299 On-the-Go Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Brain Young
299 On-the-Go Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Brain Young

Author: Nancy Linde

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1523516801

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Give your brain a healthy workout—Anytime, Anywhere. Not just any book of games, this collection by the bestselling author of 399 Games, Puzzles & TriviaChallenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Youngis expertly created to keep your brain in tip-top shape—even while you’re on the go. With its shorter puzzles and portable size, it’s perfect for getting your cognitive exercise in while waiting at the dentist’s office, traveling, or whenever you have a few spare minutes to challenge yourself. Arranged in difficulty from “Easy Does It!” to “Finish Strong!,” these 299 surprisingly fun puzzles target six key cognitive functions: Long-term memory Working memory Executive functioning Attention to detail Multitasking Processing speed

399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young.
399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young.

Author: Nancy Linde

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2012-09-25

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0761168257

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Based on the science that shows that people middle-aged or older who solve word games and brainteasers have a significant cognitive advantage over those who do not, 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges is the illustrated game book specifically created to cross-train the brain. Here are 399 games to stretch, challenge, and push the reader, all of which stimulate the formation of neurons—literally, regrowing the brain. Plus they’re not only good for you, but just plain good—these games are fun. 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia is a lively mix of challenges, riddles, and brainteasers—all vetted by a neuroscientist who specializes in aging brains and designed to work the six key areas of cognitive function that are vulnerable in normal aging: long-term memory, working memory, executive functioning, attention to detail, multitasking, and processing speed. The games are arranged from easiest to most difficult and are labeled according to which cognitive functions they exercise so they can be mixed and matched into a custom “workout.” In just 15 minutes a day, anyone can improve his brain’s strength, flexibility, and long-term health.

Five-Minute Brain Workout
Five-Minute Brain Workout

Author: Kim Chamberlain

Publisher: Skyhorse

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1628734701

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Taking care of your brain is just as beneficial as taking care of the rest of your body. Research has shown that training games help improve memory, concentration, problem-solving skills, processing speed, creativity, and reasoning. The key to such exercise is to constantly learn and regularly challenge your brain’s capabilities with new tasks. Regularly doing series of short, varied tasks will keep your thinking faculties focused and flexible. Five-Minute Brain Workout contains a wide variety of games and puzzles for people who enjoy words and language. There are ten examples of the same kind of game or puzzle with a wide variety of types of each. While the puzzles have specific answers, the games do not, which means you can continue to develop your creativity by doing them more than once and coming up with different answers. And there are enough puzzles and games for a year’s worth of challenging your mind. The book’s contents can be used in any number of ways: to challenge yourself or simply have fun or as a competition against time or other people. These exercises work in many settings: home, work, schoolrooms, training and therapy sessions, and as an icebreaker at social gatherings.

417 More Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young
417 More Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young

Author: Nancy Linde

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0761187405

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Cross-train your brain! Exercising the brain is like exercising the body—with the right program, you can keep your brain young, strong, agile, and adaptable. And like the most effective exercise, you don’t target just one area. This follow-up to the bestselling 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young, offers 417 games that target six key cognitive functions. Here are games to improve long-term memory and games to flex working memory. Games for executive functioning, for attention to detail, for multitasking, and for processing speed. There are puzzles, trivia quizzes, visual challenges, brainteasers, and word games. Best of all, they’re fun—this is the kind of exercise that you’ll want to do—and all it takes is ten to fifteen minutes a day for a full workout.

440 Games, Puzzles & Brain Boosters Specially Designed to Keep Your Mind Sharp
440 Games, Puzzles & Brain Boosters Specially Designed to Keep Your Mind Sharp

Author: Nancy Linde

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Published: 2024-08-27

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 152352796X

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From Nancy Linde's bestselling puzzle series, this book features 440 all-new exercises to challenge—and improve—your brain’s long-term memory, working memory, processing speed, executive function, attention to detail, multitasking skills. Achieving and maintaining a higher level of mental fitness every day can be surprisingly fun—and to your brain, it’s healthy exercise. In this next exciting entry in her bestselling games series (including 399 Games, Puzzle & Trivia Challenges Designed to Keep Your Brain Young with 547,000 in print), 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. With each daily puzzle, cross-train your brain by targeting one of 6 key cognitive functions: Long-term memory, working memory, executive functioning, attention to detail, multitasking, and processing speed. And 75 Brain Boosters—a brand-new feature in this book—will build on the original puzzle and take your brain in a new direction.

