<b>Want to get your frontal cortex breaking a sweat? Make your blood pump to your cerebellum? Stretch your occipital lobe to its limits?<br> <br> </b>Then you need to bend your brain! This first book from the team behind Marbles: The Brain Store, a chain devoted to building better brains, offers puzzles and brain teasers to help enhance memory, build problem-solving skills, and reduce stress.<br> Since Marbles started helping people play their way to a healthier brain, they've sold, solved, and been stumped by more than their fair share of puzzles. Along the way, they've learned which puzzles tie people in knots (not in a good way) and which ones make the neurons downright giddy. With the help of their in-house team of BrainCoaches and access to cutting-edge neuroscience, they've designed these puzzles to keep your mind flexible and fit.<br> Arranged in five key brain categories—visual perception, word skills, critical thinking, coordination, and memory—<i>Bend Your Brain</i> offers a variety of puzzles ranging from mind-warming (easy) to mind-blowing (hard!):<br><br>· <b>Connecting the dots?</b> More like working your spatial-orientation skills.<br>· <b>Identifying famous smiles?</b> Flexing your visual memory.<br>· <b>Taking a closer look at your keyboard?</b> Coding, storing, and retrieving.<br>· <b>Word-doku?</b> Summoning cognitive abilities like appraisal, inference, impulse control, and evaluation.<br>· <b>Word scrambles?</b> Tapping your brain’s association areas.<br><br>Your brain is your most important muscle, so let the brain-building begin!