5 Important Ways To Exercise Your Brain!!!!

1.  Walk briskly several times a week to boost blood flow and oxygen to the brain.








2.  Eat green leafy vegetables and nuts to help support memory function.










3  Socialize with friends and family to maintain verbal fluency and emotional control. 












4.  Read anything and everything you find interesting.

5.  Play Brain Games to help form new neural pathways and improve cognitive skills.







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Why Memory and Maths Don't Mix?????????

Can you compute your taxes while simultaneously remembering what you had for lunch yesterday? Neither can I. But doing two things at once isn’t always hard – in fact, it can be as easy as listening to music while driving, or talking or while cooking food.

Maths & Memory

 Stanford neuroscientist  Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD, and his colleagues have shown in a study that recalling your own experiences and performing externally oriented tasks such as arithmetical reasoning are mutually exclusive. That’s because the same brain circuitry that must be activated for the former to proceed must be actively suppressed during the latter activity. 

The researchers showed that groups of nerve cells in a structure called the posterior medial cortex, or PMC, are strongly activated during a recall task such as trying to remember whether you had coffee yesterday, but just as strongly suppressed when you’re engaged in solving a math problem.

The PMC sits roughly where the brain’s two hemispheres meet, making it one tough place to visit, technically speaking. Yet neuroscientists would love to learn much more about the PMC, because it’s known to be a key player in introspective activities such as remembering past experiences, imagining the future, and just plain daydreaming.

Many more research about this field is still on its way, we will keep updating it in our Shirsa blogs.  

- Team Shirsa

Brain Facts That Every One Should Know!!!!!

Brain facts

The brain is perhaps the most fascinating organ in the human body. It controls everything from breathing to emotions to learning. If you work with children, here are some facts that you might find helpful, from how the brain affects learning to facts about memory to interesting facts about the brain that you can share with your students.

Brain Development and Learning

Read on to learn interesting facts about how the brain develops, what can affect that development, and how learning is impacted.

1. Read aloud. Parents and teachers who read aloud and talk often to young children are promoting brain development.
2. Bilingual brains. Children who learn two languages before the age of five have a different brain structure than children who learn only one language.
3. Child abuse and the brain. Studies have shown that child abuse can change the way the brain develops and can negatively affect learning.
4. New neurons. Throughout life, mental activity promotes the production of new neurons in the brain.
5. Handedness. Those who are left-handed or ambidextrous have a corpus collosum that is about 11% larger than those who are right-handed.
6. Brain growth. The human brain continues to grow until about age 18.
7. Stimulating environment. If a child is in a stimulating environment, she has a 25% greater ability to learn . Conversely, if she is in an environment with low stimulation, she has 25% less ability to learn.
8. Creative vs. methodical. Scientists have shown that creative thinkers’ brains work in different ways from the brains of those who think more methodically.
9. Food and intelligence. One study looked at students in New York and showed that those who ate lunches that did not include artificial flavors, preservatives, and dyes did 14% better on IQ tests than the students who ate lunches with these additives
10. Boredom. Humans have an innate curiosity, but when they have a lack of stimulation, boredom sets in.
11. Learning new things. A study shows that when people are learning new things, their brains change very quickly. Those learning to juggle showed change in the brain in as little as seven days.
12. Music. Children who take music lessons show a considerable increase in the ability to learn.
13. Reading faces. The area of the brain called the amygdala is responsible for the ability to read someone’s face for clues to how they are feeling.

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Companies Turn To Brain Games To Tackle Work Stress!!!!

Employee engagement

As more and more jobs rely on knowledge work, creativity, and communication skills, it's not enough to have workers sitting at their desks -- they must also be mentally sharp, emotionally present, and free from distraction. The answer for some: brain training.

"The brain, is much like muscles in the body. If you exercise it, it gets better. You actually grow neurons. "If you can teach people how to manage those multitasking and stressful environments optimally, you're going to preserve their health."

