Think Tank: The Neuro Blog
Scientifically Proven Ways to Break Habits
Your bad habits don’t have to run your life. It may take a considerable amount of work, but you can get rid of them all. When you do, you’ll find that you can spend a lot more time doing what you truly love. Here are a few important steps toward breaking free of your habits.
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A Field Guide to Consumer Nootropics
nootropic noun no·ot·ro·pic \ˌnō-ə-ˈtrō-pik\ : a substance that enhances cognition and memory and facilitates learning If you're not familiar with nootropics, that definition is really as simple as they are. Despite the technical sounding name, they're just substances to help give your brain a bump in performance. Here we'll go over some of the current consumer nootropic compounds found in Optimind and Alpha Brain, and the benefits they provide.
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Neuro wins the LA Tech Fair Startup Competition
Neuro founders Kent Yoshimura and Ryan pitched in front of a panel of all-star VC and entrepreneur judges ranging from Indeed.com president Chris Hyams, Upfront Ventures Co-founder Hamet Watt, to Comparably CEO Jason Nazar. Out of the three finalists selected to present, we were able to woo the judges and receive a $10,000 check and recognition from Mayor Eric Garcetti himself.
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Can Meditation Help with Brain Fog?
Having brain fog feels a little bit like waking up on a dreary autumn day. Like any fog, it creeps up on you. It slows you down and makes everything you do feel bleak and gray. Remember, your brain is under your control. So don’t waste your time waiting. Take hold of your brain, and find a way to help it with meditation.
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What Other Energy Gum?
Chewing gum is that perfect delivery method. You can carry enough around in your purse or pocket to get you through a whole day. It absorbs within 15 minutes, so you can get the boost right when you need it. It's a great idea. Great enough that in the past several years there has been a rush to get a caffeinated gum into the mainstream.
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Top Five Ways to Stop Procrastinating
When procrastination gets out of hand, it can truly take on the feeling of having a genuine mental illness, because it can spiral badly. If procrastinating makes you doubt yourself and become depressed, and depression notoriously makes people procrastinate, then you can wind up with some serious attitude problems quickly without realizing where they started.
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How to Increase Your IQ in 5 Steps?
Working on your IQ can be one good way to improve your performance in all walks of life. Many people think that your IQ is entirely genetic and it’s impossible to increase it. The good news is that they’re wrong. Self-improvement is possible!
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Brain Training Apps: Do They Really Work?
Brain training apps are not only just for any sort of past time for athletes or sports practitioners, but also to mentally prepare them for what comes next after packing up sports wears, devotion to healthy diet, and enrolling yourself to an amazing Cross-Fit and Circuit Training coach. How do Brain-training apps affect the cognitive capacities of Cross-Fit and Circuit Enthusiasts?
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Five Negative effects of Social Media on Mental Health
We all know there's good and bad sides to the tools we use to stay social, but there may be more negative effects than we realize. Recently even Facebook has acknowledged that social media can have a negative influence on its users’ mental health. A vast array of recent studies has revealed the potential negative influence of heavy social media use on our psychological well-being. Here are some notes to consider:
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