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Why a Sugar High Leads to a Brain Low

Excessive glucose in the form of refined sugar can be very detrimental to your brain, ultimately affecting your attention span, your short-term memory, and your mood stability.

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New Year, New Brain

If you've created resolutions or a game plan or a list of goals you'd like to achieve in the new year, your brain stands ready to become your strongest ally in making them happen. By fulfilling 5...

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Can You Prime Your Brain to Get Rich?

Thanks to millions of years of evolution, we are highly intelligent biological organisms, but when it comes to making financial decisions, we can be unduly influenced by ancient brain skills, such as...

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Super Bowl: Battle of the Quarterback Brains

Both quarterbacks obviously have superior ability to absorb information, process stimuli, and integrate information faster than most of us, and both are able to overrule their emotions under the gun—so...

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Five Reasons You're Experiencing Writer’s Block

Five reasons you're experiencing writer's block, and how you can get your brain back on task.

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Always Reward Your Writing Brain

When you feel good, your brain releases and bathes itself in what are called the feel-good chemicals—dopamine, endorphins, serotonin, oxytocin, and others—which is so pleasurable for your brain that it...

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Are Your Dreams Keeping You Awake?

Dreams are our brain's way to process emotions while we sleep. If you're super stressed and suffering from restless nights, even nightmares, image therapy can be an effective way to "rewrite" your dreams.

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Fire Up Your Neuronal Network

Meditation serves as a gateway between the everyday lives we lead and our innermost selves, that which makes us unique and feels most authentic to who we are—in life, and in art. The more access we...

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5 Ways to Crystallize Your Intelligence Around Writing

To excel at writing, crystallize intelligence specific to the task, i.e., bolster neuronal connections related to writing and your topic.

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7 Ways to Trump Brain Games

Now that the shine has been dimmed on “brain games” in staving off aging-related decline, it’s important to revisit scientifically proven ways to keep your brain healthy.

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How Images Can Fire Up Your Writing Brain

Stimulation prepping via images lights up the specific neuronal network focused on your particular writing project and fuels imagination and creativity.

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6 Ways Reading Fires Up Your Writing Brain

Our brains are amazing thinking, dreaming, imagining, and producing machines, reliant upon their masters to program, nurture, guide, and direct them. Luckily, reading does wonders.

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To Spark Genius, Read Outside Your Comfort Zone

Reading works very different from what you're writing and has multiple benefits for your brain. Here are six that will pay off immediately.

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Yoga and Kirtan Kriya Meditation Bolster Brain Functioning

Fire up your brain in 15 minutes a day: Seven easy steps for performing Kirtan Kriya mediation.

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What You Read Matters More Than You Might Think

You are what you read: Why deep reading makes you a better writer.

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Tapping Into the Genius of Hamilton's Creator

Have you tapped into your creative genius? The creator of Broadway's "Hamilton" reveals eight cognitive strengths that you can mine to bolster your creativity.

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What Creates Superior Brain Connectivity, According to Study

Participants on the “positive” side reflected stronger connectivity associated with higher cognitive functions, including memory, language, introspection, and imagination.

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Empirical Study Reveals 14 Key Components of Creativity

While we all have a generic idea of what creativity is and assume we easily recognize creative individuals, defining what makes someone highly creative has eluded many.

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Study Reveals Thought Processes that Foster Creativity

What drives the need to create is not creative ability per se, but rather a tendency toward self-reflective pondering and the ability and penchant for letting your mind wander.

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Coronavirus and Blocked Writers

Unfortunately, with a pandemic, the danger is invisible. Nevertheless, your threat-attuned brain is in overdrive, which makes it a challenge for you.

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