The foods you eat directly affects the performance of your brain. It has been proven that by eating the right food, you can boost your IQ, improve your mood, be more emotionally stable, sharpen your memory and keep your mind young.

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Sleep not only protects memories from outside interferences, but also helps strengthen them, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 May 5, 2007.

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Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential.

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Most of the successful people have great powers. The more brain power a person has the more chances of success are there in every competitive field. From a school student, to a research scholar, from a clerk to a CEO of a big company everybody needs brain power to move ahead fast. And fortunately any person can develop his or her brain power with determination and continuous efforts.

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With the exams approaching, adopting an effective study technique becomes one of the most important ways to achieve success. We asked you for your top study tips and here are some of the best.

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Reading a book you don’t want to read is like cutting down a large tree tucked between three houses; it’s best done piece-by-piece, chapter-by-chapter. Here’s how to do it, from Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook.

Some people overindulge on junk foods or needless shopping sprees when they feel depressed. Others lose control the minute they feel happy. Is there a way to avoid such extreme actions? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research demonstrates simple techniques that can help people act in their long-term interests rather than indulging in immediate pleasures.

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We engage in numerous discussions throughout the day, about a variety of topics, from work assignments to the Super Bowl to what we are having for dinner that evening. We effortlessly move from conversation to conversation, probably not thinking twice about our brain’s ability to understand everything that is being said to us. How does the brain turn seemingly random sounds and letters into sentences with clear meaning?

In a new report in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Jos J.A. Van Berkum from the Max Planck Institute in The Netherlands describes recent experiments using brain waves to understand how we are able to make sense of sentences.

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We’ve all had recourse to say: “My head tells me to do one thing, but my heart says do the other.” Sometimes we are forced to make a decision but we feel ourselves to be pulled in opposite directions by reason and emotion.

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