Book of the Week: "Keep your brain in good shape"

Kaya Nordengen - Doctor of Neurology and a practicing physician from Norway. She is actively engaged in the popularization of neurobiology and, in addition to reading popular science lectures, writes books about the brain and how it bled.

The first book Kaya "omnipotent brain. Guide to the most irreplaceable organ of our body, "talks about the structure of the brain, the biological features and capabilities. For example, the author reveals which parts of the brain responsible for personality and human intelligence, as well as how to arrange our internal GPS-navigator.

In the second book "Keep your mind sharp. Scandinavian technique training intelligence "Dr. Nordengen not only continues to reveal the secrets of the most mysterious organ in the human body. Here are the specific tips and exercises for the development of mental clarity.

Some people believe that with age brain becomes less sensitive, it is more difficult something to remember and adapt to a changing environment. The author denies it. Throughout his life, we are able to create new neural networks, if you constantly learn new things and to strain your brain. It is the constant mental load would allow if not to avoid diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer's disease, or at least actively fight their first symptoms and reduce the risk of occurrence.

The way you live your life affects the development of the brain... The way you use your brain, depends on how it will be resistant to disease and whether you are threatened with dementia.

Kaya Nordengen, "Keep your brain in good shape"

The book is divided into several parts, and each contains a specific task that can and must perform to the head operating at full capacity. For example, to keep the brain in good shape, nice to disappoint muscles or learn to play a musical instrument. Healthy sleep and proper nutrition is also a positive effect on the preservation of visual thinking, but the stress and TV - negatively.

... Even people with bad starting points can improve brain health by training convolutions.

Kaya Nordengen, "Keep your brain in good shape"

Most of the book is devoted to the practices and exercises for the development of memory and intelligence: There is a 30-day training program, chess puzzles, useful tricks with numbers and letters, as well as logic puzzles. The basic idea of ​​all exercises - give the brain a new, unusual for him to load and thus make it work. Assignments do not require any training or additional equipment (except chess set).

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