Certain everyday habits -- like poor sleep, stress and multitasking -- can quietly weaken your brain. Making simple lifestyle can help protect your mental health.
A good night's sleep is critical as the brain consolidates information learnt during the day with previous knowledge before filing it for long-term storage.
Dr Aarti Ullal lists remedies to help you improve the quality of your sleep.
Video games have been shown to benefit some cognitive systems in the brain, but research has now revealed that habitual players of action games have less grey matter!
Obesity worsens the effects of ageing on brain function, says study.
Hippocampus Learning Centres bridges urban-rural gap through affordable, quality pre-schooling for kids.
Letrozole, a drug taken during the treatment of breast cancer may have some side effects.
'If the meditative yoga programme we had developed for the elderly was practised for one hour every day, five days in a week for six months, it could lead to an improvement in the overall quality of life of the elderly.'
Researchers said it was a vicious cycle. Higher levels of the hormone cortisol led to a reduction in the size of the hippocampus, which makes it difficult for a child to handle trauma, and this in turns raises both stress and cortisol levels
The team observed a dialogue between the hippocampus and the neocortex, areas of the brain where memories are made and stored.
From 17 pre-school centres to 285 in less than five years - Hippocampus has brought the joy of learning to kids.
Rediff.com Senior Contributor P Rajendran reports from New York on how the Indian-American researcher's pioneering work may wipe out the visible effect of Alzheimer's disease.
'Yoga can increase the volume of hippocampus and improve memory.'
The underwater world has never looked so magical, mysterious and mesmerising. These photographs are some of the stunning medal winners in the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2021 contest.
Here are seven simple food habits you should change to have a better life.
A keen understanding of the way our brain functions is essential to building sustainable routines and habits that set us up for success, says Jay Kumar Hariharan.
When it came to his cross examination by Sanjeev Khanna's lawyer Niranjan Mundargi, Imtiaz Shaikh appeared to be afflicted by that peculiar gap-in-one's-memory or Choosy Memory Syndrome with his recall of other dates in his life, except those directly related with the murder, shaky or non-existent.
Aarushi Agarwal makes a (very, very) strong case for you to go back to the two-wheeler!
Believe it or not, your skin can tell you a lot about your stress level.
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