written by Bill | 1791 Views | 12 Replies
I just ran across the online edition of Scientific American Mind magazine for April 2009. It's full of interesting articles -- check it out! - Brain Trainers: A Workout for the Mind (with reviews of several brain exercise programs)
- Brain Games: Do They Really Work?
- How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood
- Come Together: Our Need to Cooperate
- Learn to Think Better: Tips from a Savant
- Knowing Your Chances: ...... Read More
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written by Bill | 1113 Views | 0 Replies
 Ritalin, Adderall, Provigil, piracetam, modafinil... you may already know the names of some of these drugs, examples of a growing class of "smart drugs" that are seeing increased use by students and professionals determined to increase their memory capacity and cognitive ability. Some, like Ritalin and Adderall, are usually known as prescribed pharmaceutical treatments for ADHD. However, their ability to increase mental focus ...... Read More
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written by Bill | 1100 Views | 1 Reply
 Control of inanimate matter with your mind... it seems like science fiction, but is rapidly becoming common-place. So common-place, in fact, that major toy manufacturers will soon be releasing toys that allow you to levitate a small object simply by concentrating. The facts that the object is just a ping-pong ball and that the levitating power is a stream of air makes the toy no less impressive, because the toy will only work ...... Read More
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written by Bill | 742 Views | 0 Replies
 Try pulling on just a single strand of a spider's web -- many other strands will come with it because they're connected. Your memory works much the same way, through association of individual memories. Association is the next item to be covered in the Brainovo blog's series on basic memory enhancement. We'll look at the basics of memory association, including how it can be used to aid in memorizing ...... Read More
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written by Bill | 1344 Views | 2 Replies
A previous posting on Brainovo asked the question: Are Brain Training Games Effective? That's a pretty broad question, because it doesn't specify the type of game, who they might be effective for, and in what way. It's probably safe to assume that many of the people playing such games are young or middle-aged, and that they're probably playing these games in the hopes that they can stave off age-related decline of brain ...... Read More
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written by Bill | 735 Views | 0 Replies
 Research at the Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences in Amsterdam has shown that poor quality sleep can adversely affect memory encoding. Experiment subjects donned a special skullcap lined with sensors prior to going to bed. When the subjects reached the deepest levels of sleep, a computer monitoring the sensors would set off a beeping alarm -- just loud enough to knock the sleepers out of "slow-wave" sleep ...... Read More
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written by Bill | 551 Views | 0 Replies
 Researchers in the UK have discovered that young adults possessing a specific gene associated with Alzheimer's have distinct brain patterns. When relaxing or when performing memory-intensive tasks, people with the gene (APOE4) had busier brains than people with other forms of the APOE gene, as shown with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The hippocampus, involved in long-term memory and the first area known to ...... Read More
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written by admin | 747 Views | 1 Reply
 Brainovo is now fully open! Please register, participate, and feel free to tell your friends about the site. If you have a website, or a page on a social networking site, or some online bookmarks, please link to http://www.brainovo.net! Welcome to Brainovo - For Your New Brain's Health!
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written by Bill | 630 Views | 0 Replies
Over at SharpBrains, Alvaro Fernandez has posted an excellent summary of the top brain news for March 2009. Some of the news topics summarized include ADHD drug issues, age-related cognitive decline, brain training and exercise, a potential cause for hereditary depression, and working memory improvement. This is definitely worth checking out, as is the rest of ...... Read More
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written by Bill | 1115 Views | 3 Replies
For my inaugural posting to the Brainovo blog, I thought I'd cover something useful instead of just writing about whatever's on my mind. So, what would be useful to the largest number of people? I figure it has to be memory enhancement, and since there's so many tools available, this is going to be an on-going series. In this episode, I'll cover the practice known as "chunking". Now, for an exercise: memorize this list of 23 random digits. Read More
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