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Regular
aerobic exercise is good for the brain - Science Daily, 4/26/10 -
"Regular exercise speeds learning and improves blood
flow to the brain ... monkeys who exercised regularly at an intensity that would
improve fitness in middle-aged people learned to do tests of cognitive function
faster and had greater blood volume in the brain's motor cortex than their
sedentary counterparts ... This suggests people who exercise are getting similar
benefits ... When the researchers examined tissue samples from the brain's motor
cortex, they found that mature monkeys that ran had greater vascular volume than
middle-aged runners or sedentary animals. But those blood flow changes reversed
in monkeys that were sedentary after exercising for five months"
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Ritalin
boosts learning by increasing brain plasticity - Science Daily, 3/7/10 -
"Ritalin boosts both of these cognitive abilities by
increasing the activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine deep inside the brain.
Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers neurons use to communicate with
each other. They release the molecule, which then docks onto receptors of other
neurons. The research demonstrated that one type of dopamine receptor aids the
ability to focus, and another type improves the learning itself"
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DHA brain benefits may extend to middle age - Nutra USA, 3/1/10 -
"Higher
DHA was related to better performance on tests of nonverbal reasoning and mental
flexibility, working memory, and vocabulary ... increasing levels of DHA were
associated with improved mental function in a “generally linear" - [Abstract] - See
Jarrow Max DHA at iHerb.
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Serum
Phospholipid Docosahexaenonic Acid Is Associated with Cognitive Functioning
during Middle Adulthood - J Nutr. 2010 Feb 24 - "higher DHA (mol %) was
related to better performance on tests of nonverbal reasoning and mental
flexibility, working memory, and vocabulary (P </= 0.05). These associations
were generally linear. Associations between DHA and nonverbal reasoning and
working memory persisted with additional adjustment for participant education
and vocabulary scores ... Among the 3 key (n-3) PUFA, only DHA is associated
with major aspects of cognitive performance in nonpatient adults <55 y old.
These findings suggest that DHA is related to brain health throughout the
lifespan and may have implications for clinical trials of neuropsychiatric
disorders" - See
Jarrow Max DHA at iHerb.
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Can a Mid-Day Nap Make You Smarter? - WebMD, 2/22/10 -
"People in the group which didn't nap had a slight
reduction of about 10% in their learning capacity during the day ...
''whereas the people who had a nap in between the first time they tried to
learn relative to the second time they tried to learn actually improved
their ability to learn by 10% ... The total time the participants slept
during the 90-minute window didn't matter much in their later performance,
Walker found. But the greater the amount of stage 2 non-REM sleep, a lighter
form of non-dreaming sleep, the better their performance"
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Magnesium May Improve Memory - WebMD, 1/27/10 -
"increasing brain magnesium using a newly developed compound, magnesium-L-threonate
(MgT), improves learning abilities, working memory, and short- and-long-term
memory in rats. The magnesium also helped older rats perform better on a
battery of learning tests ... The researchers cite that only 32% of
Americans get the recommended daily allowance of magnesium" - See
Jarrow Formulas, Magnesium Optimizer Citrate, 100 Easy-Solv Tablets at iHerb.
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Coffee Break Boosts Memory - WebMD, 1/27/10 -
"Taking a coffee break after class can actually help you retain that
information you just learned"
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Running Boosts Brainpower - WebMD, 1/19/10 -
"Running may do more than improve your cardiovascular fitness and overall
physique. It might actually make you smarter ... Scientists reporting in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say that running has a
profound impact on the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for
learning and memory"
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Young adults who exercise get higher IQ Scores - Science Daily, 12/2/09
- "The study shows a clear link between good
physical fitness and better results for the IQ test. The strongest links are
for logical thinking and verbal comprehension ... Being fit means that you
also have good heart and lung capacity and that your brain gets plenty of
oxygen ... This may be one of the reasons why we can see a clear link with
fitness, but not with muscular strength. We are also seeing that there are
growth factors that are important"
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Cardiovascular Fitness May Sharpen Mind - WebMD, 11/30/09 -
"A large new study links cardiovascular fitness in
early adulthood to increased intelligence, better performance on cognitive
tests, and higher educational achievement later in life ... When researchers
looked at twins, they found that environmental factors rather than genetics
appeared to play the largest role in these associations. Non-shared
environmental influences accounted for 80% or more of differences in
academic achievement, whereas genetics accounted for less than 15% of these
differences"
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Teenage Boys Who Eat Fish At Least Once A Week Achieve Higher Intelligence
Scores - Science Daily, 3/9/09 - "Eating fish
once a week was enough to increase combined, verbal and visuospatial
intelligence scores by an average of six per cent, while eating fish more
than once a week increased them by just under 11 per cent"
- See
Mega Twin EPA at iHerb
and
Jarrow Max DHA at iHerb.
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Eat
Fish, Get Smarter? - WebMD, 11/8/07 - "Most
participants ate fish, and the more fish they ate, the better their test
scores were -- up to a point ... Test scores leveled off for people who ate
more than about 2.5 to 2.8 daily ounces of fish" - Note: The
article includes a total of three studies. - See Mega Twin EPA at
iHerb.
- Inadequate Iodine Intake Linked to Low Intelligence Quotient - Medscape, 8/9/04 -
"This study demonstrates that the IQ of schoolchildren in a developed
country can be influenced by iodine intake"
- Can a Pill Make You Smarter? - WebMD, 7/13/04
- What Creates Smarts? - WebMD, 1/17/02
- Study Finds "Smart Drug" Doesn't Work In Children With Down Syndrome - Intelihealth, 4/12/01 -
"does not boost children's intellectual ability ... the drug, called piracetam, had
side effects such as aggression, irritability and poor sleep in some of the youngsters"
- Attention Deficit Discovery - WebMD, 11/6/00 -
""When we gave these animals [Prozac], which affects the serotonin system, it had a dramatic effect on learning and memory, improving performance
fourfold." Wetsel says."
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