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  • What sleep research can teach us about unlocking learning potential: Crucial Student Study Skills
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    This article reveals what modern neuroscience has learned about sleep as it applies to learning and memory. I believe this information can be of great benefit not only to students looking to improve their study skills, but to anyone interested in improving their memory and learning potential.

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  • Why gifted children don’t become eminent adults

    Why is it that the majority of highly talented kids never go on to become eminent adults in their field of giftedness?

    Came across

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  • What every college student should know about ‘The All-Nighter’
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    Can college students pull an ‘All-Nighter’—staying up the entire night to cram for a test—and have their brains function close to normal the next day? The majority, of course, think so …

    But several studies clearly show brain function takes a big hit after an all-nighter. Memory systems and

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  • Caffeine and Your Brain: Don’t use a nuclear bunker buster to kill an ant

    One of the greatest misunderstandings people have about the brain is their belief in “free energy”.

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  • spider web drug naive and caffeinated
    What spider webs can teach us about caffeine’s effect on the brain
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    Sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words…

    (Noever, R., J. Cronise, and R. A. Relwani. 1995. Using spider-web patterns to determine toxicity. NASA Tech Briefs 19(4):82. Published in New Scientist magazine, 27 April 1995.)

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  • Night Owls More Creative?

    A study to be published in the February 2007 issue of Personality and Individual Differences suggests night owls are more likely to be creative.

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  • Exercise and Neurogenesis

    Reading through the latest issue of Neurology Today, came across some interesting tidbits on how beneficial exercise can be for your brain:

    • As mentioned in earlier posts, exercise leads to the creation of new brain cells in the hippocampus
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  • How Mozart K448 can increase your IQ - Listen & Try
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    Does listening to Mozart make you smarter? According to a landmark neuroscience research study out of the University of California, Mozart’s sonata for two pianos K448 (which you can listen to below) can increase your spatial-temporal IQ scores by 9 points

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  • What Dyslexia Can Teach Us About Brain Power
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    What do these famous people have in common?

    • Thomas Edison
    • Albert Einstein
    • Charles Schwab

    All had dyslexia.

    People with dyslexia have difficulty reading; however, “

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  • Green Light Improves Concentration
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    This helpful bit should be of use to college students, busy executives, and anyone else who is dependent on high levels of concentration and brain power.

    It turns out there is a growing body of research that shows, amazingly:

    • Exposure to green outdoor settings (parks, trees, grassy backyards, etc…) can
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  • How Falling in Love Improves Your Brain
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    It turns out that falling in love may be a powerful way to crank up the bodily chemicals that boost brain power and enhance learning ability.

     

    According to a new research study done at the University of Pavia (Italy) and published in Psychoneuroendocrinology

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  • How to “massively” stimulate the growth of new brain cells
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    A 2006 study out of the Division of Neuroscience and The Brain Research Center at University of British Columbia Hospital nicely summarizes one of the core teachings of brain enhancement:

    • Regular doses of exercise can “massively increase” the growth of new brain cells in your brain.

    The best part of it all, however, is the specific location

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  • Brain Myths: “You cannot make new brain cells”
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    For years it was thought (and taught!) that the brain can not create and make new brain cells.

    This is false. Numerous studies have now conclusively proven otherwise.

    What is really interesting, however, is that new studies show that the hippocampus- the memory engine of your mind- can actually

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  • Can certain body postures boost creativity?

    A study by Dr. Lipnicki- published in Cognitive Brain Research- suggests that you can boost creativity by lying flat.

    20 people were asked to solve anagrams either lying down or standing up.  Since anagram answers frequently come in a flash of insight-i.e. a creative breakthrough - they were thought to be a good test of

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  • Chocolate improves Brain Power

    A new study led by Dr. Bryan Raudenbush found that eating chocolate can improve cognitive performance, mood, and task workload.

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