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It’s never too late to improve your brain.
Achieving and maintaining a higher level of mental fitness can be surprisingly fun-and to your brain, it’s healthy exercise. In this follow-up volume to her bestselling 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young, Nancy Linde offers a brand-new collection of puzzles, trivia challenges, brainteasers, and word games that are not only great fun to do but specifically designed to give your brain the kind of workout that stimulates neurogenesis, the process that allows the brain to grow new cells.
This is the kind of exercise you’ll want to do, and all it takes is 10 to 15 minutes a day for a full workout.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Nancy Linde created and runs Never2Old4Games.com, an online subscription service for Activity Professionals working with senior citizens at Independent and Assisted Living Residences, Retirement Communities, Senior and Adult Day Centers, and Rehabilitation Centers. She has produced, written and directed more than a dozen documentary films, most notably for the PBS series, NOVA, which is produced at WGBH in Boston. Nancy also spent a year living in London and working at the BBC. She currently lives in Belmont, MA.
Philip D. Harvey, Ph.D., is the Leonard M. Miller Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Division of Psychology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and author of several books on aging and cognition.
Zusammenfassung
It’s never too late to improve your brain.
Achieving and maintaining a higher level of mental fitness can be surprisingly fun—and to your brain, it’s healthy exercise. In this follow-up volume to her bestselling 399 Games, Puzzle & Trivia Challenges Designed to Keep Your Brain Young, Nancy Linde offers a brand-new collection of puzzles, trivia challenges, brainteasers, and word games that are not only great fun to do but are specifically designed to give your brain the kind of workout that stimulates neurogenesis, the process that allows the brain to grow new cells.
Cross-train your brain by targeting 6 key cognitive functions: Long-term memory, working memory, executive functioning, attention to detail, multitasking, and processing speed.
This is the kind of exercise you’ll want to do, and all it takes is 10 to 15 minutes a day for a full workout.
Vorwort
Puzzles and games not just to entertain, but to help adults aged 50 and over improve their main cognitive functions, by a professional who works with seniors and vetted by a neuroscientist.
