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Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.24

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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 does music make you feel? Does it depend on its type?

Can you describe different feelings based on the type? Classical, Rock, Jazz, Rap, Hip Hop, Country, Gospel?

Mental Ability: Insight and emotional IQ.

Brain Map: Auditory nerve, neurotransmitters, temporal and left parietal lobes.

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.23

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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 does it feel when you are sitting in a doctor’s waiting room for an exam or for results? What could be done to make you feel more comfortable ?

Mental Ability: Emotional IQ.

Brain Map: Anterior Cingulate Gyrus and the Basal Ganglia.

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.22

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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.

Parents worry that internet surfing interferes with their kids’ homework, grades and sleep. Some kids spend more time developing online relationships than ones in person. For others, “internet gaming” is their only hobby. Can “surfing the net” become an “addiction”? If so, what can parents do about it?

Mental Ability: Effective parenting, counseling and guidance.

Brain Map: Left 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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.21

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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.

For a vacation or holiday trip, do you prefer an ocean or mountain setting? Why? How do you feel when you are in the mountains? How do you feel when you are by the sea?

Mental Ability: Imagination, nostalgia, excitement, expectation

Brain Map: R Hemisphere of the frontal lobes. Occipital lobes. 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.37

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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 happens when you die?

 

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Many think you go to heaven or hell depending on how well you lived. Some think you return to life as a different person or life form. Still others think nothing happens – like a cell that simply stops dividing or reproducing. What do you think?

 

Mental Ability: Spirituality and forming a personal belief.

Brain Map: Left and right cerebral 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.41

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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 do you think?

The wife of a 60 year old man dies unexpectedly. They were married for 35 years. The man continues to live in the house they shared. His children live in another city.

The man thinks it might be nice to have a dog. Instead of going to a breeder, he visits a shelter and looks at rescue dogs. He sees one he likes. The dog licks his hand and seems to like him too. So the man takes the dog home.

Question: The dog is a rescue dog. But who has rescued whom?

Mental Ability:Moral reasoning.

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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.36

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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 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.

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.40

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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.

You and a stranger find a 100 dollar bill on the street at about the same time. There’s no way to tell who dropped it. You both agree to divide it but can’t decide how. Another person walks by and sees and hears what’s going on. He just happens to be a mediator.

He says, “Here’s what you should do. I’ll hold the bill. One of you makes an offer on how to divide the money. If the other person agrees, it’s done. But if the offer is not accepted, I’ll give the money to charity. Everyone agrees.

The stranger says to you, “I offer you $10 and I’ll keep the rest.”

Will you accept the offer? Why?

Mental Ability:Logical reasoning and controlling emotions.

Brain Map:Right 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 [Bronze Award] No.39

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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 Do You Think?

The flight attendant explains over the address system that “in case of emergency, secure your oxygen mask before assisting a child with theirs.” A six year old boy on a flight with his mother asks “why”? What should the mother say?

Is the flight attendant’s instruction to take care of adults first applicable to other aspects of a parent’s life?

Mental Ability:Reasoning and communication.

Brain Map:Frontal lobes, auditory cortex Wernicke’s and Broca’s area.

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.35

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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.

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

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.