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• Crazy Meds
  www.crazymeds.org
  Crazy Meds is a helpful guide to psychiatric medications written by the people who use them, with blunt honesty, more scientific rigor than you'd expect. Before you start popping Paxil (or anything else), go to Crazy Meds to check out the pros and cons.
• Go Ask Alice!
  www.goaskalice.com
  A health question-and-answer site run by Columbia University’s Health Promotion Program, Go Ask Alice! is a great place to ask embarrassing medical questions anonymously. Check out the especially insightful hangover tips.
• LogoGame
  www.logogame.com
  Puzzles help keep the brain strong and supple. The object of this puzzle is to guess the company or organization by a fragment of its logo. It’s harder than it sounds. If you want to test just how well marketers have emblazoned their brand image into your mind, take one of the many tests, each with its own theme. Guess them all right and you get the honor of having your name immortalized in the LogoGame Hall of Fame.
• b.dazzle inc.
  www.b-dazzle.com
  Producers of gifts, games and fun now have a Scrambled Squares Puzzle. Touted as “Easy to Play, But Hard to Solve” and named as one of the 10 best educational products by the Institute for Childhood Resources, the game is a modern day matching game with facts and trivia on 119 different topics. Appropriate for ages 4 to 104.

HOO News

Eat eggs with your crossword puzzle and listen to music daily to boost your brain power and competitive your edge. Staying sharp mentally can be a way to increase productivity. Here’s HOO’s news on how...

• The BIG D: Diet
  We know diet impacts our physical health. The right diet can do wonders for your mental health. You’ve been told since grade school that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It still is! Breakfasts high in protein help you perform better and breakfasts high in fiber make for positive cognitive reasoning. A Boston University study revealed the positive effects of eggs on memory. Eggs are high in choline, which is used by your body to produce the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, low levels of which have been linked to sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease. Breakfast is not enough. Be sure to eat a well-balanced diet throughout the day to maintain peak mental capability.
• Wrap your head around Puzzles
  Puzzles play an integral role in the cognitive development of children. But puzzles are beneficial to adults, too. AARP recommends puzzles for anyone looking to break up their routine and work on their spatial intelligence. Puzzles can break up a dulling routine, forcing the brain to work from a new and fresh perspective.
• Listen to Music.
  Mozart may improve cognitive abilities, improved mathematical and spatial reasoning, some studies show. Many scientists believe music boosts brain power just by the way it makes listeners feel, which is often more relaxed yet more stimulated at the same time.