Tip for Brains Stay Sharp Until Dark

Upon entering the 30s, the ability to think someone could have started to decline. Even at the age of 60's, aging nerve cells in the brain can not be avoided, so that often lead to senility or dementia.

Although this aging process is unavoidable, but there are efforts made so that dementia can be avoided or at least postponed. According to experts, dementia can be avoided with healthy lifestyle and get used to conduct cognitive stimulation for brain cells are constantly active. That way, the nerve cells will continue to produce the required brain neurotransmitter substances.

Well .. so that your brain's ability maintained until old age. There is a good idea to do some activity below, adjusted for age.

30s:

Flossing every day:
Habits like candy and forget about flossing nothing in common. Both contributed to cause plaque on the teeth, and also turned out very bad on your brain.

"Plaque between teeth can cause an immune reaction that can attack the arteries, so no one can send the nutrients that are vital to brain cells," says Michael Roizen, MD, author of YOU-The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger. Then what is the solution? Make flossing every day when starting the activity in the morning.


Eating fish:
Look to the sea to provide "feed" your brain to eat. DHA, a type of omega-3 fatty acids found in salmon, trout, and some fortified foods, like yogurt can improve your memory.

"DHA reduce inflammation of the arteries and increase repair protective coating around the nerves," said Dr. Roizen. "As a result, related to age, reduced memory impairment, reduced Alzheimer's disease, depression, and thoughts more quickly."
    
Age 40s

Steal Little toys:
There is a new version of the Rubik's Cube you ever loved as a child. Three-dimensional shape such as 360 degrees and this is very good for the brain at each age, as it can sharpen the ability to solve problems, says psychologist nerve, Karen Spangenberg Postal, PhD, who is also president of the Massachusetts Psychological Association.

The key: When you play, you work with memory, spatial skills and strategies needed to improve brain health. What if you are frustrated playing Cube? Do not worry: every game that demands you think would be helpful.

A time to exercise:
Paculah your heart rate three times a week for 20 minutes. Even just by walking, will supply your brain with oxygen and help grow new cells.

"Aerobic exercise two to three times as effective as brain exercise activity," said Sam Wang, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience at Princeton University and author of Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life.

No problem if you do not have time to go to the gym on weekends.
Recent research shows, despite moderate to heavy exercise
only once a week (eg jogging on weekends) can make
you 30 percent to maintain your cognitive functions, such as your age.

Begin bridge club:
If you are bored with the book club and tired by the evening party, bridge card game faster is recommended by doctors. A combination of strategies and memory on the bridge to challenge the brain to learn new information and training so that cells do not die, said Dr. Postal. Socialize while playing cards also provide refreshment for the brain, which can not be offered on a solo game.

Age 50s to top

Use chopsticks
Research shows that by involving nerve cells at the tip of the finger directly stimulate your brain, "said Maoshing Ni, PhD, author of Second Spring: Dr. Mao's Hundreds of Natural Secrets for Women to Revitalize and Regenerate at Any Age.

Using chopsticks, knitting, or playing with a pen or pencil between your fingers, can help the brain by improving blood circulation.

Playing video games
You do not have to feel too old to play Wii or other games that train the brain. "When there is something new in the video game, you'll stimulate different parts of the brain that normally you do not use from day to day," says Reon Baird, PhD, a psychologist nerve from Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.

Be careful with drugs
Be careful using sleeping pills or pain relievers. Research in the Clinical Interventions in Aging shows drugs without a prescription can cause "cognitive impairment" as confusion in middle-aged people. Drugs known as diphenhydramine (found in many allergy medications and pain relievers at night) has the effect of "anticholinergic", which blocks the connection between nerve cells.

12:02 AM | 0 komentar | Read More

Able Brains Feel Pain of Others

Have you ever felt as though feeling pain being felt someone else? Your feelings may be right. A study using brain imaging shows that some people have the ability to feel the pain suffered by others.

