Think of your brain like any other muscle in your body — it needs regular training to stay strong. Just like cardio strengthens your heart and boosts oxygen flow throughout your system, and weightlifting builds muscle to protect your joints and improve your physique, exercising your brain has powerful benefits. Keeping your mind active can help reduce the risk of early memory loss and cognitive decline. In fact, studies suggest that brain training may lower the risk of Dementia and even sharpen your attention span.
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Brain Health Essentials: Nutrients That Support Cognitive Function
Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you were there? Or struggled to recall a name that was just on the tip of your tongue? You’re not alone. Cognitive function can be influenced by various factors, including age, stress, and diet. While genetics and lifestyle play a role, nutrition is one of the key ways to support brain health.
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How PTSD Alters the Brain and Behavior
The capabilities of the human brain are fascinating and unique. Such a detailed structure supports everything in our bodies, and it facilitates our thoughts, memories, emotions, and abilities. Brain Trauma doesn’t just impact our behaviors. It also changes the physical makeup of the brain. When someone has PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, their brain becomes wired differently from someone who has not experienced trauma.
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Beau Stanton LoMan Arts Festival Mural, East Village NYC
Photos By Gail
This vibrant, three-story mural was completed by artist Beau Stanton in August 2015 as part of the LoMan Arts Festival. If you’re thinking of adding it to your next Urban Art Safari, be advised that it stands on private property, in the courtyard of the Project Renewal Men’s Shelter, located at 30 East 3rd Street (between 2nd Ave and Bowery) in the East Village.
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Video Clip of The Week: The Furious Snowflakes, “I Got You A Brain For Christmas”
Do you have Dump supporters among your co-workers, in your close circle of friends or, worse yet, in your actual family? It’s okay to admit it: everybody does, to varying degrees, and geezus gawd, it can be a mortifying horrorshow of a reality to have to navigate, amiright? Because, Dump supporters, they are not fond of being all that open-minded or free-thinking. It is confounding, to say the least. But as easy (and rewarding) as it is to unfriend these non-thinkers on the FaceBook, hate is counterproductive. We can’t give up trying to reach the unenlightened, and often, humor really helps get the message across.
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