8 Resolutions toward a better brain for 2010

I was reading in the Massachusetts General Hospital ‘Mind, Mood & Memory’ today and their experts offered some pretty common sense tips that are in keeping with current brain research discoveries -particularly how to keep your brain as active and sharp as possible well into old age.

Dealings with some elderly friends and relatives this year have served to remind me about the importance of keeping the brain as healthy as the body. It won’t matter how healthy your body is, if the brain is impaired. Depression won’t be far behind when you know you’re not performing up to snuff.

The good news is that you can take charge at any point in the process - sometimes with some help - and stop, reverse or mitigate trends toward cognitive impairment.

Here’s what the experts recommend:

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How to boost your intelligence: 10 tips

After I had completed multiple courses of very strong chemotherapy for my cancer, I had a raging case of ‘chemo-brain’. It’s that horrible fogginess that won’t go away. I really had begun to believe that I would never be back thinking and reasoning at the levels I previously had. I was really worried.

That’s when I found the Posit Science Brain Fitness Program. That helped me get back on track and with subsequent work - exercise, learning to meditate and an improved diet - I’m probably sharper now than before my cancer. I truly feel on top of my game - whatever it is at the time.

You can have a significant effect on your own intelligence by adhering to a few simple new habits.

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Happiness: A good kind of contagious

I’ve always believed that being around some people - those who always see the glass half full, is rather toxic, and evidently there are facts that pretty much back me up on that now.

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