By using brain imaging techniques MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), researchers from Britain found evidence that people who say they experience pain as other people in fact do so.

From the MRI examination is known, activity in the brain that functions feel the pain increases when a person sees another in pain or injured. The ability to feel pain is also called the functional pain.

"People who have functional pain experience feeling physically sick even though he was not hurt or illness," said Dr Stuart Derbyshire of the University of Birmingham, one of the researchers in this study.

To further Derbyshire conducted a study to find out whether people who are able to feel pain the same function also has a response when he saw pictures of people injured.

In his research he asked for 108 volunteers to watch some of photographs of people in pain situations, such as athletes who suffered injuries during the game or the person being injected. Nearly a third of participants claimed they were not only experiencing emotional reactions but also seemed to feel the pain as shown in the picture.

Based on MRI results are known the change of blood circulation in the brain and brain areas that respond to pain are also more active when the respondent looking at photos of people in pain situation. Also note also that the activity of the brain that function in terms of emotion seemed more active.

12:01 AM | 0 komentar | Read More

Negative Words Faster Recorded

Believe it or not, it turns out we are in a state of conscious brain faster record of negative words. This is known after the University College London did a study involving 50 volunteers who were asked to look up words in a computer screen.

These words appear in a few seconds. Then participants were asked to remember and mention it. Lead researcher Professor Lavie Nilli story, the words that exist in the computer screen consisting of positive words, such as peace, happiness, and interest.

Among the positive words, then tuck negative words, such as suicide, sadness, and irony. But not just words that have positive and negative, Lavie also mentioned there are neutral words in it, such as boxes, teapots, and ears.

When the process of choosing the words, participants were asked to classify where the words positive, negative, and neutral. As a result, it turns out most of the words that classification accuracy is the negative words.

Lavie's interest to do this research actually begins from so much speculation surrounding the human ability to process emotional information unconsciously, for example, faces and words.

"But from this research, we can understand that the actual values ​​recorded by strong emotional in the 'recorder' subconscious. And the emotional value of the most easy to be called back is negative messages," Lavie explained.

It also shows, basically how humans will react very quickly to emotional information. "So when we see someone carrying a knife when we're driving in the middle of heavy rain, rapid messages that are called in the head is 'DANGER'," Lavie explained, mentioning that his research has been published in the journal Emotion.

12:00 AM | 0 komentar | Read More

This section of Making Brain Fear Losing Money

Fear of losing money may be an ordinary thing in humans. A study by experts from California, United States, has recently managed to find part of the brain that triggers fear of losing money.

In a research report published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists identify the brain region called the amiglada responsible for one's behavior while risking anything.
When amiglada is not working properly, a person tends to take risks is very large.

Amiglada is part of the brain that consists of two networks of almonds. This section is associated with feelings and perceptions of fear and the ability to empathize.

These findings, the researchers say, offering an understanding of economic behavior and showed that humans evolved to be cautious about the prospect of losing food or other valuable property.

The author of this research, Benedetto De Martino of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the University College of London claim this research may explain why people would refuse to bet even if there is an opportunity to produce a victory.

"Evidence of laboratory and reality shows, people often avoid the risk of losing even when they may get greater results, the choice behavior of the so-called 'aversion to losses,'" said the researcher.

"Imagine you're in the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. You've just answered the question correctly valued at 500,000 dollars and faced with the last question. You have a 50:50 chance but did not know the answer .. If you are right, will win 1 million dollars ; if any money back to the value of 32,000. The majority of people will take the option surrender and go home with cash amounting to 500,000, he said.

Benedetto De Martino observed two women who suffered from a rare genetic disorder called the disease "Urbach-Wiethe". The researchers compared the reaction of the two women with 12 people whose brains normal. According to Benedetto, such studies usually involve only a few people because it is not possible or not ethical to deliberately damage a person's brain to see what happens.

