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Your life’s purpose. Why finding your passion is essential to maintaining brain health.

Dec 12, 2019 | Creativity,  Healthy Living,  Mind-Body,  Neuroscience,  Performance,  Stress | 41 Comments

I've been writing this brain health blog since 2013, and it has changed my life and my career ...
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The neurobiology of the afternoon nap

Dec 12, 2019 | Mind-Body,  Neuroscience,  Sleep | 23 Comments

One seemingly ordinary Saturday afternoon in June 2013, an unusual experience awaited me in a furniture store: I ...
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Age-related muscle wasting and cognitive decline linked

Dec 12, 2019 | Exercise,  Healthy Living,  Mind-Body,  Neuroplasticity,  Neuroscience,  The Scientists Speak,  Uncategorized | 5 Comments

by Blake Alec Miranda. We're all familiar with the concept that with ageing comes a gradual loss of ...
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Weight training protects the ageing brain

Nov 22, 2019 | Exercise,  The Scientists Speak | 7 Comments

Thanks to Blake Alec Miranda from the Yassa Translational Neurobiology Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine for ...
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Is it ever too late to hope for change?

Nov 14, 2019 | Healthy Living | 9 Comments

On February 21, 1875, one year before Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for the telephone, a baby ...
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