Is Retirement Making Your Brain Lazy? Do you need a wake-up call? Once the farewell speeches have been made and the celebrations are over Leaving employment can be scary. At first, there’s a great relief. There’s no need to juggle home life and work...
Some people LOVE Maths. Being able to quickly perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division is sure to impress your friends. The problem is, not all of us picked this up in school. If you’d like to learn some mental arithmetic shortcuts now, read on...
Are you spending more and more time at your computer? Take action on this memory strategy. Do you know what is happening for your body as you sit there? Every second of every minute, your nervous system (and all of its 15 billion nerve cells) is sending millions of...
I was downtown last week when I bumped into a woman I haven’t seen for ages. We were just outside a coffee shop, and we both had time, so we went inside to enjoy a chat. I’d just sipped my cappuccino and glanced up as Megan began to tell me about an accident her...
I don’t know about you but I had not given a nanosecond’s thought to dementia – in fact, I wasn’t even certain what dementia was, exactly. Something to do with being demented or crazy, maybe ….. So I wasn’t exactly ready for being told that some of the odd...