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29th September 2009
Some people make New Year’s resolutions. I make Thanksgiving resolutions. Every year, I resolve to resume my practice of keeping a gratitude journal.
And every year, about three weeks later, I lose the journal. Not that this stops me. I just write my... Read >
Author: wbdoyle29th September 2009
Neurology, the scientific study of the brain, is a relatively young field of study compared to other branches of science. Due to the complexity of how a brain works, scientist were never able to see how a brain works until recent years.
With technologi... Read >
Author: johnhogan25th September 2009
When you are studying for an exam or if you need to learn some material for a presentation, you may be wondering how early you should start to study, and how often you should review the material in order to remember it.
Is it best to study large chunks... Read >
Author: Royane Real25th September 2009
Anyone who writes knows this scenario at one time or another: You have something to say, great ideas to express. So, you go to the page only to find your mind has gone as blank as the sheet or screen before you. Paralyzed, you write not a word. Somewher... Read >
Author: wbdoyle22nd September 2009
Do you actively take care of your brain? If not, why not? Did you know that how you feel is the work of your brain - and thus it is within your control? In fact, every thing that goes on in you - your thoughts, your action and your feelings are all in you... Read >
Author: johnhogan22nd September 2009
Your every action... your every thought is controlled by your brain. Every time you do something and every time a thought passes through your mind, networks of neurons in your brain fires signals to different parts of your body. These neurons that fires a... Read >
Author: johnhogan07th September 2009
One of the keys to manifesting what you want with the Law of Attraction is to ignore what you see in front of you and focus instead on what you are creating.The more you can do this the faster your reality will morph from what it is today to what you want... Read >
Author: Maria Meiners07th September 2009
We can all Learn-and transform our brain in the process. That's the message in this Interview-Part 1 (out of 2) from Dr. James Zull, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry at Case Western University, Director of UCITE (The University Center for Innovation ... Read >
Author: naval sharma07th September 2009
We can all Learn-and transform our brain in the process. That's the message in this Interview-Part 1 (out of 2) from Dr. James Zull, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry at Case Western University, Director of UCITE (The University Center for Innovation ... Read >
Author: naval sharma16th July 2009
Current explanations of the cause and cure of problems involving such things as: extreme nervousness, anxiety and panic; obsessive thinking and compulsive behaviour; phobias and depression have failed millions of people looking to understand and overcome ... Read >
Author: ter27th June 2009
Current explanations of the cause and cure of problems involving such things as: extreme nervousness, anxiety and panic; obsessive thinking and compulsive behaviour; phobias and depression have failed millions of people looking to understand and overcome ... Read >
Author: Terry Dixon11th June 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Liddle Kidz Foundation Infant and Children's Pediatric Massage
A baby's brain is twice as active as an adult's brain. When a baby is born, they have billions of brain cells, many of which are not yet connected. Those cells become con... Read >
Author: Tina Allen Liddle Kidz08th May 2009
How does a thought become something real and tangible?
In order to answer these questions, you have to grasp the actually
reality of things. You have to look behind the scenes at what is
actually going on with atoms and molecules that make up our
... Read >
Author: Inspiring Publications28th April 2009
According to Evans and Burghardt, our brains are constantly engaging in an internal recalibration. Our brains use about 20% of our bodies daily fuel requirement, and in an attempt to use it wisely, our brains are constantly building and dismantling circui... Read >
Author: Michael S. Logan, MS17th April 2009
There are brain articles popping up all over the place, as marketers and scientists and commentators and consumers and writers discover that there are a lot of things we can do to help our brains do what they do so well, process sensory data.
(And ther... Read >
Author: Michael S. Logan, MS17th April 2009
Brain improve? Who doesn't want to improve their brain? I mean, almost all advertising in our culture implies that with just a bit more mental oomph, another degree, a harder workout, or this or that potion or pill, you too can own the Mercedes, or the ma... Read >
Author: Michael S. Logan, MS16th April 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Liddle Kidz Foundation Infant and Children's Pediatric Massage
A baby's brain is twice as active as an adult's brain. When a baby is born, they have billions of brain cells, many of which are not yet connected. Those cells ... Read >
Author: Tina Allen Liddle Kidz13th April 2009
Neurotransmitters, chemicals in our brains that work as messengers between brain cells, are responsible for most of what goes on in our bodies. They regulate our behavior, our emotions, our ability to learn, and the way we sleep. When these chemicals are ... Read >
Author: Valerie09th April 2009
Can you increase your personal IQ by as much as 20 points by the use of image streaming (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_streaming)? This seems to be a proven claim by now.
