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 great 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 times?

Mental Ability: Appreciating humor.

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

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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 passenger on a flight to Washington DC. A terrorist has brandished a weapon and broken into the cockpit. He is threatening to crash the plane into the White House.

What will you do? Will you take action or wait to see what happens?

Assume that you are able to use your cell phone and make one call. Who will you call and what will you say?

Mental Ability: Making a good decision in a emergency situation.

Brain Map: Prefrontal and visual 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.

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.

If you could meet and have dinner with a celebrity, famous person or world leader of your choice, who would it be? Why would you choose that person over others?

Mental Ability: Imagination &self awareness.

Brain Map: The left prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia 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.

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.

Everyone gets angry sometimes with their spouse or significant other. What will your partner do or not do that is sure to make you angry? How do you deal with it? What are the best ways to manage it and overcome the angry feelings?

Mental Ability: Understanding our emotions.

Brain Map: Hyperactive responses in the left amygdala and hippocampus, and rostral anterior cingulate 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.

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.

When asked about the speed, power and impact of computers, a brilliant professor humorously observed:

“My computer can make an important mistake faster than I ever dreamed of doing.”

Mental Ability: Wit based on incongruence and appreciating the absurd.

Brain Map: Reduced levels of the neurotransmitters epinephrine adrenalin and dopamine.

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.

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.

Read the words out loud from left to right and row by row in the box below.

How easy is for you to do when the words and colors don’t match? If you are red-green or blue- yellow color blind, it may be easier for you to do.

Mental Ability: Recognizing and Identifying colors.

Brain Map: The Posterior temporoparietal cortex and the visual cortex (V2/3).

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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.

For centuries, the astrological calendar called the “Zodiac” has been thought to correlate cosmic events with human behavior. The correlations cannot be explained by gravity, magnetism, or other forces described in physics.

In China, this is the Zodiac year of the “water snake” which fortunately does not attack unless it is hungry or provoked. Some people believe in the Zodiac. Others say it’s pseudo- science or superstition. What do you think?

Mental Ability: Judgment, reasoning and identifying superstitions.

Brain Map: Left prefrontal cortex and occipital 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.

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.

Time is relative not absolute. How long does the last 60 seconds of the football game seem to be when your favorite team is ahead by 3 points? How long is the goodbye kiss when you send your son or daughter to college? How long does 10 minutes seem to be when you’re stuck in traffic and late for work?

Mental Ability: The perception of time.

Brain Map: The pre-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.

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.