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    The document provides an overview of recent research on how to maintain and improve brain health. It discusses findings that meditation and exercise can benefit the brain by physically transforming brain structures and protecting against Alzheimer's. While multitasking seems efficient, it can reduce the quality of thinking and output. The document also notes that creativity often emerges from steady thought, not flashes of insight. And contrary to common beliefs, brain function generally remains strong into midlife and does not necessarily decline after 40. The research highlights ways to nurture the brain across all stages of life through diet, sleep, mental and physical activity, and relaxation.

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    The document provides an overview of recent research on how to maintain and improve brain health. It discusses findings that meditation and exercise can benefit the brain by physically transforming brain structures and protecting against Alzheimer's. While multitasking seems efficient, it can reduce the quality of thinking and output. The document also notes that creativity often emerges from steady thought, not flashes of insight. And contrary to common beliefs, brain function generally remains strong into midlife and does not necessarily decline after 40. The research highlights ways to nurture the brain across all stages of life through diet, sleep, mental and physical activity, and relaxation.

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    HOW TO TUNEUP

    YOUR BRAIN In a special report, TIME explores the latest research on how
    to stay mentally sharp. In a complex world, it's news we all need
    output. Daily meditation physically trans-
    forms the cerebral cortex. Physical exer-
    INSIDE WE LIVE IN AN AGE THAT'S GUSH ING WITH cise may be as important as mental gym-
    THIS information and dizzying possibilities. You nastics in keeping Alzheimer's disease at
    SECTION
    can almost feel your brain cells crackling bay. Baby Einstein-type videos make a
    to keep up with the choices—trivial and poor substitute for human interaction in
    profound—that confront us at every turn: stimulating a tender young mind. And
    picking a cell-phone plan or an on-demand perhaps the most unexpected and com-
    movie, selecting the best mix of investments forting, recent research confirms that the
    in a 401(k) or the right health plan or just human brain retains an astonishing de-
    knowing which eggs to buy at the super- gree of plasticity and capacity for learning
    market. (Cage free? Organic? Omega-3 throughout life. In some respects, our
    enriched?) Surely there has never been mental performance, despite a few
    a greater need to stay alert and informed, glitches with short-term memory,
    STAYING ON
    TRACK to act shrewdly and remain focused. doesn't peak until midlife, when
    CURES FOR Luckily, we also live in an era in which the white matter in the loftiest
    MULTITASKING parts of the
    MANIA
    research is showing us how to nurture
    and maintain our mental faculties—from brain is
    SECRETS OF infancy through the golden years—and thickest.
    CREATIVITY
    how to deter what was once seen as an In the fol-
    AN EXPERT
    SHATTERS SOME inevitable decline. Some new findings lowing pages,
    FAMILIAR MYTHS confirm what we have always suspected: TiME offers a
    THE MIND
    Grandma was right—fish really is brain wealth of new
    AT M I D L I F E food; a steaming cup of joe actually does discoveries and
    WHY IT ISN'T turbocharge our mental acuity; getting practical infor-
    ALL DOWNHILL
    AFTER 4 0
    less than eight hours of sleep seriously mation to guide you
    compromises our ability to concentrate in the care and mainte-
    PREVENTING and solve problems. nance of your mental faculties.
    ALZHEIMER'S
    HOW EXERCISE, But some findings are unexpected, Pay careful attention. Don't get dis-
    OIET AND GAMES even counterintuitive. Creativity, for in- tracted. But don't stress too much either;
    MAY HELP stance, rarely strikes in a Hash but more relaxation is a balm for the overtaxed
    typically results from steady cogitation. brain. —By Claudia Wallis
    Multitasking, for all its seeming efficiency,
    can exact a heavy toll on the quality of our
    Illustration for TIME by eboy.com
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    A TIME investigation of the lobbyist
    who's turning Washington inside out
    BY KAREN TUMULTY

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