Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity
Author: Guy McKhann
"The ultimate user’s guide to the brain...highly intelligent, straightforward, and important."
—Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
As Seen in Time magazine and on the Today Show
"Guy McKhann and Marilyn Albert are to middle-aged people and seniors what Dr. Spock is to babies and their parents. Keep Your Brain Young is must reading for anyone over fifty; it should be on your bedside table."
——Judy Woodruff, CNN, and Al Hunt, The Wall Street Journal
"I highly recommend this readable, informal, and entertaining guide to achieving and maintaining optimum brain functioning as we age. . . . A single, reliable, comprehensive guide to the changes we all can expect as we enter the second half of life."
——Richard Restak, M.D., coauthor of The Longevity Strategy
Your brain controls and powers virtually every aspect of your life —— and like the rest of your body, it changes with age. In Keep Your Brain Young, two of the world’s leading brain doctors guide you through the changes you may encounter as you get older and as your brain matures. Based on state-of-the-art research and supplemented with dramatic case histories, this comprehensive resource shows you the latest techniques for maintaining memory, managing stress, and coping with sleep disorders and depression, offering prescriptive exercises you can put into action right away. You’ll also learn how to enhance your mental and physical functioning while reducing the risk for serious diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Read Keep Your Brain Young and gain the knowledge and confidence you need to manage theaging process, take care of your brain, and stay active and alert for many years to come.
Publishers Weekly
McKhann, a professor of neurology at John Hopkins, has coauthored this manual on the workings of the brain with his wife, Albert, director of gerontology research at Massachusetts General Hospital. Although the writing is dry, there is excellent information here for the aging adult. The authors acknowledge that growing older quite naturally involves some physical changes in the brain. They present the most effective ways, based on scientific research and case histories, to minimize these changes and their impact on everyday life. Strategies are offered to improve memory, such as doing mental exercises and maintaining a regular exercise program. For the disease-free older adult, the authors recommend a well-balanced diet and getting an adequate amount of sleep. They stress the importance of recognizing and seeking medical assistance for depression, hearing or vision loss and urinary and sexual problems. McKhann and Albert also deal extensively with a variety of brain disorders including tumors, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's, and detail the latest medical treatments and drugs that may ameliorate some of these conditions. (May) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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