Restak, Richard
Optimizing Brain Fitness / Richard Restak ; The Teaching Company. - 1st ed. - Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, 2011. - 2 DVDs (360 min) : sd. col ; 4 3/4 in + 1 Course Guidebook (60 p. : ill. ; 19 cm). - The Great Courses .
Includes a biography on the author, a course scope, and bibliographical references.
"With its up to 500 trillion synaptic connections, your brain is easily the most powerful machine in the world. These connections are what create your thoughts, what drive your emotions, and what control your behaviors. Even more incredibly: this amazing machine is constantly changing through a process known as brain plasticity. And you can take advantage of this process to improve and enhance your brain's jaw-dropping powers - at any age (Publisher's website DVD CONTENTS:
Disc 1
Lecture 1: How Your Brain Works
Lecture 2: How Your Brain Changes
Lecture 3: Care and Feeding of the Brain
Lecture 4: Creativity and the Playful Brain
Lecture 5: Focusing Your Attention
Lecture 6: Enhancing Your Memory
Disc 2
Lecture 7: Exercising Your Working Memory
Lecture 8: Putting Your Senses to Work
Lecture 9: Enlisting Your Emotional Memory
Lecture 10: Practicing for Peak Performance
Lecture 11: Taking Advantage of Technology
Lecture 12: Building Your Cognitive Reserve
"With its up to 500 trillion synaptic connections, your brain is easily the most powerful machine in the world. These connections are what create your thoughts, what drive your emotions, and what control your behaviors. Even more incredibly: this amazing machine is constantly changing through a process known as brain plasticity. And you can take advantage of this process to improve and enhance your brain's jaw-dropping powers - at any age (Publisher's website). DVD CONTENTS:
Disc 1
Lecture 1: How Your Brain Works
Lecture 2: How Your Brain Changes
Lecture 3: Care and Feeding of the Brain
Lecture 4: Creativity and the Playful Brain
Lecture 5: Focusing Your Attention
Lecture 6: Enhancing Your Memory
Disc 2
Lecture 7: Exercising Your Working Memory
Lecture 8: Putting Your Senses to Work
Lecture 9: Enlisting Your Emotional Memory
Lecture 10: Practicing for Peak Performance
Lecture 11: Taking Advantage of Technology
Lecture 12: Building Your Cognitive Reserve
1598037331 (dvd)
Better living--Brain fitness
Health and Wellness--Physiology
Brain--Human information processing.
Optimizing Brain Fitness / Richard Restak ; The Teaching Company. - 1st ed. - Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, 2011. - 2 DVDs (360 min) : sd. col ; 4 3/4 in + 1 Course Guidebook (60 p. : ill. ; 19 cm). - The Great Courses .
Includes a biography on the author, a course scope, and bibliographical references.
"With its up to 500 trillion synaptic connections, your brain is easily the most powerful machine in the world. These connections are what create your thoughts, what drive your emotions, and what control your behaviors. Even more incredibly: this amazing machine is constantly changing through a process known as brain plasticity. And you can take advantage of this process to improve and enhance your brain's jaw-dropping powers - at any age (Publisher's website DVD CONTENTS:
Disc 1
Lecture 1: How Your Brain Works
Lecture 2: How Your Brain Changes
Lecture 3: Care and Feeding of the Brain
Lecture 4: Creativity and the Playful Brain
Lecture 5: Focusing Your Attention
Lecture 6: Enhancing Your Memory
Disc 2
Lecture 7: Exercising Your Working Memory
Lecture 8: Putting Your Senses to Work
Lecture 9: Enlisting Your Emotional Memory
Lecture 10: Practicing for Peak Performance
Lecture 11: Taking Advantage of Technology
Lecture 12: Building Your Cognitive Reserve
"With its up to 500 trillion synaptic connections, your brain is easily the most powerful machine in the world. These connections are what create your thoughts, what drive your emotions, and what control your behaviors. Even more incredibly: this amazing machine is constantly changing through a process known as brain plasticity. And you can take advantage of this process to improve and enhance your brain's jaw-dropping powers - at any age (Publisher's website). DVD CONTENTS:
Disc 1
Lecture 1: How Your Brain Works
Lecture 2: How Your Brain Changes
Lecture 3: Care and Feeding of the Brain
Lecture 4: Creativity and the Playful Brain
Lecture 5: Focusing Your Attention
Lecture 6: Enhancing Your Memory
Disc 2
Lecture 7: Exercising Your Working Memory
Lecture 8: Putting Your Senses to Work
Lecture 9: Enlisting Your Emotional Memory
Lecture 10: Practicing for Peak Performance
Lecture 11: Taking Advantage of Technology
Lecture 12: Building Your Cognitive Reserve
1598037331 (dvd)
Better living--Brain fitness
Health and Wellness--Physiology
Brain--Human information processing.