May 10th, 2010 → 11:34 pm @ andre
Mental Illness is inherited. Do you agree with this? Do you see yourself admitting that you have a mentally ill family member even to a close friend? If you do, and someone comes up and tell you that their mental illness can be passed on to generations, would you readily agree? I don’t think you [...]
January 3rd, 2010 → 6:40 am @ andre
Doing mental exercises is a great way to stimulate neuron growth. But did you know that there’s an ingredient that neuroscientists only recently discovered that is essential for brain exercises to work? In fact, without this ingredient mental exercises could actually have an opposite effect.
That crucial ingredient is none other than social interaction. Studies on [...]
October 12th, 2009 → 12:39 am @ andre
Most people would argue that memory is not as important today as it was 50 years ago. Reason? The portable gadgets available and their increasingly convenient nature. But I would seriously disagree with that.
I believe brain improvement, and therefore memory improvement, is arguably more crucial today than ever before in history. Why? Because there’s more [...]
October 8th, 2009 → 3:27 am @ andre
Just over a decade ago, most people would have laughed at you if you even suggested memory exercises can improve memory. It was once believed, of course, that once your brain matured, it’s fixed and unchanging. According to that theory, memory loss and other cognitive problems are irreversible and inevitable.
But in 1998, a clinical study [...]
September 21st, 2009 → 1:17 am @ andre
In many ways, the rising popularity of the internet and other communication technology is a great boon to the human species. Yet it comes with some nasty side-effects, one of which is declining amount of social interactions. This is unfortunate at best because studies have shown social interactions is crucial for a healthy brain.
For example, [...]
September 18th, 2009 → 1:01 am @ andre
If you’ve done a brief read on the internet about brain fitness, you’ll quickly realize that there are a variety of contradicting advice. Which is real? And which is not?
In this article, I want to debunk some of the myths perpetrated on the internet. With ever point I make, I would like to link to [...]
September 16th, 2009 → 12:56 am @ andre
“Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand.” – Confucious
Though Confucious was aware of how humans best learn new information it wasn’t until quite recently that we understand the science behind what he’s saying.
Did you know that as you learning causes
Neuron growth
Strengthening of your current [...]
September 13th, 2009 → 8:15 am @ andre
The brain is probably the most important organ in your body yet little is known about its functions. Needless to say, the general public hardly knows anything about their own brain and psyche.
In this article, I will attempt to explain the basic principles in which our brain works and a brief explanation as to why [...]
September 13th, 2009 → 4:38 am @ andre
I got interested in the functions of the brain about half a decade ago. What made me delve into this field of science is a movie called, “The Notebook”. Have you watched it before? If you haven’t, let me tell you what it’s about.
It’s a love story between a lady who lost her memory in [...]
September 10th, 2009 → 2:45 am @ andre
There was an interesting study that was published in the Journal of Neurophysiology back in 1995. The study was one of the first of its kind. It explored the link between the mind and the reality. To determine the existence of such a link… and its strength, the researchers conducted an experiment on 4 groups [...]
