BrainHealth Week starts today! Plus: dancing, personalized mental health, brain stimulation and more

Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, annoucing the kick-off of BrainHealth Week and featuring some stimulating resources and teasers. #1. BrainHealth Week (February 20–24th) starts today: Explore many fun events including a daily text challenge, a talk with the always great Dr. Tom Insel, and more! #2. Without Brain Health, you do not have Health Important article given that “It typically takes twenty to forty years or more for scientific discoveries to meaningfully benefit human life. We cannot wait that long.” — Wise words! #3. Sin Salud Cerebral, Usted no tiene Salud –same article, in Spanish, for extra mental stimulation and for sharing 🙂 “En los últimos diez años, los neurocientificos hemos descubierto mucho acerca de cómo funciona el cerebro, cómo mejorar la salud y el funcionamiento del cerebro y la mente a lo largo de la vida, y cómo esto contribuye a nuestra salud y bienestar en general. Únase a nosotros y asegúrese de que los mejores años de su cerebro están aún por venir, recordando que: Sin salud cerebral, usted no tiene salud.” #4. Ballroom dancing can reduce aging-related brain atrophy in the hippocampus (and, more than treadmill walking!) “(Dancing) generated significantly greater improvements than treadmill walking on one measure of executive function and on processing speed, which is the time it takes to respond to or process information. Compared with walking, dancing was also associated with reduced b...
Source: SharpBrains - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning Alto Neuroscience Alzheimer’s Disease brain stimulation Brain Teasers brain-teaser BrainHealth Week cerebral cognitive-skills dancing mental-fitness personalized salud salud Source Type: blogs