BrainwavesBooks and The Brainwaves Center

A Fun & Informative Way to Exercise the Mind Ordering Information These links will take you directly to information for each publication.

Building Mental Muscle	Building Left-Brain Power
Learn Faster & Remember More	Exercises for the Whole Brain
Use It or Lose It!	How Sharp Is Your Pencil?
Brain-Building Games with Words & Numbers	Brains That Work a Little Bit Differently
Right Brain Teasers

Coming Soon: Sampler of exercises from each Brainwaves Book

	BUILDING MENTAL MUSCLE Paperback, 320 pages $14.95 6 x 9 Brainwaves®, April 2003 ISBN 0-9164-1080-3 Conditioning exercises for the six intelligence zones by David Gamon and Allen D. Bragdon. The scientific evidence is now irrefutable: When you keep the problem-solving circuits of your brain active you improve performance and help prevent degeneration with age. This book provides clear explanations of how the brain operates, neuron-building exercises and tips on how to solve real-world challenges more effectively. "Help your memory last a lifetime by going to the gym today." 76 brain-building puzzles and exercises, 23 revealing self-tests. Foreign editions: China, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain and Thailand; Simon & Schuster, UK. Over 140,000 copies sold in the USA alone, plus sales by Quality Paperback Book Club.
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	LEARN FASTER & REMEMBER MORE Trade paperback, 320 pages U.S. $14.95 Canada $22.95 53 illus. and diagrams, Glossary, Index Brainwaves®, October 2001 ISBN 0916410-79-X Your brain LOVES its job if you keep it busy and in shape What children can learn in the womb • How to separate healthy aging from dementia • Tricks for remembering names and other career-building data • Straight talk about nutrition and pills • What women know about handling stress • Recent findings about critical stages in a pre-schooler’s brain development • Physical and mental exercises that fire-up learning skills • Three keys to endowing character in children and teens • How pros perfect sports skills with mind action • What caffeine, cramming, nicotine and sleep can and can’t do for academic skills
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	BRAIN BUILDING GAMES with WORDS & NUMBERS (mostly) by Allen D. Bragdon (Founding Editor of Games magazine) & Dr. David Gamon. Trade paperback, 224 pages $14.95 6.125 x 7.5 Brainwaves®, August 2001 ISBN number 0-916410-78-1 A personal mind-training program with 176 performance tips and skills-targeted puzzles to increase memory, math and language dexterity The 3-month brain-training program also covers Social/Emotional skills and Executive Management skills. Brain exercises are graded from easy to difficult. All of them have "Hints" to get into the action again if you get stuck temporarily and don't want to look up the solutions. Lots of info on female-male brain differences and exercises to do together.
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	USE IT or LOSE IT! Trade paperback, 196 pages $14.95 7.5 x 8.25, 32 Drawings, Diagrams and Photos Brainwaves®, October 2000 ISBN 0-916410-68-4 How to keep your brain fit as it ages New updated and enlarged edition with 48 brain-stimulating mental exercises. Use It or Lose It! is a new book developed at The Brainwaves Center based on the latest published research in the neurosciences. The Center suggests these five steps to keep your mental equipment operating up to specs as your brain grows old, gracefully, along with the rest of you: 10 years old - Ask questions 25 years old - Marry someone smarter than you are 38 years old - Exercise regularly to reduce stress 52 years old - Learn something new 65 years old - Avoid the ruts
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	BRAINS THAT WORK A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY Trade paperback, 128 pages $9.95 33 Illustrations Brainwaves®, 2000 ISBN 0916410927 Recent discoveries about common mental diversities • ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY • ALCOHOLISM • AUTISM • DEJA VU • DYSLEXIA • LEFT HANDEDNESS • PERFECT PITCH • PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY • SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER • SYNESTHESIA Almost everyone can relate personally to at least one of the ten conditions in “Brains That Work a Little Bit Differently.” Special-Ed teachers and parents certainly want access to the most current discoveries about dyslexia, ADHD, and autism, for example.
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	EXERCISES FOR THE WHOLE BRAIN Trade paperback, 128 pages $9.95 5.5 x 8.25 Brainwaves®, August 1999 ISBN 0-916410-65-X *Neuron-builders to stimulate & entertain your visual, math & executive-planning skills* by Allen D. Bragdon and Leonard Fellows. The most fascinating mental exercises from the New York Times internationally syndicated column Playspace. Builds brain skills in the same way physical exercise builds muscles and stamina. 60 skill-developing exercises that strengthen neuronal connection among the brain centers that control creative-visual, executive-planning, spatial-manipulative and logical thinking."Perfect for honing intellectual and memory skills and making the most of the gray matter we all possess." Foreign editions: Czech Republic, France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, UK.
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	BUILDING LEFT-BRAIN POWER Trade paperback, 320 pages $14.95 5.5 x 8.25 Brainwaves®, August 1999, ISBN 0-916410-63-3 Conditioning exercises & tips to improve mood and develop language, math and other uniquely human skills by Allen Bragdon and David Gamon, Ph.D. An entertaining, interactive program designed to increase the power of the specific kinds of intelligence that contribute to professional and personal success. Includes reports of recent discoveries in the neurosciences with more than 100 tips to help improve performance in real-world problem-solving situations. Mental-conditioning exercises that are fun to do gradually build neuron-strength. 14 progressively more difficult formats develop language, math, executive, planning and social skills just as physical exercises build muscle groups. 5 self-scoring tests measure status. Here's a tip: “When you can't think of a word, look right. Researchers observed that test-takers do better at verbal memory problems when gazing to the right, which stimulates the left hemisphere.” Developed by Games magazine founder. Foreign editions: China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Turkey, UK.
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	HOW SHARP IS YOUR PENCIL? Trade paperback, 432 pages $17.95 7.375 x 9.125 Brainwaves®, August 1999, ISBN 0-916410-64-1 Can you pass these tests? 46 real-world, professional and academic qualifying exams to try by Allen Bragdon and David Gamon. For example: Chef - California Culinary Academy; Nurse - National Council of Registered Nurses; Architect - Georgia Tech; U.S. History - Harvard; Securities Sales - Securities Training School; Real Estate - Florida; Wine Master - London Institute of Masters of Wine. The best exams, with answers, selected from two titles originally published as Can You Pass These Tests? and What Do You Know? with combined sales over 150,000 copies. Now available in one giant volume updated with new exams on Business Ethics and Computer Certification."Do you have what it takes to be an air traffic controller? A systems engineer? How about a baseball umpire or a cab driver in New York City?" Edited by the creator of Games magazine.
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	RIGHT BRAIN TEASERS Trade paperback, 160 pages $9.95 5.5 x 8.25 Brainwaves®, August 1999, ISBN 0-916410-66-8 A photo-quiz for the mind's eye: Can you tell what these 75 old-time utensils were used for? The right side of your brain specializes in recognizing shapes and visualizing them in space. Engineers, architects, carpenters and map readers are strong in this skill. This is brain-candy for them and a test of knowledge for collectors of antique household items and tools. Sharp, detailed photographs of collectible antiques and curiosities with descriptions of their use plus old-time household tips and remedies. If you can identify 10% of them you are doing well. Featured on NBC-TV’s David Letterman show. By Allen D. Bragdon and Marcia Monbleau. “A collector's antique shop & yard-sale handbook as compelling as a bowl of peanuts.” Cape Cod Home & Garden.
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Building Left-Brain Power