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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most important thing for your brain is sleep. Also stress management and an anti inflammatory diet. Dr Amen and Andrew Huberman are good resources to learn more.[/quote]

Omg no. Amen is a crock. Huber man has some good stuff but tends to be a bit overconfident in his assertions because that’s more interesting than the truth which is that the evidence for effectiveness of nootropics is not super strong. There are some things that may help but results are mixed. It’s also important to pay attention to whether the participants in studies were people with documented cognitive decline vs. healthy adults. Something that helps people with decline won’t necessarily do anything for healthy people. The placebo effect is a big issue when looking at anything other than double blind experiments. Adequate sleep, nutrition, and reducing stress and still the most effective based on the evidence. Good old caffeine works too.

The neurobiology of cognition is incredibly complex. Memories are stored as patterns of activity within neural networks. Interestingly a recent study showed that targeted brain stimulation improved performance on a verbal memory task. Presumably the stimulation protocol activated neural networks that support this type of learning and memory. No drug can produce this type of targeted activation and most people aren’t going to sign up for brain stimulation on a regular basis. But the developments in the realm of noninvasive brain stimulation (e.g. transcranial direct current stimulation) are fascinating from a scientific standpoint. [/quote]

Why do you say he's a crock? What he shares makes sense. Sleep deprivation, diet and stress affect the brain. I didn't hear anything out of the ordinary that would give me pause.[/quote]
Exactly. A few narrow minded physicians hate Amen for all of his success. They also hate the fact that Dr. Daniel Amen utilizes actual brain scans of his patients. No wild guessing games about what’s going on in your brain, and what could help. Would you apply a cast to your arm without an X-ray? Of course not.
If I could afford Dr. Amen, I’d drive out to Reston in a heartbeat.[/quote]

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