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Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better (2015)

de Wendy Suzuki

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Biography & Autobiography. Science. Self-Improvement. Nonfiction. HTML:

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guideâ??a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive abilities.

Nearing forty, Dr. Wendy Suzuki was at the pinnacle of her career. An award-winning university professor and world-renowned neuroscientist, she had tenure, her own successful research lab, prestigious awards, and international renown.

That's when to celebrate her birthday, she booked an adventure trip that forced her to wake up to a startling reality: despite her professional success, she was overweight, lonely, and tired and knew that her life had to change. Wendy started simplyâ??by going to an exercise class. Eventually, she noticed an improvement in her memory, her energy levels, and her ability to work quickly and move from task to task easily. Not only did Wendy begin to get fit, but she also became sharper, had more energy, and her memory improved. Being a neuroscientist, she wanted to know why.

What she learned transformed her body and her life. Now, it can transform yours.

Wendy discovered that there is a biological connection between exercise, mindfulness, and action. With exercise, your body feels more alive and your brain actually performs better. Yesâ??you can make yourself smarter. In this fascinating book, Suzuki makes neuroscience easy to understand, interweaving her personal story with groundbreaking research, and offering practical, short exercisesâ??4 minute Brain Hacksâ??to engage your mind and improve your memory, your ability to learn new skills, and function more efficiently.

Taking us on an amazing journey inside the brain as never before, Suzuki helps us unlock the keys to neuroplasticity that can change our brains, or bodies, and, ultimately,… (mais)

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This book is the result of the author's years of research on the brain and coming to terms with her own happy life. She is a nueroscientist who has studied and researched in labs on brain memory for ten years before opening her own lab in 1998 to do real time memory studies on rats. Her research results on making new memories and cell activation in rats in real time were some of the first recorded. You might want to download a few different brain charts to your phone for referencing while reading this book.

She presents simple and practical ways to work specific areas of your brain throughout the book. Our brains don't have to stop growing and stop producing blood vessels when we reach adulthood. Everytime we learn something new our brain changes. I think the bottom line is that to keep your brain active as you age, we must work all the different parts of the brain. You HAVE to continue to learn and experience NEW things...anything...learn to play music (any instrument), listen to music you wouldn't normally listen to, learn a new dance, try new foods (tastes and smells), learn a new art, go on new and different adventures, read up on different subjects you normally wouldn't read, learn a new language, write, etc...AND you have to exercise on a regular basis to provide your brain with the feel-good hormones it needs for growth, health and happiness and to give it the best chance to age gracefully. ( )
  MissysBookshelf | Aug 27, 2023 |
  Joop-le-philosophe | Jan 30, 2022 |
Quand on fait du bien à son corps et qu'on cultive la joie, est-ce que oe cerveau en profite?
  ACParakou | May 30, 2018 |
Wer besser denkt, hat mehr vom Leben! Die Neurowissenschaftlerin Dr. Wendy Suzuki revolutioniert die Art und Weise, wie wir über unser Gehirn, unsere Gesundheit und unser persönliches Glück denken. Anhand neuster Erkenntnisse der Hirnforschung verdeutlicht sie den wirkungsvollen Zusammenhang zwischen Bewegung, kognitiven Fähigkeiten und allgemeinem Wohlbefinden. Sie nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise durch das Gehirn und zeigt, wie wir die sogenannte Neuroplastizität nutzen, um unser Gehirn, unseren Körper und letztendlich unser Leben positiv zu verändern.

Mit 40 Jahren merkt die Neurowissenschaftlerin Wendy Suzuki, dass in ihrem Leben etwas falsch läuft. Sie ist übergewichtig, überarbeitet, sie fühlt sich einsam und hat kaum noch ein Privatleben, alles in ihrer Existenz dreht sich um ihren Job. Also beschließt sie ihr Leben radikal zu verändern. Und wie? Durch Wissenschaft natürlich. Wendy Suzuki war immer schon vom menschlichen Gehirn und seinen Geheimnissen fasziniert. Schon als Kind wollte sie Wissenschaftlerin werden. Na ja, entweder das oder Karriere am Broadway machen, aber das kam für ihre Eltern, japanisch stämmige Amerikaner überhaupt nicht in Frage. Also lernte Suzuki etwas Anständiges und stieg sogar zu den führenden Wissenschaftlerinnen ihrer Generation auf. Aber im Laufe ihrer Karriere ging ihr etwas verloren: Die Freude am Leben.

Früher dachten Wissenschaftler, dass das Gehirn von Erwachsenen nicht mehr formbar ist. Das heißt nur als Kind seien wir in der Lage irgendetwas Neues zu lernen. In der Kindheit angenommene Angewohnheiten ließen sich später nicht mehr abschütteln, man könne Negatives nicht mehr verlernen und durch Neues ersetzen.

Dann fand man heraus, dass diese Ansicht vollkommen falsch war. Zwar ist das Gehirn von Kindern tatsächlich besonders aufnahmefähig, doch der Mensch bleibt in jedem Alter in der Lage sich geistig zu ändern. Es können immer neue Verbindungen zwischen den Nervenzellen geknüpft werden. Das menschliche Gehirn bleibt bis ins hohe Alter dynamisch und veränderbar.

