Brain Fitness: A Proven Programm to Improve Your Memory, Logic**

Le Poncin, Monique, and Levine, Michael, and Levine, Michel (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0449903486 / ISBN 13: 9780449903483

Published by Ballantine Books, 1990

About this Item

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 216 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. SC 54 Fine. No dust jacket as issued.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0010550

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Brain Fitness: A Proven Programm to Improve Your Memory, Logic**
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0449903486
• ISBN 13: 9780449903483
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: American ed.

About this title

Synopsis

Provides a series of games, puzzles, and exercises to revitalize and strengthen the memory, logic, attention span, and other mental powers to retard the aging process

Reviews

With age, many of us experience lapses of memory, concentration, and reasoning power. This nonpathological cerebral dysfunction can be prevented or corrected, according to Le Poncin, the founder of a French institute on cerebral aging. While they admit that the program outlined in this book is based on scientific hypotheses, the authors cite experiments which suggest that certain kinds of degeneration can be overcome. A brief explanation of brain mechanisms is followed by a month's worth of practice exercises. Emphasizing speed and diversification, these exercises purport to develop perceptive, logical, verbal, structural, and visual/spatial abilities. After much initial failure and frustration, this reviewer's "efficiency rating" dramatically increased, though whether from simple improvement as a test-taker or actual improvement in mental fitness is unclear. A best seller in Europe, according to the publisher, this self-help book will undoubtedly find an audience among general readers eager to "improve" their minds.
- Laurie Bartolini, Lincoln Lib., Springfield, Ill.
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