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The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind
This is your brain on puzzles.
Everyone knows that puzzles can improve your brain function. Now a leading neurosurgeon and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal the fascinating science behind it. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of puzzles, this is both a lively book of popular science and an engaging set of exercises in developing a wide array of thinking and memory skills.
Book Details
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Publish Date: Dec 6th, 2011
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.90in - 0.90in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9781594485459
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Life Sciences - Neuroscience• Cognitive Psychology & Cognition• Puzzles
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About the Author
Richard M. Restak, M.D., is a neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, and Clinical Professor of Neurology affiliated with the George Washington University Medical Center. He is the author of the bestselling The Brain--a companion to the PBS series of the same name--as well as The Mind, The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own, and The Brain: The Last Frontier. He lives in Washington, D.C..
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