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 [...]
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 [...]
