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Keep Your Brain Sharp: Teach Yourself


Keep Your Brain Sharp: Teach Yourself

Paperback by Wootton, Simon; Horne, Terry

Keep Your Brain Sharp: Teach Yourself

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ISBN:
9781444101010
Publication Date:
29 Jan 2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Imprint:
Teach Yourself
Pages:
304 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 3 - 8 May 2024
Keep Your Brain Sharp: Teach Yourself

Description

Do you forget things easily? Are you worried that you're losing your mental edge? Don't be! Keep Your Brain Sharp will prove that, in fact, your mature brain is bigger and better than ever, and it will give you hundreds of diverting puzzles, games, tests and exercises to keep it that way. It explodes the myths about old age and mental decline, explains why you get better when you get older and gives you a set of great mental workouts in a brain-boosting bible ideal for you if you think your best intellectual achievements may well lie ahead. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the authors' many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of how to keep your brain sharp. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

Contents

GETTING OLDER: MEANS GETTING BETTER : Brain Science and the Brain - it really does get better as you get older : Explode Age Old Myths about Memory and Intelligence : Exploit the Emerging Strength of Your Maturing Brain : Solve Complex Problems, Take Difficult Decisions, Make Creative Plans : Eat and Drink Your Way to Peak Performance : Find Humour, Intimacy, Love and Sex, in later life : GETTING BETTER MEANS GETTING FITTER : Tests to take : Exercises to do : Problems to solve : Puzzles and Games to play

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