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The importance of brain is known to all. Brain is the most precious gift to humanity? Did you ever think to improve its performance? Giving you some tips to sharpen brain , which is an extract of studies took from different sources,  including net too.  Experience These exercises :-

witch the hand you are using to control the computer mouse. Use OTHER WHICH you normally do NOT use.

You are feeling uncomfortable and awkward? Don’t worry;  your brain is learning new skill.

Try other neural building and strengthening exercises with everyday movements. Use your opposite hand to brush your teeth,  dial the phone or operate the TV remote

In a fascinating experiment, researchers discovered that a muscle can be strengthened just by thinking about exercising it.

Pay attention to your breathing. Is it slow and deep,  or quick and shallow? Is your belly expanding and contracting,  or is your chest doing all the work?

It is important to challenge your brain to learn new and novel tasks, especially processes that you’ve never done before.  Examples include rumba samba dancing, chess, karate,  yoga,  or sculpture. Working with modeling clay or drawing, especially good way for children to grow new connections. It helps develop agility and hand-brain coordination,  (like controlling the computer mouse with opposite hand).

Traveling is another good way to stimulate brain. It worked for our ancestors, the early Homo sapiens. Their nomadic lifestyle provided a tremendous stimulation for their brains that led to the development of superior tools and survival skills.

Neurobics is a unique system of brain exercises using your five physical senses and your emotional sense in unexpected ways that encourage you to shake up your everyday routines. They are designed to help your brain manufacture its own nutrients that strengthen, preserve, and grow brain cells

Try to include one or more of your senses in an everyday task:

Get dressed with your eyes closed
Wash your hair with your eyes closed
Share a meal and use only visual cues to communicate. No talking.

Combine two senses:

Listen to music and smell flowers ( not anything else)
Listen to the rain and tap your fingers according to music of rain fall making rhythm.
Watch clouds and start dancing on some music tune taking cloud beat as drum beat.

Break routines:

Experience new routes for traveling instead of in routine.

Use opposite hand to work, other than usual

Shop at new grocery store, leaving old ones

READING AND BINGO

Consider your brain a muscle, and find opportunities to flex it. “Read, read, read,” says Dr. Amir Soas of Case Western School in Cleveland. Do crossword puzzles. Play Scrabble. Start a new hobby or learn to speak a foreign language specially Malayalam (karalla language). “Anything that stimulates the brain to think.” Watch less television, because “your brain goes into neutral,” he said

Challenging the brain early in life is crucial to building up more “cognitive reserve” to counter brain-damaging disease, according to Dr. David Bennett of Chicago’s Rush University. And, reading-habits prior to age 18 are a key predictor of later cognitive function.

A cognitive psychologist in England found that when elderly people regularly played bingo, it helped minimize their memory loss and bolster their hand-eye coordination. Bingo seemed to help players of all ages remain mentally sharp.

What’s Thought-Provoking is Brain Promoting – Research

Research on the physical results of thinking, has shown that just using the brain actually increases the number of dendritic branches that interconnect brain cells. The more we think, the better our brains function – regardless of age. The renowned brain researcher Dr. Marian Diamond says, “The nervous system possesses not just a ‘morning’ of plasticity, but an ‘afternoon’ and an ‘evening’ as well.”

Dr. Diamond found that whether we are young or old, we can continue to learn. The brain can change at any age. In fact, older brains may have an advantage. more highly developed neurons respond even better to intellectual enrichment than less developed ones .

Physical Exercise for a Better Brain

Most of us know that physical exercise is good for our general health, but did you know that physical exercise is also good for your brain? If you think you’re going to get smarter sitting in front of your computer or watching television, think again. Here scientists present the evidence that a healthy human being is a human doing.

Our Sedentary Society

Nearly half of young people ages 12 to 21 do not participate in vigorous physical activity on a regular basis. The impact of computers, video games, and public apathy have combined to leave Illinois as still requires daily physical education . This is a far cry since decades.

