Never Forget A Face(book) – Memory For Online Posts Beats Faces And Books

People’s memory for Facebook posts is strikingly stronger than their memory for human faces or sentences from books, according to a new study.

Try to remember a line from the last book you read. Or, if you’re not a big reader, the face of the last new person you met. Now try to remember your significant other’s last Facebook status update.

According to a new study published in the journal Memory & Cognition, our brains may be more adequately wired to remember status updates and tweets rather than snippets from novels or faces. Subjects in the study were one and a half times more likely to remember posts than sentences from a novel and almost two and a half times more likely than to remember faces.

The findings shed light on how our memories favour natural, spontaneous writing over polished, edited content, and could have wider implications for the worlds of education, communications and advertising.

- Team Shirsa

Love, Drugs Work Similarly In The Brain, Researchers Say

Love is truly an addiction if you look at how it works in the brain, scientists say. Those who study the neurobiology of social bonding in humans and in some animals say those areas of attachment and affection share many of the same areas of the brain and the same chemical messengers as drug addiction.

 

Your Brain In Love

 The chemical messenger oxytocin, for instance, is   involved in the birth process and lactation in women and causes the mother to develop a strong attachment to the  baby.

 Also for instance, withdrawal is a major problem for treating addiction and is involved in the release of stress hormones, he said. People who lose partners go through similar things in their brains and could be treated in similar ways.

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Best Food And Nutrition For A Healthy Brain!!

      

Brainy food

Eating well means thinking well. Nutrition and some food have been shown to improve general brain health and others can help prevent or at least slow down the effects of certain brain diseases. That’s why it’s important to include these foods in your diet as often as possible.

1. Tomatoes contain lycopene, which helps fight the cell damage that can be found in Alzeheimer’s disease.

      2.  Fish has plenty of omega 3, which help maintain a healthy nervous system, and iodine, to improves mental clarity.

      3. Whole-grain foods contain folic acid, B12, B6, which all improve in memory.

      4.     Blueberries have been shown to improve short term memory.

      5.    Blackcurrants contain vitamin C, for increased mental agility.

      6.   Pumpkin seeds contain zinc, which enhances memory and thinking skills.

      7.  Fortified cereals are a good source of B12, which reduces homocysteine levels that  may contribute to     Alzheimer’s disease.

      8.   Brocoli provides Vitamin K, which enhances cognitive function.

      9.   Sage is good for improving memory.

    10.   Nuts are great source of vitamin E, which improves memory. 

     

     - Team Shirsa

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