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As I said in class, "crossing arms at the wrists mixes up the brain's perception of pain signals sent from the hands to the brain and reduces the intensity of pain."—WebMD.com
To read more about this research visit:
Pain Relief Strategy: Cross Your Arms?
Children with Tourette syndrome may use brain training to reduce their symptoms.
The article can be read by clicking:
Neuroplasticity in the Brain of Children with Neurological Disorders
“With depression rates growing continuously every year,” the medical field most often prescribes medication. “But there are two more methods, not often mentioned, possibly because they don't cost a lot of money.” They are meditation (self directed neuroplasticity) and volunteering, “but what is new is that scientific research is starting to back it up - making it more legitimate.”
To read more about this research visit:
Depression: Neuroplasticity and 'giving' therapy is science based
As many of you know, a terrible news that strikes across the U.S because Congresswoman Gabrielle Gillfords shot in Arizona, and miraculous recovery after the shot.
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Congresswoman Giffords, A Bullet And Neuroplasticity
Why do we remember little before our third or fourth birthdays?
"Young children’s earliest memories tend to change over time, being replaced with “newer” earliest memories until around age 10." - WebMD.
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When Do Kids Form Their First Memories?
"Electrical brain stimulation can help boost math skills for up to six months." "The stimulation was applied to the part of the brain responsible for numerical understanding (the parietal lobe)."
- WebMD.
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Electrical Brain Stimulation May Raise Math Skill
Which is the determining factor in predicting future criminality? nature or nurture?
It is an current research in genetics and neuroscience may point towards answers to this question:
Kids' brain may hold clues to future criminals
"The level of the calming hormone called oxytocin is fueled with estrogen making women cope up with stress easier compared to men because men’s hormone, called testosterone, blocks the calming hormone when stress arises."
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Difference Between Men’s Brain and Women’s Brain
“New discoveries provide scientific confirmation that the teen years are a time of significant transition. They shed the light on the mysteries of adolescence and demonstrate that adolescents have significant neurological deficiencies that result in stark limitations of judgment.”
This means to me that just because kids look like they get it , they don’t always and the research shows that neglect, abuse and poverty can cause them to be psychologically imbalanced and violent.
- This information was take form a publication written by Adam Ortiz -
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Brain aging is a trick. Nature sets your parents up for decline, but they have a choice. Brain fitness will allow them to strengthen new brain cells through cognitive reserve.
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Brain Fitness and Neuroplasticity:
The Key to Your Aging Parents’ Best Life
How Neuroplasticity works? This article “You and Your Adaptive Brain” helps us to understand the function of the Neuroplasticity.
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You and Your Adaptive Brain
Neuroplasticity: Can Chiropractic help change our brain? by Dr. Graeme Gibson, D.C.
“Over time, the chiropractic adjustment acts as an impulse which effects the neurology of the body and neuroplasticity of the brain.” I found in this article many examples given from Dr. Doidge book The Brain That Changes Itself. I liked that the article demonstrates all the possibilities that neuroplasticity plays in the role of recovery with patients.
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goarticles.com/article/Neuroplasticity-Can-Chiropractic-help-change-our-brain/2538039
The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
To read more facts about the brain:
fun facts about the brain
How do mobile phones affect our brain activity?
"Radiation from a mobile phone call can make brain regions near the device burn more energy, according to a new study."-Wired.com
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Cellphone Radiation Increases Brain Activity
A newborn's brain triples its size in the first year of life (no wonder babies have such big heads!)
To read more:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/facts-about-your-brain/7038?image=3
What do we remember after a good night’s sleep?
“Sleep Selectively Stores Useful Memories: Brain Evaluates Information Based on Future Expectations, Study Suggests”.
To find more about this study follow the links:
Sleep Selectively Stores Useful Memories
Collecting Your Thoughts: You Can Do It in Your Sleep!
Sleep Makes Your Memories Stronger, and Helps With Creativity
Alzheimer is a disease resulting in conditions ranging from loss of memories, difficulties in performing normal daily tasks, up to complete personality and mood changes, and eventually resulting in complete loss of orientation in elder ages.
Some abnormal known changes in brain tissue (formation of amyloid tangles) are happening as the disease is progressing. The cause of it is not clear yet. Since the cause is not recognized an effective therapy is not yet available.
A new finding is suggesting the cause is in the liver not in the brain. Scientists found that a substance that leads to brain plaque, which is associated with Alzheimer's, might have its source in the liver, not the brain, and can thus be treated outside the brain.
Children with newly developed epilepsy, compared to more controlled epilepsy, have more damage to the brain as well as more cognitive slowing. Also, it postpones their development of white matter.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/722927
Some women after giving birth tend to be forgetful but according to research, “Motherhood may trigger brain growth, with changes in areas of the brain responsible for shaping warm and efficient parental behaviour.” – WebMD.com
For more details visit the link below.
‘Mommy Brain’ May Trigger Brain Growth
How the Brain Processes Faces: Neural System Responsible for Face Recognition Discovered.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110531121319.htm
" The brain processes four hundred billion bits of information in a second but we are only aware of two thousand of those."
Study of Quantumphysics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-wJK0DeQgk&feature=related
Being a bilingual speaker has some advantages: It delayed the beginning of Alzheimer’s disease, improve the brain power and children are better at prioritizing task and multitasking.
To read more about this research visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/18/bilingual-alzheimers-brain-power-multitasking
New discovery in Alzheimer Disease on the Dr.Oz show. They determined a link to diabetes II in the brain and Alzheimer's. Nitrosamines cause diabetes of the brain. There are 3 parts to this Breakthrough!
To watch and find out more about this, visit:
alzheimers-breakthrough-pt-1
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