Couver Health Journal » brain

Improving the memories capacity.

nvkvancouver Team — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:10:16 +0000

If you think you have bad memory, you may be the result of habits unsuitable for processing information, so some simple tips will help you improve your school performance or labor.
The memory, as the strength of the muscles, improving if it is often used, so the exposure of your mind to novel stimuli and are high sensory as odors, bright colors and textures different, will produce memories more alive than left a footprint more deep in your memory.
In addition to change your routines, for example use your right hand to brush your teeth, if you are left-handed, or the left if you are right handed (there are several exercises to improve your memory), there are several habits that you can grow daily to have better results.
Avoids do several things at the time if you need recall one of them. When all your attention is focused on a single activity is easier than the hippocampus, one of the parts of your brain responsible for the memory, do its job properly and register for when it is needed in the future.
Pays attention to your learning style. Some people have a visual memory very developed, while others recall until every detail of what they hear. If identified what is the path of access to information that works best for you, you can use it in the future to recover more data.
When learn something new involves so many ways as possible, regardless of whether you have already identified or not the privileges. If you have many records of a situation, what color were the walls, what sounded, to what smelled, recalling the details and the content of the same will be much easier than if only you concentrate in the names of persons.
Associations you can bail when you need remember something. It is much more simple recalled that in the neighborhood to live your professor of biology, if you when he will tell you what he says think that near there live your aunt. The rhymes are also useful.
Finally, inspired. The motivation is very important in learning. If you have positive attitude since the beginning, learn and remember a theme will be much easier than if you feel refusal of entry.

Healthy brain with healthy food

nvkvancouver Team — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:59:35 +0000

That we maintain a healthy brain if we have the caution to include some food to our daily diet. Here are some examples:

Caffeine: find in coffee, chocolate and beverages energizing. You Can sustenance and help you win concentration and stay focused; however its effects are short-term and there are that side effect in the amount because if you exceed May cause you feel altered.
GLUCOSE: Metabolized by your body of the sugars and carbohydrates that you (for example a drink sweet). It is the source of fuel preferred your brain. The processes and mental capacities are exacerbated. But there is no that exceeded because your memory can resent.
Breakfast: The favorite foods to feed the brain include grains rich in fiber, dairy products, and fruit. Various studies agree that take breakfast can improve your memory and ability to attention in the short term. But not commas of more because the breakfasts high in calories seem dispel the concentration.
FISH: rich in omega 3 fatty acids oils for the role and brain development. These healthy fats have an amazing power on the brain: the high consumption of omega 3 fatty acids is related to a reduction of the odds of dementia and infarction, a decline more slowly in the mental faculties, and also could play a vital role in maintaining the memory, especially as we age.
For a good mental health and heart rate, eats fish twice a week.
NUTS: The nuts and other seeds are good strong of vitamin E, a powerful antioxidant that combats cognitive decline of aging.
CHOCOLATE: dark chocolate has important antioxidant properties. It also owns stimulants such as caffeine, which exacerbates the concentration and focus.
AVOCADO: Each body of our body depends on the blood flow, especially the heart and brain. Eating a diet high in grains and fruits such as the avocado (avocado) can reduce the risk of suffering cardiovascular and, at the same time, bring down the bad cholesterol.
This reduces the risks that will earn arterial plaque and improves blood flow, offering a simple and effective way to feed the brain cells.
GRAINS: grains, as the popcorn and bread, also contribute fiber and vitamin E. while the avocado has fat; it is a fat healthy, which helps to improve blood flow.
CRANBERRIES: cranberry helps protect the brain of oxidative stress and might even reduce the impact of conditions related to aging as Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
In addition, scientific research showed that a diet rich in cranberries can substantially improve the ability of learning and mobility in rat’s elderly, causing them to a mental equivalence with copies more young people.

If your diet lacks essential nutrients, your ability to concentrate can be reduced. Eat too much or too little may also interfere with your mental approach.
A heavy meal can feel tired, sleepy mentally, while the lack of calories cans generarte cramps and mental distraction.

If in doubt, check with your doctor.

Exercises for the brain

nvkvancouver Team — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:50:40 +0000

The brain is a muscle but also exercises often need to stay healthy. While it is true that every day is used to perform daily activities, is no less true that the connections between neurons do not represent a major challenge for the mind.

The exercises for the brain effort should sue this body, so that you are taken to new levels through overcoming new challenges, must require working with all their capacities to achieve greater benefits in the future.

To begin with these brain exercises can be performed in different ways everyday activities such as combing or brushing your teeth with the hand that is not customary, left for right handle, right for lefties. This exercise will awaken little used connections in the brain hemisphere opposite to the tip that is commonly used.

A more advanced option is to ask for help from a friend who will act as the guide, in order to complete daily routines with their eyes closed, allowing your brain to gather information through senses other than sight. As we know human beings are very visual, so that a large percentage of responses given to stimuli in the environment depends both on the data collected in the eyes, as of the brain constructs maps with them.

Knowing in advance that the exercises for the brain can be difficult and even frustrating, help not falter at the first attempt. It is completely natural to feel uncomfortable facing new tasks, but should keep in mind all the time you complete them will result in mental health benefits.