A Better Brain at Any Age: The Holistic Way to Improve Your Memory, Reduce Stress, and Sharpen Your Wits

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Overview

In A Better Brain at Any Age, Sondra Kornblatt, along with the experts she has interviewed, helps readers put their heads on straight through healthy activities for the body (exercise, healthy food consumption, and relaxation) and through speci? c activities to boost brain power like movement, eye rolls, supplements, and making environmental changes. Each of the seven chapters - Body-Mind Connection; Environmental Support; Food and Supplements; Intelligence and Learning; Memory, Learning Shortcuts, and Brain-Stretchers; Emotions and Decisions; and Meditation and Bigger Perspectives - details how that topic impacts the brain, and offers tips and highlights for readers to either delve into ...

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Overview

In A Better Brain at Any Age, Sondra Kornblatt, along with the experts she has interviewed, helps readers put their heads on straight through healthy activities for the body (exercise, healthy food consumption, and relaxation) and through speci? c activities to boost brain power like movement, eye rolls, supplements, and making environmental changes. Each of the seven chapters - Body-Mind Connection; Environmental Support; Food and Supplements; Intelligence and Learning; Memory, Learning Shortcuts, and Brain-Stretchers; Emotions and Decisions; and Meditation and Bigger Perspectives - details how that topic impacts the brain, and offers tips and highlights for readers to either delve into the book or peruse it for quick boosts. Kornblatt teaches readers how to reduce brain stress and optimize mental agility, and shares information on how the brain interacts with the body, what habits impact the brain, positively and negatively, and how to maximize learning. She provides tips to strengthen memory, cognition, and creativity so readers can function better in their active lives. A Better Brain at Any Age offers a complete plan for total brain health in an engaging and accessible way.

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Health and science writer Kornblatt (365 Energy Boosters) has put together a friendly, wide-ranging tip sheet for understanding and maintaining the human brain, with exercises-lots of exercises (called "brain boosters"). Encouraging readers to "explore boosters that intrigue you" rather than trying to employ them all, Kornblatt covers a lot of territory with breezy efficiency, from the latest neurological findings (the adult brain grows between 500 and 1000 neurons each day) to the dangers of "neurotoxicity" (new carpets can cause symptoms from rashes to seizures) to an overview of Gardner's multiple intelligences. Along with cognitive behavioral techniques (journaling, reframing, getting a lot of laughs, switching off negative thoughts), Kornblatt suggests various meditations, stretches and "energy medicine" exercises ("Scratch your scalp to bring blood flow to the brain") that consciously incorporate all of the senses. Sections on the importance of social connections, meditation and diet cover some familiar territory, but Kornblatt maintains a game attitude and a lively pace that should keep self-helpers involved.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781573243209
  • Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
  • Publication date: 12/1/2008
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 691,685
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Sondra Kornblatt is a medical and wellness writer and co-author of 365 Energy Boosters. She developed the Restful Insomnia program to help people renew during sleepless nights-find more at restfulinsomnia.com. Sondra lives in the Pacific Northwest with her two children.  

Table of Contents

Foreword Fernando Vega, M.D. 9

Acknowledgments 13

Introduction: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life 15

Chapter 1 A Short Tour of the Brain 21

Chapter 2 Not All in Your Head The Body-Mind 33

Chapter 3 Hey, Genius! Intelligence, Memory, Learning Styles, and Creativity 73

Chapter 4 Emotions and the Brain When You Can't See the Forest for the Angst 117

Chapter 5 The Big Wide World and Your Brain 141

Chapter 6 Eating for Brilliance 165

Chapter 7 Meditation and a Bigger Perspective Less Is More 201

Conclusion 225

Bibliography and Resources 229

Index 235

About the Author 241

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