This author combines a whimsical fascination with puzzles and brain teasers with a profound interest in the human mind. His writings delve into the intricacies of cognition and behavior, drawing from his background as a neuroscientist and founding editor of specialized publications. The author's works offer readers an engaging exploration into the workings of the mind, avoiding the mundane to provide intellectual stimulation. His approach is both analytical and accessible, inviting readers to understand complex concepts.
A crossword puzzle devotee's bonanza: a personal three-month mind-training program, with 182 performance tips and puzzles to increase memory, math, and language dexterity.
Otherwise inaccessible results of current brain research are revealed in this book, making it possible for a layperson to use these valuable findings in the real world in order to refresh diminishing memory skills. Interactive instruments -- puzzles, games, and self-tests -- based on current cognitive research stimulate and renew a wide range of mental abilities, from math to map reading. This book shows how the gradual toll aging exacts on cognitive skills can be slowed down and even reversed, just as aerobic condition and muscle mass can be rebuilt.
Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones
Breakthrough after breakthrough in research is revolutionising ideas about how the brain works. In BUILDING MENTAL MUSCLE, Allen Bragdon and David Gamon bring together cutting edge scientific discoveries to show you how you can maximise on the extraordinary power of the human mind. Why does depression destroy memory faster than age? How can changing your facial expressions actually change your mood? Why is laughter so beneficial? How do men and women's brains function differently? Why are women less likely to suffer permanent language loss from the effects of a stroke? How can nicotine benefit the brain? BUILDING MENTAL MUSCLE explains the complexities of the brain in a straight-forward and fascinating manner aided by illustrations and self tests, detailing how the brain processes new information, how it stores data and how it can trick us. The Brainwaves authors have set conditioning exercises to help you sharpen up the six zones of intelligence - memory, executive/social, mathematical, language, emotional response and spatial visualisation - that will keep your mind at peak performance.
Photos of old household utensils designed for task that are no longer needed. "You well give the right hemisphere of your brain a workout by trying to identify the function of these household implements"--Foreword.
One hundred and four left-brain, neuron-enhancing exercises to build confidence and positive attitude, plus eighty-seven tips to strengthen job performance skills.
Drawing from the most recent neurological research, this guide translates these findings into techniques, exercises, and self-tests that are designed to stimulate learning and memory retention skills from infancy to old age. Practical insights into the way the brain develops are provided, including what newborns respond to and what a child can understand when-with specific references to the "Mozart Effect" controversy and self-consciousness in the terrible twos. Explained are such hot topics as why studying before sleep uses dreaming to file facts away, how to memorize a fact by using powers of imagination, and what to eat to keep brains alert after lunch.Author Biography: Allen D. Bragdon is the founding editor of Games magazine and the coauthor of Brains That Work a Little Bit Differently, and Use It or Lose It! He lives in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts. David Gamon, Ph.D., is the coauthor of Building Mental Muscle and Building Left Brain Power. He lives in Oakland, California.
Drawing from the most recent neurological research, this guide translates these findings into techniques, exercises, and self-tests that are designed to stimulate learning and memory retention skills from infancy to old age. Practical insights into the way the brain develops are provided, including what newborns respond to and what a child can understand in the terrible twos. Photos.
Rozvíjení psychických schopností i ve vyšším věku má pomoci zejména starším lidem udržet si duševní svěžest.
Trénink obou polovin mozku Soubor 60 cvičení ve formě nejrůznějších hlavolamů a hádanek je určen všem, kdo chtějí rozvinout své vizuální, jazykové, matematické, sociální a další dovednosti mládeži i dospělým. Při luštění a řešení jednotlivých úkolů jsou totiž stimulována různá mozková centra v obou hemisférách. Cvičení jsou doplněna nápovědou a pro kontrolu jsou v knize uvedena i správná řešení. Úkoly jsou dostatečně náročné i pro zkušené řešitele a díky nápovědám jsou dostupné i ostatním.Allen D. Bragdon a Leonared Fellows jsou zakladatelé nakladatelství Allen D. Bragdon Publishers, které vydává knihy s nejnovějšími informacemi o fungování mozku. V Portálu vyšlo několik oblíbených knih převzatých z tohoto nakladatelství: Nedovolte mozku stárnout, Hry pro levou polovinu mozku, Když mozek pracuje jinak.
