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: Keep Your Brain Alive
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is obviously light-hearted and fun-filled. It seems intended for those minds who enjoy little differences in their daily life and seek cheap treats. I recommend it to anyone who is intrigued by light fun and capable of appreciating it. If you do not like fun and feel that proposed fun like this ought to be backed by experiments involving the exercises that strongly suggest a correlation between improvement of cognitive performance and the exercise then this book ought to be avoided by you.Book Review: A very helpful book
Summary: 5 Stars
What I liked about this book and its system of neurobics is that i can strengthen my brain by doing such seemingly ordinary things as taking a different route to work. It's completely unintimidating...even fun. I wish I could find a diet system that was as simple as this seems to be. I have checked out the science and think this neurobic technique can do for my mind what aerobics is doing for my body.Book Review: Interesting, thought-provoking, and empowering.
Summary: 4 Stars
When a 61-year old is given a book like this, one doesn't know whether it should be taken as cautionary or as caring. Putting that aside, I was pleasantly surprised to find an "aging" book that gave me new suggestions for combatting the erosion of my brain power -- something other than the standard jumping jacks and crossword puzzles and "make new friends". The idea that I can tap into the pharmacy in my brain, as the book describes, to stimulate brain cell growth is personally enmpowering. Some of the so-called "neurobic" exercizes are fun, some sound too simple, but overall they allow the reader to understand what's involved so that new exercizes canbe invented.Book Review: I found it excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
At first I felt the neurobic exercises were just too simple tobe really hellpful, but themore I read about the brain, the moreIunderstand how logical this system is. It just makesgood sense. The example of brushing your teeth with your other hand is what convinced me that I literally can exercise my brain if I just get up off my mental butt. I can almost feel the neural activity going on when I do the neurobics. So I asked my neighbor, who is a neurosurgeoon, about the science and he said it's very consistent with the latest research worldwide. That said, I think the bookk offers a vallulable mental fitness program which I have embarked on.------ Does your brain have to slow down as your age? NO !
Book Review: Totally Original, Informative and Fun. Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this book. It illustrates a simple theory, that being the "use it or lose it" theory as it relates to the brain. What's refreshing and unique is its approach, its platform - that just simple mental gymnastics (that we see peddled in books, CD Roms and more all over) aren't enough. The book effectively explains, (and backs up with solid research at The Salk Institute, UCal, and other places) that strengthening the brain with cross-training through multi-sensory workouts and exercises (associating scents with activities or places, for example) can build and strengthen our synapses and dendrites . I found this fascinating as I took brain cell growth to be more of an early childhood-specific activity. The exercises to me proved to be fun, and real effective ways to "switch on the connections" and look at things differently. I hope it all pays off. Judging from the insights and solid research behind it, I think it will.