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Older and Wiser Stress can kill neurons in the hippocampus by releasing cortisol, which in normal quantities assists memory.
∞ Concentrate on your goals. This will help reduce stress because your sense of mission will move you forward. ∞ The reason a person’s manner, not just what he or she does, but how he or she does it – matters so much, lies in the design of the human brain; what scientists have begun to call the open-loop nature of the limbic system, our emotional centers.
∞ An open loop system depends largely on external sources to manage itself.
The open-loop system allows others to come to our emotional rescue – allows a mother to comfort a child, a lookout in a primate band to signal an instant alarm. ∞ Despite our scientific advances, the open-loop principle still holds.
∞ Three or more intense stressful incidents in a year (being fired, divorced, financial, etc.) triple the death rate in socially isolated middle-aged men.
People in love can trigger surges of oxytocin, phenothiamine. ∞ Many studies have shown that people in groups often “catch” feelings from one another.
∞ This continual interplay of limbic open loops among members of a group creates a kind of emotional soup. ∞ This continual interplay of limbic open loops among members of a group creates a kind of emotional soup.
∞ Serotonin does at least 14 things in the brain.
Suicide may be the ultimate act of inwardly directed impulsive aggression. ∞ Areas in the brain are active when a person is not telling the truth. (These can be seen with new ‘lie detector’ machines.)
∞ Training can help people with learning disabilities (ADD) because it can modify brain networks. A 10-year-old boy increased his reading level 3 years after 8 weeks of specialized training. ∞ In some cases, ADD may be highly encapsulated and may co-exist with a supreme capacity for planning and foresight.
ADD & ADHD may be inherited of acquired early in life. It may be biochemical or structural. ∞ Soccer can cause serious injury to the brain if children below the age of 12 hit the ball with their heads. Soccer, hockey and football players who had several concussions experienced more memory and other cognitive problems than others who did not experience them. ∞ Injury to the leader in an organization will disrupt the activities of many units in the organization.
∞ We like variety and change in our lives. Without it, we become bored.
∞ We all need stress to live. When we are under stress, physiological changes take place that prepare us to flee or fight.
∞ Laughter releases endorphins, which kill pain.
∞ Humour enhances Climate and Promotes Retention.
∞ Aging itself does not have a large effect on deterioration of brain function. The most significant assailants on neurons are as follows:
∞ USE IT, OR LOSE IT!
∞ Look at Thomas Edison, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Victor Hugo, Claude Monet did some of their best work in their 70’s and 80’s. George Bernard Shaw, Picasso, Arthur Rubinstein, Albert Schweitzer, and Pablo Casals were still active in their 90’s. David Ray, Tennessee, learned to read at 99. At 92, Paul Spangler completed his 114th marathon. Hulda Crooks climbed Mt. Whitney (highest mountain in continental U.S.) George Burns performed at Proctor’s Theatre when he was 34 and again 63 years later when he was 94. ∞ The brain of an older person is not inferior to that of a younger person; instead the brain of an 80 year old is organized differently than that of a 35 year old.
∞ Sleeping and dreaming takes place in 90-minute cycles. If we sleep 8 hours per night, we dream about 2 hours during that time. ∞ Research is showing that our brain retains many of its capacities for normal, even superior, functioning well into our 80’s and 90’s; that aging does not involve the loss of large numbers of cells, particularly from the cerebral cortex, where our most elaborate thinking occurs and that brain processing during our 60’s and beyond doesn’t follow a downward curve. ∞ We can maintain healthy brain functioning by adopting certain lifestyle habits incuding
∞ Research is now providing proof that our longevity along with our health during the second half of our lives is directly related to how efficiently our brain is functioning. ∞ If doctors allowed only one piece of information about a physically healthy person of whatever age, and on that basis must estimate how long that person is likely to live, the doctor will ask about brain functioning. ∞ Successful and creative adaptation to advancing age is perhaps the most reliable measure of healthy brain functioning.
∞ Canada and USA fall behind Japan and Europe. By 2050, the average Japanese person will live to be 91. 1900 4% of the population was 65+ 1980 12% of the population was 65+ 2000 15% are over 65+ Until 1970, lengthening of average survival was due to declining infant mortality rates and new antibiotics. ∞ Since 1970 it is due to lifestyles changes –
∞ Exercising the mind seems to be the most important factor in staying younger, longer.
∞ Okinawa, Japan study indicated that Japanese people have a very low cardiac risk due to healthy lifestyle and diet including the following:
∞ There is evidence that the maximum life of a species is rarely determined by the rate of mitochondrial damage inflicted by free radicals arising in the mitochondria in the course of normal metabolism.
∞ Aging itself does not have a large effect on deterioration of brain function. The most significant assailants on neurons are as follows:
∞ Aging Gracefully
∞ In order of importance they are:
∞ “To add life to years, not just years to life.” ∞ “Those who live by their wit, die by their wit.” ∞ “Don’t think of aging as decline. Think of it as debugging. Skills improve. Learning goes on.” ∞ |