Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers.
Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles.
Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.
Why do people cheat? Students do it. Business people do it. Partners in relationships do it.
Mental Ability: Social Analysis. Brain Map: Neocortex.
Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.
Apply the moral of this fairy tale to life in general.
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Alice in Wonderland and the Cat come to a fork in the road.
Alice says “I don’t know which way to go.”
The Cat asks, “Where do you want to end up?”
Alice says, “I don’t know.”
The Cat says, “Then, does it really matter?
Mental Ability:Abstract thinking and reasoning.
Brain Map:Prefrontal cortex and basil ganglia.
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Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.
What are the missing words or phrases of the following proverbs?
…………………………nothing gained.
Where there is a will ..………….
………………..……….spoil the child.
………………………….saves nine.
Absence makes…………………………
…………..….must comes to an end.
Too many …….. Spoil the broth.
Mental Ability:Verbal sequencing. Medium to long term memory.
Brain Map:Parietal cortex and left cingulate gyrus.
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Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers.
Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles.
Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.
The great physicist Albert Einstein was one of the smartest people who ever lived. One of his best attributes was his sense of humor.
Confronted by the Media, he was once asked, “Do you believe in an almighty God who created the Universe?” Einstein answered emphatically, “Yes. What I’m trying to do is figure out how he did it!” On another occasion, he wistfully observed, “Gravity is not responsible for young people falling in love.”
What role does humor play in your life? Does it help you get through stressful times?
Mental Ability: Appreciating humor. Brain Map: The anterior supplemental motor area (SMA) of the brain.
Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.
Look at the figure below. One of the pilings of the square appears to be in the front of and in back of the frame at the same time. How can this be?
Mental Ability: Visual perception of congruence.
Brain Map: Frontal and parietal regions of the right hemisphere.
Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.
Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.
You have decided to pray. Close your eyes and offer a prayer.
Mental Ability:Experiencing a spiritual moment.
Brain Map:Activity in the orientation association area (OAA) of the brain. This part of the brain is responsible for enabling us to distinguish between ourselves, the outside world and cosmos.
Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.
Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.
Consider the following analogies:
In what way are fire and water alike?
In what way is a question and answer alike?
In what way are reading and learning alike?
Answer as quickly as you can.
Mental Ability: Critical thinking and brain speed.
Brain Map: Prefrontal cortex and limbic system.
Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.
Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.
Congratulations. You’ve just won the MEGA MILLION LOTTERY. Will you let the media know you’re the big winner or will you keep your identity private? What will you do with the money? How will it change your life or will it?
Mental Ability: Focus, concentration, planning and controlling emotions.
Brain Map: Left frontal parietal area of the brain. Amygdala activation and stimulation of the orbitofrontal cortex.
Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.
Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.
What is the best way to celebrate a happy occurrence or a meaningful circumstance?
Mental Ability: Recognition of significant matters, scheduling and planning events.
Brain Map: Right frontal cortex and limbic system.
Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.
Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers.
Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles.
Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.
Everyone gets angry sometimes with their spouse or significant other. What will your partner do or not do that is sure to make you angry? How do you deal with it? What are the best ways to manage it and overcome the angry feelings?
Mental Ability: Understanding our emotions. Brain Map: Hyperactive responses in the left amygdala and hippocampus, and rostral anterior cingulate cortex.