"Usually, people don't engage in this type of activity until they're not functioning well.  Shirsa brings on an ability for employee to engage any time, any place, on their own terms without having to talk to anybody."

- Team Shirsa

Shirsa : A Complete Health package.

Shirsa has your brain covered......

Our comprehensive training program enhances brain health and performance using clinically validated tools designed by neuroscientists.  Through Shirsa users can experience benefits that include:

Shirsa Package

• Clearer and quicker thinking
• Faster problem-solving skills
• Increased alertness and awareness
• Better concentration at work or while driving
• Sharper memory for names, numbers, and directions

No matter who you are, your brain needs care. 

Invest a few minutes today, and you could reap the rewards for years to come.

Your brain will thank you.

- Sukhada Desai

How Do I know Which Exercises To Use In Shirsa?

Think about what you most want to improve: your Memory, Attention, Brain Speed, Critical thinking, and Problem solving. 

Shirsa Exercises

Start with the exercises in that category. Please note, however, that the exercises are complementary, and working in one category will likely enhance benefits in another domain. 

We often recommend that people begin with Brain Speed, since increasing the speed with which the brain can work with information is the foundation for all other cognitive skills.


- Sukhada Desai

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

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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

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. 

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Want To Get Rid of Memories Of Your Embarrassing Moments??

E arsing Memories

If you want to forget or wants to get rid of  any embarrassing actions which you may have done, than you're in luck: a new discovery reveals two ways that our minds can erase memories.

According to the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge, the brain erases traumatic and otherwise undesirable memories via two opposite mechanisms. The findings are published in the October 17 copy of Neuron.

In one method researchers have termed "direct suppression," the brain inhibits the processing of the hippocampus, a region of the brain critical for the formation of conscious memories. This interference prevents the memory from ever being recorded in the first place.

The other method, called "thought substitution," doesn't halt the memory from being recorded; instead, the brain alters its own wiring to replace the memory with something else.

"This study is the first demonstration of two distinct mechanisms that cause such forgetting: one by shutting down the remembering system, and the other by facilitating the remembering system to occupy awareness with a substitute memory," said Roland Benoit, the study's lead author, in a press release.

Researchers conducted the study with 36 volunteers instructed to remember and forget specific pairings of words. According to Business Insider, half the individuals were instructed to replace one word with a different word, while the other half were instructed to forget the word entirely. Researchers watched participants' brain activity while they repeatedly committed words to memory, then attempted to forget them.

The findings could have implications for a whole host of populations including veterans suffering from PTSD, or victims of traumatic crime.

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10 brain damaging habits!!!

Avoid these 10 brain damaging habits to maintain a strong and healthy brain:

1. No breakfast
Skipping breakfast decreases blood sugar level, leading to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain, ultimately causing brain deterioration.

2 . Overeating
Overeating hardens of the brain arteries, hence weakening mental power.

3. Smoking
Smoking causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

4. High sugar consumption
Consuming large amounts of sugar disrupts the absorption of proteins and nutrients. The brain suffers malnutrition brain development is interrupted.

5. Air pollution
Effective brain functioning requires oxygen. Inhaling polluted air cuts down the supply of oxygen to the brain, reducing brain efficiency.

Brain Fitness in Your Daily Life, Is it important?

As a society, we are all starting to understand the importance of keeping our brain sharp, at every age. Our brain is our most important asset! It allows us to function everyday at a high level.

By building and working our brain's key areas, we can enhance our ability to maintain our memory, concentration and problem solving skills. We all need to be more proactive and look for ways to maximize our brain's capabilities.
The goal for Shirsa is to provide novel and complex stimuli for all key areas of the brain. In addition, we aim to make our program fun and engaging so that you integrate brain fitness into your daily life.

More research is starting to be published supporting the benefits of brain fitness. A recent study from the University of Michigan showed participants improved their fluid intelligence after consistent brain training.

-Team Shirsa

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