Building Mental Muscle is one of the most stimulating books ever written about the brain. This new edition of Brainwaves’ best-selling book focuses on six ways your brain engages and competes every day: Executive Planning & Social Interaction • Memory • Emotional Response • Language • Math & Computation Skills • Creative Spatial Visualization The authors have distilled the latest findings in brain research into fascinating short reports accessible to all readers, intermingling them with exercises and self-tests designed to stimulate the cells in different brain zones. A skill used in one domain can cross over into another to enrich an experience: For example, when you learn the pattern of number intervals in mathematics, you may perceive a pattern of musical intervals for the first time, and thus enjoy music even more. The exercises are intriguing challenges, often formatted as puzzles, while the self-tests offer dozens of opportunities to rate your social intelligence, take your personality inventory, and gauge working memory and other higher cognitive functions. For anyone interested in self-improvement, or how the brain really works, Building Mental Muscle is required reading.

A crossword puzzle devotee’s bonanza: a personal three-month mind-training program, with 182 performance tips and puzzles to increase memory, math, and language dexterity.

For parents and teachers, recent discoveries about ten common brain diversities, ranging from AD/HD and dyslexia to left-handedness, photo memory, and winter blues. Includes diagnostic tests, causes, symptoms, and crucial help from current research.

One hundred and four left-brain, neuron-enhancing exercises to build confidence and positive attitude, plus eighty-seven tips to strengthen job performance skills.

In solving real-world problems, a team effort usually wins. These sixty exercises stimulate and entertain brain systems involved in visual, math, and executive-planning skills.

The latest in what brain research is revealing about learning and memory, which is very different in each of the three crucial stages of brain growth: infancy through high school; college through the late fifties; and the later years.

Try to figure out the function of seventy-six commonly used, old-time household objects.

Twenty-five tests of mental acuity with scientific scoring norms. “Highly informative, useful, and fun.” —Dr. David Demko, Ageventure News Service

Think you’ve got what it takes to be an FAA-certified pilot? Or a Master of Wine? Or a New York Bar–approved lawyer? Whether you’ve dreamed of becoming any of these or just want to test your knowledge, here are real-life exams for forty-five jobs, professions, and academic courses.