Comments on: The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/ Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health news Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:12:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Jordan http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-180333 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:01:19 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-180333 Personally, a good 60-min run is always the best way to refresh and sharpen my mind. How about doing any exercise that quiets and stills the mind? The greatest peril face by modern man is the disquiet mind that seems to be racing throughout the day, even into the night (which causes insomnia). Slowing down the mind and even making it still is a great challenge, when most people need to have some music to fill any brief moment of quietness they have. Personally, a good 60-min run is always the best way to refresh and sharpen my mind.

How about doing any exercise that quiets and stills the mind?

The greatest peril face by modern man is the disquiet mind that seems to be racing throughout the day, even into the night (which causes insomnia). Slowing down the mind and even making
it still is a great challenge, when most people need to have some music to fill any brief moment of quietness they have.

]]> by: Alvaro http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-170939 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:56:22 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-170939 Hello Harry, true, there is a gap. Now, neuroscientists like Robert Sapolsky or Fred Gage are not featuring those distinctions, but our similarities. Our physiologies/ stress response are more similar than one may assume. Fred Gage reminds us how "Chronic stress is believed to be the most important casual factor in depression aside from a genetic predisposition to the disorder, and stress is known to restrict the number of newly generated neurons in the hippocampus." Let me ask you: is depression severe stress? what would you say are depression rates (in humans)? Hello Harry, true, there is a gap. Now, neuroscientists like Robert Sapolsky or Fred Gage are not featuring those distinctions, but our similarities. Our physiologies/ stress response are more similar than one may assume.

Fred Gage reminds us how "Chronic stress is believed to be the most important casual factor in depression aside from a genetic predisposition to the disorder, and stress is known to restrict the number of newly generated neurons in the hippocampus."

Let me ask you: is depression severe stress? what would you say are depression rates (in humans)?

]]> by: Harry http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-170836 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:54:19 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-170836 The stress claim looks to me suspiciously like an over-interpretation of a simply animal study. The stress in the study is severe stress and was exposure of rats to aggressive rats. Death of some newly generated cells resulted (hmm, cell death is also related to learned -but now I'm over-extending...). Perhaps we can agree that there's a wide gap here between the animal model and everyday, complex human environments? The stress claim looks to me suspiciously like an over-interpretation of a simply animal study. The stress in the study is severe stress and was exposure of rats to aggressive rats. Death of some newly generated cells resulted (hmm, cell death is also related to learned -but now I'm over-extending...). Perhaps we can agree that there's a wide gap here between the animal model and everyday, complex human environments?

]]> by: Alvaro http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-163097 Thu, 29 May 2008 20:57:44 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-163097 Thank you Joe! yes, our "master-organ" deserves our attention :-) Kim: we haven't. We have seen scientific papers on the benefits of Yoga, but not of one specific "brand" like that. Could you give us the refereces to look into? Thanks Thank you Joe! yes, our "master-organ" deserves our attention :-)

Kim: we haven't. We have seen scientific papers on the benefits of Yoga, but not of one specific "brand" like that. Could you give us the refereces to look into? Thanks

]]> by: kim http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-163077 Thu, 29 May 2008 18:51:00 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-163077 Have you heard of and tested Superbrain Yoga as a tool to fuel the brain? Great articles have been published as well as a book that explains the science behind the exercise. Great way to keep the brain-body system fit! Have you heard of and tested Superbrain Yoga as a tool to fuel the brain? Great articles have been published as well as a book that explains the science behind the exercise. Great way to keep the brain-body system fit!

]]> by: Joe M Das http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-107524 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:34:27 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-107524 Very smart article, full of information on how to keep our master-organ healthy. Thank you. Very smart article, full of information on how to keep our master-organ healthy. Thank you.

]]> by: The High Road » Blog Archive » Brain Surgery http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-102484 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:01:32 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-102484 [...] Lifehacker.org recently posed a link to SharpBrains, a mental health blog that I just might have to subscribe to, with a caveat: they’re a bit silly, verging on new-age philosophy about meditation and being in “The Zone”, but it’s countered with a significant retail presence that besmirches any spiritual inclination to the point of absurdity. Nevertheless, they have some good junk too. The post in question, The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains, gives food for thought (ha, ha) on the care of what lies within your cranium. Two of them in particular are key, in my opinion, but I believe they missed one. [...] [...] Lifehacker.org recently posed a link to SharpBrains, a mental health blog that I just might have to subscribe to, with a caveat: they're a bit silly, verging on new-age philosophy about meditation and being in "The Zone", but it's countered with a significant retail presence that besmirches any spiritual inclination to the point of absurdity. Nevertheless, they have some good junk too. The post in question, The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains, gives food for thought (ha, ha) on the care of what lies within your cranium. Two of them in particular are key, in my opinion, but I believe they missed one. [...]

]]> by: Alvaro http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-89621 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:45:36 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-89621 Hello Steven and Philip, thanks for your additions. Yes, sleep is very important, and well as keeping well hydrated. Hello Steven and Philip, thanks for your additions. Yes, sleep is very important, and well as keeping well hydrated.

]]> by: How to Beat Insomnia » Blog Archive » Sharpen That Brain Of Yours! http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-89290 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:05:19 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-89290 [...] Please go to  http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/  to read the entire article. [...] [...] Please go to  http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/  to read the entire article. [...]

]]> by: Insomnia guru http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-89289 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:03:58 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/#comment-89289 Excellent information. All very good advice on how to keep that brain sharpened. Sleep is also vital for improving memory and concentration. Excellent information. All very good advice on how to keep that brain sharpened. Sleep is also vital for improving memory and concentration.

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