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Broccoli for the Brain

Adding to the two books on the market (Dental Floss for the Mind and Get your Brain in the Fast Lane), Happy Neuron’s CEO, Michel Noir and Chief Scientist, Dr. Bernard Croisile, have brought another book to the market. This one is entitled Brocolli for the Brain. It’s publish by McGrawHill and available at Borders, Barnes&Nobles and Amazon. So when you are off-the-grid, you can still ensure you get your brain fitness workout. Enjoy! This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at 1:23 pm and is filed under Books, Brain Fitness, Serious Games. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [lien] [EN]

Broccoli for the Brain

Adding to the two books on the market (Dental Floss for the Mind and Get your Brain in the Fast Lane), Happy Neuron’s CEO, Michel Noir and Chief Scientist, Dr. Bernard Croisile, have brought another book to the market. This one is entitled Brocolli for the Brain. It’s published by McGrawHill and available at Borders, Barnes&Nobles and Amazon. So when you are off the internet-grid, you can still ensure you get your brain fitness workout. Enjoy! This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at 1:23 pm and is filed under Books, Brain Fitness, Serious Games. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [lien] [EN]

Adult brains can change!

Young brains are plastic. This means that they can change and reorganize to adapt to deficits. Is it the case for older brains as well? Recent research suggests that the answer is yes! Dilks, from John Hopkins University, and his colleagues, studied the brain of a stroke patient (B.L.). Behavioral and brain imaging evidence showed that reorganization had occurred in B.L.’s visual cortex following his stroke. This study, published in September 2007, was the first to show plasticity in this part of the adult brain. Evidence for plasticity in the adult brain is great news for brain fitness! Healthy and fit brains may be more plastic, and thus more resistant to deficits caused by age and age-related diseases. So… keep exercising your brain! Read the original article here This entry was posted on Friday. [lien] [EN]

Holiday Meals are Good for the Brain

Overindulging during the Thanksgiving holidays? Don’t feel guilty because many of the foods we eat during the festivities contain significant amounts of antioxidants. Turkey, cranberries, stuffing and even hot cocoa can deliver benefits to your brain. Read the article in Psychology Today and reach for the leftovers! This entry was posted on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 at 5:56 pm and is filed under Brain health, Health & Wellness, Nutrition. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [lien] [EN]

Increase Brain Power with Food

Certain foods can increase your brain power and can keep you living healthier and longer. And since the brain is a hungry organ in the sense that it is metabolically active, we need to feed it with the right foods for optimal performance. Here are 4 tips for an intelligent diet. 1. Water Our brains are about 80 percent water, so the first rule of brain nutrition is adequate water intake to hydrate your brain. Even slight dehydration can raise stress hormones, which in turn can damage your brain over time. Also, water makes up 83% of human blood and acts as a transport system, delivering nutrients to the brain and eliminating toxins. Water is essential for concentration and mental alertness. 2. Antioxidants A number of studies have shown that dietary intake of antioxidants from fruits and vegetables significantly reduce the risk of developing cognitive impairment (Zandi. [lien] [EN]

Adult brains can change!

Young brains are plastic. This means that they can change and reorganize to adapt to deficits. Is it the case for older brains as well? Recent research suggests that the answer is yes! Dilks, from John Hopkins University, and his colleagues, studied the brain of a stroke patient (B.L.). Behavioral and brain imaging evidence showed that reorganization had occurred in B.L.'s visual cortex following his stroke. This study, published in September 2007, was the first to show plasticity in this part of the adult brain. Evidence for plasticity in the adult brain is great news for brain fitness! Healthy and fit brains may be more plastic, and thus more resistant to deficits caused by age and age-related diseases. So… keep exercising your brain! Read the original article here This entry was posted on Friday. [lien] [EN]

Holiday Meals are Good for the Brain

Overindulging during the Thanksgiving holidays? Don’t feel guilty because many of the foods we eat during the festivities contain significant amounts of antioxidants. Turkey, cranberries, stuffing and even hot cocoa can deliver benefits to your brain. Read the article in Psychology Today and reach for the leftovers! This entry was posted on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 at 5:56 pm and is filed under Brain health, Health & Wellness, Nutrition. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [lien] [EN]

