Escritura creativa para activar la mente

Humans are the only living beings that can express our thoughts and feelings in the form of writing. The human ability to write has broad benefits for our species, as it not only serves as a means of communicating but has implications for brain development, cognitive functions, and mental health. The fact that people spend so much time writing and reading stories supports the adaptive function of creative writing. Fictional narratives can provide us with a mental catalog of the problems we might face and the strategies to use to solve them. The exercises that are collected in this book speed up mental functioning, mainly increasing linguistic skills and creativity. They are aimed at adults without cognitive impairment. They meet the criteria of novelty and complexity required to be effective and activate the mind regardless of age and intellectual capacity, and are extremely useful for anyone who wants to increase their cognitive capacity. These are original exercises, since they have been designed by the authors (a professor of Psychobiology and a prestigious and long-standing writer), but based on exercises for which there is scientific evidence of their effectiveness in supporting cognitive and mental health. The goal is to help readers build a lifestyle that includes creative training, to increase their brain health and work and social performance throughout life.