You might have seen them yourself: there are thousands of web-sites and ... Read >
Author: Franz Rasch09th April 2009
Women over 50 are looking better than ever before and have more options open to help them achieve that. We are healthier than previous generations, have more vitality and we want our faces and bodies to display that. In addition to helping us compete in t... Read >
Author: Dale Kathryn03rd April 2009
If you lived like a full-monty cockroach and had impressively survived during the 1990's, you probably became a part of the generation who got addicted to the Beverly Hills 90210 TV show. Of course, you might deny it vehemently, but if truth be told, you ... Read >
Author: J. Owens01st April 2009
Has your Cognitive Decline begun? Are you older than age 27? According to a recent interpretation of Professor Timothy Salthouse's work, cognitive decline has begun for us, in some tests, even earlier than age 27.
According to Professor Salthouse at th... Read >
Author: Michael S. Logan, MS31st March 2009
Here’s the first thing you can expect to hear when most moms and dads pull out the ol’ Monopoly board for the first time…
“Oh no!”
“GROAN!”
“Do we HAVE to?!”
Between video games, cell phones, and our favourite TV shows, it’s no... Read >
Author: Chang Lim25th March 2009
As a recovered victim of learning disabilities, stress disorder, and brain chemistry challenges, I was forced to find a simple remedy to the many symptoms of brain imbalance. Recovering from the grief of a fiancée's death at 19, I spiraled into all these... Read >
Author: Jake09th March 2009
Curious about brain training programs? Is there anything to them besides smoke and mirrors? I have been using four of them, and I like them, but here is information from two University of Michigan researchers who offer an e-book which draws on their profe... Read >
Author: Michael S. Logan, MS29th December 2008
Inositol is a member of the vitamin B complex family, being referred to as vitamin B8, but is not strictly a vitamin because it is biosynthesized in your body. Vitamins are essential substances that are not manufactured by your natural biochemistry, and m... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer26th November 2008
Cholesterol is a component of lipid rafts, this helps to secure proteins involved in cell signaling. When sleeping at night, our brain synthesizes cholesterol to benefit our mood and increase our memory. Cholesterol supports the nervous system, in which c... Read >
Author: peterhutch06th October 2008
Alzheimer’s disease is a debilitating disorder affecting large numbers of our aging population. Alarmingly, the incidence of Alzheimer’s is on the rise.
There are over 5 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s already, and that figure will ... Read >
Author: Susan Nickerson10th September 2008
What is the brain fitness program? I’m glad that you asked.
Recently, there have been a lot of new stories about the plasticity of our brains. All that really means is that we have the ability to keep improving our intelligence, our memory and our me... Read >
Author: Michael S. Logan, MS05th September 2008
The fact that you have cholesterol in your brain tissue isn’t a new discovery, but the knowledge of what the cholesterol actually does up there is new. In November 2001, a group of French and German researchers at the Max- Delbruck Center for Molecular ... Read >
Author: sulamita22nd July 2008
ScienceDaily published a recent article discussing a nutritional study from Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function. This study was focused on how food and exercise affects the brain, going so far as to say the... Read >
Author: Jane Newsomelaw07th July 2008
Meditation has been around for too long to be just another buzz word in the multi-billion dollars wellness industry. Meditation is indeed the method of choice for one’s spiritual evolution but this is not the benefit discussed in this article. Rather th... Read >
Author: Constantine10th June 2008
Depression: It's a shell of a word, drained of its meaning through overuse. Missing your morning bus is depressing. The evening news is depressing. The word doesn't even begin to communicate the reality of the clinical disorder that affects millions of Am... Read >
Author: pattrickjhonson09th June 2008
Depression: It's a shell of a word, drained of its meaning through overuse. Missing your morning bus is depressing. The evening news is depressing. The word doesn't even begin to communicate the reality of the clinical disorder that affects millions of Am... Read >
Author: pattrickjhonson20th May 2008
It’s rather hard to imagine our lives without our
minds, for I seriously doubt we could imagine anything. We
would probably resemble all those mindless creepy creatures
in us we need to nourish everyday; but since we realize we
need them to... Read >
Author: jesse marshall wade20th May 2008
It’s rather hard to imagine our lives without our
minds, for I seriously doubt we could imagine anything. We
would probably resemble all those mindless creepy creatures
in us we need to nourish everyday; but since we realize we
need them ... Read >
Author: jesse marshall wade17th April 2008
Alzheimer's disease has been hitting the headlines quite a bit recently, partly due to the fact that well known and best selling author Terry Pratchett OBE has a form of the disease and partly because recent research has highlighted that the number of peo... Read >
