Your Brain By The Numbers..........

- Team Shirsa

How much time does Shirsa takes in a day?

Brain training exercises

Shirsa exercises is designed so that you can spend as little as ten minutes to as much time as you like in it at any given time. 

Any training is better than none! 

A good rule of thumb is to follow the basic guidelines for physical exercises: As We do physical exercises to keep our body fit same way do brain exercise to keep your brain fit.

 Use it at least 10-15 minutes a day, and your brain will thank!!!!!!!! 

- Sukhada Desai

Is Shirsa Proven To Work? Have Studies Been Published?

Shirsa Proven to Work

Yes. Dozens of journal articles supports the impact of  brain training exercises on normal aging adults. 

These indicate that the Shirsa not only improves key standard measures of cognitive function (including speed and accuracy of processing, attention, and memory), they also improve key standard measures of quality of life (including health-related quality of life, feelings of control, depressive symptoms, and functional independence). 

If you are interested in learning more about our studies, click here. 

- Sukhada Desai

How Does Shirsa Achieve These Benefits?

Shirsa's exercises are based on a handful of powerful ideas. Unlike previous cognitive training, they do not try to fix a problem by practicing it—they don’t improve memory by practicing memory. 

Rewiring the Brain

Instead, the exercises start with elemental cognitive function by first improving the speed and accuracy of your sensory perceptions. This becomes the foundation for improved attention. Improved attention is the building block of working memory, and working memory is the building block of much else—immediate memory, delayed memory, episodic memory, executive function, reasoning, speech and language, visual-spatial skills, and so on. No one has taken this complete bottom-up approach to cognitive training before.

In addition, our scientists are experts in brain plasticity, the ability of the brain to re-wire and change. Each exercise draws on what experts have learned in recent years about driving change in the brain.

Training must be focused on improving speed to meet real-world conditions; it must intensively and progressively improve accuracy; it must adapt continuously and minutely (by thousandths of a second) to each person’s performance; it must be designed so the task gradually generalizes to real-world experience; it must be engaging in a way that stimulates neurotransmitters (chemicals in the brain that enhance attention, learning and mood) and that brings you back to do the exercises again and again.

- Sukhada Desai

What Benefits You Can Get From Using Shirsa?

Benefits of Brain training

Improving your brain’s performance has the potential to bring countless benefits to your everyday life. 

Both science studies and customer stories show Shirsa speeds up thinking, sharpens attention, and enhances memory—and these benefits lead to myriad others ... from safer driving to feeling more confident in conversations. 

If you’d like to read about benefits our users have seen,  click here.  For a description of the most common benefits of Shirsa,  click here. For a description of science studies and their results, click here.


- Sukhada Desai

What Is Shirsa???????????

Shirsa.me

We are very Glad to inform you that the beta version of our  portal shirsa: a personalized brain training platform' is live now. 

Shirsa means brain in Sanskrit.....

We all are very much aware about 'Shirsasana' (head down exercise in yoga), which improve blood circulation to brain, Shirsa  resembles and gives same effect of 'Shirsasana'.

Brief about Shirsa:

Shirsa is a personalized brain training program, which helps you to improve  your cognitive skills like speed, attention, focus, critical thinking, problem solving, visual perception, task switching, multitasking and etc, for all ages.

Shirsa provides solution in form of online brainy exercises, by which users can initiate growth of new neuron cell by regular exercising (10-15 mins a day) with shirsa.me

The solution provided by Shirsa has scientific validation, visit our site for more details, 

- Sukhada

How Can Brain Fitness Exercises Improve My People Skills?

people's skills

We all want to feel sharp and confident in social situations. But sometimes our brains don’t cooperate. We might not remember what a friend told us, forget names we should know, or have trouble understanding other people’s intentions, body language, or tone of voice.

These exercises can change that. They are designed to speed up and sharpen the brain structure responsible for processing, storing, and remembering information that comes in handy in the social situations we all face every day.

Use Shirsa exercise to feel more tuned in to people around you for more successful and rewarding social interactions!

- Team Shirsa

How Do Brain Exercises Help My Memory?

Memory

Memories are made up of what you sense – especially what you see and hear. When memory fails, it’s not because you forgot how to remember. It’s  because your brain isn’t processing what you see and hear very clearly, so can only store “fuzzy” pictures of an event.

Shirsa exercises improve your brain’s recording of what you see and hear. That helps your brain create memory during the event, making it easier to recall later.

It’s like tuning up a radio – if your radio is in tune, you can hear a song clearly and remember its lyrics. If it’s full of static, it’s hard to remember.

Shirsa  exercise tune up your brain!

- Team Shirsa

How Does Attention Relate To Brain Fitness?

Attention

Does it drive you crazy when you can’t remember where you put your keys? You probably weren’t paying much attention when you set them down.

When You really pay attention to something, you remember it better. Focusing your attention causes your barin to rlease special chemicals that strengthen learning and memory. It’s one of the clever ways your brain keeps track of what matters to you, and lets go of what doesn’t.

It’s all too easy to pay less attention than we intend to. We get out of practice. Re-training your brain to focus better is a key part of improving memory!

   -  Team Shirsa

Why should I exercise my brain speed?

When it comes to brain speed, every millisecond counts. How quickly your brain can process events around you determines how effectively you can react to and remember those events.

But with age (and certain cognitive conditions), the brain slows down. This slowing is minute, but can have major effects. When you’re driving, for example, a few milliseconds is all it might take to turn a near miss into a bad crash.