Increase Brain Power with Food

Certain foods can increase your brain power and can keep you living healthier and longer. And since the brain is a hungry organ in the sense that it is metabolically active, we need to feed it with the right foods for optimal performance. Here are 4 tips for an intelligent diet. 1. Water Our brains are about 80 percent water, so the first rule of brain nutrition is adequate water intake to hydrate your brain. Even slight dehydration can raise stress hormones, which in turn can damage your brain over time. Also, water makes up 83% of human blood and acts as a transport system, delivering nutrients to the brain and eliminating toxins. Water is essential for concentration and mental alertness. 2. Antioxidants A number of studies have shown that dietary intake of antioxidants from fruits and vegetables significantly reduce the risk of developing cognitive impairment (Zandi. [lien] [EN]

How does your brain respond when you think about gambling or taking risks?

Should you leave your comfortable job for one that pays better but is less secure? Should you have a surgery that is likely to extend your life but poses some risk that you will not survive the operation? Should you invest in a risky startup company whose stock may soar even though you could lose your entire investment? In the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Science, UCLA psychologists present the first neuroscience research comparing how our brains evaluate the possibility of gaining versus losing when making risky decisions. Participants in the study, mostly UCLA students in their 20s, were given $30 and then asked whether they would agree to each of more than 250 gambles in which they had a 50-50 chance of winning an amount of money or losing another amount of money. [lien] [EN]

Kiss Your Brain

Kiss YourBrain Eva has introduced us to a new phrase that she learned in Kindergarten: “Kiss your brain!” When you come up with a good idea or do something smart, you’re supposed to kiss your brain to thank it.  You put your hand to your lips like you’re about to blow a kiss, but instead you put the kiss on your hand and deliver it to the top of your noggin. This will show your brain that you appreciate its hard work, so it’ll want to keep working for you. Have you kissed your brain lately? There was a good post over at Fun Spirit recently about using puzzles and games to challenge your brain. This might be a good way to give your brain a little kiss. [lien] [EN]

How To Find Executive Contact Information Using Google Finance And Your Brain [Contact Info]

People often write to us and ask "Hey do you have such and such a company's email address? I didn't see it on your website." The answer is almost always "No." When this happens we have to guess. Here is one method of guessing that often yields results. Instead waiting around for no reason, you can do it yourself! You will need: 1) Google Finance 2) The Company's Website 3) Your Brain Step 1) Go to the company's website. Find the place where they post their press releases. Open a press release. Look for an email address that ends with the company's name. Do not email this person. Step 2) Go to Google Finance. Enter the company's stock symbol or name. Scroll down to where the top executives are listed. Step 3) Using your brain, apply the email address format from the press release email to the names of the executives listed in Google Finance. [lien] [EN]

Controlling Games with Your Brain: Will This Ever Catch On? [Gaming]

Personally, I'm fine with using a controller to play video games. I've grown up with them, and they really get the job done. I know the idea of controlling games with your brain is neat and all, but I just can't get behind it. Even so, the OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator is here to try to convince us all otherwise. To begin with, you probably only want to map a single event to your games, but as your confidence improves you'll be able to do more and give your hands a break. And as the NIA can speed up response times (200ms to click fire, 100ms to think it), it means you'll be more efficient at shooting before getting shot. We got to use the device for an extended play in the wonderfully frenetic Unreal Tournament 3, and the buzz you get when you knock up your first frag is every bit as stunning as it is scary. [lien] [EN]

What if your brain likes Ahmadinejad?

OK, here we go again. Remember the fuzz about the Iacoboni lab at UCLA, where they used fMRI to probe into voters likes and dislikes of politicians? Now,a good article in the Atlantic.com gives us a 1st person story about the trip through the fMRI experiment, the thoughts and results following this scientific un-rigourous and invalid approach. Jeffrey Goldberg reports in a funny and entertaining manner how it all goes about. As with the previously mentioned NY Times article by the Iacoboni team, Goldberg is scanned while watching different famous people, including politicians, actors and musicians. After a few days, the imaging results come in and are presented and discussed with Iacoboni. To me, the dialoguoes could be referring to tea-leaf reading, astrology or ___ (put in your preferred method). [lien] [EN]