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    #BRAINGAMES EPISODE GUIDE

    BRAIN GAMES MEET THE BRAIN

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    By Patrick J. Kiger

    NOGGIN BOOSTERS

    3 Tips to Boost Your Brain's Connectivity and Elasticity


    In this episode of Brain Games, we learn that, like the historic city of London,
    our brain is a mix of older parts that perform important basic functions, such
    as regulating breathing and creating a startle response to protect you from
    danger, to newer parts that handle complex duties, such as processing

    sensory information and understanding human language. The various parts


    of your brain work together because of connectivitythat is, their ability to
    communicate with one another and pool their efforts to perform challenging
    tasks. Another key attribute is plasticity, the ability of your brain to rewire
    itself to perform new tasks or change the way that it does something. Some
    experts say it's possible to boost both connectivity and plasticity and get
    more out of your brain. Here are some tips.

    Break a sweat: A 2014 Australian study, reported in Medical News Daily,

    found that a 30-minute session of vigorous exercise improved brain


    plasticity, and lead to improvement in both memory and motor skill
    coordination. Another study by researchers at the University of Illinois at
    Urbana-Champaign found that exercise also boosted the thickness and
    density of white matter, the material that connects different regions in
    the brain. That, in turn, might give you a greater memory capacity,
    attention span, and more cognitive efficiency.
    Take up music: In a study presented at the Neuroscience 2013

    conference in San Diego, Harvard University neuroscientist Dr. Gottfried


    Schlaug and colleagues reported that practicing a musical instrument
    strengthened communication between brain areas, as well as increased
    the volume of the musician's brain.
    Reduce your stress level: Not all connectivity, as it turns out, is good. As
    reported inPsychology Today, University of California, Berkeley
    neuroscientists have found that chronic stress triggers long-term changes
    that can cause your brain to decline. Part of this is actually a bad sort of
    connectivity, because the stress hormone cortisol helps to hardwire
    pathways between the hippocampus and the amygdala that enable you
    to stay in a chronically stressed-out state of flight-or-flight. At the same
    time, stress also interferes with the ability of the prefrontal cortex to form
    connections that would improve learning and memory, while hard-wiring
    it to be predisposed to anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress
    disorder. So do your brain a favor by learning some relaxation techniques
    such as meditation and breathing exercises, which are proven tools for
    managing stress.

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