Boost Your Brain: The New Art and Science Behind Enhanced Brain Performance
Majid Fotuhi
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0062199293
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Based on cutting-edge science, Boost Your Brain is internationally recognized neurologist Majid Fotuhi's complete program for increasing brain size and enhancing brain function, including memory, creativity, comprehension, and concentration.
Our brains don't have to decline as we get older, argues Dr. Fotuhi. Depending on the things we do or neglect to do, we can actually get smarter and measurably improve our brain speed. In Boost Your Brain, the founder of the NeurExpand Brain Center and host of the PBS series Fight Alzheimer’s Early offers a three-month brain-optimization program—with noticeable results in just a few weeks.
Boost Your Brain explores the very latest neuroscience research and offers actionable, authoritative advice on how readers of every age can experience the benefits of a bigger, better brain. Featuring more than two dozen black-and-white illustrations, Boost Your Brain: The New Art and Science Behind Enhanced Brain Performance includes a foreword by Michael Roizen, M.D., coauthor of the bestselling YOU series and author of the Real Age books.
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becoming licensed taxi drivers. To do so in London, you must pass a difficult test called “The Knowledge,” which requires memorizing the complex layout of the city’s twenty-five thousand or so streets. It’s no small feat: taxi driver hopefuls often spend three to four years studying for “The Knowledge” (and yet only 50 percent pass). From the first round of MRIs, taken before the men started studying for the taxi exam, researchers determined that hippocampal size was roughly the same for
create your own stress chart by following the steps I’ve included in the next table. Create a list with a column for “buckets,” or categories for the different areas of your life. Your buckets might be family, work, finances, extended family, household, or health. For each bucket item, identify the top five to ten things that cause you stress. You can call this column “What’s stressful.” Create a column for your goals. (Call this one “My goal.”) Then go through each item and come up with a
