Virtually everyone fears mental deterioration as they age. But in the past thirty years neuroscientists have discovered that the brain is actually designed to improve throughout life. How can you encourage this improvement?Brain Power shares practical, state-of-the-evidence answers in this inspiring, fun-to-read plan for action. The authors have interviewed physicians, gerontologists, and neuroscientists; studied the habits of men and women who epitomize healthy aging; and applied what they describe in their own lives. The resulting guidance; along with the accompanying downloadable Brain Sync audio program; can help you activate unused brain areas, tone mental muscles, and enliven every faculty.
Goes beyond popular exercises to counsel readers on how to maintain brain health regardless of age, challenging conventional wisdom to offer insight into how the brain works while providing real-world examples based on current scientific understandings. 25,000 first printing.
This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. The five steps involve: making learning multi-sensory ensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learner matching types of learning to the gender of pupils using the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the brain managing the classroom environment to make it brain-friendly and active in supporting learning. Illustrated throughout with classroom examples from a wide range of subject areas, the book is highly practical in its focus and the ideas it contains can easily be adapted to work with all age ranges and types of school.
Offers a combination of brain-boosting foods, heart-pumping physical activity, and fun-but-functional brain-training techniques that promise to improve memory, focus, reasoning skills, and other aspects of cognitive function, in a book with seventy-five color photos and two hundred illustrations.
Brain Power will explain the science behind what really affects our brains, as well as providing practical tips and exercises to improve and maintain brain function into old age.
The human brain consists of more than 100 billion nerve cells, which die off as people age. Until recently, it was believed that these cells did not regenerate, but recent scientific findings proved that the brain does have nerve cells that are capable of regenerating-a breakthrough that has changed the entire landscape of brain research and treatment. It is this newly discovered ability of the brain to restore, renew, and regenerate that Dr. Jordan K. Davis focuses on in The Brainpower Plan. A neurosurgeon for over thirty years, Dr. Davis puts all the valuable information he has gleaned into this book in order to help you avoid the all-too-prevalent, disastrous choices that can diminish your brainpower, and with it the quality of your life. He outlines the brain's structure and the functions of each part, then discusses the three primary neurological diseases that can befall the brain: strokes, Alzheimer's and other memory-impairment diseases, and Parkinson's disease. He then shows that these are not the unavoidable genetic consequences of the aging process, but are, in most cases, avoidable and treatable. Dr. Davis details all the risk factors for these and other diseases and then presents his Super Strategies for Brain Health. The doctor is emphatic that optimum nutrition creates a favorable environment for the body to boost its immune system, and thereby helps prevent degenerative diseases of the internal organs, most critically the brain. Justifiably convinced of the efficacy of his strategies, Dr. Davis believes that if you follow his advice on nutrition, supplements, exercise, mental stimulation, and moderate lifestyle changes, you will see improvements in just a matter of weeks. Book jacket.
Do you want to expand your mental power? Think more clearly, logically, and creatively? Improve your memory? Solve problems and make decisions more effectively? Brain Power introduces the six functional thinking abilities you need to become an adaptive, innovative thinker. As you develop your ability to think on your feet, to isolate and arrange facts, and to avoid logical pitfalls you will see how to use creative problem solving strategies, both in business and in private life. With practical exercises to improve your full range of mental capabilities from concentration to intuition, management consultant Karl Albrecht answers all your questions on becoming a more efficient and effective thinking. Offering a gold mine of ideas and techniques to use in most any situation, Brain Power provides fascinating illustrations, games, and puzzles that will stimulate and expand your brain power.
Michael J. Lavery's theories about how large and small motor-skill development of both right and left hands is directly linked to development in the left and right hemispheres of the brain is revolutionizing our understanding of how best to train the brain. The application of his theories and training methodologies are universal, including benefits for athletes seeking to supercharge their performance, for Baby Boomers wanting to reverse the aging process, and for retirees looking to rejuvenate their memory powers and regain an active lifestyle. Learn how a dozen Whole Brain Power All-Star practitioners from the ages of fifteen to ninety-one have transformed their brains and bodies through Michael's simple ambidextrous skill training, penmanship drills, and memory drills. Get ready to become part of the revolution in wholebrain development in the 21st century.
Create a Focused, Positive, and Engaged Classroom! Through expert guidance and inspiring stories from the field, Dave Beal helps you create a Brain Power Classroom full of engaged, focused and collaborative students. Part 1 provides scientific background, principles and insightful advice for creating an optimal classroom atmosphere. Part 2 features 30 classroom activities you can easily integrate into your current curriculum. They are divided into the “Brain Power 10 Essentials” and incorporate various modalities, such as movement, mindfulness, and focusing strategies to engage students’ multiple intelligences. Using the tools in this book, you will be able to motivate your students to use their full brain potential as they develop into harmonious leaders with strong character and high levels of academic achievement.
