How to strengthen memory and “recharge” the brain

Take a shower with your eyes closed, go shopping, learn to juggle — experts tell how to improve memory.

Take a shower with your eyes closed

As I get in the shower, just close your eyes — find shampoos, gels and Soaps will be for your brain (especially the part that controls memory) a good workout.

“Orientation blind — a simple way to restart the attention and memory,” says Ron white, twice winner of the Us memory championship. If you are afraid of scour to the touch in the bathroom, try to go to the kitchen. Close your eyes and try to find, say, a saucer (but not what the pressure on the knife).

Move your body

Dance movement not only activates the cerebellum (he is responsible for foresight and judgment), but also cause the body to produce neurotrophic factor brain (BDNF) — a protein necessary for the effective communication of neurons. “Dancing is a social act, and as with every communication, they activate the activity of neurons,” says Gary small, Director of the longevity Center at the University of California at Los Angeles and co-author of the book the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program. — In addition, dancing helps the heart to drive oxygen to the brains and improve coordination”.

Change the working hand

Be a Lefty if you are right handed, and Vice versa. Common actions (to hold a fork, spoon, toothbrush), passed on the unusual hand, will help your brain to reboot and to learn simple things all over again. “When you’re in childhood — used to always use the same hand to perform any task, it becomes a reflex — and it is useful to “rasterbate”, says Allen Sills, a Professor of neurosurgery at the medical center of Vanderbilt University (USA). — When you change the hand, the brain is activated to use the new region — this is a great workout for him.”

Play table tennis

“Ping-pong improves coordination of the ligaments of the hand, the eye and gives the brain an excellent workout, says Daniel Amen, a researcher of the brain and founder of the Amen Clinic (USA). And remember: when it comes to brain training, the first rule is to do things that your brain can not do it. Any new learning is a beautiful brain and table tennis in this sense is very cool.”

Go shopping

“Shopping is a great workout for your mind, — said Gary small. — You shop, contact with new people, calculate prices. All of these actions forced to work different areas of the brain, in which they follow one another — consider it a kind of cross-fit for the mind. But don’t get carried away with shopping excessive spending can cause stress and Vice versa will harm your computer”.

Learn to juggle

According to the results published in 2013 in the journal Nature of the study, a systematic juggling increases some areas of the brain. After three newcomers for three months he taught to throw balls, the number of brown matter in the temporal lobe and behind the intraparietal sulcus (these areas process visual information and motor functions) have increased. “Juggling — and any other exercise that requires large and fine motor skills, spatial orientation and recognition of sequences that will force your brain to work, waking up the dormant until the region,” says Allen Sills.

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