BRAIN BOOSTER BLOG
Is Weed Putting Premature Wrinkles on Your Brain?
Uh Oh Researchers from the UCLA Medical Center and the Amen Clinics studied brain scans of individuals across a wide age range. Dr. Daniel Amen, founder of the eponymous Amen Clinics and a frequent contributor to PBS, Dr. Somayeh Meysami of the UCLA Medical Center et al, conducted brain scans...
Managing Blood Pressure for a Big Healthy Brain
Anatomy Refresher The brain accounts for around 2 percent of body weight but gets as much as twenty percent of blood pumped by the heart. There are about 370 miles of tiny “microvessels” in the brain. Those vessels deliver oxygen and nutrients throughout the brain. Blood Pressure and Brain Health...
What Facebook Knows About Your Brain That You Don't
Our brains love stories. Adam and Eve. Beowulf and Grendel. Shakespeare understood it and made his living with Romeo and Juliette, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. Lucas and Spielberg know it: Star Wars, Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park made them billionaires. WWE gets it: The Undertaker vs. John Cena. Dick Wolf...