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Author:

Restak, Richard M., 1942-

Title:

Optimizing brain fitness [videorecording] / Richard Restak.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Teaching Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

2 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 60 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).

Subject:

Brain--Physiology.
Memory--Physiological aspects.
Brain.
Human information processing.
Mental efficiency.
DVD-Video discs.

Other Authors:

Teaching Company.

Notes:

"Course no. 1651." Course guidebook & transcript includes bibliographical references (p. 48-60). Lecturer: Richard Restak, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Contents:

Disc 1. Lecture 1. How your brain works ; Lecture 2. How your brain changes ; Lecture 3. Care and feeding of the brain ; Lecture 4. Creativity and the playful brain ; Lecture 5. Focusing your attention ; Lecture 6. Enhancing your memory -- disc 2. Lecture 7. Exercising your working memory ; Lecture 8. Putting your senses to work ; Lecture 9. Enlisting your emotional memory ; Lecture 10. Practicing for peak performance ; Lecture 11. Taking advantage of technology ; Lecture 12. Building your cognitive reserve.

Summary:

These 12 lectures focus attention on the human brain.

Series:

Great courses. Topic, Better living. Subtopic, Health & wellness.

ISBN:

9781598037333
1598037331

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)