Understanding how your brain works and its incredible ability to change throughout your lifetime – for better or for worse – could help you discover the importance of brain fitness and also distinguish between brain myths & brain facts.
For example, many of us might still complete crossword and Sudoku puzzles believing that we are improving our cognitive functions. But do these brain games actually make a difference to our brain’s overall fitness level?
Review the resources below to gain more insight into how your brain works, common brain myths, and some steps you can take to keep your brain in shape:
- Important Facts & Common Myths
Our brains are extremely complex and often misunderstood. Check out important facts and common myths about how your brain works. - Keeping Your Brain in Shape
There’s more to brain fitness than brain training exercises. Learn about everyday habits and brain fitness tips that help to support your brain’s well-being. - Plasticity of Your Brain
The effectiveness of brain fitness training is based on the principles of brain plasticity – the ability of your brain to change throughout your lifetime. Learn more about brain plasticity and how it can improve your life. - Brain Tricks & Teasers
Our brains can do amazing things – but they can also play tricks on us! Try out a wide variety of brain teasers and learn how they work. - Memory Improvement & Loss
Learn about the different types of memory that we all use everyday as well as many causes for memory loss.
- Brain Image Gallery
View our gallery of images including brain anatomy as well as the auditory and visual systems. - The DynamicBrain Newsletter
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Learn More Below
- Important Facts & Common Myths
- The Brain Basics
- Facts About the Brain
- Baby Talk
- Babies Brain's Neurons
- Eyes Blind Spots
- Brain Measurements
- Blood Used by Your Brain
- Oxygen Used by Your Brain
- Brain Rapid Growth
- Ears Emit Sounds
- Reptiles Yawn!
- Your Little Brain
- Small Hole Magic!
- Miles of Neurons
- Newborns Distinguish Speech
- No Blind Spot for Octopus
- No Pain in Brain
- Peripheral Vision at Night
- Reading Aloud and Child Developmen
- Scratching an Itch
- Working Memory Capacity
- Brain Myths
- The Ten Percent Brain Myth
- Right-brained? Left-brained?
- Brain Damage is Permanent
- Five Brain Facts (Video)
- Put Your Knowledge to the Test with a Crossword Puzzle
- How Hearing Works
- How Vision Works
- Your Brain in Love
- Menopause and Your Brain
- What is Chemobrain?
- Keeping Your Brain Fit
- Plasticity of Your Brain
- Brain Tricks & Teasers
- Memory Improvement & Loss
- Research in Specific Health Conditions
- Brain Image Gallery
- Brain Healthy Foods Nutrition
- Brain Healthy Recipes
- Spiced Carrot Soup
- Sweet and Sour Indian Chicken
- Lebanese Turmeric Cake
- Chana Masala with Mushrooms
- Chana Masala with Mushrooms
- Mediterranean Tuna Sandwich
- Soy & Sesame Wild Salmon
- Sardine, Chickpea & Celery Salad
- Orecchiette with Spinach, Shrimp & Garlic Chips
- Brain Healthy Foods and Ingredients
- Spicy Lime Black Beans
- Cannellini and Tomato Panade
- Napa Farmhouse 1885 Beans & Greens
- Spinach Dhal
- Potato Salad with Yogurt Vinaigrette
- Arctic Char with Yogurt Sauce
- Yogurt with Honey Baked Figs
- Stuffed Artichokes with Gremolata
- Banana Bread Pudding
- Sageberry Popsicles
- No-Sugar Sesame Cookies
- Chocolate Fudge and Fruit
- Broccoli Kale Soup
- Spinach & Caramelized Onion Tart
- Oatmeal Blackcurrant Pancakes
- Lemony Collard Greens
- Brain Healthy Recipes
- The DynamicBrain Newsletter