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Summary: It's Fun?83 Neurobic Exercise to help prevent memory
Review: "83 Neurobic Exercise to help prevent memory
loss and increase mental fitness" is the sub headline.
This short 148 page book is a must for everyone over
50 years of age. Those under that age that want to
start early are also advised to read this book and
try some of the simple ways to stimulate your
brain, create fun and new challenges to the
way it stores information. Neurobics simply uses
the five senses in unexpected ways and shakes up
everyday routines. It is also fun. I hope it works.
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Summary: It's Fun¿83 Neurobic Exercise to help prevent memory
Review: "83 Neurobic Exercise to help prevent memory
loss and increase mental fitness" is the sub headline.
This short 148 page book is a must for everyone over
50 years of age. Those under that age that want to
start early are also advised to read this book and
try some of the simple ways to stimulate your
brain, create fun and new challenges to the
way it stores information. Neurobics simply uses
the five senses in unexpected ways and shakes up
everyday routines. It is also fun. I hope it works.
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Summary: Simple: It Delivers What It Promises
Review: "Keep Your Brain Alive" offers simple, easy-to-maneuver exercises for ones brain. It is not rocket science nor do I believe it was written to prepare people for raising their bar on the genius scale.What it CAN do is keep your saw sharpened as many people go on the decline... not as one reviewer suggested, when people are already senile. I also appreciated the teachings in regards to growing new dendrites-the connective links which work as memory sharpeners - by taking simple actions like shaking up your breakfast menu using a multisensory approach to menu planning. My children, ages 11 and 5, enjoyed doing some of the associative games which will also build dendrites. Again, intentionally using these techniques and others in the book will do exactly as this book is intended: keep the mind fit... not create genius in 10 days or less.
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Summary: Simple: It Delivers What It Promises
Review: "Keep Your Brain Alive" offers simple, easy-to-maneuver exercises for ones brain. It is not rocket science nor do I believe it was written to prepare people for raising their bar on the genius scale. What it CAN do is keep your saw sharpened as many people go on the decline... not as one reviewer suggested, when people are already senile. I also appreciated the teachings in regards to growing new dendrites-the connective links which work as memory sharpeners - by taking simple actions like shaking up your breakfast menu using a multisensory approach to menu planning. My children, ages 11 and 5, enjoyed doing some of the associative games which will also build dendrites. Again, intentionally using these techniques and others in the book will do exactly as this book is intended: keep the mind fit... not create genius in 10 days or less.
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Summary: A Very Important Book
Review: "Keeping Your Brain Alive is easy to read and the neurobic exercises are easy to do. I thought they would interfere with my usually hectic day but far from it. The Science is also easy to understand and very logical. It is encouraging to think that I can actually do something to help keep my mind fit as I move along in years. I believe this book is important. That's why I'm takingt the time to comment on it. It is something we boomers can do, pardon the pun, without thinking about it!
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Summary: Recommended by another "brain writer"
Review: As writer of "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain" I found that specific manipulation of your thoughts can improve mood and mental function. It took someone imaginative like Katz to call it "neurobics" and create a set of usable exercises. It was a really fun read. I recommend it as a great companion to my own book, "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain"(Giuffre', DiGeronimo, Career Press 1999)!
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Summary: I found it excellent
Review: At first I felt the neurobic exercises were just too simple tobe really hellpful, but themore I read about the brain, the moreIunderstand how logical this system is. It just makesgood sense. The example of brushing your teeth with your other hand is what convinced me that I literally can exercise my brain if I just get up off my mental butt. I can almost feel the neural activity going on when I do the neurobics. So I asked my neighbor, who is a neurosurgeoon, about the science and he said it's very consistent with the latest research worldwide. That said, I think the bookk offers a vallulable mental fitness program which I have embarked on.------ Does your brain have to slow down as your age? NO !
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Summary: Among neuroscientists, the butt of jokes
Review: Dr. Katz is well known and liked among neurobiologists and there was little doubt that this tome would be at least entertaining. Well, it was that! The book starts with a chapter on general neuroscience, which appears to be accurate; the rest is, by implication, based on this scientific foundation. This is not the case. It is in fact a mixture of fun games (find your way around your house in the dark!), mildly related facts (the hippocampus is where you learn new places!), and pointless, middlebrow observations (the Polynesians didn't have TripTiks!). It's like the Frugal Gourmet of self-help. The central message of the book appears to be that one should seek out unusual activities, this will keep the brain busy, and that makes the brain flexible. This point agrees with common sense, and is therefore harmless -- more than one can say about some self-help books! However, the point is not actually scientifically proven in any sense of the word. There are good popularizing books on biology and behavior, but this isn't one of them. They are not self-help but you can't have everything. Check out books by Jared Diamond's _Why Is Sex Fun?_ or Franz de Waal's _Chimpanzee Politics_. These authors are of greater repute and take their science more seriously. This book has also been passed around in my department. We thought it might be a prank. Inquiring colleagues want to know: Is this Katz's scientific legacy? Maybe he could find a second career -- Neurobics Instructor. P.S. Let's hope that Katz and Rubin don't get sued by someone who decides to do something with the non-dominant hand such as iron clothes, and then gets a nasty burn. That would ruin the joke.
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Summary: rad combo
Review: fitting in fitness and keep your brain alive combo
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Summary: The book is excellent and based on solid scientific research
Review: Having read the book and a great many articles on the brain, I am confident that it is helpful and meaningful. I find the sudden spate of bad reviews from Indiana (..unsigned) , to be overtly suspicious. Perhaps professional jealousy? This neurobic system supports all the findings of the MacArthur studies.
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