Women cringe when they think about the onset of menopause – the hot flashes, mood swings and “fuzzy†thinking, and the helplessness they feel. Men cringe at the thought of the onset of their wife’s menopause – the hot flashes, the mood swings, the “fuzzy†thinking, and the helplessness they feel. That’s right, they both [...]
Even when we sleep our brains are still engaged – organizing our day, putting things into long-term memory, tying up loose ends and taking care of our life as we get our rest. When you are at rest your brain is not. Scientists first recorded brain activity, through the use of an electro encephalogram recording [...]
At a news conference, General George Marshall, U.S. Army Chief of Staff and Secretary of State during World War II (1930s and 1940s) would listen to questions coming from reporters and not lose track of his prepared statement. After he finished his statement he would look at each reporter and answer the question they [...]
No matter how much information you get, if it’s not good news your brain doesn’t want to hear it. This is great news for your health, as research has shown those with positive attitudes live longer and are healthier than those who see the world in a negative light. According to research published in Nature [...]
What does your brain go through when you have a migraine? Recent studies have found it may be that the brain goes through a process much like a mini-stroke, and that surprisingly migraines may actually cause some brain damage. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center published a paper in the April 29 online [...]
The “language†part of the brain, centered in the left hemisphere of the brain, was discovered in the 19th century. It wasn’t until the 1960s, however, that scientist Roger Sperry and his colleagues found that by disconnecting the corpus callosum, millions of nerve fibers bundled together that connects the two halves of the brain and [...]
In 1926 scientists in Sydney, Australia put together a portable machine that “plugged into a lightening point†and while attaching a skin pad soaked in saline to a cardiac needle and inserted into the correct part of the heart sent off electrical impulses that revived a stillborn infant’s heart. This was the first use of [...]
How do you improve creativity? Do you wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant idea, but don’t get up to jot it down? How about when you’re out jogging, does some creative idea simply knock your socks off, but by the time you get home to put it on paper you [...]
How many hours of sleep do you need? Sleep is an essential need for our bodies and our brains. It is during sleep that our minds go over the events of the day and form long-term memory. Without adequate sleep, of at least 7-9 hours a night, we are not able to function at optimum [...]
Musical memory is the ability to remember music-related information, such as tones and pitch. Researchers have found that, although similar, musical memory is encoded differently from language, and may actually be a different type of memory altogether. MIT researchers stumbled upon what they called the brain’s “pitch center†by accident while studying the superior temporal [...]
