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John B. Arden, "Rewire Your Brain 2.0: Five Healthy Factors to a Better Life" (Jossey-Bass, 2023)

New Books in Psychology

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The Importance of Exercise in the Treatment of Chronic Inflammation

LZ Granderson: What helps our brain help isn't about getting smarter or developing tricks to think more cleverly. It's really about some of the choices we make about how we spend our time and how we interact with other people, right? LZ: We're a species that's incredibly social and people that are isolated actually die sooner. Areas of their brain literally shrink like this area that you and I always exercise called the temporal parietal junction on the right side. And so if you're not learning on a regular basis, you're not building new connections between neurons.

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