18th January 2008
How the brain learns is a subject that still requires a lot of study. What scientists do know is that the learning process of the brain is dependent on how it is able to make connections among the brain cells. That may be a simple explanation on how the c... Read >
Author: Michael Lee18th January 2008
The Nervous System comprises the central nervous system (CNS), consisting of the brain and spinal cord, protected by the skull and spine, and the peripheral nervous system (PNS), made up of spinal and cranial nerves, which extend from the CNS to other par... Read >
Author: Alien10th September 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Luke BurgisStudents across the nation are heading back into the classrooms, sitting at their desks and, if they're anything like me, zoning out. I know I have company out there in the slacker realm. When I was in school I never truly ... Read >
Author: Fit Fuel24th August 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 SharpBrains
The LA Times just completed a wonderful 4-part series on how learning and memory work. The NYT re-emphasized the importance of physical exercise for neurogenesis (the creation of new neurons). To put this news in better p... Read >
Author: Alvaro15th June 2007
The muscle relaxing properties of "muscle relaxants" arise not from direct activity at the muscular or neuromuscular junction level but rather from an inhibition of more central polysynaptic neuronal (nerve cells that end in synapses) events. These agents... Read >
Author: Jennifer Alinio04th June 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Alvaro Fernandez
We can all Learn-and transform our brain in the process. That's the message in this Interview-Part 1 (out of 2) from Dr. James Zull, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry at Case Western University, Director of UCITE... Read >
Author: Alvaro24th May 2007
Even now that fact is hard for many people to accept! The truth is
though, the Fast Phobia Cure has now been in existence for over twenty
years and has been used successfully on 100's of thousands of people.
From simple Poodle Phobias to more extreme c... Read >
Author: Colin Smith21st May 2007
A baby sling is the perfect device for parents who want to maintain closeness with their infant while completing tasks around the house and in the community. Many parents choose to literally wear their babies and they do this by using a sling that is desi... Read >
Author: Peter Gitundu29th March 2007
Neuroscience has changed considerably in the past 20 years. An example of change over period is the concept of brain plasticity. Brain plasticity refers to the brain's ability to rewire itself, relocating information processing functions to different brai... Read >
Author: Pedro Gondim17th November 2006
Heroin and Methadone are similar in that they are both opiates and are highly addictive both physically and emotionally. Heroin users are going through everyday life numbing there physical, mental and emotional experience so as to not have... Read >
Author: Marcel Gemme01st July 2006
"Doesn't she speak English? Oh, I see -- both Swedish and English. Doesn't that get awfully confusing? Swedish, you said -- when will she use that?" Get used to hearing these kinds of things. You'll get opinions from the barista at Starbucks, your mother-... Read >
Author: Christina Bosemark26th June 2006
The human brain weighs approximately three pounds and influences everything a person does. You may not realize it, but your brain is not the same today as it was yesterday or last month. The brain is a continuously changing collection of cells. When you l... Read >
Author: Marcel Gemme08th April 2006
Copyright 2006 Alicia Power
Ever wondered how coffee drives your brain into action and where we'd be without it? There's no doubt that when it's time to think fast we humans regularly reach for "steroids". Our instinct is to SHAKE AWAKE the neuro p... Read >
Author: Alicia Power23rd March 2006
In the human body one finds an abounding storehouse of divinely conscious light. But for daily life usage very little of it is utilized. Only a very minute part of this light is used for eating, sleeping and other daily routine activities. Because of p... Read >
Author: Ashok Rawal06th March 2006
At age seven months in the womb, humans begin language coordination in response to what they hear through the mother's belly wall. Some 52 muscles learn to respond to the various phonemes (a basic language sound like 'b' in boy and 'm' in man) of the lan... Read >
Author: Dr. Randy Wysong23rd November 2005
Copyright 2005 Mary Desaulniers
It was not too long ago that the I.Q. test was a routinely administered exercise in elementary and secondary schools. At that time (late seventies and early eighties), schools placed great faith in these magic numbers. F... Read >
Author: Mary Desaulniers24th August 2005
Top ten reasons to supplement your diet with EPA fish oil Copyright 2005 David McEvoy
We are in the grip of an omega 3 fish oil wave, every day
more studies are published to show just how important this nutrient is to us. Last week it was children wit... Read >
Author: David McEvoy
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