Category: Brain Health

Source: http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2017/01/06/the-one-new-years-resolution-to-help-you-keep-all-your-new-years-resolutions/

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You enjoyed the shopping and holiday season. Great!

You carefully selected one or several New Year’s Resolutions. Excellent!

Now it’s time to shift gears from resolutions to plans and realities…and there’s one thing you may have overlooked.

Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, Founder and Chief Director of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas, puts it best: “Our health starts and ends with brain health.”

“Our health starts and ends with brain health.”

In other words, do you really believe you’ll be able to lose weight, and to maintain that weight loss, if you are constantly stressed out, or depressed?

Or that you will be able t…

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Researchers credit declines in smoking, better detection and treatment

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Source: http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20170105/kids-with-concussion-need-vision-check-before-return-to-school?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Lingering eye problems linked to poorer academic performance

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It can be hard for people to quit taking prescription drugs. Dr. Volkow explains why and Dr. Rodgers provides resources that can help….

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Cleveland Browns cornerback Joe Haden talks food, fitness, and family.

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In the past, the military’s approach to diagnosing head injuries was very limited. Military members were only screened for a concussion or brain injury if their head came into contact with a stationary object or if an object hit them in the head. It took years for medical personnel to realize that the force of

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Source: http://totalbrainhealth.com/?p=5761

DAY 4

LEARN SOMETHING NEW AND GROW NEURONS. Challenging the brain to learn new things has been linked to the growth of new neurons. Go ahead and listen to linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter as he offers 4 reasons to learn a new language including to improve your brain health.

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For patients with TBI, the higher the prehospital systolic blood pressure the better — a finding that challenges the conventional wisdom that there is a clinically meaningful threshold, new research suggests. The study — the largest to date to look at this issue — found a linear association between lowest prehospital systolic blood pressure and

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Source: http://www.webmd.com/news/20161230/pot-may-restrict-blood-flow-to-brain-study?src=RSS_PUBLIC

It’s too early to say if this contributes to mental decline, Alzheimer’s expert says

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After a TBI, people also experience major sleep problems, including changes in their sleep-wake cycle. A new study shows that recovering from these two conditions occurs in parallel. The study is published in the December 21, 2016, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. “These results suggest that monitoring

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