Building Mental Muscle: Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones

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.

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.