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Make Your Brain Smarter: Increase Your Brain's Creativity, Energy, and Focus MP3 CD – Unabridged, January 1, 2013

by Sandra Bond Chapman (Author), Shelly Kirkland (Author), Karen White (Reader)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
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One of the world's most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines the latest scientific discoveries with unique tests and exercises to improve your brainpower--for life. The human brain is not a static organ; it's plastic, which means it can grow and change. But just like a muscle, you have to exercise it. In Make Your Brain Smarter, renowned cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman gives you the comprehensive fitness plan you need to "exercise" your way to a healthier brain. By taking advantage of the immense cognitive potential of your brain, you can think smarter, not harder, solving the complexities and problems that occur every day. In this all-inclusive book, you'll find easy strategies to train deep, insightful, and strategic thinking in order to realize your brain's maximum cognitive capacity. With her years of experience, Dr. Chapman will introduce you to the very latest research in brain science, with an emphasis on the cutting-edge findings related to the frontal lobe. She'll show you how to tailor a brain fitness program to fit your own needs. From cover to cover, she shares tips and techniques that can be practiced throughout life to promote vigorous cognitive brain health at every age. Whether you're a boomer-age "thinker" or a millennial-era "finder," Make Your Brain Smarter will help you to take charge of your frontal-lobe command center and create the bright and vibrant brain that you crave--and will need in order to have a healthy, happy rest of your life.
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Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD, founder and chief director of the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas at Dallas, is committed to maximizing human cognitive potential across the entire human lifespan. Her research record and brain health breakthroughs have led to nationwide recognition and selection of the Center for Brain Health as the single Virtual Center for the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan to link all states with the most current assessment and training for brain injury. She lives in Texas.



Shelly Kirkland, public relations director at the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas at Dallas, brings national attention to the cutting-edge research facility dedicated to understanding, protecting, and healing the brain.



Karen White is a classically-trained actress who has been recording audiobooks since 1999. An Audie Award finalist, she has earned numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her reading of The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed was named one of AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of 2009.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (January 1, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1470847515
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1470847517
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.99 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
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Customers find the book provides informative and enlightening information about brain function and improvement. However, some readers feel the language is excessive and repetitive, making it seem like a sales pitch.

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Customers find the book provides useful information and insights into brain function and improvement. They find it interesting and enlightening, providing a new perspective on what's smart and what isn't. The book provides practical advice for improving brain function, making some readers rethink their lives and future possibilities.

"...Very useful and practical and realistic guidance for all audiences to achieve a brain's full potential...." Read more

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"...The book starts off with great promises and a very exciting premise - that cognitive skills or core executive function is a very distinct capability..." Read more

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  • RC in NYC
    5.0 out of 5 stars great thinking and sound guidance on what we need to do to keep our brain in top gear
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2014
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    Great and clear guidance from current research on the new thinking about thinking. Very useful and practical and realistic guidance for all audiences to achieve a brain's full potential. You will forget the myth that we use only 10% of our brain power. What is not used is under your control and it is most encouraging because it is pretty simple to really move toward your full potential. You just gotta do it.
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  • Stan Francisco
    5.0 out of 5 stars Finally! Intelligent Strategies For Becoming SMARTer
    Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2013
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    If I understand Douglas' review of this book accurately (and I'll admit that perhaps haven't), his objection is fairly consistent with a widely popular misunderstanding that an IQ score is the primary measure and differentiator for determining how 'smart' a person is, to the exclusion of all other measurements and differentiators. From that perspective, any quest to become 'smarter' would focused on gaining some new, perhaps radical, technique and/or methodology that could be used to raise a person's IQ score; even a few points. In that context, Douglas is admittedly correct - reading this book won't help raise anybody's IQ.

    However, true intelligence is far too intricate and complex to denigrate to such a simplistic standard as an IQ score. Intelligence is more like a brilliant and multi-faceted diamond on which IQ is merely one facet among many equally important and insightful facets. Any gemologist who wants to become completely familiar with the diamond before him and wants to fully appreciate its comprehensive beauty will invariably clean the stone before he does anything else. Making certain that a diamond is clean is as incredibly simple as to not be worth mentioning and yet obviously, the absolutely simplest step is also the absolutely most essential step.

    In a similar fashion, anybody who wants to fully appreciate the magnificent power and beauty of their brain and/or maximize its potential must begin with the absolutely simplest and absolutely essential step of keeping it clean and healthy. This book is a simply brilliant treatise (as well as a brilliantly simple treatise) on how anybody and everybody can keep their brains clean and healthy. The strategies explained in it can be followed by anybody at any age with remarkable effectiveness. This book gives anybody who cares about the health of their brain all the strategies necessary for developing and nourishing a lifestyle that will insure a healthy and clean brain for the rest of their life.

