Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Mental Flexibility Improved By Reading Literature With One Important Quality

You need this because you have to design your own recovery solutions. Your doctor and therapists do not seem to have any useful stroke protocols that get you anywhere close to 100% recovery.  You need mental flexibility. I bet Wordsworth and Shakespeare would qualify and they also boost the brain.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2016/03/reading-this-type-of-literature-can-improve-your-mental-flexbility.php?
People who read poetry and other texts that required them to re-evaluate the meaning showed fascinating changes to patterns of activation in the brain.
Rather than always being guided by habits, people with greater mental flexibility are better at seeking out new solutions.

More at link.

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