Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance by Richard Restak
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is the second book by Richard Restak in my library's holdings. I borrowed the books after finishing The Great Courses lectures called "Optimizing Brain Fitness" taught by Restak.

Some good advice to help set priorities when choosing lifestyle options is If it is good for the heart, it is good for the brain. Learn and use stress-reducing behaviors to protect your hippocampi from cortisol and other stress-related hormones. There is so much good advice that I cannot use it all at once!

I recommend this book for all adult readers whose prefrontal cortex is ready to use this information.



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Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain's Potential by Richard Restak
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I checked my library's holdings after I finished watching a Great Courses Plus course called "Optimizing Brain Fitness" taught by Richard Restak. This is the first of two books my library had.

Since this book was written in 2001, some of the text seems outdated. An example is the suggestions for the many uses of a laptop for what many of us already use our phones and apps like Evernote to do for us.

There are practical suggestions in each of the 28 chapters.

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