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From Senior Moments to Brain Plasticity
January 27, 2008
As I’m folding laundry at home of a Sunday afternoon, I turn on WGBH to watch “bug shows” (as my brother-in-law lovingly calls science programs). Today I stumbled across The Brain Fitness Program, “a workout to help viewers get their brains in better shape.” The program features Dr. Michael Merzenich, a neuroscientist at the University of California at San Francisco who has done considerable research on neuroplasticity, “the ability of the brain to change, adapt, and even rewire itself.” Translation: you may be able to cut down the occurrence of senior moments with proper mental exercise.
There’s a bevy of publications on brain fitness at Amazon, but there are also free sites that you can use to do a brain workout. These include: the Brainfitness Channel, Scientific Learning, the Brain Power section of Eldr Magazine’s website (which includes a list of the Ten Best Foods (and Supplements) for Brain Health), and the SharpBrains site, designed “to help individuals and organizations navigate through the growing body of brain health and mental exercise research and programs to find the right information and solutions.”
If you have ever forgotten where you put the car keys, or found yourself standing in your kitchen wondering why it was you went there, these positive, active resources are for you – and your patrons.
More as it happens, from synapse to synapse,
Cheryl
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on January 27, 2008 | Comments (0)
