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Baby brain I am not going to restate obvious facts that about how your interaction with your baby from 0 to 8 will influence how your baby’s brain develops. Instead here is a list of things you can do to help your baby’s brain. Starting as early as you think.  Some people start these at [...]

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Rich brain poor brain The brain of a rich child is different than the brain of a poor child’s brain.  This is the conclusion of a new study. This is no suprise to me.  It as if the frontal lobe of a poor child’s brain is almost damaged.  They perform lower in almost every way.  [...]

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Using computer games to establish a baseline cognitive function I can tell basically how I am functioning cognitively based on scores on computer games I play.  From this baseline I can determine what affects my brain function.  For example,  sleep, time of day, diet, etc.  I think every brain functions differently.  I have found the things that [...]

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My brain lesion I had a brain lesion about 16 years ago.  The word lesion is really a general medical jargon word.  What I had was basically bleeding in the brain from capillary telangiectasia or a cavernous malformation. The result was I had memory and brain processing problems. I still functioned at a rather high cognitive [...]

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How trauma affects memory I recall reading a while back that there was a study where subjects were shown a series of Photos. Most were neutral or pleasant; however, inter mixed, pictures of traumatic scene, things that are universally horrible, accidents and such. After the subjects viewing the photos were given a memory recall test [...]

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Rosemary for memory I grew up in the New England countryside, which was settled in the 1600s. If you are a colonial history buff you know that the colonial departed were buried with rosemary.  Rosemary was used not as a preservative, which it is because of the antioxidants in rosemary, but rather for remembrance.  Even [...]

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Your brain plasticity will determine how fast your brain will grow I was walking though ‘Las Wolski” (a deep forest) on Sunday in Kraków. I was trying to learn some new words in Polish connected with nature. Words I had never even herd before. My girlfriend told me about five Polish words in a childhood [...]

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Learning and circadian rhythm Some people learn better in the morning others in the evening.  I learn best right before I go to bed and right when I wake up.  However, its not just a question of learning in the morning or in the evening, its about the biology of your brain and how your [...]

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Brain cells at work Have you ever wondered how your brain so quickly stores information, such as an image or a word you learned? You see a picture and one moment latter you have it in your mind. What happens at a molecule level?  How specifically does this brain cell adapt to sensory inputs? With the [...]

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Gregorian chants Gregorian chants are in my opinion the most soothing and flowing music there is.  But I grew up listing to Gregorian chants, so perhaps I am partial. Regardless they have a real affect on your brain and can be used to help you learn languages. Gregorian chants an brainwaves Many studies have been [...]

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