Think Smart – Richard Restak

Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Jarvis in Non-Fiction, Reference, Science

Think Smart: A Neuroscientists’s Prescription for Improving Your Brain’s Performance by renowned practicing neurologist and neuropsychiatrist Richard Restak shows you how to improve the performance of your brain, no matter your age.

A leading neuroscientist and New York Times-bestselling author of Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot distills the research on the brain and serves up practical, surprising, and illuminating recommendations for warding off neurological decline, cognitive function, and encouraging smarter thinking day to day.

Think Smart: A Neuroscientists's Presciption for Improving Your Brain's Performance by Richard Restak, ISBN 9781594488733

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In Think Smart, the renowned neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author Dr. Richard Restak details how each of us can improve and tone our bodyas most powerful organ: the brain.

As a renowned expert on the brain, Restak knows that in the last five years there have been exciting new scientific discoveries about the brain and its performance. So heas asked his colleagues many of them the world as leading brain scientists and researchersaone important question: What can I do to help my brain work more efficiently? Their surprising and remarkably feasible answers are at the heart of Think Smart.

Restak combines advice culled from cutting-edge research with brain-tuning exercises to show how individuals of any age can make their brain work more effectively. In the same accessible prose that made Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot a New York Times bestseller, Restak presents a wide array of practical recommendations about a variety of topics, including the crucial role sleep plays in boosting creativity, the importance of honing sensory memory, and the neuron- firing benefits of certain foods.

In Think Smart, the awise, witty, and ethical Restaka (says the Smithsonian Institution) offers readers helpful suggestions for fighting neurological decline that will put every reader on the path to building a healthier, more limber brain.

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