Brain Health
This healthy habit that requires you to see other people that is benefit for the brain and prevents depression.
What is socializing?
A memory strategy that helps us to remember to do something in the future that involves stopping to focus our attention. Instead of seeing with our eyes, we imagine ourselves doing the activity in our heads and try to visualize ourselves completing the activity.
What is the memory strategy of Stop, See it, Say it?
What is the average number of thoughts an individual person has each day?
70,000
A memory tool that involves writing down important dates and times.
What is a calendar?
This healthy habit provides the brains nutrients to help with maintenance and function and provides more energy.
What is eating nutritiously?
A reduction in this _________ may lead to improvement in your ability to recall and process information.
What is stress reduction?
Which side of the brain controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing. Controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills.
What are the functions of the Right Brain?
Practices involving staying in the moment and being mindful.
What are grounding exercises.
This healthy habit improves blood flow to the brain giving it the oxygen it needs
What is physical activity or exercise?
By reducing or elimination consumption of this beverage, one might experience improved brain health.
What is caffeine or alcohol?
Which side of the brain is responsible for language and logic?
What are functions of the left brain?
Uses procedural memory, which tends to be preserved as we age, and is evident in these daily practices.
What are habits?
Good nutrition, exercise, sleep, and being stimulated/challenged (Use it or Lose it!).
What the brain requires to remain healthy?
A memory strategy that uses meaning connections between two concepts?
What are associations?
True or False:
The brain remain the same after it is finished growing
False:
The brain changes continuously throughout our lives known as brain plasticity?
What is cognitive reserve?This is increased when you "exercise" your brain it is your brain’s resilience or ability to cope with stress and challenges.
What is cognitive reserve?
What lifestyle factors improve brain health?
Diet, sleep, brain challenging activity, social activity, mental health, physical activity
True or False:
Pursing lifelong learning negatively impact memory:
False:
Pursuing life long learning promote brain health and memory capacity. It also creates meaningful brain cells connections in the brain.
Brain processes that are responsible for planning, cognitive flexibility, abstract thinking, taking appropriate actions and restricting inappropriate actions, and selecting relevant sensory information.
What is executive functioning?
A memory strategy that involves using information we have gathered first over short intervals and then longer intervals. For example: learning a persons name, using is after 5 seconds, then 10, 20, 40, 120 in order to strengthen pathways in our brain cells.
What is practice retrieval?