Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises by Lawrence Katz, Manning Rubin Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises
Book Review: rad combo
Summary: 5 Stars
fitting in fitness and keep your brain alive comboBook Review: The recognized authority
Summary: 5 Stars
The exercises these guys recommend are becoming more widely accepted as specific tactics for reducing the risk of Alzheimer's .... They are straightforward and enjoyable.Book Review: No Pain - Big Brain
Summary: 5 Stars
Keep Your Brain Alive with neurobic exercises reminded me of that which I learned through physical exercising years ago; if its fun, its easy to stick with and it works. Without the day to day stimuli I encountered as a younger person, I enjoy and notice the acuity difference I derive from these simple and productive tasks. And, it comforts me to know that I have some control over my aging mind. I've told my friends, its a book for boomers for sure.Book Review: There are books with better ideas for a cheaper price
Summary: 2 Stars
How we rate a book depends primarily on what we are induced to expect from it. The title suggested that this book would offer ways to increase one's range of thinking styles.Instead, what I found to my disappointment, were trivial exercises that aim to change routine habits. Most of it is about deliberately changing the way we perfrom our routines and mundane daily activities - like closing your eyes and opening your bathroom tap, taking a new route to a familiar destination, getting exposed to strong and unusual smells etc. This might be of help to those who have considerably aged and require any sort of mental stimulation to activate their brain cells. For someone like me, working as a bank clerk at the age of 30, brimming with ideas on creativity and imagination techniques, these exercises really do not make much of a difference.
I think what the younger population needs for brain development (not in the physiological sense) is a solid exposure to the different ways of thinking - analytical, logical, creative, lateral, absrtact, visual, holistic, intuitive, pattern-based thinking etc and ways to improve memory. The more tools you have to choose from the more ways you have to tackle and solve a problem. This book doesn't do a thing towards this objective.
If you feel what I mentioned in the last paragraph is what you're really looking for, I would whole-heartedly suggest Karl Albrecht's "Brain Power". That book really deserves to move up in the sales ranking. ("Brain Power" focuses on thinking methods. For memory improvement the only book you need to read, in my opinion, is "Your Memory" by Kenneth Higbee).
What follows might be an unkind comment, but I should mention it because the title does not suggest it, "Save this title for the time when you are old and senile".
Book Review: Adequate, but be careful
Summary: 3 Stars
This book contains some exercises which might be good for one's brain. However, I did not notice any improvement. Furthermore, some of the exercises he suggests are not helpful, and I found them in fact to hinder my own brain's functioning. I refer to the suggestion that using one's non-dominant hand could be beneficial to one's brain. This may be true in some cases, but I strongly suggest not to use one's non-dominant hand to write, because this can result in the development of a stutter. It is well known that when children are forced to change their writing hand it can have negative effects. I don't think the author specifically suggested experimenting with changing one's writing hand however, he did not recommend against this course, which is why I am writing this now. A much better book for improving one's brain is "The Einstein Factor" by Win Wenger.