Brain Fun

Brain Fun:

Neurobics™

Neurobics™ is a unique system of brain exercises using your five physical senses and your emotional sense in unexpected ways that encourage you to shake up your everyday routines. They are designed to help your brain manufacture its own nutrients that strengthen, preserve, and grow brain cells.

Created by Lawrence C. Katz, Ph.D., a professor of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center, neurobics can be done anywhere, anytime, in offbeat, fun and easy ways. Nevertheless, these exercises can activate underused nerve pathways and connections, helping you achieve a fit and flexible mind.

Neurobic Exercises

Try to include one or more of your senses in an everyday task:

Shower or get dressed with your eyes closed

Share a meal with your family and use only visual cues to communicate. No talking.

Combine two senses:

Listen to music and smell flowers

Listen to the rain and tap your fingers

Watch clouds and play with modeling clay at the same time

Break routines:

Take a new route to work

Do small tasks with your opposite hand

Shop at a new grocery store

Visit a Farmer's Market instead of a grocery store

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