How Puzzles Improve Your Brain

How Puzzles Improve Your Brain
Author: Richard Restak
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2012-12-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 028564176X

Regular mental exercises, including crosswords, Sudoku, and even brain training computer games, can help to improve memory, fine motor skills, perception and cognition. Solving different types of mental exercises helps the brain to reshape and strengthen itself, as well as heightening imagination and creativity skills. Anyone who wants to improve their memory, logic or perception skills can turn to the individual exercises (by Scott Kim who creates puzzles for magazines including Scientific America) featured in How Puzzles Improve Your Brain, that will stimulate the area of the brain that controls those skills. Richard Restak outlines how the brain processes individual functions, while Scott Kim has created puzzles that stimulate and challenge the area of the brain responsible for that function, giving your brain an engaging work-out. Drawing on decades of scientific research, this book can change your brain as you read it. If you want to enhance your brain performance regular mental exercises, including crosswords and Sudoku (even brain training computer games), can help to improve memory, fine motor skills, logic and visual observation. Solving different types of mental exercises helps the brain to improve itself, as well as heightening imagination and creativity skills. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of witty and, often, perplexing puzzles, How Puzzles Improve Your Brain can create a healthier brain while explaining how the puzzles are changing it. In How Puzzles Improve Your Brain Scott Kim, a puzzle master, has designed puzzles that can target, and improve, specific areas of the brain while Richard Restak, a leading neuroscientist, describes the science behind how they reshape and strengthen the brain. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of witty and often perplexing exercises, this mind-boggling book is designed to enhance specific brain functions and can aid anyone who wants to improve their memory, logic, or perception skills.

The Playful Brain

The Playful Brain
Author: Richard M. Restak
Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Brain
ISBN: 9781594487774

You're building up your memory. You're thinking shaper. You're creating a healthier brain This is your brain on puzzles. It's no secret that puzzles-crossword puzzles, logic puzzles, word puzzles-challenge and entertain us. But exciting new research suggests that they've become more than just a fun pastime. Solving different kinds of puzzles can actually help your brain improve itself and-perhaps just as important-ward off mental deterioration. In The Playful Brain, science happily combines with recreation as leading neuroscientist and bestselling author Richard Restak, M.D., and noted puzzle master Scott Kim team up to create a fascinating exploration of how puzzles can change, reshape, and strengthen our brains. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of puzzles, The Painful Braininvestigates the science behind three key areas of brain development- memory, perception, and cognition. And it gives readers the chance to work the puzzles while learning how they're improving their brain. The result is both a lively book of popular science and an engaging set of exercises for developing a wide array of thinking and memory skills. PRAISE FOR RICHARD RESTAK AND SCOTT KIM ' Restak is one of the world's most important scientific thinkers.' - Scientific American 'Dr. Restak is an accomplished science writer with a gift for making complex scientific subjects accessible.' - The New York Times 'Scott Kim is the Escher of the alphabet.' - Isaac Asimov

The Total Brain Workout

The Total Brain Workout
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 142682954X

Have fun and flex your mental muscle with brainteasers, word searches, cryptograms, optical illusions, sudoku, frameworks, logic puzzles, trivia and more. Did you know that different parts of your brain control different functions, and that with exercise, you can make each part of your brain stronger? In The Total Brain Workout you’ll find 450 fun, challenging and absorbing puzzles designed to specifically target the core parts of your brain that control language, logic, memory, reasoning and visual perception. Each set of puzzles ranges from easy to challenging, and is presented with information on the area of your brain being targeted and the functions it controls, so you can customize your own workout to the specific areas you want to improve.

Brain and Memory Games: 70 Fun Puzzles to Boost Your Brain Juice Today

Brain and Memory Games: 70 Fun Puzzles to Boost Your Brain Juice Today
Author: Jason Scotts
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1628844949

You've probably heard the saying that as you get older, you starting becoming more forgetful and your brain just doesn't function as well as it used to in your prime. Well, that eventuality can be slowed down in a fun way that most people enjoy which is figuring out or solving puzzles. "Brain and Memory Games: 70 Fun Puzzles to Boost Your Brain Juice Today" will help you improve your concentration and focus your mind. The mental exercises in this book will juice up your brain and not only are they exciting to do, but the mental stimulation can make you feel energized and ready to remember anything. If you are able, do one puzzle every other day or at least several times per week so that there's a consistency in doing these fun mental exercises. Before you know it, your mind will become more focused and your concentration will improve. You don't need to complete them in order; just flip through the pages and find one that you're in the mood to do on a particular day.

399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young.

399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young.
Author: Nancy Linde
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0761168257

Based on the science that shows that people middle-aged or older who solve word games and brainteasers have a significant cognitive advantage over those who do not, 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges is the illustrated game book specifically created to cross-train the brain. Here are 399 games to stretch, challenge, and push the reader, all of which stimulate the formation of neurons—literally, regrowing the brain. Plus they’re not only good for you, but just plain good—these games are fun. 399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia is a lively mix of challenges, riddles, and brainteasers—all vetted by a neuroscientist who specializes in aging brains and designed to work the six key areas of cognitive function that are vulnerable in normal aging: long-term memory, working memory, executive functioning, attention to detail, multitasking, and processing speed. The games are arranged from easiest to most difficult and are labeled according to which cognitive functions they exercise so they can be mixed and matched into a custom “workout.” In just 15 minutes a day, anyone can improve his brain’s strength, flexibility, and long-term health.

Five-Minute Brain Workout

Five-Minute Brain Workout
Author: Kim Chamberlain
Publisher: Skyhorse
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1628734701

Taking care of your brain is just as beneficial as taking care of the rest of your body. Research has shown that training games help improve memory, concentration, problem-solving skills, processing speed, creativity, and reasoning. The key to such exercise is to constantly learn and regularly challenge your brain’s capabilities with new tasks. Regularly doing series of short, varied tasks will keep your thinking faculties focused and flexible. Five-Minute Brain Workout contains a wide variety of games and puzzles for people who enjoy words and language. There are ten examples of the same kind of game or puzzle with a wide variety of types of each. While the puzzles have specific answers, the games do not, which means you can continue to develop your creativity by doing them more than once and coming up with different answers. And there are enough puzzles and games for a year’s worth of challenging your mind. The book’s contents can be used in any number of ways: to challenge yourself or simply have fun or as a competition against time or other people. These exercises work in many settings: home, work, schoolrooms, training and therapy sessions, and as an icebreaker at social gatherings.

Brain-Boosting Challenges

Brain-Boosting Challenges
Author: Parragon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9781474881395

Brain-Boosting Challenges has over 450 perplexing puzzles, memory puzzles, language puzzles and so much more!

Brain Training the Japanese Way

Brain Training the Japanese Way
Author: Gareth Moore
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1646040376

Keep your mind sharp, healthy, and young with classic Japanese square box puzzles from Sudoku and Kakuro to Numberlink and Hanjie...and more! Puzzles are known to boost brain power—they improve memory, spatial awareness, logic, and problem-solving. Other benefits include improved mood, reduced stress, and a delay in the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Now, you can make brain training a part of your daily routine with over 200 classic Japanese puzzles designed to boost your memory, concentration, and overall brain health. Train your brain while having fun! Inside you’ll find a variety of Japanese square box puzzles ranging from easy to hard, including: - Sudoku - Hitori - Slitherlink - Kakuro - Shikaku - Purenrupu - Akari - Tentai Show ...and many more!