Category: Weekend’s Better Brain Health Breakfast

Weekend’s Better Brain Health Breakfast #7: Friends, Lovers, Puzzles, and Music

The power of love and friends for your health Staying married or good social connections can help you live longer are covered in this Washington post article. I have blogged on how social interactions can improve your health in a previous post. One interesting piece of data from the Washington post article is that social…

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 are also smarter? According to this one study that followed 17,419 from childhood through young  adulthood did find this exact relationship: ‘Physical attractiveness is significantly positively associated withgeneral…

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 help with addiction: …the mindfulness that accompanies meditation has shown to be more effective than behavioral strategies that encouraged avoiding thoughts of substance use. Such thoughts inevitably…