The difference between a brain that exercises and one that does not exercise is the same between a tree seen in autumn and spring ?, reveals a specialist.
The renowned doctor and psychologist Tomás Ortiz Alonso develops neuroeducational programs in children to activate the brain mechanisms that process information and allow the construction of neural highways of learning, and in this regard he comments that? The difference between a brain that exercises in school in an orderly manner , regular and sustained, and another that does not, is the same that exists between a tree seen in autumn and spring ?.
His research highlights the need to exercise children’s brains in an orderly and systematic way as a key to improving learning, even taking as a reference the leisure time that children have. And as he comments 😕 Leisure is a cultural construction? The brain doesn’t understand it that way, it’s always doing something. Even in the time we call? Free ?, we read or walk or exercise, the brain works, even during sleep. It is proven that if we stimulate it orderlyand systematically and we do it every day with simple things (balance and attention exercises, for example), the neuroplasticity is greater: new neurons are generated in a structure called the hippocampus, associated with memory. And those new connections become stable, which is what is required to learn. On the contrary, when we do not train it, it is difficult for us to resume the rhythm, as happens every Monday.
Another leisure time is sleep, we think that the brain is fully resting but it is not, and not sleeping well has harmful effects. We need five sleep cycles and each one lasts between 90 and 120 minutes. The ideal is to sleep from 7 to 9 hours to have a better memory. When they do not sleep, children are not attentive and this affects their concentration and effectiveness. In these terms, perhaps we could agree that sleep would be the leisure that the brain needs to be able to work at full speed afterwards and retrieve the information it acquired during the day. Children who rest well have a good maturational development. And on the contrary, the little ones who sleep poorly suffer from attention deficit.