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  • ABC Reporter Bob Woodruff's Incredible Recovery From Traumatic Brain Injury
    A few weeks ago John Edwards was interviewed by reporter Bob Woodruff. All the resulting media coverage centered on Edwards' declarations. However, there is something much more remarkable that surfaced at that interview: Bob Woodruff's spectacular recovery from his severe traumatic brain injury, suffered when a roadside bomb detonated next to his vehicle in Iraq. Today I am fortunate to interview Bob's wife, Lee Woodruff.
  • Can Meditation Help to Read Hidden Emotional Messages in other People's Faces?
    I recently attended a great workshop at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. The class was called "Reading Emotional Messages" and taught by Paul Ekman, Ph.D, a well-know scientist who regularly trains lawyers and police officials in his techniques. This article summarized Dr. Ekman's research and suggestions.
  • Study: Meditation Can Help Adults and Children with ADHD
    Travel back, in your mind's eye, to a time when you felt a healthy exhaustion after hiking, biking, playing sports.., and let you re-live that moment as vividly as you can. Congratulations. You have trained your brain. And a recent study shows how techniques like this can help children and adults with attention deficits.
  • Exercise Your Brain: Quick Brain Teasers to Test Your Memory and Thinking Skills
    Here's a quick quiz to test your memory and thinking skills, which should work out important parts of your brain. See how you do! (Answers are below).
  • Why Do You Turn Down the Radio When You're Lost?: Multi-Tasking and the Brain 101
    You're driving through suburbia one evening looking for the street where you're supposed to have dinner at a friend's new house. You slow down to a crawl, turn down the radio, stop talking, and stare at every sign. Why is that? Neither the radio nor talking affects your vision. turn down the radio, stop talking, and stare at every sign. Why is that? Neither the radio nor talking affects your vision. Or do they?
  • 10 Brain Health and Fitness New Year's Resolutions: Train Your Brain
    Let me suggest 10 New Year's Resolutions that will help you make 2008 a year of Brain Health and Fitness, based on three key guidelines for brain health: the need for novelty, variety and challenge.
  • Enhance Happiness and Health by Cultivating Gratitude: Interview with Robert Emmons
    Today we interview Prof. Robert Emmons, Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology and author of Thanks: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier. Some of his key messages: the practice of gratitude can increase happiness levels by around 25%, this is not hard to achieve, and brings other health effects, such as longer and better quality sleep time.
  • Emotional Intelligence, Reading Faces, and Meditation
    emotions, also called facial "microexpressions", are the fleeting expressions that, believe it or not, you make when consciously or unconsciously trying to hide your true emotions. In conscious microexpressions you may be trying to lie, while with unconscious expressions, you may not even be aware of what they are truly feeling. Want to learn more?
  • Cognitive Fitness and Health: 10 Debunked Myths on How Your Mind Works.
    How does your brain work? Interested in improving it? Over the last year we have interviewed more than 10 leading neuroscientists and psychologists worldwide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have news to report. Read this article to learn about 10 common myths that deserve to be debunked.
  • Seven Productivity and Learning Tips to Manage Information Better
    Hundreds of thousands of new books, analyst reports, scientific papers published every year. Millions of websites at our googletips. The flow of data, information and knowledge is growing exponentially, stretching the capacity of our brains. Let me offer 7 Strategies that can help manage this flow of information better.
  • Beck Diet: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person-and Maintain Weight Loss (Part 2)
    Do you wonder why, after losing some pounds, you typically regain them quickly? Interested in discovering how to maintain your target weight? Read this interview with Dr. Judith Beck, Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research and author of The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person, a widely acclaimed book on how we can develop the mental skills required to sustain weight loss. Part 2 of 2.
  • The Beck Diet: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person-and Maintain Target Weight (Part 1)
    Do you wonder why, after losing some pounds, you typically regain them quickly? Interested in discovering how to maintain your target weight? Read this interview with Dr. Judith Beck, Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research and author of The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person, a widely acclaimed book on how we can develop the mental skills required to sustain weight loss. Part 1 of 2.
  • The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains
    Confused by the growing number of articles on how to train our brains, improve our memory, exercise our minds, and even create new neurons? To put all of them in better perspective, let's review 10 good lifestyle habits we can follow to maintain, and improve, our vibrant brains.
  • 10 Stress Management and Memory Improvement Tips
    These days we deal with events and illnesses that gnaw away at us slowly, that stress us out and that, believe it or not, end up hurting our memory and brain. What are the best defenses against stress, that will help our mind and memory remain healthy for life? In this article we list 10 Tips that will help you.
  • Brain Exercise for Brain Health: 7 Most Frequently Asked Questions
    Major media publications (Time Magazine, CBS, USA Today...) have started to explain the research behind brain exercise to improve memory and attention and help delay potential problems such as Alzheimer's Disease. We have prepared answers to the 7 Most Frequently Asked Questions, which will provide you with great tips to create your own brain exercise program.

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