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Brain Fitness Home Workout
Brain Fitness Home Workout
From the Harvard Business Review, November of 2007.
A brain fitness home workout primer.
"Until recently, however, there seemed to be no guidelines for active...
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Brain Fitness Home Workout
Brain Fitness Home Workout
From the Harvard Business Review, November of 2007.
A brain fitness home workout primer.
"Until recently, however, there seemed to be no guidelines for active efforts you could make to
stay mentally healthy.
There were no brain exercises—no mental push-ups—you could do to stave off the loss of
memory and analytic acuity that comes as you grow older.
In the worst-case scenario, you could end up with Alzheimer’s disease, for which there are no
proven treatments.
But a concentrated commitment of resources by the National Institutes of Health, the National
Institute of Mental Health, and the Library of Congress during the 1990s—which the White
House proclaimed the “decade of the brain” to heighten public awareness of the need for
neuroscience research—yielded a broad front of research and training that has upended some
deeply held beliefs about the brain.
One such belief is that the brain nece
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