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...cognitive stimulation. Note on Hydration Guidance: The hydration advice in the videos and transcripts reflects guidance from six years ago. While the core message remains important, updated academic recommendations now recognise that hydration can come from a variety of sources. The current advice is: "Keep well hydrated throughout your day. Water, milk with your cereals,...

...cognitive struggles, sensory overwhelm and self-doubt, especially for those with neurodivergent traits. This personal account explores the challenges of balancing career, health and self-advocacy while seeking the right medical and lifestyle support...This is a personal story of how I experienced neurodivergence and menopause coming together. Our hormones are part of a...

...Cognitive stimulation The coronavirus pandemic necessitates that we take several measures to protect ourselves and others in our communities. The latest evidence says that our communities, and individuals in them, will suffer less if measures of social distancing and self-isolation are introduced. Following the advice of the World Health Organisation, in March 2020 the UK...

...cognitive skills (memory and thinking) can be challenging. So, let’s have a look what happens when our brains are ageing and how we can prevent brain decline (memory and thinking) as we grow older in a few simple steps. It is an urban myth that every older person will develop dementia and in reality, it is a spectrum from normal age-related decline through to a...

...cognitive processes. Memory is just one specific part of our broader thinking skills, influenced by and interacting with lots of other types of cognitive factors.When people talk about changes to their memory they often talk as if memory is one distinct thing and the only thing that influences our thinking skills. But memory is just one specific part of our broader...

...cognitive dissonance Values are simply the things that are important to us, in the way we live and work: the characteristics and behaviours that motivate us and guide our decisions. They ‘should’ determine our priorities and, unconsciously, often tell us if our lives are the way we want them to be (feeling unhappy and ‘stuck’, or happy and fulfilled). However,...