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Juggling has been shown to expand the size of the brain. A German study published in the journal, Nature, examined 24 people, half of whom were were randomly assigned to learn and practise [...]

Dr Ellen Langer, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, conducted research to explore whether cultural attitudes and stereotypes about old age can contribute to physical decline.  [...]

4BC Mornings: Dr Helena Popovic is a medical doctor and author of In Search of My Father. She speaks to Greg about what she discovered while caring for her father with dementia. She says we can [...]

Several times throughout each day, empty your mind and switch off your thinking. How?  Didn’t Descartes say, “I think, therefore I am”?  He did.  But he wasn’t entirely correct.  We [...]

Every year during the last two weeks in April I avidly attend the German Film Festival which takes place in most capital cities throughout Australia.  Several years ago, I lived in Germany for [...]

Our focus acts as both a magnifying glass and a magnet. In other words, whatever we put our attention on, expands in our life. Whatever we talk about, we see more of. Whatever we think about, we [...]

Although we are capable of multi-tasking, we are not capable of multi-focusing: neither the male nor the female brain can focus on more than one thing at a time.  If we’re doing three things at [...]

Dr Helena Popovic is the author of ‘In Search of My Father’, a book about her experiences caring for her father who suffers with vascular dementia. Dr Popovic has previously joined us to talk [...]

Ahead of Dementia week, Dr Helena Popovic joins Sally and Murray, in studio with a message that we need more education, not more medication.

The key to breaking (or making) a habit is a brain re-wire. Read the full article here.