Make Your Brain Smarter

Increase Your Brain's Creativity, Energy, and Focus

Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D., Shelly Kirkland

• Publisher: Free Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781451665499
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Self Improvement

One of the world's most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines cutting-edge research with unique exercises to help you improve the most powerful, most staggeringly complex machine ever created: your brain. In Make Your Brain Smarter, renowned cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman introduces you to the very latest research in brain science and shows you how to tailor a program to strengthen your brain's capacity to think smarter. In this all-inclusive book, Dr. Chapman delivers a comprehensive "fitness" plan that you can use to "exercise" your way to a healthier brain. You will find strategies to reduce stress and anxiety, increase productivity, enhance decision-making, and strengthen how your brain works at every age. You will discover why memory is not the most important measure of brain capacity, why IQ is a misleading index of brain potential, and why innovative thinking energizes your brain. Make Your Brain Smarter is the ultimate guide for keeping your brain fit during each decade of your life.

INDEX

abstraction, 10, 22, 29, 33, 60, 126, 155, 178–79, 195–96, 217

ImMEDIAtes and, 135–36, 139–40

integrated reasoning and, 82, 84–85, 89, 95, 98, 105

Abul-Fazl, 99–101

age, aging, xiii—xvi, 3–6, 12–14, 16–18, 27–32, 58, 67–69, 181, 244–45

Alzheimer’s and, 226, 228, 240

brain health and, 36–38, 40–41, 43–50, 53

brain injuries and, 12–13, 205–6, 212–14, 216–19

cognitive performance and, 13, 17–18, 29–30

frontal lobe and, 20, 24–26, 28, 30–32, 34–35, 47, 50

habits and, 60–61

innovative thinking and, 106, 108–9, 111–15, 118, 120

integrated reasoning and, 83, 85, 87–88, 90, 92, 99, 101

intelligence and, 18, 22–23, 29, 35

myths about, 12–13

Alzheimer’s disease, xiv, 38–41, 187, 189, 225–40

basics of, 227–28

brain health and, 39–41, 43, 48, 51–52

brainomics of, 228–29

cognitive reserves and, 237–38, 240

hope and, 239–40

memory and, 31, 226–29, 231, 233, 235–38

prediction and detection of, 43, 225–26, 228–31, 233–35, 237–40

slowing rate of, 229, 231–32, 240

Stark Club for, 232–35

staving off of, 229–30, 236–38

Thinkers and, 167, 228

and tips on brain stimulation, 238–39

attention deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Section I: Discover the Frontal Lobe Frontier
• Section II: Maximize your Cognitive Performance
• Section III: Make your Brain Smarter at any Age
• Section IV: Mind the Gap in Injury and Disease
• Section V: Fulfill the Promise
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Notes
• Index
• Copyright