Learning new coordinated physical skills like dancing seems to be more effective at offsetting cognitive decline than just cardiovascular exercise or resistance training.

People who age very slowly, known as superagers, have a hyperactive anterior mid-cingulate cortex, suggesting they regularly engage in challenging activities.

The brain's willpower center, the anterior mid-cingulate cortex, grows specifically when you engage in challenges that you do not enjoy.

To stop mindlessly scrolling, delete the addictive social media app from your phone and reinstall it each time you want to use it to create a behavioral barrier.

A Nobel prize-winning neuroscientist chews nicotine gum to offset the age-related loss of dopaminergic and cholinergic neurons.

The modern definition of shift work is having at least a two-hour variance in your sleep-wake cycle more than three nights a week, which applies to most people.

The practice of Yoga Nidra, a form of NSDR, has been shown in human imaging studies to increase dopamine levels by up to 60%.

You can test if you are highly hypnotizable with the Spiegel eye roll test: if you can keep your gaze up while closing your eyelids, you are.

The anterior mid-cingulate cortex is linked to the will to live, which may explain why terminal cancer patients who psychologically fight the disease often live longer.