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Who has not heard of "use it or Lose It". Now, what is "it"? Week I last spoke at the Italian Consulate in San Francisco and one of the attendees of the areas seemed to enjoy the most was learning what our brains are and how work, peaking in the box of "black" in our mind. Without understanding at least the basics, how can we make good decisions about our health and fitness own brain?
Let's review at a glance:
The brain is made of 3 "brains" or main subsystems, each one bears the name of evolutionary time in which the sub-system is believed to have appeared.
1) or human brain neocortex, is the most recent, where they make high-level thinking and complex integration tasks. Other mammals have this part too, but in a smaller proportion of total brain volume. This is where we have our left and right hemispheres.
The neocortex is composed of
The frontal lobes: or CEO of the brain for brain function complex as the planning and conceptualisation.
Parietal lobes: dealing with the movement, the senses, and some forms of recognition
The temporal lobes: the processes of hearing and speech
-Occipital: visual processing center (Credit: Morphonix)
B) Limbic System, or mammalian brain, critical for emotions and memory,
The emotions are generated here as well as the appetites and urges that help us survive. For example, the amygdala is triggered to prepare us to face a threatening situation, resulting in our feeling of fear. The hippocampus is key in the formation memory.
C) cerebellum and trunk, or reptilian brain that regulates basic vital variables such as breathing, heart rate and coordination motor.
When we exercise our brains, we put our neurons and connections between neurons in action.
Given the diversity of functions indicated above, it is clear that different activities are to activate different brain areas, scientists know now, thanks to neuroimaging. Programs There is no magic bullet that is the best (or crossword puzzles or computer-based, or exercise): we need a variety of stimulation mental or brain exercises. "
"Cells that fire together wire together" means that the synapses-the junctions between neurons — more often obtain solidified respective neurons "talk" to each other.
Here are some tips that can help you put all this theory to practice:
– Be curious! Know your local library and university community, for local organizations or churches that offer classes or workshops of
– Make a variety of things, including things that are not good (if you like to sing, try painting too)
– Work puzzles like crosswords and Sudoku or play games like chess and bridge
– Try a computerized training program the brain for a customized training
– If only can do something, learn something new every day!
About the Author:
Alvaro Fernandez is the CEO and Co-Founder of SharpBrains.com, which provides the latest science-based information for Brain and Cognitive Fitness and Cognitive Training, and has been recognized by Scientific American Mind, MarketWatch, Forbes, and more. Alvaro holds MA in Education and MBA from Stanford University, and teaches The Science of Brain Health at UC-Berkeley Lifelong Learning Institute. You can learn more at http://www.sharpbrains.com/
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