Description

Rejuvenate your brain with simple calculation exercises.

Train Your Brain: 60 Days to a Better Brain was a number-one bestseller in Japan, even outperforming the Harry Potter books at one time. And now, after selling over a million copies and inspiring countless copycats in its home country, this revolutionary title is available in an English-language edition!

Designed especially for readers who want to keep their minds sharp and stave off the mental effects of aging, this book presents a complete 60 day program to build a better brain. The program consists of a daily worksheet of simple mathematical calculations that takes less than five minutes to complete. Each week, readers take a short pre-frontal cortex evaluation test to measure their progress.

The world has long recognized that physical exercise helps maintain a healthy, well-working body. Now it's time to acknowledge that our brains need a regular work-out too! Train your Brain: 60 Days to a Better Brain is your brain's best friend!

Praise for Train Your Brain

"Dr. Ryuta Kawashima is a well-known neurologist with long-standing expertise in brain imaging who ha been a leading force in studying brain function at Tohoku University in Sendai Japan. This book makes good use of the well accepted premise that regular mental activity performed in a diciplined way is beneficial to cognitive function."
—John Mazziotta, MD, PHD
Chair, UCLA Department of Neurology

Extended Copyright Information

Copyright 2005 by Ryuta Kawashima/Kumon Publishing Co., Ltd.

Previously published by Kumon.

All rights reserved. Reproduction of these materials is prohibited.

Cover and interior design by Shinju Onuki.
Illustrations by Yasuko Toyoshima.

About the Author

Dr. Ryuta Kawashima is a professor of neuroscience at Tohoku University. He has spent the last fifteen years pursuing his dream of making brain health maintenance a social priority. Dr. Kawashima most recently started the Functional Brain Imaging Center, a university department that is designed to use the knowledge of brain science to benefit social education and welfare.

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WHY SHOULD YOU TRAIN YOUR BRAIN?
This program was created to help you rejuvenate your brain and develop its function to a higher level. Brain function naturally begins to deteriorate after you turn twenty, just like our physical and muscular strength gradually weaken as we age. However, just as you ...

Copyright

Copyright 2005 by Ryuta Kawashima / Kumon Publishing Co., Ltd.

All Rights Reserved.