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Maximum Brainpower

Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom

Shlomo Breznitz author Collins Hemingway author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hay House UK Ltd

Published:2nd Jul '12

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The truth about lifelong brain fitness, engagingly told with the latest scientific findings

Why challenge and stimulus improves your brain and how to harness this process? How to separate good stress from bad? What role hope and socialising play in fighting off the worst symptoms of dementia? Why multitasking can be detrimental to your mental health. This work can help adults of any age build and retain their mental acuity.

Written by internationally renowned cognitive psychologist Shlomo Breznitz and technologist Collins Hemingway, Maximum Brainpower is filled with colourful real-life stories and fascinating psychological experiments that show you how to make the most of your grey matter. This book is not only a fascinating tour of the science of the mind, it also shows how you can improve your mental abilities, extend your thinking to its highest levels and ensure your brain fitness in the future.

- Why challenge and stimulus improves your brain and how to harness this process
- How to separate good stress from bad
- What role hope and socialising play in fighting off the worst symptoms of dementia.
- How sudoku and crossword puzzles are actually little help to your brain power
- Why multitasking can be detrimental to your mental health.

This revelatory work will help adults of any age build and retain their mental acuity. Expand your brainwidth to think better, live better, be better with Maximum Brainpower.

Dr. Shlomo Breznitz is, by virtue of his lifelong ingenuity, a rare combination of scientific creativity and sobriety, and decades of research on two of the most important areas of brain research-how to protect the brain from stress and how to develop it through mental exercises-one of the most suitable people on the planet to write this interesting, realistic, practical, clear book on what most people need to do to preserve and maximize their brain capacity. Written with technologist Collins Hemingway, Maximum Brainpower is a wonderfully helpful book, for young and old, on how to keep the brain invigorated and developing into old age. After reading it, you will understand what you must do for your brain, and why you must do it. -- Norman Doidge M.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself Everyone knows the importance of physical fitness; less appreciated is the necessity of cognitive fitness. How do you maintain an exercised, stimulated, flexible brain? Start by reading this book. -- David Eagleman, New York Times bestselling author of Incognito Maximum Brainpower is well written and each page stimulates the reader to read the next. Moreover, the topic itself-the brain and its secret powers-is profound, rich, and enriching. In other words: Because of its forceful suggestions, its analyses, and its wide knowledge, this book is well worth reading. And re-reading. -- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and author Many of us are petrified of Alzheimer's disease, strokes, and other maladies that impair the functioning of the brain. Breznitz and Hemingway can deliver no 'magic bullet' to prevent dementia. But their book does get you thinking about what you can do to develop and maintain your gray matter, build on the plasticity of the brain, and increase the likelihood that you'll live not just a longer but a fuller life. The Huffington Post Most books about healthy brain maintenance just give you the 'how'; this one tells you why. And it helps you do it. -- Rita Carter, author of Mapping the Mind

ISBN: 9781848509573

Dimensions: 215mm x 136mm x 22mm

Weight: 375g

284 pages