All articles tagged with #neuroplasticity
Neuroscientist Jules suggests three simple habits to incorporate into daily tooth brushing—using the non-dominant hand, balancing on one leg, and reversing letter-number sequences—that may help strengthen cognitive functions and potentially lower dementia risk by promoting neuroplasticity and cognitive resilience.
Regular aerobic exercise not only strengthens the heart but also rewires its nerve control system in a side-specific manner, potentially leading to more targeted treatments for heart conditions like arrhythmias and angina, as shown by recent rat studies that reveal structural changes in the heart's nerve clusters.
Building and maintaining cognitive reserve through lifelong intellectual activities, social engagement, and cognitive training can help preserve mental sharpness and resist age-related cognitive decline, supported by recent neuroscientific research and practical interventions.
A 7-day intensive meditation retreat combining various mind-body techniques led to rapid, measurable changes in brain function, blood chemistry, and immune response, suggesting these practices can significantly impact physical and mental health by enhancing neuroplasticity, pain relief, and immune activity.
A study shows that a brain training program using BrainHQ can increase acetylcholine production in older adults, potentially helping to offset age-related cognitive decline, with exercises designed to challenge and adapt to the user's level.
Maintaining mental sharpness with age is achievable by developing and engaging in activities that build cognitive reserve, such as lifelong learning, social interactions, and cognitively stimulating leisure activities, which can enhance brain resilience and flexibility through neuroplasticity. Recent research emphasizes that cognitive reserve is dynamic and can be strengthened at any age, offering promising strategies for healthy aging.
The article highlights eight habits of sharp-minded septuagenarians, such as learning new skills, engaging with different generations, embracing technology, being open to being wrong, cultivating curiosity, trying new experiences, challenging their minds with complex content, and maintaining interest in the future. These behaviors promote brain health and resilience, emphasizing that staying curious and open is key to mental agility in old age.
Mental fitness is now recognized as essential for high performance, with training methods like neuroplasticity exercises, sleep optimization, stress management, and cognitive training becoming mainstream among athletes and professionals to enhance focus, resilience, and overall performance.
Scientists discovered that in retinitis pigmentosa, the retina can adapt by rerouting signals from cones to rod bipolar cells, helping preserve daylight vision longer despite rod loss, which could inform future treatments.
Maintaining good cognitive health with age is achievable by developing and sustaining cognitive reserve through lifelong activities like education, social interactions, learning new skills, and engaging in cognitively stimulating leisure activities, which can strengthen brain resilience and flexibility, thereby delaying or preventing cognitive decline.
Recent scientific insights suggest that manifesting, often seen as 'woo-woo,' can be understood as a form of mental training that leverages neuroplasticity, visualization, and focused intention to influence subconscious priorities and potentially bring about change, emphasizing disciplined practice over instant results.
A new review suggests that psychedelics like psilocybin and 5-MeO-DMT may help treat traumatic brain injuries by reducing inflammation and promoting neuroplasticity, potentially aiding recovery and preventing psychiatric conditions, though more research is needed.
New research indicates that certain layers of the brain's somatosensory cortex actually grow stronger with age, suggesting that neuroplasticity persists into older age and that the brain can adapt and strengthen through use, challenging the idea that brain degeneration is inevitable with aging.
A new FDA-approved implant called the Vivistim System, which uses vagus nerve stimulation to enhance neuroplasticity, has shown promising results in improving arm and hand function in stroke survivors, with one patient, Tommy Fello, experiencing significant progress after receiving the device at the Cleveland Clinic.
The article highlights ten cognitive abilities that often improve or remain strong with age, such as adapting beliefs, using technology, seeing multiple perspectives, maintaining focus, deep reading, navigation, mental math, memory, solitude, and scam detection, emphasizing that mental acuity in older age is a result of experience and neural plasticity, not decline.