Articles Tagged 'hippocampus'

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Stressed Out? Look After Your Brain.

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Avoid multi-tasking. It leads to stress and memory loss.

For weeks you’ve been cramming for this exam and you got up early this morning to make sure that you had remembered everything. A lot hangs on this test – your promotion, for one. You can feel the tension rising but say to yourself, “It’s just exam nerves – it’s good stress”, right? Then, when you look at the first question one that you’ve been expecting, your brain goes blank, the words don’t make sense, and you can’t remember a single fact to write down. Read more…

New Brain Science Shows Taxi Drivers Have Bigger Brains.

Well, this fact a bit of a shock but it is great news for baby boomers. I guess you are wondering if I think you all want to be taxi-drivers but, no, that isn’t it. The really interesting thing about the brains of taxi drivers in a London study, was that the more they needed to learn about the streets and landmarks of London, the larger that area of their brain grew to accommodate all the new learning. Read more…