Can You Build a Better Brain? - Newsweek and The Daily Beast - 0 views
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Tom McKean on 29 Sep 13Muscular Strength is also a lot less complex than our brain.
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People who use their gym locker tend to be fitter than those who don’t, but it is not using a gym locker that raises your aerobic capacity.
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Whether you go neuro-slumming (Googling “brain training”)
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(searching PubMed, the database of biomedical journals, for “cognitive enhancement”)
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if scientists understood the mechanisms of intelligence even half as well as they do the mechanisms of, say, muscular strength.
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but the number of rigorous, well-designed studies that will stand the test of time is much smaller,”
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Be skeptical
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depending only on whether attention is being paid.
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we don’t pay much attention to them
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cognitively demanding activity
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To be determined: whether a nicotine patch delivers the benefits without the risks.
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by simply believing that you’ll do well, which itself releases dopamine.
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reducing stress and the resulting cortisol, which attacks the myelin sheath that coats neurons and thus impairs signal transmission, allows underlying abilities to reach their full potential.
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that the more you use a circuit, the stronger it gets.
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physical exercise
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meditation
