Download or read book Brain Games Keeping You Sharp Throughout the Year Volume 1 written by Lisa Deutsch and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of a two part series of fun activities that will rescue you from boredom! In this brain games book for adults you will find games and puzzles for today's senior adults. These games are mind-engaging, entertaining, and far from boring. This brain games book for adults is divided into month by month activities that will challenge your memory and make you reminisce. Each month includes 5-8 activities that can be used by an individual or reproduced to use with seniors in nursing homes, adult day cares, or church ministry groups. These senior adult games and puzzles will help you flex your mental muscles, and have fun while doing it! Brain Games is Volume one in a series of brain game books for seniors, meant to help seniors stay mentally sharp. No need to worry about finding the answers to all of these games and puzzles. I've taken the long hours and guesswork out of the need to plan and put an answer key in the back. Print the puzzles, hand them out, and have fun! Planning for your senior adult activities is as easy as that. This senior program resource guide will lighten your work load in planning events that everyone wants to attend! Seniors CAN make a difference in our world while having fun together! And, you can help them do it in style and with fun involved. Use this brain games book for adults in conjunction with my other books, The Beginner's Book of Senior Activities, No More Potlucks, Please!, and Brain Games books Vol 1 & 2 for a library full of senior program resource possibilities! Full of quality content, this brain games book for adults has been awarded the Gold Seal by Christian Manuscript Submissions! Pick up your copy today by clicking the Buy Now button at the top of this page!
Download or read book Staying Sharp written by Henry Emmons, MD and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guidebook for maintaining a sharp and healthy mind combines the latest neuroscience research with Eastern holistic mindfulness practices to outline a drug-free program for resilient mental aging.
Download or read book Five Minute Brain Workout written by Kim Chamberlain and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Keep Your Brain Sharp Teach Yourself written by Simon Wootton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you forget things easily? Are you worried that you're losing your mental edge? Don't be! Keep Your Brain Sharp will prove that, in fact, your mature brain is bigger and better than ever, and it will give you hundreds of diverting puzzles, games, tests and exercises to keep it that way. It explodes the myths about old age and mental decline, explains why you get better when you get older and gives you a set of great mental workouts in a brain-boosting bible ideal for you if you think your best intellectual achievements may well lie ahead. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the authors' many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of how to keep your brain sharp. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
Download or read book 365 Games Puzzles to Keep Your Mind Sharp written by Kim Chamberlain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short and Fun Activities Designed to Train and Maintain Your Brain 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. 365 Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Mind Sharp provides a year’s worth of challenging mental activities to keep your brain sharp and flexible. Chamberlain’s fresh new installment uses the same format as The Five-Minute Brain Workout: a variety of games and puzzles, each with ten examples that increase in difficulty as you work through the book. This collection includes some fan favorites along with many new and exciting puzzles that will further develop your skills. 365 Games & Puzzles to Keep Your Mind Sharp is perfect for lovers of word and language games and puzzles, providing enough short, sharp exercises for a year’s worth of fun and brain stretching.
Download or read book Keep Sharp written by Sanjay Gupta and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our minds sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers “the book all of us need, young and old” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker) with insights from top scientists all over the world, whose cutting-edge research can help you heighten and protect brain function and maintain cognitive health at any age. Keep Sharp debunks common myths about aging and mental decline, explores whether there’s a “best” diet or exercise regimen for the brain, and explains whether it’s healthier to play video games that test memory and processing speed, or to engage in more social interaction. Discover what we can learn from “super-brained” people who are in their eighties and nineties with no signs of slowing down—and whether there are truly any benefits to drugs, supplements, and vitamins. Dr. Gupta also addresses brain disease, particularly Alzheimer’s, answers all your questions about the signs and symptoms, and shows how to ward against it and stay healthy while caring for a partner in cognitive decline. He likewise provides you with a personalized twelve-week program featuring practical strategies to strengthen your brain every day. Keep Sharp is the “must-read owner’s manual” (Arianna Huffington) you’ll need to keep your brain young and healthy regardless of your age!
