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The Scientific American healthy aging brain: the neuroscience of making the most of your mature mind
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Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Publication Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st ed.
Acknowledgments
Preface: Live Long, and Live Well
Introduction: Welcome to the New Old Age
What's Old, Anyway?
How Scientists Are Researching Your Brain
Part 1. How Your Brain Grows
Chapter 1. The Well-Aged Brain: Older and Happier
The Myth of a Sad Old Age
Actually, It's Getting Better All the Time
Great Late Achievers
Are Grandparents Safer Drivers?
Do You Think I'm Sexy? Apparently, Yes-at Any Age
A Swell of Centenarians: One Hundred Reasons to Take Care of Your Brain
Chapter 2. How Your Brain Grows: Zero to Sixty
In the Beginning: Your Fetal and Baby Brain
A Brief Tour of Your Brain
The Gray and the White: Neurons and Myelin
Childhood: Building the Brain
The Teen Brain: Not Yet Ready for Prime Time
Get Smart Younger, Delay Dementia Older
The Peak Years: Twenties to Sixties
Chapter 3. Your Brain Growing Older: What to Expect in a Healthy Aging Brain
The Usual Effects of Aging
Do the Brains of Men and Women Age Differently?
How Memory Works: The Short Version
Why White Matter Matters
The Aging Brain: Is It Less Connected?
Forgetting May Be Vital to Remembering
Five Things Most People Get Wrong About Memory
The Good News: Slower Is Sometimes Better
More Easily Distracted: Why Multitasking Is a Task
Part 2. Threats to Your Brain
Chapter 4. What Can Go Wrong
When Your Brain Needs Help: How Can You Tell?
The Darkness of Dementia
Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Subtle Loss
Stroke: The Brain Attack
A Healing Stroke
Parkinson's Disease
Your Brain on Diabetes: Not So Sweet
Traumatic Brain Injury: A Blow to Your Thinking Brain
Depression: An Abnormal State
The Legacy of Cancer: "Chemo Brain"
Too Much of a Good Thing: When Medications Mess Up Your Mind
What-Me Worry?
Chapter 5. Alzheimer's Disease: The Brain Killer
What Is Alzheimer's Disease?
Chasing the Cause
Anxiety and Alzheimer's Disease: Another Reason to Chill
Maybe It's Bad Neural Housekeeping?
The Search for a Cure-or Even a Treatment That Works
Looking Beyond the Brain
An Ounce of Prevention: Marijuana Might Benefit Aging Brains
The Future-Without Alzheimer's Disease
Part 3. How to Optimize Your Aging Brain
Chapter 6. The Big Five for Optimal Brain Function
The Cognitive Shop
How to Keep Your Brain Healthy and Nimble
Chapter 7. Exercise Your Body: Move Your Body for a Better Brain
This Brain Was Made for Walking
It's Never Too Late to Start Exercising
A Fine Balance: Yoga, Tai Chi, and Fall Prevention
Chapter 8. Challenge Your Brain
Educated Brains Stay Better Longer
Why Testing Boosts Learning
Do Brain Fitness Products Work?
Computer Training May Keep You Driving Longer
The Bottom Line
Chapter 9. Nutrition: Fuel for Thought
Glucose Is Not So Sweet to the Brain
Forget the Fructose
Omega-3, the Essential Oil
Your Brain on Berries, Chocolate, and Wine: The Flavonoid Connection
Caffeine: A Perk for Your Brain
Is There a Pill for That? Supplements and Vitamins
Chapter 10. The Social Treatment
You've Got a Friend, We Hope
Talk to Teens, Live Longer
Finding and Making Friends in Later Life
Chapter 11. Creativity, Spirit, and Attitude: Enrich Thyself
The Art of an Active Brain
Live Larger to Live Better
The Power of Meditation for the Aging Brain
Smile! It Could Make You Happier
Attitudes Matter: The Optimism Factor
Part 4. The Future for Your Brain
Chapter 155. Predictions, Promises, and Possibilities
A Fix to Reverse Memory Decline
Are You Saving for Those Final Years?
RX for This Good Life
Chapter 13. Living in the Now
Living with an Aging Brain
How We (Eventually) Die
Going Out with a Bang: The Brain Surges Just Before Death
Living in the Now
Sources
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Resources for Aging and Coping
About the Author
Index
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ISBN
9780470647738
9781705262719
9781118234648
9781705262719
9781118234648
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