You Can Overcome! Understanding How The Brain Processes Adversity
TweetWhat if you could change how you feel? What if you could become more optimistic, more determined, and filled with more perseverance – by electrically stimulating your brain? To do that, you’d first need to know what part of the brain to stimulate. Recently, researchers at Stanford University may have discovered one region critical to […]
Playing Video Games – Wasting Time, Or Increasing Your Brain Volume?
TweetFor as long as video games have existed, critics have denounced them and proponents have claimed their virtues. But new evidence suggests playing games could be the key to increasing the size of your brain. A recent study published in Molecular Psychiatry offers evidence that video game training can lead to increased gray matter volume […]
Cognitive Decline May Be More Than Losing Brain Cells
TweetWith the rate of Alzheimer’s disease predicted to triple by 2050, researchers are busy investigating how and why cognitive decline occurs. Many believe that cognitive decline is primarily caused by the death of nerve cells in the brain, but new evidence is challenging this viewpoint. For some time, we have known that certain forms of […]
How To Master Memory
TweetLong before mobile devices, computers, typewriters, or even printing presses were around to record our every thought and idea, our ancestors found different ways to preserve their histories and knowledge. Storytellers and scholars relied on oral traditions to pass on knowledge. Greek orators recited epic poems like the Iliad and the Odyssey purely from memory. […]