Brain Exercise [Bronze Award] No.45

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.

Do you think most people consider a Facebook friend to be?

1] a contact

2] an acquaintance or

3] someone with whom they have a personal relationship

When a person doesn’t hear back from a Facebook friend, do you imagine their feelings are hurt?

Why do you suppose, a Facebook subscriber might “de-friend” someone?

Facebook has a “top friend feature.” When a friend is not listed as a “top friend” [places 1 through 5], do you think they feel slighted?

Mental Ability: Understanding, forming and rejecting relationships.

Brain Map: The Limbic system.

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.41

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.

Think back over your life-

What is the nicest thing anyone has said about you?

What is the best thing anyone has done for U?

Mental Ability: Long and short term memory. Reflection and cognitive interpretation. Brain Map: Hippocampus and left frontal lobe.

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Brain Exercise [Bronze Award] No.44

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 are a member of a group of citizens chosen to form a colony on the moon. Congress approved the project. NASA will make it happen. No lawyers were invited to go along. Nor is there a judge in the group or a police officer.

Two problems occur when you get there.

1] A member of the group accuses another of assaulting her.

2] Two members of the group dispute who owns a bag of supplies.

You are asked to decide how these two problems should be handled. What do you think?

Mental Ability: Legal reasoning.

Brain Map: The medial prefrontal cortex, the anterior medial frontal gyrus and the left dorsolateral cortex.

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.40

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 one thing you would like to do in your life that you have not done yet? What’s holding you back?

Imagine that you are going to plan to do it right now. What is involved?

Mental Ability: Self awareness and insight; reflection and planning.

Brain Map: The limbic system and amygdala for insight; The left frontal cortex for successfully planning to do it.

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Brain Exercise [Bronze Award] No.43

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 will you do?

You are in charge of homeland security in your city.

A terror suspect is apprehended. The police think he knows about a plot to explode a dirty bomb in a government building in your city in the next 24 hours. He refuses to talk.

Will you order that he be tortured to make him talk?

Mental Ability: Moral decision making.

Brain Map: Orbitofrontal and anterior cingulated cortex and the amygdala.

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.39

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.

Can a person know true happiness if they have never known sadness or despair?

Mental Ability: Emotional Intelligence.

Brain Map: Limbic system, hippocampus and amygdala.

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.38

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 famous story and well known movie, Les Mise’rables, JeanValjean is a successful business person who spent 19 years in prison for stealing bread for his starving sister. Is it morally wrong to steal food for a starving person?

Mental Ability: Moral reasoning.

Brain Map: Activations of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, insular cortex, and lateral orbital cortex.

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.36

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 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 moments?

Mental Ability: Appreciating humor.

Brain Map: The anterior supplemental motor area (SMA) of the brain.

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.35

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.

Imagine that you are a child and you are afraid of the dark, why do you think that you are? What can you do about it that would make a difference and why?

Mental Ability: Awareness of real or imagined dangers.

Brain Map: Limbic System and Occipital cortex

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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.34

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.

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