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  • Aromatherapy to boost brain power
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    Can certain smells boost brain power? Let’s first take a look at what else certain odors can do:

    • Stores are now using special odors to make customers buy things and spend more money
    • The leathery smell of a new car is an artificial odor sprayed on to enhance buyer satisfaction
    • Casinos are using odors to make people gamble more
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  • carbohyrates and brain power
    How to feed your brain to increase mental energy and focus
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    Your mental energy and ability to concentrate depend to a very large extent on the types of food you eat. Unfortunately, most people fall short when it comes to understanding how to best feed the brain. Here’s a short tip you may find helpful:

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  • brain training boosts brain power
    Brain Training DOES boost brain power
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    Is the brain like the muscles in your body? Can it be trained with cognitive exercises to improve mental agility and sharpness as you get older?

    Quite a bit of research has come out lately indicating that the answer to this question is a resounding ‘Yes’.

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  • how to naturally mimic the effect of stimulants like ritalin to boost brain concentration
    How to naturally mimic the effects of stimulants to improve concentration
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    One of the main benefits of stimulant drugs (such as cocaine, ephedrine, and amphetamines like Ritalin) is their ability to dramatically increase mental energy and concentration. They can make it easier to focus on your work and studies for prolonged periods of time.

    How is this achieved? Basically, it’s thought that psychostimulants increase catecholamine

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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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  • cocoavia chocolate and cocoapro can make you feel good
    Did Mars spike the new CocoaVia chocolate bar with feel good brain flavanols?
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    Over the past 4 years, I’ve eaten a lot of dark chocolate, and some of the world’s best bars have made their way through our kitchen. Amedei, Valrhona, Michel Cluizel, El Rey, Domori, Bonnat. The nice thing about chocolate is that it is a very affordable luxury. You can grab yourself the world’s finest bar for less than $20.

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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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  • CPAP machine for sleep apnea
    Do you snore? This treatment may improve your memory
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    Snoring can be one of the signs of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a relatively common disease that affects children and adults. There’s been quite a bit of press lately about it- and for good reason: sleep apnea, which tends to be greatly underdiagnosed, can have a tremendous affect on your brain power.

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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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  • Photographic Memory?
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    Today I received an email from someone who runs a memory and learning improvement internet business. It was the kind of email that gets blasted to thousands of inboxes simultaneously. Although I’ve never purchased any of their products, I always got the impression it was fairly reputable.

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  • In the 1950s, school kids were given daily cod liver oil
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    In the 1950s, apparently all kids in England got daily cod liver oil capsules at school.

    Not sure when this stopped, but a

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  • The snakes and worms inside Ritalin
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    Ritalin, Adderall, Strattera, Concerta, Metadate, Dexedrine, Focalin, Cylert, Attenade. All are stimulants used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD). They are also all drugs that have been tried or used by 15-30% of college students to get ahead academically.

    Now a

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  • Can ‘DDR’ and ‘ITG’ Can Boost Intelligence? The Ultimate Brain Gym
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    Many are using Nintendo’s Brain Age game to boost their brain power.
    Here are two more powerful tools, however, you can add to your brain
    gym:

    • Dance Dance Revolution
    • In the Groove

    [Two videos follow at the end of the article]

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  • UK Chief Scientific Advisor urges Brain Enhancers for All

    As pharmaceutical companies come out with newer, more effective brain boosting pills (see an earlier post on ampakines), more and more people will be chiming in on the ethics of brain enhancement.

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  • Harvard Students: Reaching for drugs to boost brain power

    A recent Harvard University newspaper article suggests that many Harvard students casually rely on prescription

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  • Pine bark extract for ADHD

    A new study published in the European Child Adolescent Psychiatry seems to indicate that pine bark extract is effective for treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

    The extract is called Pycnogenol, which is derived from the bark of the French maritime pine.

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  • Ritalin substitute: Improve Focus and Concentration
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    A study out of the University of Adelaide, to be published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, shows that

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  • Ampakines for memory improvement

    Ampakines are a class of proprietary drugs that are being developed by Cortex Pharmaceuticals and its partners. These compounds are thought to be potentially useful in improving memory and concentration in people who have ADHD and Alzheimer’s disease. Many are hopeful that the drugs will help improve cognition and performance in those that are normal and healthy.

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  • Does listening to music while you study accelerate learning?
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    I’ve been asked several times if studying can be made more productive by having music playing in the background.

    While going through college and medical school, I’ve met quite a few students who insisted they study better and learn more with this method.

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  • Sugary drinks and a sleepy brain?
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    Many turn to soft drinks loaded with sugar for energy. These drinks are everywhere; you can’t leave your house without passing a coke or pepsi vending machine. The common belief is that the sugar bolus gives you that extra mental energy boost.

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  • Meditation builds concentration and focus
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    Not too long ago, I posted how over the long term, meditation can actually increase the size of the brain. Specifically, it thickens the cerebral cortex in areas important for attention and concentration.

    I came across another study, though, that shows meditation over the short term can also

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  • Calorie Restriction Reverses Memory Loss
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    About 2 weeks ago, I posted how an “empty stomach” can improve memory and boost brain power via a stomach-made hormone called ghrelin.

    Ghrelin travels to the hippocampus, the memory engine of the brain, and causes new connections to form between brain cells.

    Now, a study has been published that shows

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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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  • Chewing gum improves memory
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    In the last several years, several small studies seem to indicate that chewing gum can help reduce stress and improve short- and long-term memory.

    Is it the sugar or the chewing?

    One study out of the University of Northumbria on 75 healthy volunteers found the improvement was present even when the gum was sugar-free.

     

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  • The Hidden Danger of Amphetamines
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    The results from this recent study out of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center are very unsettling:

    After just 3 months of use, Ritalin has been found to significantly damage children’s DNA (Cancer Letters 2005;230:284-91).

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