“4 Essential (and Overlooked) Facts About Your Brain and Your Mind”

I just read another brain-focused Alvaro Fernandez (Sharp­Brains’ co-founder and Chief Executive Officer) article posted on The Creativity Post that I wanted to share with everybody. You can find it here: http://www.creativitypost.com/science/4_essential_and_overlooked_facts_about_your_brain_and_your_mind#sthash.ztc3o2Eu.dpuf

The four “essential (and overlooked) facts” he writes about are:

1. “Smart pills” simply don’t exist (drat)
2. Aging can bring (cognitive)decline...
3. … and also improve­ment.
4. “Cells that fire together wire together.”

Here’s the summary that I like: “our brains and minds are far from set in stone due to genet­ics or age. Grow­ing evi­dence sug­gests beyond a rea­son­able doubt that what we do at every sin­gle day has an impact on brain fit­ness that very same day and also later in life.”

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