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

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 specific 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. “A friendly, wide-ranging tip sheet for understanding and maintaining the human brain, with exercises . . . that consciously incorporate all of the senses.” —Publishers Weekly Health and science writer Sondra Kornblatt, along with the numerous experts she’s interviewed in A Better Brain at Any Age, can help you put your head on straight through healthy activities for the body and stimulating exercises to boost brain power. Improving your exercise, consuming healthy food, and practicing simple movements can do wonders for your mental and physical health. In A Better Brain at Any Age, Kornblatt will teach you how to reduce stress and optimize mental agility. Learn how the brain interacts with the body, what habits impact the brain positively and negatively, and how to maximize learning. In this book, Kornblatt provides tips to strengthen memory, cognition, and creativity so you can function better in your active life. A Better Brain at Any Age offers a complete plan for improving brain health in an engaging and accessible way. In this book, you will find: More than one hundred extensively researched ideas to improve your memory and mental agility, boost your creativity and overall brain power, and avoid brain overload Lively and informative explanations on brain plasticity and how the mind and body work together Quick and helpful tips that you can dip into during short breaks or read through cover-to-cover “Delightfully written and chock full of fun, exercises, and bite-size chunks of wisdom that are easy to digest . . . [an] impressive jamboree of scientific research and breakthrough ideas from the major thought visionaries of today.” —Ragini Michaels, owner of Facticity Trainings, Inc. 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 specifi 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.-- Source other than Library of Congress

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.

Introduction: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life - Chapter 1. A Short Tour of the Brain - Chapter 2. Not All in Your Head The Body-Mind - Chapter 3. Hey, Genius! Intelligence, Memory, Learning Styles, and Creativity - Chapter 4. Emotions and the Brain When You Can't See the Forest for the Angst - Chapter 5. The Big Wide World and Your Brain - Chapter 6. Eating for Brilliance - Chapter 7. Meditation and a Bigger Perspective Less Is More - Conclusion - Bibliography and Resources.