March 20, 2007 – 10:28 am
More news suggesting music can help to sharpen the brain.
“Experience with music appears to help with many other things in life, potentially transferring to activities like reading or picking up nuances in tones of voices or hearing sounds in a noisy classroom better,” researcher Nina Kraus, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University”
Read the article here
February 22, 2007 – 12:04 pm
Consumer report has 5 tips on keeping your memory sharp, which includes computer based brain games. All great tips which we strongly recommend.
Read here
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January 31, 2007 – 3:48 pm
We found this post that mentions Dr. Paul Nussbaum’s approach to brain health. Dr. Nussbaum does a great job of communicating the importance of a fit brain to the public
Dr. Nussbaum says that a healthy lifestyle characterized by socialization, physical activity, mental activity, spirituality, and nutrition leads to improved brain health. Individuals should reduce their caloric [...]
January 25, 2007 – 12:17 pm
Another study showing the impact of learning on our brains.
“These remarkable findings suggest stimulating the mind with activities such as reading books or completing crossword puzzles may help delay and/or prevent Alzheimer’s disease in senior citizens.”
The full piece can be read here
January 22, 2007 – 12:12 pm
Here is another study on the benefits of studying another language.
“If you have two languages in your brain, you need a way to keep them straight, otherwise you might say the wrong thing,” she said. It’s one of the things that often goes wrong with people suffering from dementia. They can no longer control their [...]
January 3, 2007 – 3:48 pm
The Alliance for Aging Research is encouraging Americans to boost their brain health.
“There is a lot we can do to keep our brains healthy and potentially prevent or lessen the cognitive decline that often comes with aging,” Daniel Perry, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Aging Research”
You can see the full article here
December 22, 2006 – 3:45 pm
Here is another report that links exercise and the brain.
“Physical activity may be beneficial to cognition during early and middle periods of the human lifespan and may continue to protect against age-related loss of cognitive function during older adulthood”.
You can see this story in full here
December 21, 2006 – 1:45 pm
Here is a great new study that supports what we are doing at Happy Neuron.
Certain mental exercises can offset some of the expected decline in older adults’ thinking skills and show promise for maintaining cognitive abilities needed to do everyday tasks such as shopping, making meals and handling finances, according to a new study.
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December 2, 2006 – 2:26 pm
There is an article on Happyneuron.com over at KillerAPP.com.
“You can’t just practice the mental skills you’re good at, according to Happy Neuron. You need to practice a broad range of skills — memory, attention, language, executive functions (logic, problem solving, etc.) and spatial and visual skills. The site offers games in each category so that [...]
December 1, 2006 – 5:44 pm
Associated Press writer looks at brain work-outs on the web. Special attention is made to our www.happyneuron.com site and the article acknowledges the richness of our site compared to other online brain work-outs. It also states that mental calisthenics are good for you.
In other words, rigorous mental activity appears to be good for brain health, and, as a [...]