Three Brain Hacks
This month’s blog is dedicated to providing a bit of background information to support my top three brain hacks
Sort Your Brain Out
This month’s blog is dedicated to providing a bit of background information to support my top three brain hacks
Sea Hero Quest – the world’s first smartphone game where anyone can help scientists fight dementia – announces it’s early findings…
Each year I look back on a year’s worth of brain tweets to see what’s been trending recently… here they’re carefully sorted & categorised for your delectation
There seem to be some long-term benefits to drinking caffeine even if the short-term benefits don’t amount to a whole hill of (coffee) beans.
By increasing interconnectivity between different brain areas involved in a wide variety of cognitive functions the onset of dementia may be delayed by enabling other brain areas take over the function of regions damaged as the brain ages.
Contrast the lifestyles of people in their seventies who do and do not suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and clues about how to keep your brain ticking over nicely, well into old age, jump right out at you. Those who do not suffer with this dreaded disease tend to have been more committed to a regular exercise regime throughout their later years. They tend to have been more engaged in a wider array of social activities. They tend to have been careful with their diet in the long term, favouring a healthy Meditteranean-style diet over a typical modern Western diet. They also tend to have been more proactively involved with their local community and more motivated to seek regular mental stimulation. People are now being advised to adopt a variety of brain-healthy habits if they wish to reduce the likelihood of developing cognitive deficits that the progression of Alzheimer’s disease can, but does not always, induce.
Dr Jack Lewis is keen to get people motivated to get the best out of their brains, so has compiled a quick overview