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40 Reasons Why Play is Crucial for Brain Development

“As we await new discoveries from brain science, one finding is already clear: Play is a wonderful metaphor for active, engaged, meaningful, and socially interactive learning.” — National Association for the Education of Young Children. The importance of play for healthy brain development in babies, toddlers, children, and teenagers is backed by abundant research and expert consensus. For example, a long-term study found that more intricate play with LEGOs in preschool children had a strong correlation with higher mathematics success in high school, even when accounting for the subject’s IQ.

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Alcohol and Brain

Alcohol affects your body quickly. 20% of alcohol passes into your bloodstream through your stomach and the rest 80% enters the bloodstream through your small intestine. Once there, the blood carries the alcohol to all important organs (the brain, liver, and heart) as if it was the nutrition that your body needs. It reaches the brain only in 5 minutes.

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The Positive Impact of Art on Our Brain


Where art and science are thought to be at crossroads with each other, the opposite is true. The close relationship and link between art and science exist and science itself has proven it. Our mental health depends upon our surrounding. The better the environment is to our senses, the greater and more positive the impact on our mental health.


Ask yourself a simple question right now – Would you like to be in a room that is blank and dull or a room in which there is at least a colour? Your answer would be the second one unless you're feeling low. But here's the thing: Our brains react to art more when they're feeling low. Art is known to tackle humongous mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. 



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How to Enhance Focus and Concentration


There are a variety of factors affecting our focus and concentration skills today. For instance, always having our smartphones in our hands can be a problem. It's one of the biggest reasons for getting easily distracted. Even if we are not getting any calls or messages, we are constantly looking out for information. The fear of missing out, as it is said, keeps us away from focusing on our tasks or other matters.


With so many distractions around and an increase in screen time, our attention span and focus are going downhill day by day. Other factors may include having too much on your plate. There are so many tasks to complete, that you don't want to get started in the first place. And other than that, even if you are all set to work, a noisy environment can make things work. 


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What Happens When You Get a Brain Injury in Different Areas of Your Brain?

The human brain is incredibly complex, weighing in at around 3 pounds and consuming roughly 20% of the blood and oxygen in the body. There are many distinct parts of the brain, each one providing different physical, cognitive, and emotional functions. For example, the frontal lobe is responsible for concentration, attention, personality, expressive language such as speaking, and judgment. That is why an injury to this part of the brain may change your personality or ability to control emotions. Another example is the temporal lobe, which controls memory, hearing, and understanding language. Therefore, an injury to this part of the brain could impact memory and communication. The brain stem affects breathing, arousal, heart rate, and consciousness. A brain stem injury is extremely dangerous because it controls involuntary functions that are crucial for survival. 

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Exercises for your brain

Keeping a healthy mind leads to a healthy body that’s why many people turn to yoga and meditation to keep negative thoughts at bay. To have a sound mind, you will need to be rid of all the stress from your mind. These days there are a lot of blogs and books to read that offer tips on how to manage stress, stay happy and staying sharp.

However, there is only so much you can read when all of it starts to sound the same. Peace of mind cannot be achieved by having someone tell you what to do instead it is achieved by doing something you love. When you are down, you turn to your favorite thing to do to get out of the stress zone. Some people read books, some play video games and some go out for a walk. There are different coping mechanisms for everyone.

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Best Way to Take Care of Yourself Emotionally Emotions are very important in our lives; it can affect our relationships, school, and work. We should work on our self-care like treating our self, taking an off, or resting. One of the important things we could do is creating boundaries, not only for other people but four our self too. There are a few simple tips where we can take care of our emotions with self-care.
 We should learn to say no because this world is full of selfish and fake people. We should always give priority to our time. We should embrace this world to help us to take back our time and schedule, allowing us to say yes to ourselves finally.  When feeling overwhelmed or our emotions are running the show, we should breathe deeply. It is a kind of exercise that makes us and our mind relaxed.

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The Warning Signs of Serious Brain Injuries

No organ is more complex in the human body than the brain. Apart from the body functions of which we do not have conscious control, the brain is responsible for producing every thought, action, memory, feeling, and experience in the world. It's basically all that makes us human.