    There are no more effective strategies for maximizing the potential of our own brain than those presented in this book. So, if you recognize the fact that being SMART involves much more than just your IQ and the fact that a healthy brain is a SMART brain, then reading this book can definitely help make you SMARTer.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Something to Think About
    Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2013
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    I felt some of the information was repetitive in order to make the book have more pages. Really liked the succinct listings when they were presented. I would go tomorrow and have a beginning line established by getting tested, work the ideas in the book and get retested. Persoan best type challenge. Some new ideas were enoghtening.
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  • Julian L Sevillano
    5.0 out of 5 stars “We have met the enemy and he is us”.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2013
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    I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman during the 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit. Her presentation was about Brainomics, a term that she has coined, meaning the personal and social cost of not using your brain power properly. Then in January of this year (2013) I had the privilege to participate in a Q&A session about; “best brain health fitness tips” giving by Dr. Bond Chapman and also sponsored by SharpBrains. Consequently, when I purchased this book I was already familiar with her research and concomitant thinking. But, frankly I was not prepared for the level of commitment, intensity and at the same time simplicity about the idea that she is passing on to the reader.
    Dr. Bond Chapman and Ms. Shelly Kirkland have the rare ability to express in simple terms very complex processes and turn them into practical steps to improve your brain functioning. Dr. Bond Chapman is a renowned neuroscientist with more than thirty years of experience in brain research. What she has done is to apply the results of these researches into very specific strategies to train your brain to think deep, insightful and in a strategic way. On a personal note, I have to say that I thought I had been doing that all my life. Nonetheless, I realize now that my thinking was not systematic. It was random and sporadic must of the time. As a professional interpreter her insights into deep frontal cortex thinking has help me tremendously.
    When I finish reading a book I usually get a feeling about it, an idea, sometimes is a phrase. In this case was an utterance that the brilliant humorist Walt Kelly put into his main character’s mouth Pogo Possum; “We have met the enemy and he is us”. Dr. Bond Chapman tells us accurately that we are our worse enemies. But then again, the authors also tell us how to conquer this adversary. I highly recommend this book. Accept the challenge and move forward.
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  • Rossitsa Natcheva-Kauer
    1.0 out of 5 stars Überflüssiges Geschwafel!
    Reviewed in Germany on August 11, 2021
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    Alle reden über " Smarter Brain" aber sind Häufchen Elend, weil die Menschheit hat Vergessen, dass das Leben ist GEFÜHL! Ohne wundervolle Gefühle ist das Leben Desaster oder man ist bloss ein Cyborg!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars love the book
    Reviewed in Canada on May 24, 2019
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    good condition when I received it
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  • Gaurav Arora
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the amazing book you ca n study for your brain development
    Reviewed in India on September 23, 2017
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    One of the amazing book you ca n study for your brain development. Full great studies research and practical explanation. No doubt Sandra Bond Chapman is one of the greatest authority in Neuroscience
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  • gargi saha
    1.0 out of 5 stars Just nothing in it
    Reviewed in India on April 18, 2017
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    Nothing in it about the topic. Its just a biology book for std 10 .
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  • AWidgetIHaveNot
    1.0 out of 5 stars Waffle, little practical advice or exercises
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2014
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    Incredibly repetitive and dull. More case histories (read padding) than anything else. This is a common fault with books by American authors, at least in this genre, which are invariably too long and too shallow. The author writes a lot about the general benefits of brain health but there is less specific information on how to achieve this. There is much about generalised strategies but little specific information on how to apply these strategies. The book would have been far better if it had cut the case histories and provided instead a set of questioning strategies and clear exercises to spur thought to match the desired thinking patterns. These could then be used consistently until the user a) got into the habit of using them b) began to see the benefits of these new strategies c) began to develop their own sub strategies within the meta strategies outlined in the book.

    In my view this book should have been all strategies and sub strategies that are specific and actionable now, today. Just because a strategy is a meta strategy doesn't mean it can't be codified and taught. Look at CBT and NLP for examples of this.

    Too much waffle, too little actionable detail.

    I was inspired to buy the book by seeing the authors TEDx talk. I am sorry I did because now I feel compelled to re-read this turgid tome in order to extract the thimbleful of value it contains.

    This book isn't for me, since I want clear actionable advice and strategies that will pay immediate dividends. I don't want to read a case history about a person who has had good results consulting at the authors clinic. I want to know HOW the person got the good results, in specific and procedural detail that I may copy. This is called a model. Models exist to compress and accelerate the transfer of teachable mental strategies from one person to another. Once the person has learned the model then they will be able to generate new strategies from this base. A model therefore becomes an iterative and generative capacity that is generalised to behaviour, which is where you want it. Some people may say that I am missing the point. I am not. Everything can be taught if broken down into small enough steps. Philosophy? Flying a helicopter? Logic? Abstract thinking? All can be taught. So why can't the type of thinking this book relates to be taught in an equal manner and equally concisely? If you want a person to think a certain way, give them mental exercises that cause them to think that way. You can't learn to drive a car by looking at one, it's an experiential process. The author wants neural adaption but doesn't offer the reader enough exercises for that to even begin to occur. I am left with making up my own exercises that may or may not prove effective. Unlike the author, I don't have access to an fMRI machine so can't tell if what I'm doing is helping. Is this the authors intention? There is no way you can learn a skill without practicing a skill.

    You may have gathered by now that I think this book falls very far from meeting the authors aims. It's a pity because it could have been superb. If some feel I'm being overly harsh it's only because I realise what this book could have been, and should have been. Some one with a Phd has no excuse for writing a flabby book. In truth, I have in the past got more value out of a $5 30 page e-book than I did this book, which is written by some one on the cutting edge of research into neurology.

    How can the author improve this book?

    No or very few case histories. Use models and strategies to teach them. Question, quiz, and bully the reader to follow clear and practical exercises that fMRI shows give results. What types of thinking make the brain light up under the scanner? Design specific thinking strategies that can be written down like a flight manual, do x get y. Readers want to know WHAT to do. When people are given a list of 10-15 exercises, in a hierarchal order of effectiveness according to your scanners, readers would start with the most effective remedies first and proceed downwards. They feel the benefits most quickly that way. Once readers have sufficient practice with the new methods of thought they will automatically extrapolate these to their wider lives and be more effective because of it.

    I am exasperated by this book. Did I make that clear enough?
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