Is it possible? Michael Wheeler, University of Western Australia says YES. His study involved 35 women and 32 men aged between 55 and 80 who tried these regimes: Sitting for 8 hours 1 hour of sitting then 30 minutes of moderate walking followed by 6.5...
It’s a myth. It has long been thought that male and female brains are different. ‘Men are from Mars and women are from Venus’ is the kind of pop psychology that grew out of the belief that because ‘men have bigger brains’ they were better able to think...
Did you know? Listening to music may inhibit creativity. Listening to music can be relaxing, but it may interfere with your ability to create, suggests a study published online Feb. 2, 2019, by Applied Cognitive Psychology. Researchers recruited 30 people and...
In May, Accredited Brainfit® Coach, Jude Walter, was the expert guest on NewstalkZB’s Health Hub. Listen to her tips and strategies and the answers she gave to the many listener questions that came pouring in. (Audio)
Did you know that people who walked backward, imagined they were walking backward, or even watched a video simulating backward motion had better short-term recall of past events than those who walked forward or sat still. (Study reported in the January issue of...
Healthy people can experience memory loss or memory distortion at any age. Some of these memory flaws become more pronounced with age, but — unless they are extreme and persistent — they are not considered indicators of Alzheimer’s or other memory-impairing...