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15 Things You Didn’t Know About the Brain

The brain is part of your body’s central nervous system. It’s the most complicated part of your body. It has the ability to send and receive an enormous amount of information. Because it is so complex, there are some things doctors and scientists don’t completely understand yet about it. This also means that there are some amazing things you may not know about your brain.

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Your Brain On Beer vs Coffee

Believe it or not, coffee and beer can form a great team if you're trying to get through a project. Beer improves your creativity, while coffee keeps you alert and ready to carry out the ideas you had while drinking. Just be careful not to consume them at the same time—or drink too much of either—or else you'll get nothing done. I Love Coffee created this infographic that looks at the difference between how drinking coffee and drinking beer affect your overall productivity.

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Football & Brain Injuries Worth The Risk

How do we work together to improve the safety of the game for athletes? What changes can be made to help protect our college and high school players? See our infographic, below, for additional information about the profitability of football and the risk of injury.

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Shoppers Psychology Online and Offline

Attention shoppers! How many times have you tried browsing for the perfect product but had to settle for a decent value purchase? Have you ever wished you knew how your mind works when it comes to determining whether a purchase has a good price-quality ratio or not? Obviously, we’ve all been there, and the grass always looks greener on the other side.

 Namely, your mind works in mysterious ways, and the large marketplaces know how to take advantage of it. Eventually, most of us are encountering a situation where the more choices we get, the harder it is to make a decision.

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How to reframe bad habits to boost your productivity

We all have habits—both good and bad. While good habits tend to be difficult to make, it can be just as hard to break or reframe old habits. In fact, experts say you can’t ever get rid of a bad habit, but you can change it. Every habit can be broken into three components: a cue, a routine, and a reward. By identifying all three, we can create a new routine that offers the same reward. This can be especially helpful at work where a number of bad habits can get in the way of a productive day.

 For instance, if you tend to respond to emails as they hit your inbox, you’re likely wasting valuable time since these never-ending checks distract you from whatever you were working on. Instead, you can turn off email notifications, close email apps, and create a new routine where you check your email in chunks two or three times a day. Rather than concentrate on breaking your old bad habit, you can focus your attention on cultivating a new, more productive habit. Read on for more habit reframing tips below.

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The Brain: A User's Guide to Emotions
As neuroscience researchers work to unravel the inner workings of the brain, we know more than ever before about the mysteries of where emotions originate in the brain and the connections between instinct, intelligence and emotion. This work is yielding fascinating insights that we can use to understand how we react to situations and people. The brain, which is a much more flexible organ that previously thought, can be consciously retrained to be more emotionally flexible, understanding and sensitive. The emotional functions of the brain are interwoven at many levels. These maps provide an overview of the major areas of the brain involved in processing emotions.

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How Does Your Brain Control You?
A complex and little-understood organ, the brain is a marvel of human physiology. There are eight main ‘sections’ of the brain that control everything about you, from the way you react to stimuli across all your senses. Your brain also makes ‘you’, for example, what you remember and when. It also determines other characteristics of your personality. And the richness of the brain and its functions means that there are no two people on earth that are exactly the same.

Your brain also controls your nervous system, sending messages along the nerves that act as highways around your body that carry the message from your brain to all of its major organs. Your brain tells your muscles when to contract and relax; it tells your body when to stand or sit. As well as these kinds of actions, it also regulates how well your major organs work. For example, it will tell your heart to beat faster if you need a surge of energy to walk faster or run.

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How Does The Brain Store & Process Memories?
Every sight, smell, sound, touch, and specific memory is stored in the recesses of your mind—but what parts of your brain store specific types of sensory data? Read on to learn more about where your brain stores these memories and which parts of your brain control specific functions.

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What Are Brain Waves?
Even the parts of our brains that don't control physical movement show a lot of rhythm, and that might be integral to how our brains work.

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Building a Better Mind
Kernel is a new company, with an ambitious goal: to hack human intelligence (HI) and transform our brain into a programmable device that can be improved. By developing neuroprosthetics to bridge the gap between humankind and its tools, Kernel is already hard at work building the solutions to marry human and artificial intelligence.

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