Researchers Discover Why Learning Can Be Difficult Findings, published in Nature, could lead to improved treatments for stroke, other brain injuries. Learning a new skill is easier when it is related to an ability we already have. For example, a trained pianist can learn a new melody easier than learning how to hit a tennis serve.Continue reading “Researchers Discover Why Learning Can Be Difficult”
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Knowing more about our brain for longevity
How Toddlers Begin Learning Rules of Reading and Writing
Toddlers Begin Learning Rules of Reading and Writing at Very Early Age Summary: A new study reveals that by the age of three, children are already starting to follow complex rules and patterns that govern how letters fit together to make words. Source: WUSTL. Exposure to language improves ‘invented spellings’ of children ages 3-to-5 years.Continue reading “How Toddlers Begin Learning Rules of Reading and Writing”
Brain Stimulation May Help Children With Learning Difficulties
Brain Stimulation May Help Children With Learning Difficulties Summary: An exploratory study reveals a brain stimulation method previously suggested to help adults learn math may also help children with mathematical learning difficulties. Source: Oxford University. Applying a brain stimulation method, which was previously suggested to enhance mathematical learning in healthy adults, may improve the performanceContinue reading “Brain Stimulation May Help Children With Learning Difficulties”
Simple Changes for Optimal Focus in the brain
Simple Changes for Optimal Focus By making simple changes to your daily diet and habits, you can become more productive. To help improve your brain power, here are six ways to have better mental focus at work: Supercharge your diet Certain foods can enhance your brainpower. For example, pistachios support better blood flow, bringing oxygenContinue reading “Simple Changes for Optimal Focus in the brain”
Puberty Hormones Trigger Changes in Youthful Learning
Summary: A new study demonstrates changes in cortical neurotransmission due to hormones at puberty. Source: UC Berkeley. Brain study of mice has broad implications for the health and education of young girls. A University of California, Berkeley, study of mice reveals, for the first time, how puberty hormones might impede some aspects of flexible youthfulContinue reading “Puberty Hormones Trigger Changes in Youthful Learning”
Depression to Dementia
(i) Individuals who develop depression at any point in their lives, sustain minimal or no depression-related neuropathology (eg, glucocorticoid neurotoxicity), and who have stable, normal cognitive functioning; (ii) Individuals who develop depression at any point and who experience depression-related neuropathology that results in MCI that is stable (unless they experience additional depressive episodes); (iii) IndividualsContinue reading “Depression to Dementia”
Evidence of Learning and Memory in Fetuses Six Weeks Prior to Birth
Nursery rhyme experiment reveals that by their 34th week in utero, fetuses remember. If you’ve ever been pregnant, did you have a saying you’d repeat to yourself–something about taking things one day at a time, or maybe even wishing that men could know what it’s like to carry a child? Or did you have aContinue reading “Evidence of Learning and Memory in Fetuses Six Weeks Prior to Birth”
Early first 12 years of brain growth via learning
In a study about human memory, brain growth and learning, the first 12 yrs of human growth and learning is very critical to the future brain health. In contrast, the rats exposed to the shock compartment at 24 days of life learned and retained the memory for a long time and avoided this place—revealing aContinue reading “Early first 12 years of brain growth via learning”
How moderate exercise can help us learn
Over the past decade, in study after study in animals and people, exercise has been shown to improve the ability to learn and remember. But the specifics of that process have remained hazy. Is it better to exercise before you learn something new? What about during? And should the exercise be vigorous or gentle? TwoContinue reading “How moderate exercise can help us learn”