In the study, the volunteers asked to make a bet, the conditions they might win 20 dollars or less 5 dollars - which of course the risk is taken by most people - or will win or lose 20 dollars, the conditions will be rejected by most people. Both patients with damage amiglada without worrying that even placing a bet of 50 dollars.

"We think this shows that amiglada very important in triggering a sense of caution towards the establishment of a bet when one might lose," said Colin Camerera from University College London are also involved in research.

11:59 PM | 0 komentar | Read More

Want brain thin? Be Active People

Developing intelligence or intelligence not only with reading, counting, or remembering. All activities, including socializing, sports, play, able to improve the workings of the brain. Increasingly active in many ways, the more dilute our brains.

We often associate with old age forgetfulness. In fact, the fact is not always the case. In a small company can have two friends who are often forgotten. If you do not miss the vehicle keys, watches, sunglasses, cell phones usually yes. Which one are older than half a century, so many people memakluminya. Which one again? Not yet 30 years old!

Yes indeed. With age, will also decrease the body's functions, such as decreased reflex reactions, no longer taut skin, thinning hair so gray pigment, muscle deflated and no longer chewy.

The same thing happens in the brain. Especially from the age of 45 years, will lose about 50,000 brain cells every day of the cerebral cortex, which is the most clever part of the brain. The ability of the hippocampus, a brain region where memory process, also began to decline.

At the age of the 70s, brain volume decreased 10 percent every 10 years. At the age of 80 years, the decline in brain volume reached 20 percent.

Like orange peel
Form of the human brain is not interesting. The outer layer resembles an orange peel look of wrinkles that have wilted and looked like a small street that was spinning. That is an intricate maze of nerves with blood vessels and billions of cells called neurons supermini.

Neurons or brain cells are like an octopus with a nucleus and a large number of tentacles that spread in all directions. Each tentacle has thousands of bulge-like suction pads, which are also out in all directions.

Neurons work in such a way with different functions. There are three specific parts of neurons that regulate how it works. First, the action associated with the outside world like seeing the sights, listen to music, feel the heat of the sun, touch the books, or tasting the food.

Second, matters relating to the muscles, movement, and so forth. Third, related to the ability to think, remember, imagine, and imagination.
One expert neurons and Director of The Royal Institution, London, Prof. Susan Greenfild mention that one neuron can transmit chemical transmission 500 times in one second. While each transmission has a different function.

11:58 PM | 0 komentar | Read More

Inilah Cara Mempertajam 8 Inteligensia Anda

Eighth intelligence can and should be trained so that our brain can work optimally. All types of intelligence can be optimized by training many different things. Utilization of eight intelligence means the ability to balance the left and right brain.

1. Linguistic intelligence. Sharpened with a lot of reading, doing word games, such as pun, poetry, practice discussions, and reveal something.

2. Logical mathematical intelligence. Maximized by making detailed plans for spending and personal income, family, or companies, counting every chance or whatever memory exercise associated with numbers.

3. Visual spatial intelligence. Honed by practice doodle, drawing, reading maps, playing jigsaw, unpack objects and reinstall, make art appreciation, create charts when explaining ideas, make plans or home area.

4. Kinesthetic intelligence. Forged by doing regular physical though, make crafts, dance or dance practice, practice expressing themselves with hand gestures or other body language.

5. Music intelligentsia. Developed by practicing playing musical instruments, singing with no discordant voices, remembering the rhythm of a song, whistling or muttering rhythm of the song, given a particular sound.

6. Naturalist intelligence. Trained with love animals, get to know the various names of trees, flowers, plants, learn how the body works, the life of wildlife, are interested in social issues, psychology, biology, ecology, and study it.

7. Interpersonal intelligence. Developed with the outgoing, interested in team sports like football, basketball, bridge, building friendships, practice organization, learn to work together with others.

8. Intrapersonal intelligence. Trained by finding the time to be alone, reflect on life, develop interests and hobbies, try to understand themselves, set a personal vision and mission, participated in various exercises to develop themselves.

11:56 PM | 0 komentar | Read More