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- While some mental decline does occur with age, it is generally mild for most people. Severe decline is often due to diseases like Alzheimer's rather than normal aging.
- Environmental factors like education, physical and mental activity, sleep, and diet appear to influence brain aging, with stimulating environments and healthy behaviors linked to better cognitive functioning in old age.
The document provides an overview of key concepts about the brain and learning from multiple chapters. It discusses basic brain anatomy, how the brain changes over time through growth and pruning of cells, and how the left and right hemispheres process information differently. It also outlines factors that affect learning such as emotions, stress, physical environments, social interactions, and motivation. Practical strategies are suggested for teachers to optimize learning based on brain research findings.
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1. Neuroplasticity, Brain Reserve, and Aging:
How to ImproveYourBrain Performance
by Growingthe Sizeof Your Hippocampus,
At Any Age
MajidFotuhi,MDPhD
MedicalDirector:NeuroGrowBrainFitnessCenter
AffiliateStaff:JohnsHopkinsMedicine
3. Objectives
1. Basic Anatomy of Cognition
2. Memory Loss and Brain Atrophy with
Aging
3. Brain Reserve & Neurogenesis
4. Six Ways to Grow Your Brain
5. Reversing Brain Atrophy in Elderly, in 3
Months
12. Objectives
1. Basic Anatomy of Cognition
2. Memory Loss and Brain Atrophy with
Aging
3. Brain Reserve & Neurogenesis
4. Six Ways to Grow Your Brain
5. Reversing Brain Atrophy in Elderly, in 3
Months
13. 13
With Aging,
Hippocampus Atrophies Faster
than the Rest of the Brain
Hippocampus shrinks by about 0.5% per
year after age 40.
That is the main reason memory lapses
become more frequent after age 40.
14. What Causes
Atrophy in Hippocampus?
Obesity
Smoking
Diabetes
Concussion
Alzheimer’s
Insomnia
Sleep Apnea
Stress
Depression
15. Depression1 Obesity2
Cortisol / Stress3 Insomnia4
11
1- Sheline, (1996). PNAS, 93(9);3908-13.
2- Brain Research, 2009, Pages 186–194
3- Lupien et al (1998), Nature NeuroSci 1 (1), 69-73
4- Ho et al; J Clin Neurol. 2012 Jun;8(2):130-8
More Depression, Obesity, Stress, and
Insomnia, Smaller Hippocampus
20. Objectives
1. Basic Anatomy of Cognition
2. Memory Loss and Brain Atrophy with
Aging
3. Brain Reserve & Neurogenesis
4. Six Ways to Grow Your Brain
5. Reversing Brain Atrophy in Elderly, in 3
Months
26. Objectives
1. Basic Anatomy of Cognition
2. Memory Loss and Brain Atrophy with
Aging
3. Brain Reserve & Neurogenesis
4. Six Ways to Grow Your Hippocampus
5. Reversing Brain Atrophy in Elderly, in 3
Months
36. Neurofeedback
36
Performed by a certified EEG neurofeedback specialist
Live EEG feedback is provided through auditory and visual
responses to help the patient move brain activity towards an
optimal state
Benefits are long-lasting
38. Objectives
1. Basic Anatomy of Cognition
2. Memory Loss and Brain Atrophy with
Aging
3. Brain Reserve & Neurogenesis
4. Six Ways to Grow Your Brain
5. Reversing Brain Atrophy in Elderly, in 3
Months
42. Brain Fitness Program:
A Personalized Set of Interventions
36
Brain Coaching and Counseling Cognitive Skills Training Neurofeedback Training
Weekly Monitoring
44. Brain Fitness Program:
Statistical Analysis of 127 Patients with MCI
7% 9%
84%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
Low or No Impact Moderate Impact High Impact
38
≥3 areas of cognitive
function Improved, p<0.05
48. Summary
1. Basic Anatomy of Cognition
2. Memory Loss and Brain Atrophy with
Aging
3. Brain Reserve & Neurogenesis
4. Six Ways to Grow Your Brain
5. Reversing Brain Atrophy in Elderly, in 3
Months