{"id":153026,"date":"2022-12-17T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T17:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/keep-forgetting-things-neuroscience-says-these-8-brain-habits-improve-memory-and-leadership"},"modified":"2022-12-17T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T17:24:42","slug":"keep-forgetting-things-neuroscience-says-these-8-brain-habits-improve-memory-and-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/keep-forgetting-things-neuroscience-says-these-8-brain-habits-improve-memory-and-leadership","title":{"rendered":"Keep Forgetting Things? Neuroscience Says These 8 Brain Habits Improve Memory and Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/keep-forgetting-things-neuroscience-says-these-8-brain-habits-improve-memory-and-leadership2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, neuroscience can help \u2014 both to reassure you that you\u2019re normal, and to provide support for the idea that there are specific habits and practices people can learn in order to improve memory when they need it most. Here are 8 of the most interesting I\u2019ve found over the last couple of years:<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with this one, because it\u2019s oh-so-easy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/bill-murphy-jr\/neuroscience-says-this-kind-of-lighting-can-reduce-brainpower-by-30-percent.html\">Michigan State University researchers<\/a> studied whether Nile grass rats exhibited better memory when they were kept in an environment where the lighting resembled a corporate office (think dim fluorescent lighting), or where the lighting resembled a sunny day outside.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, the study found that rats in dim lighting \u201clost about 30 percent of capacity in the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, and performed poorly on a spatial task they had trained on previously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, neuroscience can help \u2014 both to reassure you that you\u2019re normal, and to provide support for the idea that there are specific habits and practices people can learn in order to improve memory when they need it most. Here are 8 of the most interesting I\u2019ve found over the last couple of years: Let\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}