Publication Date: November 17, 2008 (New: This Week) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description Fun and easy exercises fight the effects of mental aging and keep the mind fit to meet any challenge.
An active brain is a healthy brain. When you exercise the brain, you strengthen, preserve, and grow brain cells. Based on cutting-edge research from leading neurobiology labs, Neurobics?a unique system of brain exercises?can help you stay sharper longer.
If you're right-handed, try brushing your teeth with your left hand. Shower with your eyes closed. Take a completely new route to work. When you shake up your usual routines, you introduce the unexpected to your brain. When you use all of your senses, you activate underused nerve pathways and connections.
Recommended for anyone over 40, Neurobics is mental cross-training, not pencil-and-paper puzzles, and the gym is everyday life. Try these exercises while getting up, commuting, working, eating, shopping, or relaxing. Enjoy the benefits of a limber brain?no more lost punch lines, no more names on the tip of your tongue, no more senior moments.
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SORRY, BUT YOUR NAME ESCAPES ME November 17, 2008
This little audio book is a gem! Many of us have had the sad experience of watching an older person who is dear to us decline mentally, perhaps it is dementia, Alzheimers. Whatever the case memory is impaired. Perhaps we then see ourselves in the same condition some years hence. Not necessarily so say the co-authors of Keep Your Brain Alive, one a Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University, the other a researcher whose work focused on brain development.
They suggest simple yet fun exercises that "help stimulate the production of nutrients that grow brain cells to keep the brain younger and stronger." Put quite simply, there are areas of our brains that we do not use. Areas in frequent use produce new nerve cells, the unused areas simply fade away and die. Studies seem to indicate that memory loss may be due to always using those familiar areas while neglecting others.
The authors propose 83 exercises that will stimulate these little traveled paths, such as brushing your teeth with the hand that you do not normally use. It is explained that when you do this you're forcing another area of the brain to do the work. Try taking your morning shower with your eyes closed - again putting another area of your brain to work. How about not speaking at dinner, allowing your contact with one another to be visual rather than oral?
Simple suggestions? Yes. But, intriguing ideas and you know what is said about an ounce of prevention.
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