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 strategy for solving conflict between the US and its Allies and the Taliban?

1] Blind Attack 2] Negotiate

3] Focused Attack 4]Cooperate

5] Give Up 6]Do Nothing

Mental Ability: Choose thebest method of conflict resolution for your country.

Brain Map:dorsal anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex.

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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.

Some games are primarily based on luck [statistical probability ] such as roulette. Other games are primarily based on skill [intelligence and practice] such as chess. The outcome of other games, individual or team activities, are a combination of luck and skill such as football.

Which type of games do you prefer to play or watch, games of chance or skill or both? Why?

Mental Ability: Insight into what activities stimulate us and give us pleasure and why.

Brain Map: Stimulating the nucleus accumbens, ventral pallidum and brainstem.

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.

100 billion dollars in child support is currently owed by obligated parents. This represents 62% of the income of single recipient parents below the poverty line. The lack of child support also crimps the chance of middle class parents with limited funds to provide needed educational and cultural opportunities for their kids.

Why do some separated or divorced parents refuse to pay child support: poor values, personality disorders or because they question their status as a parent? What do you think?

Mental Ability:Ethical and moral decision making.

Brain Map:Ventromedial area of the brain and the amygdala.

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.

The storm Sandy wrought havoc on the eastern seaboard of the US; Katrina devastated New Orleans, Ike inundated Galveston Island.

Do you think these calamities are caused by climate change due to the emission of fossil fuels into the atmosphere? Or do you think it is the result of normal variations in our solar system?

Mental Ability: Problem solving.

Brain Map: Prefrontal 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 are some of the most important reasons why people pray? What are the likely subjects of their prayers? How do people feel when they pray?

Mental Ability: Consider transcendental experience

Brain Map: Excitation in the temporal lobe and fronto-parietal network

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.