Exercise and Your Brain - Sue Halpern

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/12/Sue_Halpern_Cant_Remember_What_I_Forgot

Sue Halpern discusses research on neurogenesis - the creation of new brain cells - in adult human beings, and examines the effects of exercise on this process.

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Memory problems may be as common as gray hair after a certain age. Many aging Americans worry that lapse of memory portends their own falling victim to dementia.

Just how close is science to a cure? Sue Halpren's work gives us an overview of many areas of brain health research, chemistry, the link of depression and forgetfulness, and software programs to improve memory.

Will there be a memory chip for the human brain or a link to chocolate and the growth of new neurons in the brain?

Her work gives us insight into what research may bring us, what myths have been debunked, and what we should be doing to keep our memory intact - The Commonwealth Club of California

In 1985, with an Oxford doctorate, Sue Halpern went to work at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons teaching case-based ethics and social medicine.

Nearly twenty years later, the author of Four Wings and a Prayer (now an award-winning documentary film ) and the New York Times notable book, Migrations to Solitude, returned to Columbia in the company of a young neurologist, Scott Small, who guided her into the world of cutting-edge neuroscience. Halpern, a former Rhodes Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and the director of the non-profit Face of Democracy project which teaches documentary journalism to high school students.

In addition to her three books of non-fiction, she is the author of two novels, The Book of Hard Things and Introducing Sasha Abramowitz. She lives in Vermont and the Adirondacks with her husband Bill McKibben and their daughter Sophie, the editor of Bookworm Magazine.

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[TwistedMind6969]

That's a priceless advice. Very informative video.

[sXeish]

If you eat healthy the decline is slower when you get older.

[mnik0623]

@flowerdna on a fundamental level, yes :). And there are some basic logical fallacies that you need to consider when asking a question of that sort: post hoc ergo propter hoc, for one example.

[tylerjamesstephens]

@MyRotkaeppchen Yes, she is talking about physical exercise.

[LoveSweetCandys]

I think -I am,thanks,hope this'll help

[flowerdna]

Is this why all the jocks are so smart and Bill Gates is so stupid?

[MyRotkaeppchen]

Sry I am not a native English speaker. What is meant with exercise in this context? Does she mean to do kind of sports regularly ?? Thx for every answer :-))

[marlin187]

Thanks Doc.

[888Kharami]

High Quality Oils Stimulate More Brain Health. She said smell and exercise. She expanded on exercise, GREAT! Now what scientist will do a study on say RoseMary Oil, or Lang Lang Oil. Ofactory Bell will get lit up by these oils. Smell every day 4 times a day for 12 weeks....there will be a effect~ Same as the exercise. Fellow Americans , Use the Yin & The Yang. The 1 & The 2, Use the Exercise & The Oils!!! BUt exercis comfortably,control your self, go for it easily and let it build, Alphabeticaly

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