Brain Mapping

The Big Picture
Long distance hikers often wonder if the hike changes brain function, if only temporarily. Seeing the big picture or better context, ability to maintain very long attention spans, and creativity are often noticeably increased.
The 'thinking cap' that could unlock your inner genius and boost creativity

Surveillance
Brain scanners trying to pinpoint our virtues within Such endeavors make fMRI experts nervous, says bioengineering professor Kenneth Foster of the University of Pennsylvania. "The relation between brain activity and the kinds of things that people want to use fMRI for — lie detection, detection of consumer preferences — is complex and indirect," Foster says. "At best it gives a crude indication of brain activity."
The 'satellite navigation' in our brains "The hippocampus is crucial for navigation and we use it like a 'sat nav',"

Killing Your Brain
50 Things That Kill Brain Cells

Stress
Panic on Wikipedia
7 Simple Self-Defense Tricks 1. To Survive, Accept the Fact That You May Die
The Definitive Guide to Stress, Cortisol, and the Adrenals: When ‘Fight or Flight’ Meets the Modern World

Feeding Your Brain
Food for thought
Ten Amazing Brain Facts What part of you is only 1 to 3 of your body's mass, yet uses 20% of all the oxygen you breathe? Your brain! Here are ten more brain facts.
Your genes are not your fate Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually increase.
Alternative Energy Source Found ... For Your Brain The new research shows that the brain can switch to lactate during strenuous exercise, using the muscles' byproduct as backup fuel.

Mentally Exercising Your Brain
120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power
Mentat Wiki
22 Ways to Overclock Your Brain
14 Research-Proven Ways To Boost Brain Power
5 Ways to Beef Up Your Brain
Brain Gym
SharpBrains

Physically Exercising Your Brain
How Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter
Playing, and even watching, sports improves brain function

Nootropics Nootropics tend to use synthetic pharmaceuticals to alter brain disorders.
Nootropic
Coffee - Nature's Nootropic

Smart Drugs
The assumption behind smart drugs is that the brain needs certain resources to function optimally. What exactly those resources are is not fully understood. What is clear is that we are burning those resources at ever faster rates, both through poor nutritional practices and the extreme demands of Modern Times.
Phosphatidylserine (PS)
Carlson Labs Memory
Sharp Thought
Vinpocetine A little bit of this stuff goes a long, long way.

Sleep
Why do We Sleep?
How to nap
Brion Gysin's Dreamachine
Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter The Need to Sleep As exciting findings such as these come in more and more rapidly, we are becoming sure of one thing: while we sleep, our brain is anything but inactive. It is now clear that sleep can consolidate memories by enhancing and stabilizing them and by finding patterns within studied material even when we do not know that patterns might be there. It is also obvious that skimping on sleep stymies these crucial cognitive processes: some aspects of memory consolidation only happen with more than six hours of sleep. Miss a night, and the day’s memories might be compromised—an unsettling thought in our fast-paced, sleep-deprived society.
The Healing Power of a Good Night's Sleep
Benefits of Normal Sleep: Solving Your Personal Energy Crisis