Brain Boosters

In the late 1930s Harvard researchers began a study of over 700 men that tracked their physical, mental and emotional health for the next 78 years. Not surprisingly, having a difficult childhood [...]

Faster than a speeding Ferrari! More powerful than a supercomputer! Able to leap at opportunities with a single thought! Look! Up in your head! It’s your eyes! It’s your ears! It’s your BRAIN! [...]

Eighty percent of Australians live with back pain. Not long ago, I thought I had become one of them. I had a chronically sore neck and upper back on most days of the week and it was starting to [...]

The meaning we give to events in our lives is what determines who we ultimately become. Next time you don’t achieve something you set out to do, instead of berating yourself, turn it into an [...]

Neuroscientists have discovered more about the brain during the 21st century than in all previous centuries combined. This means our knowledge of the brain has exploded and the information is [...]

The earliest printed reference to the origin of this saying is attributed to the English playwright, Ben Johnson, in his 1598 play, Every Man in His Humour.  However, the word he used was care [...]

Steve Bordley was a real estate agent in Scottsdale, Arizona, when he had an accident that left him wheelchair-bound for 2 years.  During that time, his blood pressure and cholesterol went up and [...]

According to a Jenkins Group survey, 42% of American college graduates will never read another book – and the ones who are reading books, choose bestsellers from the last 10 years along with [...]

Juggling has been shown to expand the size of the brain. A German study published in the journal, Nature, examined 24 people, half of whom were were randomly assigned to learn and practise [...]

Dr Ellen Langer, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, conducted research to explore whether cultural attitudes and stereotypes about old age can contribute to physical decline.  [...]