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Why Downtime Is Essential for Brain Health - Cleveland Clinic Give your brain the break it needs Being busy can feel like a badge of honor. “So many of us define ourselves by what we do. So we overdo, overwork and overproduce,” says psychologist Scott Bea, PsyD. “In our culture, ‘downtime’...

Amy Orben: ‘To talk about smartphones affecting the brain is a slippery slope’ - The Guardian The psychologist talks about the widespread fear that smartphones are harmful to our wellbeing – and the difficulty of proving it Amy Orben is a research fellow at Emmanuel College and the MRC...

Antarctic Study Shows Isolation, Monotony May Change the Human Brain - US News Antarctica is one of the loneliest places on Earth. Endless expanses of white give way to almost complete darkness during the long winter months. Companionship is largely limited to those who've joined you in these...

Here's How the Brain Makes Memories—and What You Can Do to Keep Your Mind Sharp - Yahoo There’s a popular misconception that memory is like a file box in the brain—that we put away our recollections and then look them up when we need them. But that’s not actually how it works. Scientists...

Food as medicine: your brain really does want you to eat more veggies - The Conversation As well as our physical health, the quality of our diet matters for our mental and brain health. Observational studies across countries, cultures and age groups show that better-quality diets – those high...

10 Delicious Foods to Feed Both Body and Mind - Entrepreneur Your brain isn't a computer, it's an organ of your body that gets stronger or weaker depending upon how you feed it. What you eat has a massive impact not only on your body, but on your brain. Before you eat...

Eating pizza, burgers and chips may cause saturated fat to 'seep into the brain through your bloodstream and trigger depression' - Daily Mail Scientists say dietary fat enters brain and clogs up part that controls emotions Once there it affects hypothalamus, leading to increase in depressive...

The molecule that helps exercise protect the brain from Alzheimer’s - Arstechnica Gives the phrase “muscle memory” a whole new meaning. Sometimes data behaves so nicely, lining up just the way you want it to. In 2012, irisin was identified as a molecular messenger induced by exercise. In 2013...

Brain hungers for dopamine - MPG.de Neurotransmitter release regulates our eating behaviour When it comes to our food intake, we are only partially in control. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne were able to show that our gastrointestinal tract is in...

30 Days to a Smarter Brain (How to Rapidly Improve How You Think) - Medium Everyone wants a better, and smarter brain to process information faster and have better memory recall. The most brilliant minds don’t have more brain power than the average person, they just use their brains more...