What are Neurobics: 8 Science-Backed Brain Exercises
Unleash Your Inner Power with Dr. Erika Austin
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Brain exercises help your mental health in the same way your body benefits from physical exercise. Yet, most of us don’t think much about exercising our brain and often neglect doing so altogether. The truth is we gravitate to routine because it simplifies life and performs complex tasks like driving a car with little mental effort. But just as your body gets soft and lethargic from lack of physical activity, your brain gets sluggish and slow from too much routine. Exercising your mind helps you be your mental best now while it protects against future memory loss and cognitive decline. Though you can’t expect to get all of the following benefits from any one activity, brain exercise is reported to help in all these areas: less stress, better memory, more positive mood, increased focus and concentration, boost in motivation and productivity, enhanced fluid intelligence, creativity, and mental flexibility, faster thinking, and reaction time, greater self-confidence and sharper vision and hearing. Dr. Lawrence Katz is an internationally recognized neurobiologist who was a pioneer in neuron regeneration research. In his book, he coins the phrase “neurobics” to describe brain exercises that enhance brain performance by using all five senses in new and novel ways. He lists 83 brain exercises in his book. Today Dr. Erika shares her favorite 8.
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