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“After a stressful event, we often crave comfort food. Our body is calling for more glucose and simple carbohydrates and fat... And in modern life, people tend to have fewer friends and less support, because there's no tribe. Being alone is not good for the brain.”

Brain Health Stress Well Being

Book:Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Source: Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

“The whole-language trend assumes that reading is a natural, genetically programmed part of language development, and that children will pick it up as easily as speaking. However, as noted, since writing has only existed for 5,ooo years and literacy has only been widespread for a few centuries, it is highly unlikely that the human brain has evolved structures specifically for reading and writing in this time. It is our ability to learn through experience that allows us to achieve reading, but only with explicit instruction.”

Reading Language Brain Learning Literacy Achieving A Users Guide To The Brain John J Ratey Language Development

Book:A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain

Source: A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain

“[...] A diet of constant, stimulating activity is the best prescription for our troubles. It keeps the brain in a state of constant change, flow, confirmation, and anticipation, thereby reducing the noise, fragility, self-doubt, and stagnation with which we all have to contend.”

Brain Confirmation Fragility Self Doubt A Users Guide To The Brain John J Ratey Constant Change

Book:A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain

Source: A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain