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Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance

Richard Restak

From a renowned neuroscientist and bestselling author comes a book that shows readers how to improve and tone the brain.

In the last five years, there have been exciting new scientific discoveries about the brain, its function, and its performance. In this fascinating, entertaining book, brain expert Dr. Richard Restak has asked his colleagues-the world's leading brain scientists and researchers-an important question: What can I do to help my brain work more efficiently? Their surprising answers are at the heart of Think Smart. In his characteristically accessible style, Restak explains the latest scientific discoveries about our brain and gives readers strategies on how they can keep their most powerful organ in top condition and fight off its decline.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Riverhead Books
  • Publish Date: Feb 23rd, 2010
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.38in - 5.42in - 0.74in - 0.53lb
  • EAN: 9781594484438
  • Recommended age: 18-UP
  • Categories: Personal Growth - Memory ImprovementNeuroscience

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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