Neuroplasticity through Mind Hygiene
Stephanie West Allen, our lawyer-blogger friend and Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz, a research psychiatrist at the School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles and a neuroplasticity...
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Your Trading Brain: Expert or Novice
We had the fortune to interview Dr. Brett Steenbarger on Enhancing Trader Performance and The Psychology of Trading as we launched our Neuroscience Interview Series. Below, Expert Contributor Dr....
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Dr. Art Kramer on Why We Need Walking Book Clubs to Enhance Cognitive Fitness...
Dr. Arthur Kramer is a Professor in the University of Illinois Department of Psychology, the Campus Neuroscience Program, the Beckman Institute, and the Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at the...
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Education builds Cognitive Reserve for Alzheimers Disease Protection
Given the growing media coverage mentioning the terms Cognitive Reserve and Brain Reserve, you may be asking yourself, “What exactly is my Cognitive (or Brain) Reserve?” The cognitive reserve...
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Brain Training for Babies: Hope, Hype, Both?
Training the brain is possible because of neuroplasticity. Our daily experiences can trigger neuroplastic changes in the brain, such as the growth of new brain cells (neurons) and new connections...
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To Harness Neuroplasticity, Start with Enthusiasm
We are the architects and builders of our own brains. For millennia, however, we were oblivious to our enormous creative capabilities. We had no idea that our brains were changing in response to our...
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What Educators and Parents Should Know About Neuroplasticity, Learning and Dance
— The Dance for Athletes class at Glen Burnie High School performs a swing piece Dance. Is it merely art? Is it just recreation? Think again. Dance is now being studied as a pathway to enhance...
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What Everyone Should Know About Stress, Brain Health, and Dance
– Dancing to the clapping of bands. Egyptian, from the tomb of Ur-ari-en-Ptah, 6th Dynasty, about 3300 B.C. (British Museum) Everyone experiences stress at some point in our lives. It is important to...
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The NeuroGeneration and Humankind’s Quest to Enhance the Brain
Some people may be uneasy with the idea of “brain enhancement,” but the quest to boost our brainpower is nothing new; it is an essential part of human nature. Ever since Homo sapiens emerged nearly...
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What’s normal? When it comes to the brain, it’s hard to say, and that’s why...
In a small village in India—a place so remote it has no electricity, no telecommunication system, and no cars or buses—a research worker prepares to place an EEG headset on a female villager’s head....
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