Building Mental Muscle: Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones - Softcover

Gamon, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916410625 ISBN 13: 9780916410629

Publisher: Allen D. Bragdon Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

For example:
· How your brain processes new information
· How it stores and retrieves data from memory
· How it solves problems, recognizes faces, and handles fear

Take your pick of the 76 fascinating, mind-opening Exercise Puzzlers.

Research has proven that engaging mind-exercises can change your brain’s structure to your advantage even if it has begun to slow down with age.

See how your temperament and skills rate in dozens of self-tests.

For example:
· Identifying the temperament type you were born with
· Rating your social intelligence
· Taking your personality inventory
· Gauging your level of self consciousness

Breakthrough after breakthrough in research is revolutionizing ideas about how the brain works.

Here is just a sampling of the 58 readable reports you can put to good use right away:
· Ways to learn faster and trick your brain into storing information permanently
· How women’s and men’s brains process information differently
· How to take advantage of brief “windows of opportunity” to teach infants skills before they lose the ability to learn easily
· How to change your mood without drugs or therapy
· How you can raise or lower your body’s level of hormones that nurture or destroy brain cells

Your own doctor may not yet have read about some of the research findings in this book.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Building Mental Muscle is one of the most stimulating books ever written about how the brain works and how you can maintain, even increase, your own mental ability. It will help you develop skills in six important areas:
 
* Memory * Emotions * Language * Math * Visualization * Executive Planning & Social Interaction
 
The authors have distilled the latest findings in brain research into fascinating short reports accessible to all readers, adding exercises and self-tests designed to stimulate the cells in different brain zones. A skill used in one domain can cross over into another: For example, when you learn the pattern of number intervals in mathematics, you may perceive a pattern of musical intervals for the first time, and thus enjoy music even more. The exercises and puzzles are intriguing challenges; the self-tests offer many opportunities to rate your social intelligence, take your personality inventory, and gauge working memory.
 
For anyone interested in self-improvement and in how the brain really works, Building Mental Muscle is essential reading.
 
Some of the research findings in Building Mental Muscle include:
 
* The simple lifestyle changes that can boost the rate at which your brain grows neurons to keep your memory sharp
* Ways to trick your emotional brain into storing new information permanently and how to retrieve it from memory when needed
* How women's and men's brains process information differently
* How brains respond to stress, solve problems, recognize faces, and handle fear
* The discovery of a hitherto unknown class of receptor cells in your eyes that your brain uses to set its own internal clock
* How to change your mood without drugs or therapy
* What you can do to combat or even reverse the gradual decline of cognitive skills as you age
 
Your doctor may not have read about some of the research findings in this book.
 
Allen D. Bragdon, the founder of the Brainwaves Center, is the founding editor of Games magazine and former editor of the New York Times "Playspace" puzzle column syndicated internationally in the 1980s. He lives on Cape Cod. David Gamon, Ph.D., holds advanced degrees in the cognitive sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, California.

About the Author

Allen D. Bragdon is the founding editor of Games magazine and the author of many books on enhancing brain function including Exercises for the Whole Brain, Right-Brain Teasers, How Sharp Is Your Pencil? and, with David Gamon, Building Mental Muscle, Building Left-Brain Power, and Use It or Lose It!.

David Gamon Ph.D., neuroscience researcher, author and editor, holds advanced degrees in the cognitive sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allen D. Bragdon Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0916410625
• ISBN 13: 9780916410629
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320