The document discusses strategies to enhance and maintain brain health and memory as one ages, emphasizing the importance of neuroplasticity, social interaction, exercise, and a healthy diet. Research indicates that these factors can decrease amyloid beta deposits and improve cognitive function, highlighting the role of challenging brain exercises and healthy relationships in memory retention. Key practices include maintaining a stimulating environment, ensuring adequate sleep, and engaging in unfamiliar and enjoyable activities to promote brain fitness.

1. How to Maintain a strong memory for life
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2. If you are looking for ways to preserve and even enhance
your grey matter as you age, there are many things you
can do to improve brain health and thus your memory and
mental performance.
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3. According to Dementia Today, an online publication which
posts scientific news and professional views on Alzheimer’s
disease and other dementias from the global research
community, brain deterioration begins well before old age.

4. Scientists believe that changes in plasticity at brain
synapses — the junctions where neurons signal to each
other — and the loss of neurons may be responsible for
this decline in function

5. Interestingly, these changes also precede Alzheimer’s
disease. Dementia Today also reports that in Alzheimer’s
disease patients, early neuron loss and changes in
synapse function have been observed in the hippocampus
and neo-cortex — the very brain regions involved in
language, memory, and other higher cognitive functions

8. But there are strategies to maintaining and improving brain
health. Researchers have found at least one clear link
between brain plasticity and healthy aging: That a rich,
stimulating environment can enhance and maintain brain
plasticity, even in old age and with Alzheimer’s disease
patients.

9. Studies show that regular social interaction, exercise, and a
healthful diet — as well as cardiovascular exercise — can
increase neurogenesis, neuron communication and
hippocampus-related learning.

10. These healthful habits can even decrease levels of amyloid
beta deposits which are associated with Alzheimer’s
disease. Research has now shown that exercise enhances
cognitive function and protects against dementia

11. Brain plasticity, also called neuroplasticity, allows the
neurons in the brain to compensate for injury or
degeneration and adjust neural activity in response to new
situations or changes in the environment of the brain

12. Neuroplasticity means that with the right stimulation, your
brain can form new neural pathways, alter existing
connections, and adapt to changing conditions and
stimulus

13. This ability is of the utmost importance to learning and
memory. You can harness the natural power of
neuroplasticity to improve your memory and increase your
cognitive abilities. Research suggests you may want to
incorporate some of the following strategies as well

14. Healthy relationships may be the ultimate memory booster. In
one recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health, for
example, researchers found that people with the most active
social lives had the slowest rate of memory decline.
Relationships stimulate our brains and the best kind of brain
exercise may be interacting with others

15. Research shows that sleep is necessary for
memory consolidation, with key memory-
enhancing activity occurring during the
deepest stages of sleep

18. Overcome the sleepy head syndrome while studying
- Maintain a comfortable yet alert posture
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- Ensure sufficient light
- Infuse fun learning with enough videos and animations into your reading time
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Use multi mode studying.. reading, writing, listening, drawing, conversing,
practicing, thinking.......
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Assess the learning you achieve
Share your experiences

19. Laughter is good for you and engages
multiple regions across the whole brain. As
psychologist Daniel Goleman notes in his
book Emotional Intelligence, “laughter …
seems to help people think more broadly
and associate more freely

20. Your brain needs a work out, too. The best brain exercising
activities break your routine and challenge you to use and
develop new neuro pathways. The brain boosting activities
you choose should meet the following criteria:

21. Anything that takes mental effort and
expands your knowledge will work.

22. If it’s something you’re already good at,
it’s not a good brain exercise. Try
something that’s unfamiliar and out of
your comfort zone.

23. Physical and emotional enjoyment is
important in the brain’s learning process.
Besides, if it’s not fun you won’t keep doing
it!

24. If
9 x 9 = 72
8 x 8 = 48
7 x 7 = 28
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25. Suppose:
11 x 11 = 4
22 x 22 = 16
33 x 33 = 36
44 x 44 = ?

27. 1 = 2
2 = 10
3 = 30
4 = 68
5 - ?

28. 2 = 3
3 = 8
4 = 15
5 = 24
6 = ?

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35. • For counting the time you chant
• From analogues external tools (coconut leaf belt)
• Digital external tools
• Bodily tools
• Polished the bodily tools method
• Internal or mental tools
• Polished mental tools

36. • “HOMES” and the great 5 lakes of America
• “TROASTRAMESOTHEX” and the five spheres of
atmosphere

37. Pictograms and Infographs

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