Better Brain at Any Age: The Holistic Way to Improve Your Memory, Reduce Stress, and Sharpen Your Wits

by Sondra Kornblatt, Fernando Vega (Foreword)

In A Better Brain at Any Age, Sondra Kornblatt, along with the experts she has interviewed, helps readers put their heads on straight through healthy activities for the body (exercise, healthy food consumption, and relaxation) and through specific activities to boost brain power like movement, eye rolls, supplements, and making environmental changes.

Each of the seven chapters-Body-Mind Connection; Environmental Support; Food and Supplements; Intelligence and Learning; Memory, Learning Shortcuts, and Brain-Stretchers; Emotions and Decisions; and Meditation and Bigger Perspectives-details how that topic impacts the brain, and offers tips and highlights for readers to either delve into the book or peruse it for quick boosts. Kornblatt teaches readers how to reduce brain stress and optimize mental agility, and shares information on how the brain interacts with the body, what habits impact the brain, positively and negatively, and how to maximize learning. She provides tips to strengthen memory, cognition, and creativity so readers can function better in their active lives.

A Better Brain at Any Age offers a complete plan for total brain health in an engaging and accessible way.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Brain

239 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2008

Reviews

[Sambasivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Life changing advice. Essence of how you can have a healthy brain and continue to be happy if you nurture your mind and body regularly. Strongly recommended for anyone with a brain!!!

[Larisse Oliveira · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a really interesting work full of exercises and activities to keep a healthy brain.

[Paulia BSN-RN · Rating 4 out of 5]

"A good friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." Bernard Meltzer

"Spirituality gives you a purpose for living; it provides hope, calms anxiety and fear, and lends an optimism life." Dr. Todd Clements

The food and vitamin sections are on point; watch what you eat, think positive, and meditate.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fascinating. Look forward to trying out the numerous suggestions that this book offers. One caution: Do not try to read this book in one sitting. And take notes, especially if, like me, you are reading it to help improve a poor memory.

[Abcdarian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some excellent suggestions, but gets a bit overwhelming. As with so many others, the food supplement section is insane, or I would be insane if I tried to follow it. Generally the usual advice re exercise, eating well & keeping stress levels down.

[K.m. · Rating 2 out of 5]

A pretty basic intro to brain functioning, but useful laying out of various methods of brain improvement in various areas (creativity, emotional awareness, memory, multiple intelligences, etc) for further research. Useful bibliography.

[Jeevan Basavaraju · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you have read other Neuroscience books, then content of this book refreshes many of already read/known information.