This text uses scientific discovery to reveal how to can maximize on the extraordinary power of the human mind. Why does depression destroy memory faster than age How can changing your facial expression actually change your mood Why is laughter so beneficial How does men and women's brain function differ 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 in the brain in a straight-forward manner, aided by illustrations and tests, detailing how the brain processes new information, how it stores data and how it can trick us. The authors have set conditioning exercises to help sharpen up the six zones of intelligence - memory; executive/social; mathematical; language; emotional response; and spatial visualization.

Building Mental Muscle : Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones

Bragdon, Allen D.

Gamon, David

Pocket_Books

Hardcover 1998 320p. 8.50x5.75x1.10 COVER PICTURE IS DIFFERENT. PUZZLES, EXERCISES, AND SELF - TESTS - ALONG WITH INFORMATION ON THE COGNITIVE ZONES TO WHICH THEY PERTAIN - THE BOOK ILLUMINATES HOW THE BRAIN FUNCTIONS, IDENTIFIES POTENTIAL DIFFICULTIES, AND OFFERS USEFUL POINTERS FOR IMPROVING MENTAL CONDITIONING.

Building Mental Muscle: Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones

Self-Help

Memory Improvement

Barnes&Noble

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 &amp; 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.

Motivational

Walker&Company

Twenty-five tests of mental acuity with scientific scoring norms.

Use It or Lose It!: How to Protect Your Most Valuable Possession (Brain Waves Books)

One hundred and four left-brain, neuron-enhancing exercises to build confidence and positive attitude, plus eighty-seven tips to strengthen job performance skills.

Building Left-Brain Power: Conditioning Exercises and Tips for Left Brain Skills

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.

Brain Building Games: With Words and Numbers

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Walker Books

The most fascinating mental exercises from the New York Times internationally syndicated column "Playspace." They build brain skills in the same way physical exercise builds muscles and stamina. 60 brain-awakening exercises that strengthen connections among the mental centers that control creative-visual, executive-planning, spatial-manipulative, and logical thinking. Each exercise was developed to stimulate a different combination of brain circuits to sharpen mental skills needed to compete professionally and to retard loss of memory and other skills as the brain ages. Yet they are almost addictively fascinating. Optional hints for each exercise make every format accessible to all levels of skill.

Exercises for the Whole Brain

Cake Decorating Simplified: The Roth Method

200 full-color photos. 8 3/4 x 9 1/2.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Rosenberg, Lawrence

Baking

A.D. Bragdon

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.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Allen D. Bragdon Publishers

An entertaining interactive program designed to increase the power of practical language, computational, and mental skills essential to professional and personal success. Includes reports of recent discoveries in the neurosciences with more than 100 tips to help improce performance in real-world problem-solving situations. 14 different formats of progressively more difficult mental-conditioning exercises activate positive-response brain circuits to build neuron-strength and improve mood. Just as physical exercises build muscle groups, they gradually develop skills used in executive, planning, vocabulary, computational calculations, and logical deduction. 5 self-scoring tests measure status. Developed by Games magazine's founder.

Building Left-Brain Power : Left-Brain Conditioning Exercises and Tips to Strengthen Language, Math and Uniquely Human Skills

Brainwaves Books

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Building Mental Muscle : Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones

Building Mental Muscle: Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones

Building Mental Muscle: Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones

Use It or Lose It!: How to Protect Your Most Valuable Possession (Brain Waves Books)

Building Left-Brain Power: Conditioning Exercises and Tips for Left Brain Skills

Brain Building Games: With Words and Numbers

Exercises for the Whole Brain

Cake Decorating Simplified: The Roth Method

Building Mental Muscle: Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones

Building Left-Brain Power : Left-Brain Conditioning Exercises and Tips to Strengthen Language, Math and Uniquely Human Skills