Optimizing Brain Fitness

Course Overview

Tap into your hidden mental potential and increase your brain’s performance in memory, focus, creativity, and more using research-based exercises rooted in neuroscience.

With up to 500 trillion synaptic connections, your brain is constantly changing through neuroplasticity. This 12-lecture course by neurologist Dr. Richard Restak reveals:

✔️ How to harness brain plasticity at any age

✔️ Science-backed exercises to boost cognitive function

✔️ Strategies for enhancing memory, focus & creativity

✔️ The impact of lifestyle choices on brain health

Video Lectures

01: How Your Brain Works (33 min)

Explore brain organization, growth patterns, and fundamental operating principles.

02: How Your Brain Changes (30 min)

Understand neuroplasticity through visual, sensory, and spatial exercises.

03: Care and Feeding of the Brain (28 min)

The crucial triad for brain health: nutrition, sleep, and exercise.

04: Creativity and the Playful Brain (31 min)

Discover the daydreaming-creativity link and 4 steps to boost innovative thinking.

05: Focusing Your Attention (32 min)

Techniques to improve sustained/divided attention and processing speed.

06: Enhancing Your Memory (29 min)

Memory fundamentals and exercises to strengthen short/long-term recall.

07: Exercising Your Working Memory (25 min)

Interactive exercises to improve information manipulation skills.

08: Putting Your Senses to Work (31 min)

Ancient mnemonic devices and modern techniques like “chunking” numbers.

09: Enlisting Your Emotional Memory (32 min)

How emotions shape memory and exercises to reconnect with past experiences.

10: Practicing for Peak Performance (28 min)

The neuroscience of deliberate practice and skill mastery.

11: Taking Advantage of Technology (30 min)

How digital tools/video games affect cognition – pros and cons.

12: Building Your Cognitive Reserve (32 min)

Actionable strategies: novelty-seeking, perspective-keeping, art appreciation, and cooking.