Comments on: The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains

By: Binaifer Karanjia

Binaifer Karanjia — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:21:30 +0000

Wonderful article and great for understanding in a simple way, the core parts of the brain. Would like to add that many of the deeper practises of yoga meditatiosn help to destress and regenerate the brain. Specific practises are Yoga Nidra and Aantar Mouna. Both pracises work in the deeper recesses f the mind and have shown many positive changes in human personalities.

By: Alvaro Fernandez

Alvaro Fernandez — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:14:42 +0000

Harriet and everyone else: glad you enjoy it!

My personal favorite, of course, is:
#8. Don’t Outsource Your Brain.

By: Harriet Diamond

Harriet Diamond — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:58:50 +0000

Great article. We should post it on our computer for a daily reminder. I don’t think any one of us wants to “lose it”

Thanks Alvaro.
Harriet Diamond

By: Manguu

Manguu — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:46:52 +0000

@ jv: when you’re fully charged and future forward, you’ll have better ideas and more energy to tackle those issues and reach out to people in need

By: spencer lord

spencer lord — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:34:37 +0000

this is a really superb article, and the top three are so right: Thoughts/Diet/Exercise. right on.

By: Mike T Nelson

Mike T Nelson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:29:33 +0000

Excellent tips! Many (not people here though), forget that exercise is a HUGE component and great to see it on your list!
Rock on
Mike T Nelson

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:01:19 +0000

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

Alvaro — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:56:22 +0000

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

Harry — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:54:19 +0000

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

Alvaro — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:57:44 +0000

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