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About Physical Exercise

Exercise is a natural part of life, although these days we have to consciously include it in our daily routine. Biologically, it was part of survival, in the form of hunting and gathering or raising livestock and growing food

Walking Benefits Brains

Walking is especially good for your brain, because it increases blood circulation and the oxygen and glucose that reach your brain. Walking is not strenuous, so your leg muscles don’t take up extra oxygen and glucose like they do during other forms of exercise. As you walk, you effectively oxygenate your brain. Maybe this is why walking can “clear your head” and help you to think better.

Movement and exercise increase breathing and heart rate so that more blood flows to the brain, enhancing energy production and waste removal. Studies show that in response to exercise, cerebral blood vessels can grow .Those who walk regularly showed significant improvement in memory skills compared to sedentary elderly people

Wake Up Your Brain in the Morning Exercise

In the morning, while you’re still in bed, slowly begin to move your toes – any way that feels good. Wriggle, scrunch, and stretch. Move all your toes up and down several times, or work just your big toes. Wiggling your toes activates nerves that stimulate your brain and internal organs.

Do this exercise first thing each morning or after sitting for an extended period of time. It will help you to wake-up and become alert more quickly. Your whole body may feel pleasantly energized. Most important, your first steps – and those throughout the day – will be safer ones. (Falls are the second leading cause of spinal cord and brain injury among people over 65 years old.)

Foot Note

The human foot is one of the body’s most complex engineering marvels. The eight arches in your feet do a remarkable job of evenly distributing the weight of your body, while 200 ligaments coordinate 40 different muscles that control the 56 bones in your feet – one fourth of all the bones in your body!

An intricate system of blood vessels and nerves connect the feet with the rest of the body. Your feet are good barometers of the aging process; inflexible toes, cold feet, and poor circulation are signposts of time.

Physical Exercise Helps Higher Brain Functions

What we found so fascinating was that exercise had its beneficial effect in specific areas of cognitive function that are rooted in the frontal and prefrontal regions of the brain,” said Blumenthal. “The implications are that exercise might be able to offset some of the mental d Ongoing animal studies show that running can boost brain cell survival in mice that have a neurodegenerative disease with properties similar to Alzheimer’s.Run for More Brain Cells-StudyRunning’s brain-boosting effects were in the hippocampus, a region of the brain linked to learning and memory and known to be affected by Alzheimer’s disease, Barlow said. “The results suggest that exercise might delay the onset and progression of some neurodegenerative diseases . Running also leads to increased brain cell numbers in normal adult . studies have shown that new cell growth occurs in human brains. Therefore,Antioxidants attract and gather the free radicals that are associated with many brain maladies.Physical Exercise Protects Your Brain as it Ages –

Physical exercise has a protective effect on the brain and its mental processes, and may even help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Based on exercise and health data from nearly 5,000 men and women over 65 years of age, those who exercised were less likely to lose their mental abilities or develop dementia, including Alzheimer’s. the more a person exercises the greater the protective benefits for the brain, particularly in women.

Mental Challenge Protects Brain From Cognitive Decline-

you do not lose mass quantities of brains cells as you get older. “There isn’t much difference between a 25-year old brain and a 75-year old brain,” says Dr. Monte S. Buchsbaum, who has scanned a lot of brains as director of the Neuroscience PET Laboratory at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Certain areas of the brain, however, are more prone to damage and deterioration over time. One is the hippocampus , which transfers new memories to long-term storage elsewhere in the brain. Another vulnerable area is the basal ganglia, which coordinates commands to move muscles. Research indicates that mental exercise can improve these areas and positively affect memory and physical coordination.

Intellectual Activity Fends off Alzheimer’s-Study

Numerous studies show that better-educated people have less risk of Alzheimer’s disease. study of 550 people, those more mentally and physically active in middle-age were three times less likely to later get the mind-robbing disease

Increased intellectual activity during adulthood was especially protective. Examples included reading, doing puzzles, playing a musical instrument, painting, woodworking, playing cards or board games, and performing home repairs.

An aerobic exercise program decreased depression and improved the cognitive abilities of middle-aged and elderly men and women.

In a study of 193 people believed to have Alzheimer’s disease, researchers found that people who participated in fewer leisure activities between the ages of 20 and 60 were 3.85 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s

Most beneficial is ,

”spending time with intellectuals” and studies.
“A passive life style is not good for brain,”.