<strong>Manage Stress and Improve Your Brain Fitness</strong> <strong>Depression and Brain Training</strong> <strong>Running to Increase Your Brain Fitness</strong> <strong>Strength Training for Brain Fitness</strong> <strong>New Year’s Resolution: <em>Focus</em></strong>
Manage Stress and Improve Your Brain Fitness Stress reorganizes brain circuits and can leave you even deeper in a rut. Worse, it may change how your brain is wired, and in a bad way. An article published in Science shows that stressed animals tend to make decisions based on habit rather than by taking outcomes into account.

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Depression and Brain Training A recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may give us a clue on why depression and mental abilities are linked. In the past, my colleagues and I looked at how depression can actually increase the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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Running to Increase Your Brain Fitness An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlights the potential effects of aerobic activity on the brain. The researchers found that running in increased memory and the creation of new nerve cells in mice.

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Strength Training for Brain Fitness Lots of research has shown that aerobic fitness may be a key to brain fitness. Now a new study suggests that strength training may be helpful, too.
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New Year’s Resolution: Focus Brain fitness involves exercise, achieving a healthy weight, and eating well, at least as much as computer brain games. Those are all great resolutions, but to get there, you have to focus. But how?
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How Old Does Your Brain Feel?
Friday, 8 January o - Posted by rlo in Living Longer and Better, Mood, self-efficacy

How old you feel makes a difference in how you think your brain is working, especially for women. And once again, mood and self-efficacy make a difference for everyone in what they think is going on with their brains.

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Brain Fitness Tip: Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Sunday, 15 November o - Posted by rlo in Brain Fitness, Cognitive abilities, Sleep

One of the most important ways to maintain brain fitness is by getting enough sleep.

Most of us know how we feel when we don’t get enough sleep. Research shows that lack of sleep can affect your memory, raise your blood pressure, and increase your risk of stroke.

But how do you get a good night’s sleep?

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