Teaching in Higher Ed

Teaching in Higher Ed


How to Keep Our Brains Sharp

April 24, 2025

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.



Quotes from the episode

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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