Build Your Brain Power
Train your brain like a muscle with challenging new activities, learning skills, brain games and neurofeedback.
Start small and increase difficulty over time to strengthen neural connections.
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In her book Biohack Your Brain, neuroscientist Kristen Willeumier provides science-based strategies for optimizing brain health, overcoming negative thought patterns, and achieving peak mental performance. Drawing on the latest research, she explains how simple lifestyle changes relating to sleep, exercise, nutrition and stress can actually change the physical structure of the brain. Willeumier also delves into the potential of nootropics and technology like EEG to take brain hacking to the next level.
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7. Use Brain Training Apps
If you like to play games, why not play ones that also train your brain?
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Cross Train Your Brain
Try a new activity within your field or related to it; you’ll expand your neural connections and strengthen your brain overall.
If you’re a novelist, try your hand at poetry. If you’re a painter, dabble in sculpting. If you’re a computer scientist, play around with web design....
The End Products
The purpose of creative activities for brain health is not to produce a sellable or even a laudable product. These activities creates new neural connections that can preserve your cognitive ability or at least slow down its deterioration.
Also, just as muscle strength takes time to d...
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