Download or read book 60 Ways to Keep Your Brain Sharp written by Bonnie Sparrman and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protect and Preserve Your Most Valuable Asset No matter your age, the way your brain works is of utmost importance to the quality of your life. It is the essence of who God made you to be and affects how you interpret the world around you. Discover new ways to enhance your brain's function by focusing on these four areas: Physical activity—getting regular exercise to help promote mental fitness Nutrition—understanding the importance of a healthy diet on cognitive performance Intellectually stimulating activities—keeping your mind flexed and nimble Spiritual and social connections—staying engaged with God and others As you apply the wisdom found in this helpful guide, you will ensure improved mental acuity now and in the future, placing you on the path to a happier, more fulfilling life. Start sharpening your skills today and experience the amazing benefits of better brain health.
Download or read book 299 On the Go Games Puzzles to Keep Your Brain Young written by Nancy Linde and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give your brain a healthy workout—Anytime, Anywhere. Not just any book of games, this collection by the bestselling author of 399 Games, Puzzles & TriviaChallenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Youngis expertly created to keep your brain in tip-top shape—even while you’re on the go. With its shorter puzzles and portable size, it’s perfect for getting your cognitive exercise in while waiting at the dentist’s office, traveling, or whenever you have a few spare minutes to challenge yourself. Arranged in difficulty from “Easy Does It!” to “Finish Strong!,” these 299 surprisingly fun puzzles target six key cognitive functions: Long-term memory Working memory Executive functioning Attention to detail Multitasking Processing speed
Download or read book Dr Small s Brain Games written by Gary Small and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Timesbestselling author Dr. Gary Small – an expert on neuroscience, memory, Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia, anxiety and human behavior – Dr Small's Brain Games: 75 Large Print Puzzles, Logic Riddles & Brain Teasers to Exercise Your Mind is what you need to keep your brain in tip-top condition. According to Dr. Gary Small, the director of the UCLA Center on Aging, "Great memories are not born, they are made," and this book provides the innovative memory exercises and brain fitness programs necessary to immediately improve your mental performance. Start exercising your mind with puzzles, riddles and brain teasers created by one of the world's top memory experts.
Download or read book Keep Your Brain Stronger for Longer written by Tonia Vojtkofsky and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start Exercising Your Brain Now: 201 Word and Number Exercises to Challenge Your Memory, Reasoning, Visual-Spatial Skills, Vocabulary, and More! Keep your brain active, even with MCI. For adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment, brain exercises are the best way to stay sharp and delay the onset of dementia. That’s why cognitive specialist Dr. Tonia Vojtkofsky tailored this fun workbook specifically for people with MCI. It’s the first of its kind! Find a word that meets the definition and contains the letters “CAN” Truthful; straightforward; frank A brown nut with an edible kernel A cylinder black of wax with a wick Pick the one statement that is correct: UWYVX V is right of X. W is right of V. V is between U and Y. Y is right of W. Find and complete the pattern: 5, 8, 12, 17, 23, _____, _____, _____, _____. 14, 56, 224, 896, _____, _____, _____, _____. 5, 15, 30, 90, 180 _____, _____, _____, _____. Plus: Complete the word, image recall, determine the order, matching, true or false, logic problems, decode using clues, trivia, discover the pattern, word mazes, and math games. “The idea for the book originated from my need to provide appropriate brain exercises for my clients who have MCI. All of the brain-exercise books on the market today are for people with no cognitive impairment and therefore were too hard for my clients. I knew that I had to provide something for this underserved population.”—Dr. Tonia Vojtkofsky
Download or read book Brain Games Volume 2 written by Lisa Deutsch and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book of a two part series full of fun games and puzzles that will rescue you from boredom! In this brain games book for adults you will find games and puzzles for today's senior adults. These games are mind-engaging, entertaining, and far from boring. This brain games book for adults is divided into month by month activities that will challenge your memory and make you reminisce. Each month includes 5-8 activities that can be used by an individual or reproduced to use with seniors in nursing homes, adult day cares, or church ministry groups. These senior adult games and puzzles will help you flex your mental muscles and keep you sharp throughout the year - all while having fun doing it! Brain Games is Volume two in a series of brain game books for seniors, meant to help seniors stay mentally sharp. No need to worry about finding the answers to all of these games and puzzles. I've taken the long hours and guesswork out of the need to plan and put an answer key in the back. Print the puzzles, hand them out, and have fun! Planning for your senior adult activities is as easy as that. This senior program resource guide will lighten your work load in planning events that everyone wants to attend! Seniors CAN make a difference in our world while having fun together! And, you can help them do it in style and with fun involved. Use this brain games book for adults in conjunction with my other books, The Beginner's Book of Senior Activities, No More Potlucks, Please!, and Brain Games books Vol 1 & 2 for a library full of senior program resource possibilities! Full of quality content, this brain games book for adults has been awarded the Gold Seal by Christian Manuscript Submissions! Pick up your copy today by clicking the Buy Now button at the top of this page!
