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Teaching in Higher Ed

How to Keep Our Brains Sharp

Apr 24, 2025 · 44 min · Episode 567 · 21.7 MB
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Therese Huston shares about Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science on episode 567 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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As an instructor, there are multiple streams that you're having to pay attention to and you're switching between each one.

As an instructor, there are multiple streams that you’re having to pay attention to and you’re switching between each one.
-Therese Huston

The research shows that listening to music that moves you will increase dopamine in your ventral striatum, so you feel a sense of reward.
-Therese Huston

Visualizing the process actually increases productivity. The neuroscience shows that you see five times more brain areas activated when you picture the process than when you picture a glorious outcome.
-Therese Huston

If you do just a 5 minute meditation right before you need to recall something, you can get up to a 75% improvement in your recall.
-Therese Huston

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