3. What the brain looks like

8. Oxygen
Your brain needs to be primed with oxygen. It gets this from exercise. You also get oxygen from iron in red meat, green leafy vegetables, dried fruit, breakfast cereals, and baked beans.

9. Don't skip breakfast (or lunch)
Your brain will perform less well if you haven't eaten. Brain scientists have shown that test results are lower when students haven't eaten.
Slow-releasing carbs
are best
eg. beans on toast
Banana

10. Water
Don't go thirsty. Dehydration seriously affects your brain's performance.  

11. The brain needs to pump the oxygen-rich
Exercise
The brain needs to pump the oxygen-rich
blood to reach every capillary.
Exercise improves your memory capacity
Exercise helps reaction time
so you can process
information quicker.

12. Sleep
Possibly the most effective thing for your brain is a good night's sleep. As you rest,
the brain consolidates all the
day's new learning.
One hour less sleep can
affect your test scores
the next day. To maximise
revision, take 5 minutes
rest every hour.

13. Brains need rest sleep at least 8 hours every

17. Avoid caffeine
Too much Caffeine overstimulates the brain energy is wasted getting rid of the caffeine.
Similar effects occur with video games which affect sleep because the brain is still active.

21. Attention is made up of different parts – attention for things that we see and hear, selective and divided attention.
Attention is impacted by factors such as lack of sleep, chemicals in our system such as caffeine, sugar and alcohol.
Caffeine overstimulates the brain and makes it harder to concentrate -this then impacts on ability to learn.
Memory is made up of encoding (getting information in) and retrieval (pulling information out, ‘remembering’). Use strategies to help encode and retrieve -= mnemonics.