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Weekend’s Better Brain Health Breakfast # 7: Beauty-Brains, Schmoozing, Blueberries

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Are good looking people also smarter? Would this be prove how fair the world is if on average the best looking people [..]

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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, [..]

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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 [..]

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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 [..]

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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 [..]

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Weekend’s Brain Health Breakfast # 3

Four methods to increase your serotonin without drugs. Serotonin is believed to be important for depression, so these 4 non-drug methods to increase serotonin could help your mood. [..]

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Weekend’s Brain Health Breakfast # 2

Do you want better grades at school, or a way to help your children’s grades? Brainblogger does  a very nice jog explaining a new study in college students [..]

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Weekend’s Better Brain Health Breakfast # 1

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How many neurons does a human brain have, and more importantly how many connections?

According to Wikipedia the human brain has between 50 and 100 billion neurons, and 1000 trillion connections. Now those are huge numbers. Now according to other respectable sights [..]

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Resveratrol does not extend lifespan

Resveratrol, one of the great hopes to increase lifespan, in this new paper was found to have no effect on lifespan.  In previous posts I have reported on [..]

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