Download or read book Your Mind at Its Best written by David B. D.Min Biebel and published by Revell. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wants a healthy brain--one that continues to function at high levels throughout life. Your Mind at Its Best helps readers achieve that by collecting the most important information and most current research on gaining and maintaining optimal brain health. In 40 easy-to-understand chapters, readers will discover a wide variety of tips and tricks to keep their minds sharp. Synthesizing science and self-help, Your Mind at Its Best makes fascinating neurological discoveries understandable and immediately applicable to readers of any age.
Download or read book Five Minute Brain Workout written by Kim Chamberlain and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book 1 001 Brain Games and Activities to Keep Your Mind Active and Alert written by Renee a Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been proven that aging diminishes the brain's cognitive reserve and makes it more difficult to perform mental tasks. Exercising the brain regularly with activities that target cognitive processing speed, memory, critical thinking, problem-solving and focus can lead to better recollection, faster reaction time, and an overall sharper mind. A balanced healthy living program of moderate physical exercise, good nutrition, stress reduction, and brain/mental activities can help keep cognitive health throughout life. The 1,001 brain activities in this book are for anyone who wants to work on keeping and improving their brain functions. This book is divided into five sections-Think Fast Activities, Memory Activities, Word Challenges, Brain Fun and Games, and Introspection Brain Questions. Each section consists of 5 - 7 different types of activities with 20 to 100 activities in each type. For example, in the Think Fast section, there are 40 - A - Z Think Fast, 40 - Create New Words, 40 - Quick 6, 40 - Word Mates, and 40 - 20 Words in 2 Minutes activities. This book includes brain games and activities for individual play as well as for group play with friends and family. To keep the brain active and alert, play these games and activities at least 2 to 3 times a week, and pick activities that challenge you. The author, Renee Gibbons, has seen firsthand the remarkable improvements in adults' cognitive processing speed, memory, communication, and word usage through actively engaging the brain with a variety of the brain games and activities in this book. By performing these activities regularly, you, too, can keep your brain sharp. Enjoy "1,001 Brain Games and Activities to Keep the Mind Active and Alert."
Download or read book A Whole New Mind written by Daniel H. Pink and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-03-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller An exciting--and encouraging--exploration of creativity from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment--and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here.
Download or read book Brain Games written by Elkhonon Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is crammed with puzzles designed to stimulate each of your brain's cognitive functions, keeping it strong and fit. Many different types of puzzles are included, and each of the five levels increases the challenge of solving them. Includes three self-evaluations that allow you to assess your improvement in areas such as focus, attention, memory, and more. With these puzzles, exercising your brain can be fun! The consultant is Dr. Elkhorn Goldberg, a Ph.D. neuropsychologist who created the Manhattan-based Cognitive Enhancement Program, a fitness center for the brain and who wrote The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind; and The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older.
Download or read book Mind Games written by Alzheimer's Society and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve over 150 mind-bending puzzles - and boost your brain health at the same time! Challenge your memory, test your logic and sharpen your focus with brilliantly fun pictures, words, numbers puzzles. With regular practice, puzzles may help to improve brain function and prevent age-related cognitive decline. Mind Games offers a workout for a wide range of brain functions. Featuring over 150 puzzles of varying difficulty, this book aims to target different areas of the brain and improve cognition. This book includes a 7-day programme, plus practical tips and advice to keep your mind active and engaged. But Mind Games is more than just a collection of puzzles - this book will help you to create new habits to keep your grey matter active and healthy. Here, Dr. Tim Beanland, Head of Knowledge at Alzheimer's Society, provides expert insights into the science of brain health and the benefits of regular mental exercise. Whether you're looking to improve your memory, sharpen your focus, or reduce your risk of dementia, Mind Games will help you achieve your goals. With its comprehensive range of puzzles and expert guidance, this book is the ultimate resource to improve your brain health and enhance mental agility. Part of the proceeds of sale of this publication (estimated to be an amount of no less than £50,000) will be paid to Alzheimer's Trading Limited (a registered charity, charity number 296645). Alzheimer's Trading Limited pays all of its taxable profits through 'gift aid' to Alzheimer's Society.
