How Puzzles Improve Your Brain

How Puzzles Improve Your Brain

Author: Richard Restak

Publisher: Souvenir Press

Published: 2012-12-15

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 028564176X

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Regular mental exercises, including crosswords, Sudoku, and even brain training computer games, can help to improve memory, fine motor skills, perception and cognition. Solving different types of mental exercises helps the brain to reshape and strengthen itself, as well as heightening imagination and creativity skills. Anyone who wants to improve their memory, logic or perception skills can turn to the individual exercises (by Scott Kim who creates puzzles for magazines including Scientific America) featured in How Puzzles Improve Your Brain, that will stimulate the area of the brain that controls those skills. Richard Restak outlines how the brain processes individual functions, while Scott Kim has created puzzles that stimulate and challenge the area of the brain responsible for that function, giving your brain an engaging work-out. Drawing on decades of scientific research, this book can change your brain as you read it. If you want to enhance your brain performance regular mental exercises, including crosswords and Sudoku (even brain training computer games), can help to improve memory, fine motor skills, logic and visual observation. Solving different types of mental exercises helps the brain to improve itself, as well as heightening imagination and creativity skills. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of witty and, often, perplexing puzzles, How Puzzles Improve Your Brain can create a healthier brain while explaining how the puzzles are changing it. In How Puzzles Improve Your Brain Scott Kim, a puzzle master, has designed puzzles that can target, and improve, specific areas of the brain while Richard Restak, a leading neuroscientist, describes the science behind how they reshape and strengthen the brain. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of witty and often perplexing exercises, this mind-boggling book is designed to enhance specific brain functions and can aid anyone who wants to improve their memory, logic, or perception skills.


The Playful Brain

The Playful Brain

Author: Richard M. Restak

Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781594487774

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You're building up your memory. You're thinking shaper. You're creating a healthier brain This is your brain on puzzles. It's no secret that puzzles-crossword puzzles, logic puzzles, word puzzles-challenge and entertain us. But exciting new research suggests that they've become more than just a fun pastime. Solving different kinds of puzzles can actually help your brain improve itself and-perhaps just as important-ward off mental deterioration. In The Playful Brain, science happily combines with recreation as leading neuroscientist and bestselling author Richard Restak, M.D., and noted puzzle master Scott Kim team up to create a fascinating exploration of how puzzles can change, reshape, and strengthen our brains. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of puzzles, The Painful Braininvestigates the science behind three key areas of brain development- memory, perception, and cognition. And it gives readers the chance to work the puzzles while learning how they're improving their brain. The result is both a lively book of popular science and an engaging set of exercises for developing a wide array of thinking and memory skills. PRAISE FOR RICHARD RESTAK AND SCOTT KIM ' Restak is one of the world's most important scientific thinkers.' - Scientific American 'Dr. Restak is an accomplished science writer with a gift for making complex scientific subjects accessible.' - The New York Times 'Scott Kim is the Escher of the alphabet.' - Isaac Asimov


The Total Brain Workout

The Total Brain Workout

Author: Marcel Danesi

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2009-03-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 142682954X

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Have fun and flex your mental muscle with brainteasers, word searches, cryptograms, optical illusions, sudoku, frameworks, logic puzzles, trivia and more. Did you know that different parts of your brain control different functions, and that with exercise, you can make each part of your brain stronger? In The Total Brain Workout you’ll find 450 fun, challenging and absorbing puzzles designed to specifically target the core parts of your brain that control language, logic, memory, reasoning and visual perception. Each set of puzzles ranges from easy to challenging, and is presented with information on the area of your brain being targeted and the functions it controls, so you can customize your own workout to the specific areas you want to improve.


Train Your Brain

Train Your Brain

Author: Puzzler Media

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-02-23

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1626367108

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Just as diet and exercise can help you maintain your physical strength, daily stimulation of your brain can help save your brain from deterioration. The puzzles here are varied and include memory and logic tests; anagrams, word games, and word searches; arithmetic problems and crossword puzzles of all sorts; Futoshiki, Kakuro, and Sudoku tests; and so many more. The key to stimulating your mind is variety, not difficulty, so the puzzles have been devised to be accessible for brains of all ages. From memory quizzes to math problems, there is something here for everyone.


The Everything Giant Book Of Brain-Boosting Puzzles

The Everything Giant Book Of Brain-Boosting Puzzles

Author: Charles Timmerman

Publisher: JG Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781464300721

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The Everything Giant Book of Brain Boosting Puzzles-Challenge Your Mental Muscles! Put your brain to work with the Everything Giant Book of Brain-Boosting Puzzles! This super-sized collection is packed with more than 750 puzzles â?? from quotagrams and word ladders to kakuro and suduko - designed to sharpen your thinking skills, improve concentration, and reduce memory loss. This mind-boggling collection includes: Word Searches, Crosswords, Brain Teasers, Cryptograms, Word Scramble Puzzles, And many more! You'll keep mentally fit with 18 different types of challenging puzzles. Give your brain a boost and get ready for some extraordinary fun!


Brain and Memory Games: 70 Fun Puzzles to Boost Your Brain Juice Today

Brain and Memory Games: 70 Fun Puzzles to Boost Your Brain Juice Today

Author: Jason Scotts

Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1628844949

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You've probably heard the saying that as you get older, you starting becoming more forgetful and your brain just doesn't function as well as it used to in your prime. Well, that eventuality can be slowed down in a fun way that most people enjoy which is figuring out or solving puzzles. "Brain and Memory Games: 70 Fun Puzzles to Boost Your Brain Juice Today" will help you improve your concentration and focus your mind. The mental exercises in this book will juice up your brain and not only are they exciting to do, but the mental stimulation can make you feel energized and ready to remember anything. If you are able, do one puzzle every other day or at least several times per week so that there's a consistency in doing these fun mental exercises. Before you know it, your mind will become more focused and your concentration will improve. You don't need to complete them in order; just flip through the pages and find one that you're in the mood to do on a particular day.


Brain-Boosting Challenges

Brain-Boosting Challenges

Author: Parragon Books Ltd

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781474881395

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Brain-Boosting Challenges has over 450 perplexing puzzles, memory puzzles, language puzzles and so much more!


How Puzzles Improve Your Brain

How Puzzles Improve Your Brain

Author: Richard M. Restak

Publisher: Souvenir Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780285641754

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A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves one's brain function, giving readers the chance to work puzzles while learning how to boost their brain.