There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise... Which is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise... Which is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
In “The Tale of Johnny Town mouse” by Beatrix Potter, the story tells of the different experiences of “Johnny, who was born in a cupboard” and “Timmie-Willie, who was born in a garden” when they visit each other’s environment. If you ask someone who lives in a big...
I expect to be flavour of the month with a number of my girl friends after today’s blog. A study has been published in the Journal of Epidemiological and Community Health reporting that doing a little retail shopping is good for our health and actually helps us to...
Neuroimaging such as fMRI has been used primarily as a research tool. However researchers from Stanford have now used fMRI as a prognostic tool to determine which of those children with dyslexia are likely to improve over time. Moreover it is highly accurate. Dyslexia...
We make countless decisions every minute of every hour of every day. Some we make easily, some we may ponder on for longer such as which colour socks to buy for Uncle George. But some decisions have to be made extremely fast in milliseconds, as that split second...
Have you ever suffered jet lag after travelling long distance by aeroplane? Have you ever found that as well as a disrupted sleeping and eating pattern, your brain isn’t quite as switched on as usual? Does it sometimes take a day or two for you to adjust to your new...
For years one of the methods used to measure a person’s intelligence has been the Terman Stanford-Binet IQ test. Our IQ or “intelligence quotient” was introduced to score children’s ability. We still use the term IQ test, though nowadays the Wechsler Adult...