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Brain Exercise [Gold Award] No.4

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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.

People who are close to you, knows where to “push your buttons” in terms of a sensitive subject that will make you angry.

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Then someone close to you “pushes your button” and it makes you angry, what is the best thing to do?

A: Retaliate in kind; B: Leave the situation; C. Pretend it does not bother you; D. React sarcastically; or E. Laugh it off?

What is the best response and why?

Mental Ability: Emotional intelligence.

Brain Map: Left Prefrontal cortex 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.

Brain Exercise [Gold Award] No.3

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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.

Twelve years ago today, the World Trade Center in New York was attacked by terrorists. The world has never been the same.

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Question 1: Where were you and what were you doing when he learned of the attack?

Question 2: In your view, how has 9/11 changed our lives, our security and our freedoms?

Mental Ability: Memory and rationale thinking with emotional laden features.

Brain Map: Prefrontal and occipital cortex. The amygdala and hippocampus.

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.

Brain Exercise [Gold Award] No.3

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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 is love? What is the best basis for a man and a woman falling in love? Romantic attraction and intimacy? Friendship? Money? Common values? Sharing interests? Family preferences? Which are most important to you? Some of all of these factors?

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Mental Ability: Emotional Intelligence.

Brain Map: Prefrontal cortex. Limbic system. Genetic predisposition. Cultural memories.

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.

Brain Exercise [Gold Award] No.2

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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 US is concerned that Bashar al-Assad of Syria is using chemical weapons against the insurgents in his country. The US and its allies are considering military intervention because of the moral implications of using such weapons.

Should the US and its allies intervene in the situation in light of the use of chemical weapons? What are the ethical and practical implications of the decision?

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If the US intervenes what is likely to happen afterwards?

Mental Ability: Rational thinking, decision making and forecasting. Moral reasoning.

Brain Map: Left frontal lobe.

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.

Brain Exercise [Gold Award] No.1

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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.

This is the time of year when parents take their children to school; it may be to begin school, rejoin classmates from prior years or start college.

Emotions run high for parents and students. How would you describe how what and how they are feeling?

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Mental Ability: Emotional intelligence.

Brain Map: Right frontotemporal 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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.52

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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.

How easy or difficult is it to:

1. Correctly identify emotions in those you care about?

2. Recognize how your own emotions can change based on events and circumstances in your daily life

3. Change your emotional expression [facial and body posture] to reflect what your feeling

4. Manage your emotions to achieve goals in your relationship with others [for example, to make them happy, optimistic, more sensitive etc.]

Mental Ability: Emotional intelligence.

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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.50

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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.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, interpret and react to emotions of others. Identify the emotional reaction of the people below. How do you feel in response to them? How would you go about trying to change them?

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Mental Ability: Emotional intelligence.

Brain Map: The 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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.49

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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.

We live in a time of heightened awareness of family violence. Family violence includes physical and sexual abuse, but also neglect, emotional and financial abuse. So the definition is broadening.

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Do you believe that family violence is increasing, decreasing or staying about the same in our society?

Do you think we should do more to detect and defeat it? If so, how?

Mental Ability: Perception and social judgment.

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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.47

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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.

An increasing problem in our society is domestic violence. To some extent, this is the result of including the topics of emotional abuse, cyber stalking and financial abuse as it effects children, spouses and partners and the elderly.

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Should emotional abuse, cyber stalking and financial abuse be included when considering domestic violence as well as physical and sexual abuse?

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Mental Ability: Rational analysis with emotional overtones.

Brain Map: Right frontal cortex and the 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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.46

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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.

Who is your favorite super hero? What power does he or she have that you admire the most? If you were to meet the super hero, what fantasy would you like to share with them?

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Mental Ability: Fantasy and Imagination.

Brain Map: Parietal lobe. Occipital 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.