In studies of the brain's neurology, fMRIs show that when faced with uncertainty our brains decrease the blood flow to the reward center while increasing blood flow to our emotional circuitry -- the limbic brain, priming us for fight-or-flight response.…
The more we exercise an area of our brain, the more neural pathways we grow which increases the thickness of the gray matter. It's almost like building muscles; the more you use a muscle the more it becomes the one…
Feed your head! The body ages as brain speed declines. Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter associated with learning and neural firing speed. "When the brain loses acetylcholine, it sends a death code to the organs and hormone-producing glands of the…
What does intuition have to do with intelligence? Being in touch with your emotions and the emotions of others not only makes you seem smarter, it actually improves your memory. This is because it uses the prefrontal cortex. Unless you…