Brain speed affects memory, too. A slower brain is a “fuzzier” brain it has trouble creating and storing clear pictures of what you see, hear, and otherwise sense. That affects your ability to remember clearly later.

- Team Shirsa

Diet Sodas: Change Your Brain And Your Waistline!!!

Diet sodas may not be helping you lose weight , in fact, these and other artificially sweetened foods may sabotage your diet by confusing and rewiring your brain’s reward centers. This study from the journal Physiology & Behavior is yet another example of how lifestyle choices can alter your brain—negatively or positively.

Scanning diet soda drinkers' brains

The University of San Diego study followed 24 young adults: half the group drank at least one serving of diet soda every day, while the other half avoided the artificially sweetened drinks. These adults were then hooked up to brain scanning equipment while scientists fed them water alternately flavored by natural and artificial sweeteners—then the researchers sat back and watched what unfolded in the brain.

The results, according to University of California San Diego researchers Green and Murphy, were pronounced: “[Diet soda drinkers] who consumed a greater number of diet sodas had reduced caudate head activation. These findings may provide some insight into the link between diet soda consumption and obesity.”

You Have The Power To Improve Your Brain!!!!!!!!

Improve your brain

Scientists once believed that mental ability was fixed after childhood. But over the last few decades, neuroscientists have discovered that adults’ brains are constantly changing – growing new neurons and connections – in a process known as neuroplasticity. Shirsa takes advantage of the brain’s innate neuroplasticity to help shape it into a more effective, powerful organ.







Instead of teaching specific skills that may only be useful in specific areas, Shirsa targets core cognitive processes that underlie performance in many different areas. These processes include memory, attention and other abilities that are critical in the real world.

Experimentally tested & clinically proven

The results of training with Shirsa are measured experimentally in randomized controlled trials. A typical experiment begins by measuring each person’s baseline abilities with tests of brain performance. After several weeks of training, each person is tested again to determine how much the Shirsa training has improved cognitive function.

Human Cognition Project – Uncovering the secrets of the brain

 The Human Cognition Project combines the database of human cognition – Pivot run Shirsa members who have collectively trained  – with a network of scientists and top neuroscience programs in the world – all to better understand human cognition so that we do more to improve brain performance.

Personalized for you

Each brain is unique, and everyone has different goals. We at Shirsa understands this and uses a patent-pending technology to combine the powerful database of the Human Cognition Project with sophisticated adaptive training algorithms to create a training program that’s right for each individual.

Personalized training programs are designed to help you achieve your goals. Additionally, each exercise adapts to your skill level, driving the maximum amount of benefit for each day of training. The more you tell us about your priorities, the more we can customize the training for you.


- Team Shirsa

Can Your Brain’s Feelings Hurt Your Body, too?

Recent research shows that social rejection and physical pain are intrinsically linked in the brain.

brain feelings hurt your body

Dr. Naomi Eisenberger is revealing that the emotional benefits of socialization –acceptance, intimacy, friendship–are so crucial that any lack may hurt our bodies as well as our minds. Luckily, it’s possible that training can help improve emotional well-being.

How social rejection might affect physical pain

In an experiment published in the 2006 issue of the journal Pain, Eisenberger used 75 subjects to explore perceptions of physical pain in the context of social situations.

First, researchers identified each person’s unique pain threshold by transmitting varying levels of heat to the forearm. Subjects rated the pain level of each stimulus until they reached “very unpleasant.” This provided a baseline for personal thresholds of physical pain in normal situations.

Subjects then took part in a ball-tossing game involving three characters on a computer screen. One character represented the subject; researchers told everyone that the other two characters were played by real people (though the computer actually controlled everything). The subject was either socially included (the ball was regularly tossed to the subject) or not included (the ball was not tossed to the subject). In the last 30 seconds of the game, a new heat stimulus was applied and subjects rated its pain level.

Unsurprisingly, the non-included group reported 67% more social distress. More surprisingly, the same people who reported great social distress due to the game also reported higher pain ratings (based on threshold) at the end of the game—showing a link between social and physical pain.

Pain processing in the brain

Many fMRI studies have confirmed that emotional and physical pain both activate the brain’s dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Still other studies note that people who suffer from physical conditions such as chronic pain are also more likely to have emotional anxiety and feel social rejection more deeply.

In other words, emotional health contributes in many ways to living a full life. Luckily, scientists have already found indications that you can train and control your emotions.

Researchers suggests that better emotional control is something everyone can strive towards, even if you’re in perfect health. Some of the cognitive processes involved in emotional well-being—such as executive control, which helps us plan rationally and control impulses—can also transfer to intellectual abilities that you rely on at work and in school. Get access to Shirsa today: it could benefit you in ways you might not have considered!

- Team Shirsa

Poor cognitive development in the room full of people!!!!

The more carbon dioxide there is in a room, the worse your decisions might be! This is the result of a new study according to which our decision-making skills are greatly affected in closed rooms. 

Room full of Carbon dioxide

The team from the State University of New York examined whether high CO2 exposure at school or at work could have a negative impact on our cognitive skills. 

The tests showed that the subjects' decision-making had already worsened at 1.000 ppm, compared to subjects in a room with 600 ppm CO2. (Typical outdoor concentration = ca. 380 ppm, indoors ca. 1.000, packed rooms = up to several thousand ppm.) Results were particularly impacted at 2,500 ppm. 

- Team Shirsa