January / February 2012

Reclaim Your Brain

While tapping into cutting-edge neuroscience, Lumosity creates games and exercises that improve core cognitive abilities and enable users to remember more, think faster and perform better in both work and school. The team works closely with a Scientific Advisory Board of leading researchers from institutions including Stanford and UCSF. Lumosity has more than 15 million members worldwide and features 35 plus exercises that are scientifically proven to help everyone from kids to grandparents to stay focused, solve problems, and improve memory and attention spans. For more information, visit www.lumosity.com.

Living Better Through Music

Music can influence your health, memory and alertness, according to the new book, Your Playlist Can Change Your Life (Sourcebooks, 2012). In the book, Dr. Galina Mindlin, the founder of Brain Music Therapy (BMT); Joseph Cardillo, Phd, a top-selling author in the areas of health and mind-body-spirit; and Don Durousseau, a cognitive neuroscientist, discuss how music affects our moods and how individuals can enhance their life through the use of individual playlists to calm down, energize and change their moods. Your Playlist Can Change Your Life includes tips on how you can use the tunes you love to:

• Relieve anxiety
• Increase your alertness
• Feel happier
• Organize your brain
• Sharpen your memory
• Improve your mood
• Live creatively

Enhance your ability to fight off stress, insomnia, depression and even addiction. The book is available on www.amazon.com.