Bend Your Brain

Want to get your frontal cortex breaking a sweat? Make your blood pump to your cerebellum? Stretch your occipital lobe to its limits? Then you need to bend your brain! This first book from the team behind Marbles: The Brain Store a chain devoted to building better brains offers puzzles and brain teasers to help enhance memory build problem-solving skills and reduce stress.         Since Marbles started helping people play their way to a healthier brain they''ve sold solved and been stumped by more than their fair share of puzzles. Along the way they''ve learned which puzzles tie people in knots (not in a good way) and which ones make the neurons downright giddy. With the help of their in-house team of BrainCoaches and access to cutting-edge neuroscience they''ve designed these puzzles to keep your mind flexible and fit.         Arranged in five key brain categories—visual perception word skills critical thinking coordination and memory—Bend Your Brain offers a variety of puzzles ranging from mind-warming (easy) to mind-blowing (hard!):·  Connecting the dots? More like working your spatial-orientation skills.·  Identifying famous smiles? Flexing your visual memory.·  Taking a closer look at your keyboard? Coding storing and retrieving.·  Word-doku? Summoning cognitive abilities like appraisal inference impulse control and evaluation.·  Word scrambles? Tapping your brain’s association areas.Your brain is your most important muscle so let the brain-building begin!