Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity - Softcover

McKhann, Guy; Albert, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471407925 ISBN 13: 9780471407928

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Synopsis

"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 the aging process, take care of your brain, and stay active and alert for many years to come.

About this title

About the Author

Guy McKhann, M.D., is Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins. He is the founding Chairman of the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins and has appeared on 60 Minutes and in other national media.

Marilyn Albert, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She is Director of the Gerontology Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and of the Harvard–Mahoney Neuroscience Institute at Harvard Medical School. She has appeared on the Today show, PBS–TV, and in other national media.

From the Back Cover

Authors featured in "STAYING SHARP," nationwide seminars presented by the AARP Andrus Foundation and the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives

"Keep Your Brain Young is the ultimate user?s guide to the brain. Drs. McKhann and Albert, two of the world?s leading authorities on how the brain works, have written a highly intelligent, straightforward, and important book. Take care of your gray matter: buy and read this book. It is a great investment in your future." ??Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and author of An Unquiet Mind and Touched with Fire

"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 50; it should be on your bedside table." ??Judy Woodruff, CNN, and Al Hunt, Wall Street Journal

"I highly recommend this readable, informal, and entertaining guide to achieving and maintaining optimum brain functioning as we age. Guy McKhann and Marilyn Albert provide a single, reliable, comprehensive guide to the changes we all can expect as we enter the second half of life. Best of all, their sound advice, tinctured with generous doses of hope and encouragement, provides an effective antidote against a ?gloom and doom? attitude toward aging." ??Richard Restak, M.D., coauthor of The Longevity Strategy: How to Live to 100 Using the Brain–Body Connection and author of The Secret Life of the Brain

"For the first time, the authors have presented an interesting and understandable scientific explanation of mind/body function as we get older. This book explains how memory may fade with age without the loss of intellect, and how to assist nature in maintaining such function." ??Eunice K. Shriver, Executive Vice President of The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and Founder and Honorary Chairman of Special Olympics, Inc.

From the Inside Flap

If there is one thing that determines how fully you live at an older age, it is how well your brain works. Your brain controls and powers virtually every aspect of your life from memory to moods, from thinking to sleeping, from movement to senses and like the rest of your body, it changes with age. The good news is that now there is a single, reliable, comprehensive source with the information you need to keep your brain working at the highest possible level for the longest possible time.

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 your brain matures. They calm your concerns about normal changes and show how to minimize them while enhancing your mental and physical functioning. You’ll learn what steps you can take to reduce the risk for serious diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and how to recognize the symptoms of these diseases should they occur. You’ll learn about the brain–body link for other diseases, including heart disease and cancer. You’ll also find out about the rapid progress being made in the treatment of brain disorders.

Based on state–of–the–art research and supplemented with dramatic case histories from the authors’ patient files, Keep Your Brain Young shows you the latest techniques you can use to maintain your memory, manage stress, and cope with sleep disorders. You’ll discover which foods provide the best nutrition for your brain and protect it from illness, how alcohol affects your brain, and how to recognize and cope with the symptoms of depression. Keep Your Brain Young includes prescriptive exercises you can put into action right away.

Don’t let worries about senior moments interfere with your enjoyment of the second half of life. Read Keep Your Brain Young and gain the knowledge and confidence you need to manage the aging process, take care of your brain, and stay active and alert for many years to come.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471407925
• ISBN 13: 9780471407928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304