TY - BOOK AU - Restak, Richard ED - The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. ED - The Teaching Company. TI - Optimizing Brain Fitness / SN - 1598037331 (dvd) PY - 2011/// CY - Chantilly, VA PB - The Teaching Company, KW - Better living KW - Brain fitness KW - Health and Wellness KW - Physiology KW - Brain KW - Human information processing. N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/optimizing-brain-fitness.html UR - https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S26C696279 ER -