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How to build a bigger brain

Push-ups, crunches, gyms, personal trainers -- people have many strategies for building bigger muscles and stronger bones. But what can one do to build a bigger brain?

Meditate.

Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited

They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can.

Scientists Map How Alzheimer's Disease Systematically Engulfs the Brain

UCLA and University of Queensland (Australia) neuroscientists using a powerful new imaging analysis technique have created the first three-dimensional video maps showing how Alzheimer's disease systematically engulfs the brains of living patients. The findings appear in the Feb. 1 edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Neuroscience. The dramatic time-lapse videos show the sequential destruction of brain areas that control memory function, then emotion and inhibition, and finally sensation. They also show how the disease spares small brain regions that control vision and other functions that remain intact in Alzheimer's patients

UCLA Laboratory

How to build a bigger brain

Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited

Scientists Map How Alzheimer's Disease Systematically Engulfs the Brain

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