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Optimizing Brain Fitness

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Overview

Tap into your hidden mental potential and increase your brain's performance in memory, focus, creativity, and more using research-based exercises rooted in neuroscience.

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: How Your Brain Works
  • 02: How Your Brain Changes
  • 03: Care and Feeding of the Brain
  • 04: Creativity and the Playful Brain
  • 05: Focusing Your Attention
  • 06: Enhancing Your Memory
  • 07: Exercising Your Working Memory
  • 08: Putting Your Senses to Work
  • 09: Enlisting Your Emotional Memory
  • 10: Practicing for Peak Performance
  • 11: Taking Advantage of Technology
  • 12: Building Your Cognitive Reserve

Taught by

Richard Restak

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