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Dementia Prevention: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain [Pehme köide]

(Clionsky Neuro Systems, Inc.),
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x16 mm, kaal: 431 g, 17 Line drawings, black and white
  • Sari: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Apr-2023
  • Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1421446251
  • ISBN-13: 9781421446257
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x16 mm, kaal: 431 g, 17 Line drawings, black and white
  • Sari: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Apr-2023
  • Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1421446251
  • ISBN-13: 9781421446257
"Severe memory loss and dementia are not inevitable parts of aging. Science now shows that you can make changes, no matter your age, to protect your brain. Join the authors as they guide you through a science-based tour of dementia, including how your brain works and how its function is affected by everything from blood circulation and blood pressure to sugar levels, medications, vision, and hearing"--

"Worried about memory loss and dementia risk? This new book will show you easy-to-follow steps to keep your brain healthy.Emily Clionsky, MD, and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD, are a physician and neuropsychologist couple who have cared for their own parents with dementia, created a test used by doctors to measure cognitive function, and treated more than 25,000 patients with cognitive impairment. In Dementia Prevention, they combine the most current scientific findings about Alzheimer's disease and other dementias with their experience to present a practical guide that empowers you to improve your brain's future. This book skips the fads, the unsupported claims of advertised products, and fringe theories. Instead, the authors guide you through a science-based tour of dementia, including how your brain works and how its function is affected by everything from blood circulation and blood pressure to sugar levels, medications, vision, and hearing. You will learn how your activity level, weight, habits, mental outlook, and social engagement may affect your likelihood of developing dementia. Dementia Prevention provides a dementia risk checklist to better understand your personal risk profile to help you on your journey. The authors' training and experience as behavioral scientists will help you set better goals, identify roadblocks to success, and overcome these obstacles. Forgetfulness and confusion are not an inevitable part of growing older-you can make changes to keep your brain working well into your 70s and beyond. From how you breathe while you sleep to what you do socially and physically every day, Dementia Prevention will give you practical-and sometimes surprising-methods for you to protect your brain"--

Worried about memory loss and dementia risk? This new book will show you easy-to-follow steps to keep your brain healthy.

Emily Clionsky, MD, and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD, are a physician and neuropsychologist couple who have cared for their own parents with dementia, created a test used by doctors to measure cognitive function, and treated more than 25,000 patients with cognitive impairment. In Dementia Prevention, they combine the most current scientific findings about Alzheimer's disease and other dementias with their experience to present a practical guide that empowers you to improve your brain's future.

This book skips the fads, the unsupported claims of advertised products, and fringe theories. Instead, the authors guide you through a science-based tour of dementia, including how your brain works and how its function is affected by everything from blood circulation and blood pressure to sugar levels, medications, vision, and hearing. You will learn how your activity level, weight, habits, mental outlook, and social engagement may affect your likelihood of developing dementia.

Dementia Prevention provides a dementia risk checklist to better understand your personal risk profile to help you on your journey. The authors' training and experience as behavioral scientists will help you set better goals, identify roadblocks to success, and overcome these obstacles. Forgetfulness and confusion are not an inevitable part of growing older—you can make changes to keep your brain working well into your 70s and beyond. From how you breathe while you sleep to what you do socially and physically every day, Dementia Prevention will give you practical—and sometimes surprising—methods for you to protect your brain.

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Worried about memory loss and dementia risk? This new book will show you easy-to-follow steps to keep your brain healthy.
Introduction. An Ounce of Prevention 1(16)
PART I Nature and Origin of Dementia
1 What Is Dementia?
17(16)
2 Normal Cognitive Aging
33(14)
PART II Dementia Risk Model
3 Genetics and Early-Life Factors
47(10)
4 Midlife Medical Conditions That Affect Dementia Risk
57(8)
5 Lifestyle Factors of Smoking, Diet, and Exercise
65(10)
6 Sleeping, Breathing, Breathing while Sleeping
75(22)
7 Metabolic and Vitamin Deficiencies
97(8)
8 Alcohol, Drugs, and Medications
105(10)
9 Sensory and Emotional Factors That Amplify Dementia Risk
115(12)
10 Putting It All Together in an Interactive Dementia Risk Model
127(12)
PART III Where You Stand and What You Can Do about It
11 Your Dementia Prevention Checklist
139(22)
12 Everybody Wants to Feel Better, But Nobody Wants to Change
161(13)
13 Use Your Head to Save Your Brain
174(15)
14 Applying the Change Formula to Your Life
189(22)
Afterword. But What about ...? 211(2)
Acknowledgments 213(4)
For Further Reading 217(34)
Index 251
Emily Clionsky, MD (SPRINGFIELD, MA), is an internal medicine doctor with 25 years of experience and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She has treated thousands of patients with memory loss at her private practice. Mitchell Clionsky, PhD (SPRINGFIELD, MA), is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with 45 years of experience evaluating and treating patients with cognitive impairment, dementia, ADHD, and traumatic brain injury. Together, they developed the Memory Orientation Screening Test (MOST), which has been used by hundreds of doctors.