 By Jim Selman | Bio
For
no particular reason, today I am more conscious than normal of my
‘little voice’—you know the conversation in our heads. I talk about
this phenomenon a lot in my work. People laugh when I challenge the
conventional view that they can control it: “Try to turn it off” or
“Don’t think about what I am about to say”. Then I suggest that this
conversation we are always having, what we call thinking, is in fact an
endless stream of thoughts that may or may not be related to what’s
going on and further, that this ‘voice’ is not ‘me’. This voice, like
breathing, is an aspect of who we are but is definitely not the ‘I’
that we associate with being ourselves.[ Read More]
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We've all heard that exercise is good for the body. Now current
research is demonstrating that an active lifestyle contributes
positively to the functioning of our brains as we grow older. Waneen Spirduso's book Exercise and Its Mediating Effects on Cognition outlines
the latest perspectives from 17 internationally recognized experts on
aging, exercise, cognition and
neurobiological processes. Our sleep quality, immune system, levels
of anxiety and depression are all influenced by exercise and physical activity. These affect the physical and mental
resources we have available for cognition.
Exercise actually promotes the growth of new brain cells in the
part of the brain thought to be responsible for learning and memory.
Aerobic exercise, in particular, increases bloodflow to our brains,
which allows them to function more effectively. The good news: benefits start with as little as 20 minutes of walking a day.
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 By Shae Hadden | Bio
The other day a friend mentioned a term I'd never heard before: neuroplasticity.
So I looked it up on Wikipedia (yes, click on the link and you can go
there too) and was amazed to find out that scientists are now proving
that our thinking can actually change our brain anatomy. Neuroplasticity
challenges the conventional wisdom that specific brain functions, such
as speech and vision, are located in a
specific cortex (or center). The traditional medical paradigm focused
on the lower brain and
neocortical areas as being unchanging after development, limiting
our capacity for language development among other things. But this
point of view didn't explain
why some people could expand their learning capabilities and have one
area of the brain assume a specific function that 'belonged' to another
area (whether there was an injury or not). [ Read More]
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By Stu WhitleyBioThis is the second in a three-part series.
Einstein is supposed to have said that the most important decision we
ever make is whether the world is a good place or a bad place. I don’t
believe that we consciously make that decision – we are taught to
believe it, one way or the other, and the most difficult lesson of all
to unlearn is that we live in a hostile universe. There are just too
many confirmatory events that tend to erode our courage to think
differently.[ Read More]
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