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 you are at home alone, why is looking at an aquarium, listening to soft music or meditating in a quiet chair so relaxing?

Mental Abilities: Awareness of external and internal stimuli and insight into emotions.

Brain Map: Occipital, temporal lobes and 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.

People who are close to you, knows where to “push your buttons” in terms of a sensitive subject that will make you angry.

Then someone close to you “pushes your button” and it makes you angry, what is the best thing to do?

A: Retaliate in kind; B: Leave the situation; C. Pretend it does not bother you; D. React sarcastically; or E. Laugh it off?

What is the best response and why?

Mental Ability: Emotional intelligence.

Brain Map: Left 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.

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.

Twelve years ago today, the World Trade Center in New York was attacked by terrorists. The world has never been the same.

Question 1: Where were you and what were you doing when he learned of the attack?

Question 2: In your view, how has 9/11 changed our lives, our security and our freedoms?

Mental Ability: Memory and rationale thinking with emotional laden features.

Brain Map: Prefrontal and occipital cortex. The amygdala and hippocampus.

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.

What is love? What is the best basis for a man and a woman falling in love? Romantic attraction and intimacy? Friendship? Money? Common values? Sharing interests? Family preferences? Which are most important to you? Some of all of these factors?

Mental Ability: Emotional Intelligence.

Brain Map: Prefrontal cortex. Limbic system. Genetic predisposition. Cultural memories.

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.

This is the time of year when parents take their children to school; it may be to begin school, rejoin classmates from prior years or start college.

Emotions run high for parents and students. How would you describe how what and how they are feeling?

Mental Ability: Emotional intelligence.

Brain Map: Right frontotemporal and 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.