1 Incorporate knowledge of students' experiences in the planning, execution, and evaluation of learning experiences. 2  Explain important principles and concepts delineated within their discipline and link them with professional, state and unit standards.
You may need extra sleep while your brain is trying to heal from the brain injury. Even if you had a mild brain injury, you might have sleep problems. Your brain might also be having a hard time making or using the natural chemicals that help you fall and stay asleep.
1 Sleeplessness may cause brain shrinkage. 2  A 2010 study linked chronic insomniacs to the loss in brain density, and researchers found, as Discovery News wrote, brain imaging has linked chronic insomnia to lower gray matter density in areas that regulate the brain's ability to make decisions and to rest.. A vegetable-heavy diet may cause brain shrinkage. 2  That's a simplistic way of saying a diet with a lack of the vitamin B12. 3  In a counter-intuitive finding in 2008, researchers found that the lack of a diet including the vitamin B12, found in meats and milk, isn't good for the brain.