Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Restak
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:275
Dimensions(mm): Height 209,Width 139
Category/GenrePopular science
Neurosciences
ISBN/Barcode 9781594484438
ClassificationsDewey:153
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.
Publication Date 23 February 2010
Publication Country United States

Description

From a renowned neuroscientist and bestselling author comes this guide to show readers how to improve their brain. In this fascinating work, Restak has asked his colleagues, the world's leading brain scientists and researchers, an important question: what can be done to make the brain work more efficiently? Their surprising answers lie at the heart of Think Smart. In this characteristically accessible book, Restak demonstrates the strategies to improve brain function and explains the latest scientific breakthroughs.

Author Biography

Richard M. Restak, M.D., is a neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, and Clinical Professor of Neurology affiliated with the George Washington University Medical Center. He is the author of the bestselling The Brain--a companion to the PBS series of the same name--as well as The Mind, The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own, and The Brain- The Last Frontier. He lives in Washington, D.C..