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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.45

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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.

A case of ethical dilemma, Imagine that – Someone you love is on life support. Their doctors say there is less than a 50- 50 chance of survival and if they survive, the quality of their life would be problematic.

The person you love asks you to help them end their life. They say they don’t want to suffer anymore. What will you do?

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Mental Ability: Moral and ethical reasoning of a problem with legal implications.

Brain Map: Neocortex and the firing of mirror neurons.

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.44

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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.

Every society, modern and primitive, has masks. Usually, the masks represent important events in life such as birth, death, marriage, passage to adulthood, harvest or celebration.

Above are three examples: A medieval doctor’s mask, A spiritual Eskimo raven mask and of course, Spiderman. What do you think of them?

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Mental Ability: Visualization and symbolic logic.

Brain Map: Intraparietal solcus and Pre-frontal 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.

Brain Exercise [Bronze 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.

Some people say things they think are true but are not. Some people say things they wish were true but which are not. Other people simply say things they know are not true.

Some people understate or overstate things. They may edit the truth, e.g. they don’t tell the whole truth. Other people say or do things that distract us from the truth.

Question: Under normal conditions, can you tell if someone is lying? If so, how?

Mental Abilities: Interpreting visual and auditory cues. Accessing past experience.

Brain Map: Superior temporal sulcus. Cerebellum, amygdale, and other systems.

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 [Bronze Award] No.51

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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.

Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?

Mental Abilities: Identifying and understanding your emotions.

Brain Map: The limbic system including the hippocampus and amygdalae

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 [Bronze 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.

In the 2012 London Olympic Games, there were racing events where the time difference between the competitors was small.

Suppose you meet a 24 year old athlete from your home town who, came in 4th in their swimming event. The athlete practiced 4 hours a day for four years to prepare for the event. They did everything their coach said to do.

In their race, the time difference between the gold, silver and bronze metal winners and 4th place was 1/10 of a second. The athlete’s parents, brother and sister watched from the stands. The family took out a loan to travel to London to watch them swim. Each travel package cost 20,000 US dollars.

What will you say to the young person when you are introduced to them? If the athlete asked you for a comment or advice about their situation, what will you say?

Mental Abilities: Observing, visualizing and giving good advice.

Brain Map: The occipitoparietal-frontal 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.

Brain Exercise [Bronze 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.

The country of Bhutan sits on the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains. It uses an annual Gross National Happiness [GNH] scale rather than a Gross Domestic Product [GDP] scale to measure the wealth of their citizens and their country. What do you think about the idea of measuring the wealth of Americans in terms of happiness rather than dollars?

Consider a scale of 1 to 10. Let “10” mean “fabulously rich in happiness” and let “1” mean “absolute poverty in happiness”. For 2012, what GHN number would you assign to Americans?

Mental Ability: Creative insight.

Brain Map: right cerebral cortex. Reduction of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine.

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 [Bronze Award] No.48

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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 people think American architect Frank Gehry is a genius. Others think he’s incompetent or crazy. Below is a picture of the Guggenheim Museum he designed in Balboa Spain. The Spanish government has declared it a national treasure. When Gehry saw the completed building, he said “I was embarrassed.” What do you think?

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Mental Ability: Perception, visual processing and aesthetics.

Brain Map: The occipital lobe and nucleus accubens.

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.43

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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.

Anger is a negative emotion that everyone experiences from time to time. It can result from an important situation or an irritation.

What event can happen in your life that is sure to make you angry? What is the best way to react or handle the situation, so that the outcome is successful?

Mental Ability: Controlling emotional impulses.

Brain Map: Prefrontal cortex and the amygdale

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 [Bronze 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.

What are the three things in your life that you are most grateful for?

Mental Ability: Insight and understanding emotions.

Brain Map: Nucleus accumbens and 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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.42

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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.

Americans love cowboys. Cowboys intrigue people around the globe. But what is a cowboy? And how to do know if somebody is one?

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In the old west, Cowboys had strong values but rejected government rules. Cowboys were sensitive enough to play music, write poetry but they didn’t marry, have children or live in families. When towns and cities appeared on the landscape, cowboys packed their saddle and rode on.

Mental Ability: cognitive analysis and personal insight.

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.