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Brain Efficiency Using Caffeine and Glucose
Finding ways to improve brain skills remains an important topic today. A new study suggests that the combination of caffeine and glucose could...
Can Bacteria Improve Brain Skills?
Many people improve brain skills through common methods such as brain training games or even food and exercise. As the need to enhance our brain skills for areas...
Discover a Brain Friendly Diet
No single food will simply make you smart. One can only wish that improving brain skills were quite so easy! But the right diet can provide the best environment for...
How Compassion Helps Brain Skills
Many people make use of coaches to help guide and support them in difficult times, or even just to gain focus when making life changes and decisions. Numerous...
How Juggling Improves Brainpower
When we think of improving brainpower, focused techniques and exercises might come to mind. But a new study suggests that something as random and fun as juggling can...
How to Develop Empathy Skills
When people talk about intelligence and brain skills, there is sometimes a focus on knowledge, education and more academic kinds of thinking. Even where other types...
How to Get Great Exam Results Using Exam Technique
Some people are just good at exams. This can be an invaluable asset in school, university and many careers. But their IQ isn't necessarily...
How to Improve Your Memory
In the 5th century BCE, a Greek named Simonides had to leave a banquet early. After he left, an earthquake destroyed the banquet hall, and everyone there was killed....
How to Train Your Brain and Keep it Active
We all know that if we want to keep our bodies fit and healthy then we have to exercise and keep our muscles in shape. So it isn't surprising that...
Interview Technique
Interviews take many forms. Employers interview job candidates, police interview suspects, journalists interview celebrities and doctors interview patients. Often...
IQ Tests
The ancient Greeks believed that the soul resided in the brain while the seat of the intellect was found in the chest, near to the lungs. Nowadays we know that the...
Learning Computer Skills
There's an ancient Greek myth about an ingenious inventor called Daedelas who constructed wings that could be stuck onto people's arms with wax. He made some for...
Learning in the Visual Brain
There are many different kinds of brain skills and the ones most useful to you may be different from the ones most useful to a doctor, for instance. One team of...
Mental Focusing Techniques
In our busy modern world multi-tasking is a goal for many, and for others a necessity. But in recent years, there's been a growing realization that in fact quite the...
Numeracy Skills and Wealth
It seems as though virtually everyone wants to make more money. Have you ever wondered if your future wealth be dictated to some extent by your household's numeracy...
Power Naps and Your Brain
It isn’t news that sleep is important. You probably already know that a poor night’s sleep leaves you feeling less than alert and far from functioning at your best....
Revision Technique
In almost all examination situations, your chances of success are very largely determined by how well you've revised. There are always a few annoying individuals...
Sleep for Creativity and Strong Memories
Studies suggest most of us do not get nearly enough sleep, which is known to have detrimental effects on everything from concentration to our...
Speed Reading
A man named Kim Peek is probably the fastest documented speed reader in the world. He can read over 10,000 words a minute, with 98% retention, and he does it by...
Tips for Better Brain Control Over Emotions
For many of us, we sometimes feel that we are controlled by our emotions. It can be challenging to act rationally and make the best decisions...
Top Ten Ways to Improve Memory
Have you ever marvelled at the memory of a friend or colleague and thought to yourself how lucky they must be to have a good memory? According to researchers, it...
TV and Cognitive Development
Are we raising a generation of mini couch potatoes? There are those who are convinced that TV is the biggest health hazard threatening children in modern society....
Visual Perception
The human eye is capable of perceiving light wavelengths ranging from 400 to 700 nanometers. When light rays within this spectrum falls on our retinas (the light...
What is Family Therapy
In 1873 Tolstoy wrote that Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Similar sentiments led to the founding of family therapy about...
