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Brain Gym Exercises-Help with LD's and Stress by Rebbekah W. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 21 Jul 2008 10:19am Dr. Paul Dennison is an international award-winning learning expert who received his doctorate in education in 1975 from the University of Southern California for his research on reading and cognitive developement and is the found of the Brain Gym Program. Brain Gym exercises assist with not only learning disabilities, but also aid in stress Read on »

Brain Fitness, Brain Exercise and “Brain gyms”: why? how? by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Sat 30 Sep 2006 12:00am Brain Fitness and Brain Exercise: what it is, and why it is important I may be slightly biased, but I clearly see more and more talk and articles about “Brain... are important and that having some structure helps us achieve our physical fitness goals. Now, the need for exercising our brains is starting to become understood. We believe that Brain Read on »

Physical Exercise and Brain Blood Flow by Michael S. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 15 Jan 2009 7:42pm cerebral blood flow and a greater number of blood vessels in the brain. While it has been shown in the past that aerobic exercise might reduce cognitive decline, this study... in aerobic exercise for three or more hours per week over 10 years, and six exercised less than one hour per week. All of the volunteers underwent MRI to determine cerebral blood flow Read on »

Physical Exercise and Brain Health by Alvaro F. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Thu 26 Jun 2008 12:00am Have you heard of or read John Ratey’s book “Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and The Brain”? According to Harvard Psychiatry Professor John Ratey nothing beats exercise for promoting brain heath. I am sure you have also heard that exercising your mind promotes brain health. What is the connection between physical Read on »

vibrantBrains: San Francisco Brain Gym by Sheryle B. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 12 Aug 2008 4:21pm vibrantBrains, a gym to exercise our brains, has recently opened in San Francisco. We all buy into the health club idea for our bodies so why not one to tone our brains, too... high time we added in specific exercises to tone the various everyday brain skills we need to maintain and even increase the quality of our lives. Better memory, reasoning Read on »

New press release: Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks by Stephanie Allen Posted Fri 21 Jan 2011 12:00am Neuroimaging Research Program, the study's senior author. "This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people.... But those investigations could not document that those differences were actually produced by meditation. For the current study, MR images were take of the brain structure of 16 study Read on »

Meditation Modifies Brain Structure to Yield Psychological Improvements by WorldHealth.net Posted Mon 07 Feb 2011 12:55am Massachusetts General Hospital (Massachusetts, USA), and colleagues studied the role of a mindfulness meditation program on brain structure, and resultant psychological changes. Sixteen..., Volume 191, Issue 1, 30 January 2011, Pages 36-43. Meditation Modifies Brain Structure to Yield Psychological Improvements Read on »

Remediation changes brain structures by JohnL Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Fri 11 Dec 2009 12:00am of improved reading performance. Whereas previous studies, many of which I’ve mentioned in these posts, have shown changes in the blood flow in children’s brains as a consequence of reading instruction, the findings from Keller and Marcel showed that there are changes in the physical tissue in the brain following remedial reading instruction. Read on »

Brain Structure Changes Found in Irritable Bowel Patients by Medline Plus Posted Tue 27 Jul 2010 9:00am , emotion regulation, pain inhibition and the processing of information from the gut, new research suggests. Similar brain structural changes have been noted in patients with pain... that the structural brain changes varied between patients who characterized their symptoms primarily as pain, rather than non-painful discomfort. In contrast, the length of time a patient has Read on »

Brain structure invests us with sense of personal space by Leslie M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Mon 31 Aug 2009 10:55pm "Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) Neuro scientists have pinpointed the brain structure regulating our sense of personal space, possibly opening the way to a better understanding of autism and other disorders. The structure, the amygdala - a pair of almond-shaped regions located in the brain - was previously known to process strong negative emotions Read on »