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Author Archives: Ward Plunet
Weekend’s Better Brain Health Breakfast # 6
Lasting Love One of the most important things for our brain health are good social relationships, and this obviously includes our love interest. In last week’s better brain [..]
Want to double your brain’s processing ability?
Image via Wikipedia It is simple: become an expert at something. Okay, I know it sounds like a joke, or like I was trying to sell you something, [..]
What could account for our middle age peak in cognitive function: wiring?
Youth myth It is a common myth in our culture that we peak for everything in 20′s. But interestingly there are components of our brain that do not [..]
Weekend Better Brain Breakfast # 5
Meditation may help addiction Over at Integratedneuroscience they have an interesting post about the growing body of research and practical tips on how you could use meditation to [..]
How much cognitive ability do we lose over time as we age?
Yesterday you learned after the age of 25 you lose 2 grams of your brain mass per year. That means at the age of 80 you have loss [..]
How much of your brain mass do you lose each year?
Image via Wikipedia If you want optimum brain health you obviously want to preserve as much of your brain as possible as you age. At birth your brain [..]
Weekend’s Better Brain Health Breakfast # 4
Hoping everyone had a great holiday season and looking forward to an successful 2011. Many of us traveled during the holiday season and this post points to new [..]
I am my connectome – aren’t I?
The connectome simply put is the wiring diagram of your brain. But this is not so simple to obtain due the incredible complexity of the human brain. I [..]
Born to be empathetic / sympathetic: mirror neurons – what is next?
During this holiday season we tend to be even more empathetic and compassionate than usual, so I think taking a deeper look at empathy would be interesting as [..]
Booting up synthetic cell / genome: 2010 Science story of the year
Image by AJC1 via Flickr This post will not do much directly for your brain health other than at plopping an interesting idea into it, which is good [..]
