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The first time you forget the name of a person you should know, a movie title, or an important meeting, you're likely to exclaimonly half-jokingly"I'm losing it! Read the first page
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SORRY, BUT YOUR NAME ESCAPES ME,
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This review is from: Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness (Audio CD)
This little audio book is a gem! Many of us have had the sad experience of watching an older person who is dear to us decline mentally, perhaps it is dementia, Alzheimers. Whatever the case memory is impaired. Perhaps we then see ourselves in the same condition some years hence. Not necessarily so say the co-authors of Keep Your Brain Alive, one a Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University, the other a researcher whose work focused on brain development.They suggest simple yet fun exercises that "help stimulate the production of nutrients that grow brain cells to keep the brain younger and stronger." Put quite simply, there are areas of our brains that we do not use. Areas in frequent use produce new nerve cells, the unused areas simply fade away and die. Studies seem to indicate that memory loss may be due to always using those familiar areas while neglecting others. The authors propose 83 exercises that will stimulate these little traveled paths, such as brushing your teeth with the hand that you do not normally use. It is explained that when you do this you're forcing another area of the brain to do the work. Try taking your morning shower with your eyes closed - again putting another area of your brain to work. How about not speaking at dinner, allowing your contact with one another to be visual rather than oral? Simple suggestions? Yes. But, intriguing ideas and you know what is said about an ounce of prevention. - Gail Cooke
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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There are books with better ideas for a cheaper price,
By Muthukumar U (Sharjah United Arab Emirates) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness (Paperback)
How we rate a book depends primarily on what we are induced to expect from it. The title suggested that this book would offer ways to increase one's range of thinking styles.Instead, what I found to my disappointment, were trivial exercises that aim to change routine habits. Most of it is about deliberately changing the way we perfrom our routines and mundane daily activities - like closing your eyes and opening your bathroom tap, taking a new route to a familiar destination, getting exposed to strong and unusual smells etc. This might be of help to those who have considerably aged and require any sort of mental stimulation to activate their brain cells. For someone like me, working as a bank clerk at the age of 30, brimming with ideas on creativity and imagination techniques, these exercises really do not make much of a difference. I think what the younger population needs for brain development (not in the physiological sense) is a solid exposure to the different ways of thinking - analytical, logical, creative, lateral, absrtact, visual, holistic, intuitive, pattern-based thinking etc and ways to improve memory. The more tools you have to choose from the more ways you have to tackle and solve a problem. This book doesn't do a thing towards this objective. If you feel what I mentioned in the last paragraph is what you're really looking for, I would whole-heartedly suggest Karl Albrecht's "Brain Power". That book really deserves to move up in the sales ranking. ("Brain Power" focuses on thinking methods. For memory improvement the only book you need to read, in my opinion, is "Your Memory" by Kenneth Higbee). What follows might be an unkind comment, but I should mention it because the title does not suggest it, "Save this title for the time when you are old and senile".
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offers interesting ideas,
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This review is from: Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness (Paperback)
I'm surprised at the response of some other readers of this book. I read the book, and I found that it offered a very interesting explanation of how the brain processes information. A lot of the points that the authors make are perfectly valid. We live in an increasingly complex society, and, as a result, rely on a lot of routines (like taking the same route to work each day, buying the same items at the same stores each day, etc.) to make our way through day-to-day life. The down side of this sort of lifestyle is that these routines are brain deadening. This book offers ideas on ways to break free of mind-numbing daily routines like using the five senses in new ways or taking unexpected approaches to everyday events. Sure, some of the exercises are pretty silly, and I can't say that I've embraced a lot of their ideas, but the basic premise behind neurobics makes sense. I suggest you read the first few chapters on how the brain works and skim through the exercises--essentially use the exercises as a springboard to living a more active, engaging life. The average person will learn a lot about the workings of the brain and may even take a new approach to living their life.
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