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...brain imaging illuminated the creative process...
...jump-start his creative juices, the Pulitzer winner and best-selling author (Den of Thieves) practices piano for an hour each morning. "The thorniest kind of music, like Bach, is best," he says. "It refreshes the brain because you can't do it unless you exclude everything else and concentrate." To stay creative, he believes, one must cultivate curiosity. "I love reading the paper with an eye to what's missing. I get all kinds of ideas from that...
...Jerusalem by helicopter but decided it would be too rough a ride, instead opting to transport him by ambulance to Hadassah hospital. He was still conscious when his convey arrived in Jerusalem 48 min. later, but his condition soon deteriorated. An MRI scan revealed a serious brain hemorrhage. Sharon underwent a two-stage operation that lasted more than eight hours. After another surgery on Friday morning, Sharon was in a medically induced coma and attached to a respirator. "Sharon won't come back to be a decision-making person," Moty Ravid, professor of medicine at Tel Aviv University, said...
...live in an age that's gushing with information and dizzying possibilities. You can almost feel your brain cells crackling to keep up with the choices?trivial and profound?that confront us at every turn: picking a cell-phone plan or an on-demand movie, selecting the best mix of investments in a 401(k) or the right health plan or just knowing which eggs to buy at the supermarket. (Cage free? Organic? Omega-3 enriched?) Surely there has never been a greater need to stay alert and informed, to act shrewdly and remain focused...
...which research is showing us how to nurture and maintain our mental faculties?from infancy through the golden years?and how to deter what was once seen as an inevitable decline. Some new findings confirm what we have always suspected: Grandma was right?fish really is brain food; a steaming cup of joe actually does turbocharge our mental acuity; getting less than eight hours of sleep seriously compromises our ability to concentrate and solve problems...