Expert Sudoku
Expert Sudoku

Author: Nikoli Publishing

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Published: 2009-11-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780761158356

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Expert Sudoku is an all-new collection of handcrafted puzzles for the expert puzzle-solver. This is the book that challenges skilled solvers and Sudoku-lovers at the top level—every one of the 320 puzzles is rated "difficult." Good luck!

PictoMazes
PictoMazes

Author: Nikoli Publishing

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1523502029

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The next big—and challenging!—idea for the adult activity market from Nikoli, the creators of the original Sudoku puzzles and author of Workman’s bestselling Original Sudoku series, with 1.2 million copies in print. So what is a pictomaze? Created by master puzzle maker Kazuyuki Yuzawa (aka “Mr. King,” for how he sits atop the Japanese puzzle maker’s throne), each pictomaze is an intricate maze that, when solved, reveals an image of an animal. It’s a mental workout, requiring a brain-stretching amount of focus and concentration while testing one’s problem-solving ability and short-term memory. And it’s fun! As the line of your pencil twists and turns, a picture of an animal is slowly revealed. There’s a chimpanzee. A tiger chameleon. A great horned owl. A red panda—and more. Once the animal is complete, the puzzle is solved. Now, color in the path to bring the creature to life, and try the next mystery maze. Problem-solving. Surprise. Mindfulness. This entertaining and engaging activity exercises different parts of the brain at once—allowing players to keep their minds sharp, imaginative, and ever curious.

Keep Your Brain Alive
Keep Your Brain Alive

Author: Lawrence Katz

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2014-03-25

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0761181326

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Over 40? Getting forgetful? Discover the secret of neurobics. Neurobics is a unique brain exercise program that can be done anytime, anywhere. Based on the latest neuroscience, these deceptively simple exercises stimulate brain nutrients to help new brain cells grow. The key to keeping your brain strong and healthy is to break routines and use all five senses in unexpected ways. Offbeat, fun, and easy, these 83 exercises will result in a mind fit to meet any challenge—whether remembering a name, learning a new app, or staying creative in your work.

The Little Book of Big Mind Benders
The Little Book of Big Mind Benders

Author: Scott Kim

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0761179771

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Smart, addictive, challenging, fun, and good for the brain—here, in the irresistible 4" x 6" games format, are more than 450 truly satisfying, mind-expanding, full-color puzzles. It’s like salted peanuts for the puzzle aficionado and boot camp for the neophyte who wants to give his or her mind a workout. Created by puzzle master Scott Kim—a contributor to Games and Discover magazines—and adapted from the bestselling Amazing Mind Benders Page-A-Day Calendar, The Little Book of Big Mind Benders is a cornucopia of spatial puzzles, number challenges, wordplay, visual conundrums, and more. The puzzles are categorized by type but distributed throughout the book in a mixed fashion (i.e., a word puzzle next to a number puzzle next to a visual stumper). Readers can move page by page, working different parts of the brain—or easily find their favorite type of puzzle, going from easy to challenging. Test your knack for patterns with Dot Matrix. Put the pieces together in Assemblies. Deduce the secret word in Letter Swap, or untangle the mangled phrases of Lost in Translation. Plus discover cool twists on Sudoku, far-out ambigrams, Wordezoids, mazes, and number crunches. Answers are included in the back of the book.

Brain Training for Dementia
Brain Training for Dementia

Author: Bridgette Sharp

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-07-11

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781548771195

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Recently the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine issued a report called "Preventing Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A Way Forward." The authors reviewed thirteen different kinds of interventions thought to have an effect on cognitive function, Alzheimer's and dementia (things like diet, nutrition, anti-dementia drugs, exercise, and so on) and concluded that BRAIN TRAINING had the best evidence backing it. Brain Training for Dementia contains a step-by-step program designed to improve * COGNITIVE FUNCTION* MEMORY* WORKING MEMORY* CONCENTRATION* VISUAL WORKING MEMORY* AUDITORY WORKING MEMORY* NEUROMOTOR SKILLS* BRAIN PROCESSING SPEED