399 Games, Puzzles & Trivia Challenges Specially Designed to Keep Your Brain Young

Cross-train your brain. All it takes is ten to fifteen minutes a day of playing the right games. (It's fun.)

 

Exercising your brain is like exercising your body--with the right program, you can keep your brain young, strong, agile, and adaptable. Organized on an increasing scale of difficulty from "Warm-up" to "Merciless," here are 399 puzzles, trivia quizzes, brainteasers, and word games that are both fun and engaging to play, and are expertly designed to give your brain the kind of workout that stimulates neurogenesis, the process of rejuvenating the brain by growing new brain cells.

 

Target Six Key Cognitive Functions:

 

1. Long-Term Memory. 2. Working Memory. 3. Executive Functioning. 4. Attention to Detail. 5. Multitasking. 6. Processing Speed.


Author: Nancy Linde
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 09/25/2012
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.70h x 7.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780761168256

About the Author
Linde, Nancy: - Nancy Linde created and runs Never2Old4Gamescom, an online subscription service for activities professionals working with senior citizens at assisted living residences, retirement communities, senior centers, and other senior-serving organizations. She has produced, written, and directed more than a dozen documentary films, including the PBS series NOVA. She lives near Boston, Massachusetts.