Sentences with phrase «as brain fitness»

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 15th, 2011 at 11:21 am tagged as Brain Fitness Strategies, Melissa Lytle, RMT, Sherri Goodall, Tulsa and is filed under General Interest.

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It followed 100 people aged 55 to 86 as they pursued a specific fitness regime, measuring the effects on their brains through tests and MRI scans.

Maybe it's your past shortcomings or fear, but addressing the limiting beliefs that are circulating inside your brain is pivotal to improving your mental fitness as an entrepreneur.

A version of the speed training program developed for this trial is now commercially available through the brain fitness company Posit Science, but the researchers are working on making other types of training available as well.

The few studies that have incorporated other training modalities, such as physical fitness training or noninvasive brain stimulation, have been small in sample size, short in time or narrow in scope, he said.

After factors such as diet, education, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and hypertension were statistically controlled to isolate the effect of exercise, the team found a clear correlation between greater fitness and greater brain - tissue density.

For his next version of Brain Fitness, Merzenich is expanding the program, which currently emphasizes auditory processing, to include exercises that strengthen visual processing as well as complex reasoning and planning.

Older adults who experience good cardiac fitness may be also keeping their brains in good shape as well.

You learn it much faster, much more efficiently and as a result you know, it's easier for natural selection to say, hey, let's enlarge this brain size because clearly this is producing fitness enhancing skills.

They caution that additional research is needed to track changes in fitness and brain structure over time, as well as clarify the impact of specific exercise programs (such as strength, aerobic or combined training) or dose of exercise (frequency, intensity, duration) on white matter microstructure.

«Our work aims at answering questions such as whether the brain of children with better physical fitness is different from that of children with worse physical fitness and if this affects their academic performance,» Ortega explains.

Its creators say it turns your PC into «a fitness room for the brain,» assessing and developing key cognitive skills, tailoring the program to work on weak spots, and increasing in difficulty as your skills improve.

As if reduction in stress, increase in gray brain matter, general peace of mind, improved physical fitness and overall positive state of well - being...

The study highlights that cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with brain function and memory performance as well as improving physical health.

Maintaining cognitive fitness through brain exercises is becoming big business as employers recognise the importance of keeping their staff mentally fit.

The brain scans revealed that people with a lower exercise capacity — defined as the amount of time people could exercise on the treadmill before their heart rate hit a certain threshold — in midlife were more likely to have smaller brains years later, compared with people who had high fitness levels in middle age.

As if reduction in stress, increase in gray brain matter, general peace of mind, improved physical fitness and overall positive state of well - being aren't enough, here are a few ways that yoga and meditation will make you really, really cool *.

Take for example terms such as «core» (which basically is everything except your arms, legs and head), «CNS» — Central Nervous System (which is your brain and spinal cord), «GPP» — short for General Physical Preparedness (or basic fitness training), or «posterior kinetic chain» which is just a term for hamstrings, glutes and and the lower back!

Exercise maintains the fitness of your brain as well as your body.

Some treatments may sound like a wacky mix of the scientific and the spiritual — Crystal Bowl Sound Healing (at Rancho La Puerta Fitness Resort and Spa in Baja California) claims to activate alpha waves in the brain; Spirit Flight treatment (at Miraval in Tucson, Arizona) is touted as a blend of energy medicine, full - body massage, acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, and spinal alignment, along with indigenous ceremonial rituals.

Aside from engaging in a computer - based brain exercise program, Dr. Merzenich lists several things you can do on a daily basis, as part of your day - to - day lifestyle, to help maintain optimal brain fitness:

Previously, Dr. Mosconi founded and was the director of the Nutrition & Brain Fitness Lab at New York University School of Medicine (NYU) and an assistant professor in the NYU Department of Psychiatry, where she served as the director of the Family History of Alzheimer's disease research program.

That doesn't mean you've got early Alzheimer's: «Normal memory problems — like being a little forgetful — start as early as age 27,» says Majid Fotuhi, MD, chairman of the Neurology Institute for Brain Health and Fitness in Baltimore and author of The Memory Cure.

Because I wanted to share how I've learned to retrain my brain into loving my body just the way it is, as well as block out all of the lean body fitness fluff, I created an eCourse that guides readers step by step on how to do exactly that.

Men's Fitness magazine: In September's «Brain Food» article, NOW ® True Focus ™ was mentioned as a supplement that may help boost brain power and mental acBrain Food» article, NOW ® True Focus ™ was mentioned as a supplement that may help boost brain power and mental acbrain power and mental acuity.

Dr. Papanicolaou lectures on a variety topics including Functional Nutrition / Food as Medicine, the gut - brain connection, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, functional fitness and weight control.

Then on top of brain benefits they see fitness / health as a «normal way of life»... a great gift to be able to give!!

Ketogenic diets are popular in the fitness world, and as one interpretation of the paleo diet, because of their tendency to alter the metabolic state of the body, their impact on brain chemistry, and therefore, how they change the body's method (and specifically — the brain) of deriving its energy.

Find out how important it is to have a balance of having the perfect amount of fitness, movement and activity and using your brain to get a deeper quality sleep, as well as know the right balance of foods to eat to help achieve that restful night sleep.

As a Yoga teacher I know first hand what fitness can do for the brain.

Physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness are good for children's and young people's brain development and function as well as their intellect