Keep Your Brain Alive, Manning Rubin
Keep Your Brain Alive, Manning Rubin
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Keep Your Brain Alive
Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness

Author: Manning Rubin, Lawrence Katz

Narrator: Manning Rubin

Abridged: 2 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/17/2008


Synopsis

No more punch lines that just slipped away. No more names on the tip of your tongue. No more senior moments! Drawing on cutting-edge neurological research, Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness, brings help to everyone whose memory is starting to slip.

Devised by Dr. Lawrence Katz, a professor of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center, and Manning Rubin, author of 60 Ways to Relieve Stress in 60 Seconds, here is a regimen of mental cross-training that can be done anywhere, by anyone, at any time of day. The premise is simple: When you exercise the brain, you release natural growth factors called neurotrophins, which in turn enhance the brain's level of fitness. And nothing so easily stimulates the brain as breaking routines and using the five senses in new and unexpected ways. So if you're right-handed, wake up tomorrow and brush your teeth with your left hand. Or close your eyes before you get into the car and then get the key into the ignition. Every time you open a new circuit in your brain, it's like doing a round of mental sit-ups, without the pain.

About Manning Rubin

Manning Rubin, a former creative director at J. Walter Thompson and senior creative supervisor at K2Digital, Inc. is now at work on several new books. He lives in Pawlet, VT.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on January 18, 2020

Some nice ideas: basically mix it up, do things like you don't do them usually, use associations, maintain neuroplasticity, practice synesthesia (loved this one!) -1 star 'cause it's all very merry-go-round ideas that are sorta widely known (other than self-induced synesthesia, must think about that on......more

Goodreads review by Barb on December 23, 2021

This was OK. I was hoping for some logic problems or puzzles. It was mostly just encouraging you to give your brain novel experiences like brush your teeth with the wrong hand or drive on the wrong side of the road while sniffing glue.......more

Goodreads review by Sydney on February 24, 2017

Really, I'd give it about 3.5 stars. Lots of practical things you can do to prevent/improve memory issues. And some nice, simple explanations in the beginning of the book re how your brain works (especially regarding memory and associations) and how the exercises in the book relate. There is also a......more

Goodreads review by Yamen on December 29, 2016

A book full of ridiculous and meaningless exercises that are supposed to keep our brain alive. The main concept of the book is that routines kill the novelty factor in the brain and this would lead our mind to stay in the autopilot mode which offers no development for the mind, so here's an 80+ stup......more

Goodreads review by Oleksandr on October 31, 2018

nice book about mental fitness, it has a lot of fun and interesting brain exercisers......more