What you eat is how you feel 🍏

<ul><li>Stay hydrated for optimal brain function</li><li>Eat a brain-healthy diet, like foods rich in omega-3s & antioxidants 🍎🍓</li><li>Healthy & balanced lifestyle 💪</li></ul>

Eat Well

🕯️Remember to take breaks and stay hydrated for optimal brain performance! 💦

<ul><li>Well-rested brain retains & process information better 💤</li><li>Frequent short breaks, relaxing activities 🌴recharges 🔋 your brain.</li></ul>

Rest

<ul><li>Attuned to exam stimulated conditions</li><li>Identify knowledge gaps, and work on for</li><li>Seek help from teachers or tutors if needed</li></ul>

Practice

<ul><li>Keep it short & effective 📝</li><li>Use visual aids (diagrams & pictures) helps brain to make better connections. 🖍️</li><li>Use mnemonics, mind maps, or flashcards.</li><li>Revise regularly & modify if necessary 📚</li></ul>

Note Making

Believing in yourself boosts your brainpower🪫🔋

" Exercise is for body, Meditation is for mind "<ul><li>Staying physically active [⏫ blood flow to brain & ⬇️ stress and & ⏫ concentration. 🏋️‍♂️🏃</li><li>Meditate ⬆️ (focus + memory)🧘‍♂️</li><li>🔽 stress using relaxation techniques (deep breathing & yoga) 🧘‍♀️</li></ul>

Stress Management

Break your routine and try new things to stimulate your brain 🔑<ul><li>Read books and articles to expand your knowledge 📚</li><li>Practice active learning by taking notes and teaching others what you've learned 🎓</li><li>Play brain games and puzzles to improve cognitive skills 🧩</li></ul>

Stimulate

Don't just memorize - make sure you understand!

<ul><li>Memorization only allows for short-term retention</li><li>Understanding leads to long-term learning</li><li>Understanding helps in applying knowledge to new scenarios</li></ul>So, next time you're studying, make sure you understand the material, not just memorize it.

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Tips for Boosting your Brain Power

Actively retrieving information from memory, <ul><li>By asking & answering questions,</li><li>Summarizing key points, or </li><li>Teaching material to someone else.</li></ul>

Active Recall

Reviewing information at increasing intervals strengthen's your memory & retention.

Spaced repetition

Creating sensory rich mental images of key concepts or information.

Visualization

<ul><li>Visual representation of relationships between ideas, using diagrams, branches, and symbols.</li><li>Both techniques help's you organize and understand complex information.</li></ul>

Mind Mapping

Condensing information into your own words, highlighting key ideas.

Summarizing

<ul><li>Recording key information from lectures, readings, or other sources.</li><li>Both techniques help's with focus on most important information and improve your comprehension.</li></ul>

Note-Taking

<ul><li>It force's you to think deeply about the concepts and explain them in clear and concise way.</li><li>Help's identify any gaps in your understanding to work on.</li></ul>

Teach the Material to Someone Else

Help's you identify areas where more practice is needed and improve your problem-solving skills.

Practice Problems and Self-Testing

<ul><li>Flashcards for memorizing key facts, formulas, or definitions.</li><li>Mnemonics are memory aids help you to associate concepts with easier-to-remember words or phrases.</li></ul>

Flashcards and Mnemonic Devices

<ul><li>Ineffective, often can lead to burnout.</li><li>Instead, space out study sessions over time to allow brain to process & retain information more effectively.</li></ul>

Cramming

Choose quiet distraction-free place to focus on the task at hand.<ul><li>Library, quiet spot at home, or dedicated study space at school.</li></ul>

Study Environment

<ul><li>Regular Breaks to stay focused longer, to avoid burnout. </li><li>Resting each night allow your brain to repair and reset & rest and recharge.</li></ul>

Take Breaks and Get Enough Sleep

<ul><li>For completing study goals or achieving milestones.</li><li>Help's you stay motivated & on track.</li></ul>

Reward Yourself

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10 Secret Methods For Studying

Dopamine: a special chemical in our brain that helps nerve cells communicate with each other.<ul><li>Produced in (substantia nigra, hypothalamus, and ventral tegmental area)</li><li>Involved in (movement, motivation, reward, and pleasure)</li></ul>

The Role of Dopamine in Our Brain's Communication

Movement is controlled by signals between different parts of the brain. Dopamine helps with this, but if there's not enough dopamine, movement can be affected.People with Parkinson's have tremors, rigidity, and slow movements because they don't have enough dopamine. Dopamine is made in the substantia nigra.

Movement and Dopamine: A crucial link in Motor Control

It rewards our enjoyable experiences (eating tasty food or doing fun things), Motivates us to repeat these behaviors by creating a feeling of pleasure forming addictive patterns.How dopamine works:<ul><li>Lnked to brain's reward system, released when we do something pleasurable.</li><li>This creates a sense of pleasure and reinforces the behavior.</li><li>As a result, we are more likely to do it again (Addictive Patterns).</li></ul>

Dopamine and Pleasure

Dopamine drives goal achievement & staying motivated.💪<ul><li>Dopamine is involved in (motivation, decision-making, and goal-oriented behavior).</li><li>It prioritizes tasks to help us achieve our goals.</li><li>Dopamine levels increase when we (anticipate rewards - put necessary effort and achieve rewards).</li></ul>So, keep chasing those goals and let dopamine keep you motivated along the way! 🎯

Motivation and Goal-directed Behavior

<ul><li>Plays crucial role in mood and emotional regulation</li><li>Low levels (depression), High levels (mania and psychosis).</li></ul>

Mood and Emotion

🧠 Plays key role in learning & memory.🤔 How? By strengthening brain connections, aiding in information retention and recall.❌ Improper dopamine functioning leads to cognitive disorders like (ADHD and schizophrenia).

Learning and Memory

🧠 By repeated intake, messes brain & craves dose-drugs all the time.🚫 Addiction is harmful and cause problems in your life.👀 Watch out for these signs:<ul><li>🚬 Keep hooked to drugs even when they cause problems</li><li>💔 Ignore important things to keep using drugs</li><li>💉 Need more and more drugs to feel good</li><li>🌅 Spends lot of (time + money) on drugs</li></ul>

Addiction and Dopamine

<ul><li>Dopamine is important for (movement, reward, motivation, and mood regulation, learning, and addiction).</li><li>Studying dopamine can help us understand . - This may lead to ). </li><li>By understanding its role, we can gain insights into neurological and psychiatric disorders and more effective treatments 🧠 🔑 🎯.</li></ul>

Dopamine - A Powerful Brain Chemical

" Drugs make you feel good because of dopamine "

Tips for Boosting your Brain Power

10 Secret Methods For Studying

Dopamine : Happiness & Addiction (Magic Pharmacy In Brain)

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