To improve cognition without impairing your capacity to get a good night’s sleep, enhance the lighting in your work or study area.

Brain health is likely to benefit from routine social interaction, exercise, and enriching activities.

Your custom playlist of stimulating music may help you achieve flow and improve your performance.

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Effective anger management practices increase calm and turn down the heat. Arousal decreasing activities are effective no matter how they are delivered, such as via therapist, online platform, or researchers during a study. Arousal increasing activities, such as venting, jogging, cycling, or hitting a punching bag, are ineffective overall.

: Interacting with dogs is likely to lower your stress, improve your mood and capacity to relax, and empower your attention, concentration, and creativity.

To increase longevity, we all need exercise, including strength training. Women, who may put the needs of others before their own, should invest in the health benefits of both aerobic exercise and strength training.

Moderate to vigorous physical activity is associated with better sleep quality, fewer sleep disruptions, and less daytime tiredness.

Burnout is a condition that results in exhaustion, cognitive and emotional impairment, psychological distress, and physical symptoms.

Binge eating may be increased by either cannabis use, alcohol use, or both. The relationship between overconsumption of food and cannabis and/or alcohol use is complex. If you struggle with binge eating, it may be exacerbated by cannabis or alcohol.

Taking a structured dance program for at least 6 weeks improved psychological and cognitive health, and in some cases outperformed other forms of exercise, in all populations

Getting 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night is likely to help protect your brain from stroke or dementia.

A daily multivitamin and mineral supplement is likely protective against cognitive decline.

Exercise, anything that raises your heart rate, improves your brain’s reaction time. Dopamine contributes to improved reaction time on cognitive tasks. By increasing dopamine levels, exercise may also improve depression symptoms and minimize age-related dopamine declines.

A healthy plant-based diet offers a significant protective cardiometabolic advantage compared with a healthy omnivorous diet.

Exercise is neuroprotective because it helps to maintain brain size as we age.

Fresh starts like exercise, healthy food, better sleep, gratitude practice, therapy, and spending time with special people and pets can help with wintertime blues.

Stress management practices, including exercise and meditation, help protect against the harmful effects of stress hormones on the memory-processing hippocampus.

If you, or a child you know, has suffered from an adverse childhood experience, mental health treatments can help heal the impacts on brain and mental health.