The Brain Fitness Book: Activities and puzzles to keep your mind active and healthy

by Rita Carter

A balanced, scientific, and practical approach to monitoring and maintaining your brain's agility and mental health.How do you expand your brain's skills? How do you keep your brain working at its best as it ages?Bookshelves are full of writing by charismatic authors claiming they have found the answer, whether they are neuroscientists, psychologists, or mystics. The Brain Fitness Book looks at the well-established science and recent scientific revelations, and offers a well-balanced, clear, and colorful practical guide to keeping your brain fit.First, it shows you how your brain works--explaining how memories are stored and recalled, for instance, and how different parts of your brain have different functions. It then gives you practical advice and a whole range of exercises to improve memory and mental agility and keep your brain working to its maximum potential. The book includes mental exercises and activities, featuring challenges from logic puzzles and visual reasoning to language learning and sensory exercises, stimulating as many parts of the brain as possible. As well as mental stimulation, the book highlights the role and importance of sleep, a healthy diet, and physical exercise. An agile, healthy brain is not only less prone to age-related decline, it can also conquer stress, anxiety, and the risk of depression. Keep challenging your mind in new ways with The Brain Fitness Book and maintain your brain.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology

191 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 20, 2021

About the author

Rita Carter is a science writer, lecturer and broadcaster who specialises in the human brain: what it does, how it does it, and why.

Reviews

[Michael Rowley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the graphic quality of this book. DK is strong with design. The summaries and tips are succinct and solid.
It's the kind of book where the activities, games, and puzzles require engagement. There are expository passages you could read sitting on the sofa, but the puzzles and games require a table, a pencil and paper, or a few friends.

Some of the search-a-word puzzles are best done with a photocopy — unless you're cool with writing your answers in the book. (I got my copy at the library.)

[MK · Rating 3 out of 5]

Until about 10 years ago, it was believed that the human brain deteriorates as we age.

In recent years, however, it has been medically proven that even in old age, cranial nerves develop and memory improves if you read, write, or play an instrument, and your brain moves your body.

Getting older doesn't necessarily mean your brain deteriorates.
Also it is important to eat vegetables and high-quality protein, exercise moderately, and get a good night's sleep. So, life is all about continuing to learn and enjoy it as long as you live.

[Heidi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I especially appreciate the introduction explaining all the science behind keeping your brain fit. As well as the emphasis on physical exercise and the benefits of music, plastic arts, and learning a new language.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

250 - 2022

[Fatma · Rating 4 out of 5]

visually and practically pleasant.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

take some notes. or make some copies. but enjoy.