Taking time each day to daydream or walk without sensory input from a phone is a form of beneficial defocusing

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The Children's Ombudsman for Sardinia launched a restaurant screen ban initiative to curb excessive screen time among individuals up to 18 years of age

Fifteen restaurants in Sardinia, Italy, joined a pilot program titled 'a tavola senza schermi' to ban smartphones at family dining tables

Participating restaurants in Sardinia provide dining families who surrender their mobile devices with 'reunion kits' designed to facilitate table conversation

Katherine May recommends limiting news consumption to once per day using reliable, curated sources

Alpha-yohimbine, also known as rauwolscine, acts on the adrenergic system to stimulate alertness and promote fat loss

L-tyrosine is an amino acid precursor to dopamine that enhances cognitive focus at dosages between 500 and 1,000 milligrams

Alpha-GPC functions as a choline donor that acts directly on acetylcholine neurotransmitter pathways to heighten focus

Supplementation with 300 to 600 milligrams of Alpha-GPC increases mental focus without inducing caffeine-like jitteriness

In sleep-deprived subjects, a single high dose of creatine improved cognitive processing capacity and short-term memory

The cognitive shuffling method involves choosing a random word and then visualizing a new, unrelated word for each letter of the initial word

Cognitive shuffling is a mental technique used to help a person fall back asleep after waking up

Due to severe short-term memory problems, former NFL player George Visger must write everything down in a notebook to function

A single embarrassing social mistake can become the dominant memory of an otherwise positive event

When a person is in a negative emotional state, their brain tends to automatically recall negative memories of past regrets or social blunders

Rats given ad libitum access to a sugar solution during adolescence show hippocampal-dependent memory deficits as adults

Consuming a non-nutritive sweetener like stevia does not produce the same acetylcholine release pattern in the hippocampus as consuming caloric food

In rodents, exercise can reverse the memory deficits caused by a Western diet

Vagal nerve stimulation devices have been shown to rescue memory impairments caused by an unhealthy diet in animal models

Reintroducing the bacteria Lactococcus was able to reverse memory impairments in rats fed a heat-treated diet

Rats fed a junk food diet during development show memory impairments that persist even after they are switched to a healthy diet