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.

Adam Lanza killed 20 children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut. There was no apparent motive for the slaughter of innocent children. Nor could there be a moral justification for such conduct under any circumstance. The emotional trauma of surviving students, parents and the community is also significant.

In your opinion, what causes a person to commit such an atrocity? Mental illness, brain damage, defective parenting?

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