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 21st century, the nature of family life and responsibilities are changing. This is due, in part, to increased life expectancy- people living into their 80s, 90s and beyond.

Experts forecast in the future that adults are expected to spend more time caring for their parents than for their children. Can you visualize this happening? If so, how do you react and feel about this dramatic change?

Mental Ability: Forecasting the future.

Brain Map: Neo and Prefrontal right cortex.

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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.

Here is a picture of a total solar eclipse. This is a situation when the moon passes between the sun and the earth. In a partial or annular eclipse, only part of the sun is obscured.

Close you eyes and visually imagine these dramatic solar system events.

Mental Ability: Imaginative visualization.

Brain Map: The visual and right prefrontal cortex.

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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 is more important luck or intelligence?

Which person is likely to be more successful, a person who is lucky or a person who is intelligent?

Mental Ability: Understanding cause and effect.

Brain Map: The right superior temporal gyrus.

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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 is the best strategy for solving conflict between the US and its Allies and the Taliban?

1] Blind Attack 2] Negotiate

3] Focused Attack 4]Cooperate

5] Give Up 6]Do Nothing

Mental Ability: Choose thebest method of conflict resolution for your country.

Brain Map:dorsal anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex.

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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.

Some games are primarily based on luck [statistical probability ] such as roulette. Other games are primarily based on skill [intelligence and practice] such as chess. The outcome of other games, individual or team activities, are a combination of luck and skill such as football.

Which type of games do you prefer to play or watch, games of chance or skill or both? Why?

Mental Ability: Insight into what activities stimulate us and give us pleasure and why.

Brain Map: Stimulating the nucleus accumbens, ventral pallidum and brainstem.

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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.

100 billion dollars in child support is currently owed by obligated parents. This represents 62% of the income of single recipient parents below the poverty line. The lack of child support also crimps the chance of middle class parents with limited funds to provide needed educational and cultural opportunities for their kids.

Why do some separated or divorced parents refuse to pay child support: poor values, personality disorders or because they question their status as a parent? What do you think?

Mental Ability:Ethical and moral decision making.

Brain Map:Ventromedial area of the brain and the amygdala.

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