The Real Happy Pill: Power Up Your Brain by Moving Your Body

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Simon and Schuster, Sep 19, 2017 - Psychology - 248 pages
Is there a foolproof way to reduce stress and anxiety while you boost your memory? Raise your IQ even as you slow down the aging process? Become more creative and train your ability to focus at the same time? The answer is simple: Move! Modern neuroscience and research has shown, more than ever, that physical exercise has extraordinary effects on our cognition.

Physical activity, more so than Sudoku or crossword puzzles, optimizes our mental abilities and health in a way unparalleled by any drug, medication, or food supplement. And exercise doesn’t just enhance your health, energy and mood levels, and cognitive abilities. You will also learn:

  • Why physical training is the best protection against dementia

  • What type of exercise can be used to treat depression as an antidepressant

  • How exercise increases the ability to focus in children, especially kids with ADHD

  • How children with good fitness can become better in math and reading comprehension

  • Why “runner’s high,” the natural chemicals released during jogging, improves your health and mood


  • With practical and concrete advice for the layman on how to reap these benefits, as well as neuroscientific research from the last five years broken down to accessible findings, The Real Happy Pill urges you to train your body and mind for a whole-body upgrade, and start to move!
     

    Contents

    FOREWORDExercise your brain
    Your changeable brain
    Run away from stress
    Improved concentration
    The real happy pill
    Jog your memory
    Train yourself to be creative
    The growing brain
    Healthy aging of the brain
    The Stone Age brain in the digital
    The right prescription for the brain
    AFTERWORD
    MINI GLOSSARY
    REFERENCES
    INDEX THANKYOUS
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    About the author (2017)

    Anders Hansen is a physician and psychiatry specialist from the Karolinska Institute. He has published more than two thousand articles on medical science. He is the author of Prescription for Health. Hansen lives in Stockholm, Sweden.