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Boost your memory power with the ultimate brain workout Max Your Memory with this fun programme packed with 200 fun exercises, puzzles, tips and strategies to sharpen your memory skills. Designed to improve all aspects of your memory including long-term, short-term, visual and organisational, you'll also find helpful tricks that can be applied in everyday life helping you remember all those phone numbers, faces and names that seem to slip your mind. Use the helpful "check-in" and "check-out" boxes to record your score and chart your progress as you improve. Max Your Memory is one book you shouldn't forget to buy.
An inspiring guide to keeping your mind, body, and spirit working together to keep you sharp, healthy, and happy through life. Frustrated with your brain? How would you like to remember where you put your car keys? Is multitasking working for you? Do you ever wonder how you drove to your destination? If the answer is yes, you may be painfully aware of “the Fade”—the decline in mental, physical and spiritual wellness so many of us experience in our later years. But contrary to what you may have heard, it doesn’t have to be that way. Max Your Mind introduces you to “the Boost”—or the many benefits that come with maturity. With plenty of tips on how to stay sharp, this helpful guide offers a refreshingly lighthearted and spiritual perspective on this typically serious subject. Using anecdotal stories to illustrate the latest neuroscience research, Max Your Mind is full of practical information that we can apply to our everyday lives. So if you want to give your mind the wake-up call that God intended, open this book and enjoy the hope, help and humor within its pages.
This volume presents selected papers presented during the 18th International Conference on Humanizing Work and Work Environment (HWWE 2020). The book presents research findings on different areas of ergonomics for developing appropriate tools and work environment considering capabilities and limitations of working people for maximum effectiveness on their performance. The book is divided into several sections focusing on different ergonomic research activities currently being undertaken at both national and international levels. The volume will be of use to researchers, practitioners and students working in different fields of ergonomics.
Mistä puhti työelämän loppukiriin? Entä kuinka pitää älynystyrät terässä sitten, kun pomo ei enää tarjoa niille päivittäisiä haasteita? Osaamme huolehtia kehostamme, mutta harva tietää miten treenata pääkoppaansa, vaikka aivoiltamme vaaditaan yhä enemmän ja yhä pidempään. Aivojen kunto ratkaisee arkemme sujuvuuden ja elämämme laadun - kaiken ikää. Se hidastaa muistisairauksien kehittymistä ja voi jopa poikia lisää toimintakykyisiä työ- tai elinvuosia. Mutta mihin aivokuntoilijan kannattaa aikansa käyttää? Personal Brainer tarjoaa lukijalle paitsi tietoa uusista ja perinteisistä aivojumpan ja mielenhuollon menetelmistä, myös konkreettisen aivokunto-ohje...
A lo largo de la vida, la capacidad mental a la que más recurre todo ser humano es la memoria, de ahí la importancia de ejercitarla, potenciarla y cuidarla, sobre todo cuando empezamos a hacernos mayores. En este sentido, Recuerda facilita la mayoría de respuestas a las preguntas que empiezan a surgir durante esta etapa, como por ejemplo cómo saber cuándo las pérdidas de memoria están relacionadas con el proceso normal de envejecimiento y cuándo son producto de un deterioro patológico. Sea cual sea la respuesta, los consejos prácticos y las estrategias que plantea el autor ayudarán a mantener una mente activa para seguir disfrutando de una vida más activa y plena.
En Argentina más del 54% de los adultos, es decir, 6 de cada 10, es sedentario. Cuando hablamos de sedentarismo nos referimos a la falta de actividad física regular que implicaría realizar al menos durante tres días a la semana 30 minutos de ejercicio físico. Hay quienes aseguran que estar sentado más de cinco horas equivaldría a fumar un paquete de cigarrillos; por esto afirman que el sedentarismo es el tabaquismo del futuro. Tomando como punto de partida esta escalofriante realidad, el Dr. Gabriel Lapman convierte este segundo libro en una auténtica herramienta teórica y práctica para incorporar de una vez por todas el ejercicio físico en el día a día. Además, redobla la propuesta equiparándolo con los signos vitales, tales como el pulso y la respiración. +Z -P La mejor receta para una vida saludable es también un texto motivador, ya que tiene como misión despertar la conciencia del lector para que, guiado por la evidencia científica que el libro ofrece, e inspirado por las palabras del autor, pueda comenzar cuanto antes a disfrutar de los múltiples y duraderos beneficios de este modelo cuya única inversión y costo es un par de zapatillas.
While most of us have heard the phrase “use it or lose it,” very few understand what “it” means, or how to properly “use it” in order to maintain brain function and fitness. The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness is an invaluable guide that helps readers navigate growing brain research and identify the lifestyle factors and products that contribute to brain fitness. By gathering insights from eighteen of the world’s top scientists and offering tools and detailed descriptions of over twenty products, this book is an essential guide to the field of brain fitness, neuroplasticity and cognitive health.
Educators cannot empower their students without being empowered themselves. This book presents a number of proven principles and successful strategies that have been demonstrated by rigorous research to be effective in assisting teachers to carry out their fundamental mission of helping their students to achieve significant learning outcomes.
When it comes to computer games, the numbers are astounding: the world's top professional gamer has won over half a million dollars shooting virtual monsters on-screen; online games claim literally millions of subscribers; while worldwide spending on computer gaming will top £24 billion by 2011. From techno-toddlers to silver surfers, everyone's playing games on their PCs, Wiis, Xboxes and phones. How are we responding to this onslaught of brain-training, entertaining, potentially addicting, time-consuming, myth-spawning games? In Powering Up, Rebecca Mileham looks at the facts behind the headlines to see what effect this epidemic of game-playing is really having on us and the society we li...
"Using charts, drawings, and up-to-date scientific studies, they present the case that any brain, at any age, can change for the better...The authors suggest myriad activities to help the process along...(This is) A stimulating, challenging resource, full of solid information and practical tips for improving brain health." -Kirkus Reviews Modern life places extraordinary demands on our brains. Not only do we live longer than ever before, but we must constantly adapt to complex and rapidly evolving personal and professional realities. Yet, we often ignore our most precious resource to do so: our brain. The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness cuts through the clutter of misconceptions, superfic...