Wenn Sie sich natürlich schon ein wenig mit der Materie befasst haben, kennen Sie das natürlich alles schon. Es ist mittlerweile ein alter Hut, zahlreiche Bücher wurden darüber geschrieben, unzählige Magazine haben darüber berichtet. Wieso also noch einmal das Altbekannte wiederkäuen? Weil es wahr ist? Und weil die alte Maxime: Übung macht den Meister immer noch stimmt. Weil wir dazu neigen solche einfachen Wahrheiten inmitten der stressigen Alltage zu vergessen. Wir nutzen unsere eigenen geistigen Möglichkeiten nicht konsequent, neigen dazu mit der Zeit in langweilige Gewohnheit zu verfallen aus der wir nur mit Mühe wieder ausbrechen können.

Motivation ist also stets hilfreich.

Suzukis Buch besteht aus zwei Teilen. Zum einen gibt sie Anekdoten aus ihrem Privatleben preis. Dort erzählt sie zum Beispiel über ihre Liebe zur klassischen Musik, ihre Faszination für die französische Kultur oder das manchmal schwierige Verhältnis zu ihren Eltern. Der andere Teil beschäftigt sich mit ihrem Forschungsgebiet, der Neurowissenschaft. Sie erklärt wie unser Gehirn funktioniert und wie es möglich ist durch dieses Wissen glücklicher zu werden, seine Kreativität anzukurbeln, ein ausgeglichener Mensch mit einem harmonischeren Leben zu werden.

Unglücklicherweise fehlt der Autorin aber das Talent die Geschichten aus ihrer Biographie unterhaltsam darzubieten. Dieser charmante Plauderton, der eigentlich hier notwendig wäre, will sich permanent nicht einstellen. Dr. Suzuki ist sicherlich eine hochintelligente Person. Leider bedeutet Klugheit aber nicht automatisch, dass man einer anderen, vielleicht weniger intelligenten und schlechter informierteren Person Dinge auch besser und anschaulicher erklären kann. Sprich: Das Buch ist nicht besonders gut geschrieben. Also bleibt eigentlich nur der wissenschaftlich Teil, der aber wie bereits erwähnt nur wenig wirklich Neues bietet. Es dauert auch sehr lange bis Suzuki endlich zum Punkt kommt und konkrete Tipps gibt. Das sind am Ende vielleicht 10-20 Seiten in diesem fast 400 Seiten langen Buch.

Letztendlich läuft es auf Folgendes hinaus: Mehr Bewegung, mehr Abwechslung und Meditieren.

Treiben sie öfter Sport, seien Sie aufmerksamer, beobachten Sie ihre Umgebung, sammeln Sie neue Informationen, seinen Sie Neuem gegenüber aufgeschlossen und versuchen Sie täglich ein paar ruhige Momente zu finden, in denen Sie abschalten und ihre Mühen und Sorgen vergessen können.

Wenn das jetzt klingt, wie etwas, was sie in jedem x-beliebigen Frauenmagazin finden könnten, dann verstehen Sie auch, warum ich diesem Buch nur zwei Sterne gegeben habe. ( )
  TheRavenking | Feb 17, 2017 |
Overall, this book wasn't for me.

First, it was too simplistic. The answer to "How do I activate my brain and do everything better?" amounts to "exercise more, meditate, and do new and interesting things." The science part of this book could have been covered adequately in a long magazine article.

Second, Suzuki's personal stories, while interesting at first, ultimately started boring me. I loved the stories about her early life, the teachers who inspired her, her first real romance, and how she finally overcame her socialization to say "I love you" to her parents. But when she started talking about her exercise classes and the matchmaking services she used....I am not the audience for "well-off and professionally successful New Yorker talks about improving her life;" I'd rather read about a lower-middle-class single mother who's figured out how to add exercise to her life and meet interesting people when she can't afford a gym membership or a regular babysitter (let alone a matchmaker!).

While there's valid scientific information, I'm not the audience for this book. ( )
  castiron | Jul 17, 2016 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Science. Self-Improvement. Nonfiction. HTML:

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guideâ??a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive abilities.

Nearing forty, Dr. Wendy Suzuki was at the pinnacle of her career. An award-winning university professor and world-renowned neuroscientist, she had tenure, her own successful research lab, prestigious awards, and international renown.

That's when to celebrate her birthday, she booked an adventure trip that forced her to wake up to a startling reality: despite her professional success, she was overweight, lonely, and tired and knew that her life had to change. Wendy started simplyâ??by going to an exercise class. Eventually, she noticed an improvement in her memory, her energy levels, and her ability to work quickly and move from task to task easily. Not only did Wendy begin to get fit, but she also became sharper, had more energy, and her memory improved. Being a neuroscientist, she wanted to know why.

What she learned transformed her body and her life. Now, it can transform yours.

Wendy discovered that there is a biological connection between exercise, mindfulness, and action. With exercise, your body feels more alive and your brain actually performs better. Yesâ??you can make yourself smarter. In this fascinating book, Suzuki makes neuroscience easy to understand, interweaving her personal story with groundbreaking research, and offering practical, short exercisesâ??4 minute Brain Hacksâ??to engage your mind and improve your memory, your ability to learn new skills, and function more efficiently.

Taking us on an amazing journey inside the brain as never before, Suzuki helps us unlock the keys to neuroplasticity that can change our brains, or bodies, and, ultimately,

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