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Brain Exercise [Gold Award] No.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.

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?

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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.

Brain Exercise [Gold Award] No.1

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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.

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?

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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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.52

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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 easy or difficult is it to:

1. Correctly identify emotions in those you care about?

2. Recognize how your own emotions can change based on events and circumstances in your daily life

3. Change your emotional expression [facial and body posture] to reflect what your feeling

4. Manage your emotions to achieve goals in your relationship with others [for example, to make them happy, optimistic, more sensitive etc.]

Mental Ability: Emotional intelligence.

Brain Map: Prefrontal cortex 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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.50

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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.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, interpret and react to emotions of others. Identify the emotional reaction of the people below. How do you feel in response to them? How would you go about trying to change them?

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Mental Ability: Emotional intelligence.

Brain Map: 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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.49

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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.

We live in a time of heightened awareness of family violence. Family violence includes physical and sexual abuse, but also neglect, emotional and financial abuse. So the definition is broadening.

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Do you believe that family violence is increasing, decreasing or staying about the same in our society?

Do you think we should do more to detect and defeat it? If so, how?

Mental Ability: Perception and social judgment.

Brain Map: Right frontal cortex 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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.47

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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.

An increasing problem in our society is domestic violence. To some extent, this is the result of including the topics of emotional abuse, cyber stalking and financial abuse as it effects children, spouses and partners and the elderly.

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Should emotional abuse, cyber stalking and financial abuse be included when considering domestic violence as well as physical and sexual abuse?

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Mental Ability: Rational analysis with emotional overtones.

Brain Map: Right 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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.46

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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.

Who is your favorite super hero? What power does he or she have that you admire the most? If you were to meet the super hero, what fantasy would you like to share with them?

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Mental Ability: Fantasy and Imagination.

Brain Map: Parietal lobe. 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.

Brain Exercise [Silver Award] No.45

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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.

A case of ethical dilemma, Imagine that – Someone you love is on life support. Their doctors say there is less than a 50- 50 chance of survival and if they survive, the quality of their life would be problematic.

The person you love asks you to help them end their life. They say they don’t want to suffer anymore. What will you do?

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Mental Ability: Moral and ethical reasoning of a problem with legal implications.

Brain Map: Neocortex and the firing of mirror neurons.

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.44

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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.

Every society, modern and primitive, has masks. Usually, the masks represent important events in life such as birth, death, marriage, passage to adulthood, harvest or celebration.

Above are three examples: A medieval doctor’s mask, A spiritual Eskimo raven mask and of course, Spiderman. What do you think of them?

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Mental Ability: Visualization and symbolic logic.

Brain Map: Intraparietal solcus and Pre-frontal 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.52

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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 people say things they think are true but are not. Some people say things they wish were true but which are not. Other people simply say things they know are not true.

Some people understate or overstate things. They may edit the truth, e.g. they don’t tell the whole truth. Other people say or do things that distract us from the truth.

Question: Under normal conditions, can you tell if someone is lying? If so, how?

Mental Abilities: Interpreting visual and auditory cues. Accessing past experience.

Brain Map: Superior temporal sulcus. Cerebellum, amygdale, and other systems.

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.