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    Brain Training: The Ultimate Guide to Increase Your Brain Power and Improving Your Memory (Brain Exercise, Concentration, Neuroplasticity, Mental Clarity, Brain Plasticity)
    Brain Training: The Ultimate Guide to Increase Your Brain Power and Improving Your Memory (Brain Exercise, Concentration, Neuroplasticity, Mental Clarity, Brain Plasticity)
    Brain Training: The Ultimate Guide to Increase Your Brain Power and Improving Your Memory (Brain Exercise, Concentration, Neuroplasticity, Mental Clarity, Brain Plasticity)
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    Brain Training: The Ultimate Guide to Increase Your Brain Power and Improving Your Memory (Brain Exercise, Concentration, Neuroplasticity, Mental Clarity, Brain Plasticity)

    By Ann Preston-Jones

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    Over the last two thousand years, our understanding of how the human body works, why it works and how to fix it when it stops working has come a long way. Much of this understanding has come on in great leaps in the last hundred or so years. Medical science and the more recent branches of medicine, like psychology, have all contributed to a whole new understanding of how our bodies work and the way in which our internal organs function. Until recently, however, one organ and its functions remained elusive; the brain.

    Whether your brain can be repaired or not really depends on the scientific stance that you take. However, there is more and more evidence that mental and physical stimulation can result in better memory, concentration and speed at completing tasks. That means that there is every reason to keep your brain active by training it in different ways.

    As humans, we've used these amazing “super-computers” to get us to the moon and beyond but back here on earth just how those organs functioned was not fully understood. Advances in scanning technology have begun to change all that, although it's still very early days as far as understanding the complexities of the human brain go. One surprising find in recent years has been the discovery of a new concept known as “neuroplasticity” - in layman's terms the plastic nature of the brain!

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    Publisherjusthappyforever.com
    Release dateDec 19, 2017
    ISBN9781386301080
    Brain Training: The Ultimate Guide to Increase Your Brain Power and Improving Your Memory (Brain Exercise, Concentration, Neuroplasticity, Mental Clarity, Brain Plasticity)
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    Ann Preston-Jones

    Ann Preston-Jones has an extensive knowledge of the county’s archaeology, with over thirty years’ experience working for Historic England and Cornwall Archaeological Unit. Her experience is mostly in the care, conservation and management of those sites which make Cornwall special and she has a particular passion for sculptured stone monuments. 

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      Brain Training - Ann Preston-Jones

      Introduction

      Brain training has been in the news for the past couple of decades and, although the experts are still conducting research into what extent training your brain can ward off Alzheimer’s and other age-related illnesses, there has largely been a positive link made between staying mentally alert and brain training. People are often confused about brain training and exactly what it means. Many presume that they need to purchase expensive tools – and certainly the manufacturers of such tools are happy for you to think that way because they want you to purchase their goods.

      They may use complicated rhetoric to impress you. The truth is that there are plenty of ways that you can train your brain without spending a fortune; language learning is just one of them. What you need to do is to work out what you want to improve in your life. If you need to improve your memory, there are methods that you can use to do so; the same goes for concentration, critical thinking and reasoning, as well as increasing the speed at which you can complete tasks.

      Over the last two thousand years, our understanding of how the human body works, why it works and how to fix it when it stops working has come a long way. Much of this understanding has come on in great leaps in the last hundred or so years. Medical science and the more recent branches of medicine, like psychology, have all contributed to a whole new understanding of how our bodies work and the way in which our internal organs function. Until recently, however, one organ and its functions remained elusive; the brain.

      As humans, we've used these amazing super-computers to get us to the moon and beyond but back here on earth just how those organs functioned was not fully understood. Advances in scanning technology have begun to change all that, although it's still very early days as far as understanding the complexities of the human brain go. One surprising find in recent years has been the discovery of a new concept known as neuroplasticity - in layman's terms the plastic nature of the brain!

      Until detailed scanning techniques became available certain assumptions were made about the way in which the brain forms and functions. It was believed that at birth our brains were essentially plastic in nature and not fully developed. Through a process of learning throughout our early years’ links, pathways and gray matter were believed to gradually develop until the brain set in a solid form in our late teens and early twenties. Beyond this, growth, development and the creation of new neurons and links in the brain was believed to be impossible. It was also believed that by our mid-forties onwards an inevitable decline in brain function and structure began to occur. MRI scanning and the new concept of neuroplasticity blew most of these theories well and truly out of the water!

      The brain's pathways are created through learning and these pathways become re-enforced the more we use them. Most people, once they've reached a certain age, stop learning and rely on their existing knowledge. This is not say we stop completely but we (quite naturally) take the easiest routes in our thinking – those which build in our earlier years and which are tried, tested and easy to use! In fact, through studying brains damaged by stroke or accidents, it's now been discovered that broken while pathways may be abandoned this doesn't mean that new ones cannot be built.

      A very good analogy for this process is to imagine that you are traveling from one city to another along a familiar highway. It's a journey you know so well you don't have to think for a moment about the route. One day you find the highway closed – a bridge is out and will be out for many months to come. In order to reach your destination you are forced to take side roads, back roads and minor roads through the back woods. These routes are difficult to drive, rarely used and at first you find yourself lost, turning back, trying alternative routes and taking far longer to reach your destination. However, after a few months you begin to become familiar with the new route, you learn to drive in a new way, you learn a new route and you're soon finding your way to your destination (more or less) as effortlessly as before.

      In essence, this is how the brain's ability to create new pathways works. While this sounds simple enough, it has some amazing potential; the structure of our brain affects our every thought and action. We act in certain ways because of this structure; by building new, real, physical structures in our brain we can change the way we behave. This means that we can learn to react differently to situations (more positively or constructively) and can create potential for greater success in life or build on existing success in new ways.

      In addition to creating whole new structures in our brain, it's also possible to grow new neurons and increase the size of certain parts of our brain. As we age, this can be increasingly important, but for anybody who wishes to improve their mental energy, focus, clarity and ability to solve problems training your brain is an essential skill to learn. In this book we'll take a look at the top tips for improving mental energy and sharpening your mind and abilities to think and rationalize clearly.

      Scanning has shown that the brain's ability to grow, change and even produce new neurons and create new pathways does not end in our youth.  Nor is the process of decline inevitable or irreversible.  The brain's pathways are created through learning and these pathways become re-enforced the more we use them. 

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