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We don’t think much about blinking. For the most part, it’s an involuntary process that keeps our eyes hydrated. But when we blink, we lose information, even if it’s just for a fraction of a second. In fact, during a typical day, blinking means you spend about 44 minutes with your eyes closed. This is ...

Whether you're riding in a one-horse sleigh, sledding, caroling, bakingcookies or chillin' with family and friends, the holidays brim withopportunities for lots of laughter. What's all that joviality doing to your brain? Laughing stimulates a part of your brain called the nucleus accumbens,which then releases the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine. This createsa brain-chemical chain reaction that ...

How can you grow your brain? You can always follow the example of London taxi cab drivers and memorize a labyrinth of 25,000 city streets as well as thousands of tourist attractions and hot spots. While many major cities try to simplify driving by arranging streets in user-friendly grids (or identifying streets by sequenced numbers ...

This holiday season, there's a good chance you're going to eatyour fill of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pecan pie. And you'llprobably polish it all off with a good cup of coffee. And if you're tempted to feel guilty about chowing down on all yourholiday favorites, maybe this'll make you feel better: Many traditional holiday ...

Halloween may be over, but there’s a good chance you’ve got plenty of Halloween candy lying around your house. Maybe you’ve got a bowl of unclaimed miniature Snickers from trick-or-treat no-shows. Or maybe you simply know where your kids hid their stash of goodies. Either way, you-and your kids-probably have access to lots of sugary ...

The problem has been defined as “voluntarily delaying an intendedcourse of action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay.”Sound familiar? Why do we procrastinate? According to one team of experts-made up of Drs.Joseph Ferrari and Timothy Pychyl-and quoted on psychologytoday.com, there are three basic types of procrastinators: 1. Arousal types or thrill seekers ...

Smart Mom’s Toy Box Nationally renowned brain training experts Ken Gibson and Tanya Mitchell have created a free list to help parents shop for toys, games, and brain activities that will help improve their children’s learning skills. “Our hope is that parents will shop wisely for toys this year, purchasing toys that can help develop ...

September is National ADHD Awareness Month, and in their ongoing quest for answers, researchers continue to discover new things about the common diagnosis, estimated to affect up to 16% of school aged children and close to 5% of adults. In the United States alone, roughly 8.8 million adults are thought to struggle with the condition. ...

Overactive, hyperactive, impulsive, rambunctious, wild – any of those describe your child? Whether he’s been diagnosed with ADHD or not, chances are you’ve probably already tried many, many ways to calm him enough so he can focus and learn. Have you tried this one? It’s from LearningRx Vice President of Research and Development Tanya Mitchell ...

Smart Mom’s Toy Box Nationally renowned brain training experts Ken Gibson and Tanya Mitchell have created a free list to help parents shop for toys, games, and brain activities that will help improve their children’s learning skills.(See the bottom of the page for a list of cognitive skills and their descriptions.)“Our hope is that parents ...