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Optimizing Brain Fitness

By: Richard Restak, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Richard Restak
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Summary

With its up to 500 trillion synaptic connections, your brain is easily the most powerful machine in the world. Even more incredibly: This amazing machine is constantly changing through a process known as brain plasticity. And you can take advantage of this process to improve and enhance your brain’s jaw-dropping powers - at any age.

Now, discover the secrets to increasing and expanding your brain’s power to meet everyday challenges and enhance the quality of your life with Optimizing Brain Fitness, an engaging 12-lecture course that shows you how to take advantage of the basic principles of brain operation and build the brain you want to live with for the rest of your life. Delivered by Dr. Richard Restak, an award-winning teacher, practicing neurologist, and professor at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, these lectures are packed with vital information and research-based exercises you can perform every day to tap into your hidden mental potential.

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Easy to grasp and apply. Absolutely brilliant job Sir!!Definitely one for the history books

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Well read, given. Brilliant ye ye bye ye

I would highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about our wonderful mind

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The presenter has a really dull and monotonous voice.

The presenter has a really dull and monotonous voice. Couldn’t finish it. A few snippets of new information, but mostly stuff you will have likely heard before.

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