Keeping your mind active is one of the best ways to maintain a healthy memory and well functioning mind.
Brain games, puzzles, and daily mind exercises are an excellent way of giving your brain the workout that it needs on a regular basis.
Today's activity focuses on subtraction and reversal. Although they may seem easy at first, these increasingly difficult mental tasks will test your cognitive abilities:
Beginning at 96, count backward, deducting 4 each time (96, 92, 88...)
Starting with the letter Z, recall the ... Read More
Our brains are like muscles in our body; so the saying ‘use it or lose it’ is as appropriate for our brains as it is for our physical bodies. Just as we do not want our muscles to undergo atrophy, we do not want our brains turning to mush and our memory power diminishing by not exercising every day.
The more active our minds are, and the more we use our brains, both left and right, the better we ... Read More
You may find it ridiculous that simply chewing a piece of gum can boost your memory. Researchers may disagree. Japanese scientists now claim that such a thing as gum chewing could actually improve a person’s memory. They say that it has a scientific basis for doing so because it triggers the hippocampus which is the part of the brain responsible for memory retention.
The trigger is the insulin receptors in the hippocampus which are activated when you chew. ... Read More
