Posted 5-15-20 Hi all! Happy Friday to you! Another rainy day in the Ozarks, but I have high hopes. Back to our topic of the week: the brain as a muscle. OK. The brain is NOT a muscle. It uses smooth muscle to help push through and out the bad stuff. If Beta Amyloids are…
Tag: brain games
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 63: Mr. Applegate’s Brain Games: The Brain as a Flexed Muscle
Posted 5-15-20 Happy Thor’s Day! Let’s hammer this week home, what do ya say??? Things are starting to look up in the virus front. Folks are slowly but surely reopening and finding their niche in the new normal. Are things perfect? Even good? No…but they are getting better. In today’s “class”, we will discuss cognitive…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 62: Mr. Applegate’s Brain Games: The Brain is a Muscle, Sort of.
Posted 5/13/20 Hi all! A happy, healthy, Hump Day to each of you and yours. All is well in my humble abode. I will be working in my normal office this fine day, which is always nice and becoming more rare in many circles these days. Today I pick up where we left off yesterday…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 61: Mr. Applegate’s Brain Games: Language, Music, Art, and Brain Games.
Posted 5-12-20 Hi all! Happy Tuesday to all! Kind of a cold, rainy day here in the Ozarks. The KY3 weather app today says rain with a high of 50 and a low of… 50. One thing they are sure of? It will be 50 today. 😉 That reminds me a little of choosing true…
Is the Brain a Muscle?
Posted 8-28-19 Maybe the title would be better stated “Is the brain LIKE a muscle”? I have wondered that ever since mom was diagnosed with a “mild kind of dementia” around a decade ago. Can brain exercise prevent dementia? Can it slow the progression? Did it slow the progression with mom? I mean, she played…