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The Playful Brain
[Paperback - 2011]
richard restak
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Additional Category: Games - Puzzles
Publisher: Riverhead Books | ISBN: 9781594485459 | Pages: 294
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This is your brain on puzzles. Everyone knows that puzzles can improve your brain function. Now a leading neurosurgeon and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal the fascinating science behind it. Packed with illuminating insights and dozens of puzzles, this is both a lively book of popular science and an engaging set of exercises in developing a wide array of thinking and memory skills.

About the Author

Dr Richard Restak is Clinical Professor of Neurology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and is a past president of the American Neuropsychiatric Association. He has lectured on the brain and behaviour at the Pentagon and NASA, and written more than 20 books on the human brain, two of which have been New York Times bestsellers.

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