brain

Using computer games to establish a baseline cognitive function
I can tell basically how I am functioning cognitively based on scores on computer games I play.  From this baseline I can determine what affects my brain function.  For example,  sleep, time of day, diet, etc.  I think every brain functions differently.  I have found the things that keep […]

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My brain lesion
I had a brain lesion about 16 years ago.  The word lesion is really a general medical jargon word.  What I had was basically bleeding in the brain from capillary telangiectasia or a cavernous malformation. The result was I had memory and brain processing problems. I still functioned at a rather high cognitive level, […]

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How trauma affects memory
I recall reading a while back that there was a study where subjects were shown a series of Photos. Most were neutral or pleasant; however, inter mixed, pictures of traumatic scene, things that are universally horrible, accidents and such. After the subjects viewing the photos were given a memory recall test […]

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Rosemary for memory
I grew up in the New England countryside, which was settled in the 1600s. If you are a colonial history buff you know that the colonial departed were buried with rosemary.  Rosemary was used not as a preservative, which it is because of the antioxidants in rosemary, but rather for remembrance.  Even in […]

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Your brain plasticity will determine how fast your brain will grow
I was walking though ‘Las Wolski” (a deep forest) on Sunday in Kraków. I was trying to learn some new words in Polish connected with nature. Words I had never even herd before. My girlfriend told me about five Polish words in a childhood poem […]

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Learning and circadian rhythm
Some people learn better in the morning others in the evening.  I learn best right before I go to bed and right when I wake up.  However, its not just a question of learning in the morning or in the evening, its about the biology of your brain and how your brain […]

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Brain cells at work
Have you ever wondered how your brain so quickly stores information, such as an image or a word you learned? You see a picture and one moment latter you have it in your mind. What happens at a molecule level?  How specifically does this brain cell adapt to sensory inputs? With the use […]

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Gregorian chants
Gregorian chants are in my opinion the most soothing and flowing music there is.  But I grew up listing to Gregorian chants, so perhaps I am partial. Regardless they have a real affect on your brain and can be used to help you learn languages.
Gregorian chants an brainwaves
Many studies have been done on music […]

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Bilingual brains
If you are bilingual, even better if you are bilingual from childhood, more and more research is supporting the theory that your bilingual abilities will delay or even prevent dementia.  The idea is that when you speak more than one language you need to have the ability to differentiate between two distinct sets of rules […]

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Your brain thinks without you know it
We all live in the world of our own, and now even scientists say so. Researchers from UK have summed up in their latest study that the brain does not pass on all the information that it soaks up from the surroundings and instead uses this raw data to […]

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