustion? It seems hard to believe, and it probably won’t happen, but your brain is capable of getting tired out, and when that happens it can have consequences. The thing is, you probably won’t even realize it’s happening. When your memory is tired or brain is tired [...]
Speaking with most doctors you will find that one of the most asked questions from patients over thirty involves memory loss. Our brains peak in our late twenties, and after that people with an occasional “It’s right on the tip of my tongue,†or “Have you seen my keys?†begins to make people think there [...]
A recent study, conducted by Pacific Union College, tried to compare the effects of both violence and humor in television and how people are able to recall the product names in commercials throughout the show. We have always known that if you want to improve your memory with memory training you should make the images [...]
As a veteran of the U.S. Military myself, and a veteran of Afghanistan, I am passionate about helping those in the military improve their conditions. One way I can continue to help my fellow veterans and soldiers is to show you how to use the same memory techniques I use to remember a deck of [...]
A survey by the Dana Foundation revealed that nearly seven out of ten adults are worried about memory decline. As a matter of fact, 80% of doctors surveyed said their patients over thirty complain about memory loss. They are beginning to worry they may develop Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. They haven’t quite gotten [...]
In school, teachers usually teach the “phonebook†method of learning a language. With this memory technique you were given a list of vocabulary words to memorize, along with their meaning. The object is to repeat the word so often it will “stick†in your memory, and then you can move on to another word. This [...]
