Cognitive Enhancement Through Exercise & How Your Brain Actually Works
What do you do to maintain the health of your brain? You probably already know about the importance of mental stimulation and problem solving for the health of your brain. But the truth is, our brain is an incredibly complex system that can be affected by many internal and external factors. Protecting your health isn’t as simple as doing a word puzzle—it’s a culmination of all of your daily habits and rituals.
Lots of people hit the gym to shed unwanted pounds, but they don’t always see results on the scale. This week, we tackle the power of exercise and why you should bother. We speak with obesity expert Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, psychiatrist Dr. Gary Cooney, neuroscientist Prof. Wendy Suzuki and urologist Dr. Stacey Kenfield.
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Alexi is joined by Wendy Suzuki, a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the New York University Center for Neural Science. She is the author of "Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better" as well as "Good Anxiety, Bad Anxiety: Harness Your Fears and Make Them Work For You".
Healthy Brain, Happy Life – Discussing Memory & Brain Enrichment with Professor Wendy Suzuki
How can we achieve a happy life by enriching our brain? Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology Wendy Suzuki discusses some very valuable insights from her book, Healthy Brain, Happy Life, enhancing our memory, and the positive impact of exercise on our brain.
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Cognitive Enhancement Through Exercise & How Your Brain Actually Works
What do you do to maintain the health of your brain? You probably already know about the importance of mental stimulation and problem solving for the health of your brain. But the truth is, our brain is an incredibly complex system that can be affected by many internal and external factors. Protecting your health isn’t as simple as doing a word puzzle—it’s a culmination of all of your daily habits and rituals.
During my most recent visit to NYC I got to sit down with my dear friend, neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki — whose Ted talk has a staggering +31 million views online. We shared tea while talking about her latest brain research, exercise, mindfulness, and the amazing ability of our bodies and brains to overcome challenges.
Wendy and Michael discuss how much many of us compromize our cognition and what can be done to improve our performance. You may be able to brag about that 1 a.m. email but if you could monitor your level of cognition you would quickly see, "Oh my God! This is not good." What is it doing for your brain? What is it doing for your executive functions in the pre frontal cortex?
This week, we present two stories about attraction, from the neuroscience of prairie voles to a physics love story. Part 1: Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki is surprised when an acting exercise challenges her beliefs about love and attraction. Part 2: Two physicists, Neer Asherie and Deborah Berebichez, find love after thirteen years.
Imagine that every time you met someone new, the moment they left the room you forgot you had ever spoken to them, and when they returned it was as if you had never seen them before. Imagine remembering your childhood, your parents, the history you learned in school, but never being able to form a new long term memory after the age of 27.
Most amnesic patients can’t learn or remember that particular things happened in at a particular time or in a particular place. In fact, patients with severe amnesia are no longer able to learn or remember anything about what has happened to them. However, Neal Cohen and Larry Squire showed that the same amnesic patients could learn and remember how to do things, like work a lock, or solve a puzzle with blocks, or swing a racquet.
Scents and tastes are powerfully evocative — one whiff of perfume or cooking aromas can transport you back to a particular moment, a particular place, a particular person. Because the things we smell reach two brain structures called the hippocampus and amygdala in just one synapse, scents can almost immediately stimulate the key brain areas for memory, emotion, and location.
