Life Lessons From A Brain Surgeon: Practical Strategies for Peak Health and Performance

by Rahul Jandial

Ten years later, those who had completed the most hours of training in the speed-of-processing group had their risk of developing dementia nearly cut in half—a finding that no drug or any other treatment has ever come close to achieving.

So what’s this speed-of-processing training? Developed by a company called BrainHQ, it involves looking at a center target on a computer screen while tiny icons appear briefly on the screen’s periphery. The challenge is to keep your eyes firmly fixed on the center yet still correctly identify exactly where those icons appeared. The better you get, the faster the icons on the screen’s edge appear and disappear.

don’t usually like to recommend a commercial product, but BrainHQ is one of the best-researched programs...

emotional intelligence is the ability to “rein in emotional impulse; to read another’s innermost feelings; to handle relationships smoothly.”

Although popularly characterized as the headquarters of human IQ, the frontal lobe is also where our emotional and social self-control emerges.

Self-testing is a powerful tool for helping you remember!

“Lifelong bilingualism represents a powerful cognitive reserve delaying the onset of dementia.”

unstructured free play in childhood is a foundation of adult creativity.

those who averaged less than six hours of sleep per night were 12 percent more likely to die before age sixty-five than those who slept six to eight hours a night. However, the same study found that people who slept more than nine hours of sleep per night had a 30 percent increased risk of early death.

This study is proof of the neurobiology underlying the mind-calming effects of paced volitional breathing, commonly known as mindful breathing.

there is a way to stave off this loss of nutrients in your CSF and even replenish them to youthful levels: exercise. Specifically, an exercise regimen with both aerobic exercise and resistance training has been shown to be the best way to keep your brain’s nourishing liquor at full strength.