We often find ourselves performing the same tasks every day for extended amounts of time, but this can lead to some detrimental effects
on brain performance.
The knowledge - based training group learned information about the structure and function of the brain as well as the effects of sleep and exercise
on brain performance.
New findings suggest that taking estrogen has no effect
on brain performance, no matter how early or late women start taking it
Not exact matches
Overall, the study found «no evidence that personal
brain training benefited the participants in terms of improving cognitive
performance, working memory,
on attention, cognitive flexibility, or inhibitory control,» says Lerman.
Based
on this examination, we find extensive evidence that
brain - training interventions improve
performance on the trained tasks, less evidence that such interventions improve
performance on closely related tasks, and little evidence that training enhances
performance on distantly related tasks or that training improves everyday cognitive
performance.
What's your take
on the prospect of using
brain implants to increase the cognitive
performance of perfectly healthy people: exciting or creepy?
The latest science has already shown that it's possible to reverse cognitive decline in the middle - aged
brain, and it's possible to rewire your
brain as an adult through practice and «deliberate
performance,» and learn new skills
on the fly.
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Some of the medical studies I used as a reference are: Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting: Two potential diets for successful
brain aging and Dietary Factors, Hormesis and Health, found
on the US National Library of Medicine Site, Cardioprotection by Intermittent Fasting in Rats
on the American Heart Association Site and Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting
on aerobic and anaerobic
performance and perception of fatigue in male elite judo athletes from the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.
For someone so young, he seems like he has an experienced footballing
brain, but the only blot
on his
performance today is the fact he picked up another booking.
In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective
on brain development — to significantly improve the academic
performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.
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Brains On, But Why?
DHA supplementation in rodents and nonhuman primates leads to increased
brain DHA concentrations and enhanced
performance on a wide variety of learning, memory, and problem - solving tasks (19 — 21).
Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the
brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the
brain's grey matter in areas associated with
performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37
New research
on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the
brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the
brain — improves
performance on memory tests.
New research
on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the
brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the
brain — improves
performance on memory...
Most studies
on differences in
brain functions between men and women have looked at psychological
performance.
«And research has shown that specific
brain stimulation protocols can enhance cognitive
performance, prompting us to investigate their effects
on cognitive training.»
However,
brain injury was not linked to
performance on other cognitive tests, including decision - making and organization.
Nervous Tissue and Computation If we accept that computers will eventually become powerful enough to simulate the mind, the question that naturally arises is: What processing rate will be necessary to yield
performance on a par with the human
brain?
ELECTRICAL shocks that simulate the patterns seen in the
brain when you are learning have enhanced human memory for the first time, boosting
performance on tests by up to 30 per cent.
The results of the study suggest that «people's
performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their
brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.
The
brain areas that showed greater activation
on warmer days were regions typically activated by MS patients during task
performance: the frontal, dorsolateral, prefrontal and parietal cortex.
Seidler said the
brain changes could reflect new connections between neurons, and she's leading another long - term study that will help determine the repercussions
on cognition and physical
performance, as well as how long the
brain changes last.
New research published August 17 in The Journal of Neuroscience suggests greater similarity between
brain connectivity at rest and
on task may be associated with better mental
performance.
Our
brains generate the same reward signals when we conquer any challenge, big or small, so I take
on smaller challenges outside of work.2 My daily physical workouts are diverse — running, yoga, Pilates, strength training — and I progress by focusing
on today's form and peak
performance.
The
brain activity was then analyzed along with participants»
performance on a neuropsychological evaluation.
«
Brain function - based metrics, which do not depend
on subjective or inaccurate task
performance metrics, may bring significantly more objectivity in surgical skill transfer assessment,» he said.
Neuroscientists, medical scientists, computer scientists, physicists, and mathematicians in Europe are working hand in hand to simulate the entire human
brain on high -
performance computers of the next generation in order to better understand how it functions.
MX's
performance on the cube - picture test also suggests that he is making use of alternative parts of the
brain.
«When researchers use video games as a tool for cognitive enhancement, they assume that game
performance relies
on specific cognitive /
brain function, yet there is a little evidence that establishes such a connection,» explained lead investigator Chandramallika Basak, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas.
Although your
performance on the games improves, that effect doesn't seem to translate into the real world (see «The rise and fall of
brain training»).
Follow up studies will be needed to directly determine whether the boys with these
brain differences do better
on performance tests.
[Visiting Google] this summer opened my eyes to what it would mean if, instead of thinking of biomarkers as something we measure in blood or in a
brain scan, we also include things we can measure
on a smartphone: your activity level, your sleep, your social activity, and your cognitive
performance.
These were the findings of a large - scale study by a research team at the University of Basel that focused
on determining the gender - dependent relationship between emotions, memory
performance and
brain activity.
Damasio: Those separate layers and multiple worlds depend
on diverse
performance spaces in the
brain and
on sophisticated
brain mechanisms of integration.
«Because BAI1 is very active in the hippocampus, a region of the
brain critical for learning and memory, we decided to look at the
performance of the knockout mice
on a memory task dependent
on the hippocampus,» Van Meir says.
When linking participants»
performance on the test to their
brain lesions, scientists found out that those veterans who have made more decisions to punish showed bilateral lesions in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex.
Research by the University of Kent into the effects of
brain stimulation
on athletes»
performance has demonstrated that it is an effective way to improve endurance.
Research led by the University of Kent shows stimulation of the
brain impacts
on endurance exercise
performance by decreasing perception of effort.
The findings are expected to advance our understanding of the
brain's role in endurance exercise, how it can alter the physical limits of
performance in healthy people and add further evidence to the debate
on the use of legal methods to enhance
performance in competition.
«
Brain stimulation can improve athletic performance: Research into the effects of brain stimulation on athletes» performance has demonstrated that it is an effective way to improve endurance.&r
Brain stimulation can improve athletic
performance: Research into the effects of
brain stimulation on athletes» performance has demonstrated that it is an effective way to improve endurance.&r
brain stimulation
on athletes»
performance has demonstrated that it is an effective way to improve endurance.»
They analyzed the relationship between these nutrient patterns and subjects»
brain structure and
performance on cognitive tests.
In a study reported in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience, the researchers looked for relationships between several omega - 3 fatty acids in the blood, the relative size of structures in the frontal and parietal cortices of the
brain, and
performance on tests of fluid intelligence in healthy elderly adults.
«These subtle messages seem to have a big impact, and now we can see they have an immediate impact
on how the
brain handles information about
performance,» Schroder said.
The study concluded that
brain - training video games improve children's
performance only
on very similar games, an effect that likely results from practice.
This view of the
brain started to change about 15 years ago, when Israeli neurobiologist Dov Sagi discovered that with intensive training in specific visual tasks, such as target orientation (the ability to look at a dot
on the wall, look away, then look back at the dot's exact spot), people much older than 12 months could improve their
performance in those tasks.
«Not only are there applications for healthy people to better realize their potential, but EEG - neurofeedback work has been extended to pathology, as in the case of children with attentional disabilities and [transcranial magnetic stimulation] for depression,» notes psychologist John Gruzelier of Goldsmiths College in London, who has been working
on training musicians to control their own
brain waves, thereby improving
performance.
In her article
on boosting your
brain's
performance, Helen Thomson mentions that learning to play a musical instrument can be...
«The task gives us the ability to see what is going
on in the
brain when there is a correct memory
performance,» Smith explains.