Brain Power

The Importance of Random Thoughts

Did you know that your random thoughts and feelings are useful in the future? Your thoughts and feelings should be recorded in a journal or other medium.

Internal Memory Techniques

Using a technique to help us learn something we want to remember is another way we can make the most of our memory

The Effects of Everyday Stress on Our Memory

Another lifestyle factor that can really zap your memory power is stress.

Remembering Your Lists by Using the First Letter Association Technique

The First Letter Association Technique is a method of memory training where you take the first letter of each word in a list of words you wish to remember and make a word or phrase associating to it.

Lost Your Keys Lately?

Most of us have at one time or another lost our keys, glasses, checkbook, or that piece of paper we had just a second ago. Have you ever stopped to think about why we misplace these items so often?

Using Association Techniques for Better Memory

All memory, whether trained or untrained, is based on association.

Using Association to Rid Being Absentminded

You are absentminded when your mind is absent; when you perform actions unconsciously, without thinking.

The Damage that Alzheimer’s Disease Has on the Brain

Alzheimer’s disease seems to damage - and ultimately kill - many of the nerve cells in the brain.

Teaching Your Children Memory Games

Very young children have no trouble using their imagination and forming ridiculous pictures. They not only do it easily, they think it’s lots of fun.

Vitamin E: A Miracle Brain Food

Vitamin E is a very multi-talented nutrient that aids a healthy mind. As an antioxidant, vitamin E helps minimize free-radical damage.

Memory Tools

Using memory tools are extremely useful.

Crossword Puzzles

I love doing crossword puzzles. Every morning I rush outside to get my newspapers anticipating those puzzles.

Don’t Let Stress Zap Your Memory!

You return from a much-needed week’s vacation in the tropics where you didn’t take your laptop.

Food Allergies May Cause Forgetfulness

Food allergies or sensitivities can trigger brain fog and forgetfulness in a number of ways.

Remembering Names

Most of us recognize faces.

Preparing for a Memory Specialist

Diagnosing a memory problem is often a detective problem. You can help yourself and help your physician help you, if you give him more of the clues.

Low Blood Sugar Reduces Brain Power

Low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, is an often overlooked but important metabolic culprit in poor brain function.

Forgetting Too Much?

Do you sometimes find yourself going to your refrigerator, opening the door, and then staring inside and wondering what it is you wanted?

Immediate Memory

The almost trivial use of this immediate memory is when you try to remember a phone number.

Lifestyle Affects Memory Performance

Why does how we live from day to day affect our memory performance?

Remembering Speeches

Probably the worst mistake you can make is to try to memorize a speech word for word.

The Rhyme Technique

Many people like to help themselves remember information by making up a rhyme for it.

Ward Off Aging Memory Problems with High-Impact Mental Aerobics

Several large studies have found a lower risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease in intellectually active people compared with their mentally stagnant counterparts.

Increase Your Memory by Getting Organized: Part 2

Getting organized can be the most important information to help you boost your brainpower as a memory tool.

Increase Your Memory by Getting Organized: Part 1

Most memory training techniques involve exercises to improve linking objects to certain items or using numbering systems to stay on top of being forgetful.

Why Distraction Causes Memory Problems

As you may know by now, many of us forget things simply because we are unable to actively attend to information when we are getting it.

Loosing Spaces of Memory

Memory is not just remembering the name of the President or what you ate for breakfast. It is remembering your train of thought, where you are, where you are going and why, and what you are doing at any given moment.

Internal Memory Techniques: How They Work

Internal memory techniques are very powerful ways to learn and remember information. Let’s look at how they work.

Improving Your Attention

If you want to remember something, you have to pay attention to it.

Ginseng’s Power on the Brain

Ginseng is a root herb that has been used in China for thousands of years, and in America since the 1700s.

Ginkgo Biloba: A Great Supplement for Your Brain Power

This ancient Chinese herb is an extract made from the leaf of the Ginkgo tree. It is the most well-documented plant extract used to support brain function - there are more than 1,000 studies of Ginkgo Biloba from all over the world.

Does Everyone Have Equal Brain Power?

Are all memories created equal? It is virtually certain that different people have different brain abilities for different things. One of these differences must be in memory.

History of Memory Training

Memory systems date back to antiquity. In the ancient world, a trained memory was of vital importance.

Memory Occurs

4 ways in which memory occurs.

Using a Scheduler

3 tips why using a scheduler will help you remember what you ceed to do.

Cells & Memory: A Science Lesson

The memories that concern us in everyday life, whether they are explicit memories or implicit memories, are far removed from nerve cells, just as our everyday world of food, cars, and people is far removed from the atoms that make them up.