Brain rules for aging well 10 principles for staying vital, happy, and sharp
Book - 2017
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Seattle, WA :
Pear Press
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 267 pages ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9780996032674
- Introduction
- What causes us to age
- How the brain is wired
- Why old age can be some of the happiest years of your life
- Social Brain
- 1. Your Friendships
- Vitamins for the brain
- More parties, less flu
- Where social isolation leads
- Video chats
- The human touch
- 2. Your Happiness
- Happier or grumpier?
- Roller-coaster grandpa
- Gullibility and the Highway to Hell
- Dopamine and depression
- The power of gratitude
- Thinking Brain
- 3. Your Stress
- The thermostat of the stress system
- How you feel about aging changes the way your brain ages
- Gender differences
- Stress and mindfulness
- 4. Your Memory
- Many types of memory
- What declines, what stays robust, what improves how the brain battles back
- Mikey likes it, and you will too
- 5. Your Mind
- How processing speed changes
- Problem-solving abilities vs. intelligence drawn from experience
- Stunning results from playing video games
- 6. Your Mind: Alzheimer's
- What your doctor cant tell you
- Mild cognitive impairment vs. Alzheimer's 10 warning signs
- The amyloid hypothesis and the Nun Study
- Predicting Alzheimer's in your 20s?
- Body and Brain
- 7. Your food and exercise
- A little exercise goes a long way
- Less food, longer life?
- Two diets that improve working memory and lower the risk of Alzheimer's
- 8. Your sleep
- Why do we sleep? two breakthroughs
- The battle of the sleep cycle
- How sleep fragments as you age
- A good night's sleep starts four hours before
- Future Brain
- 9. Your longevity
- What Super Agers can teach us about long life
- A gene found to extend life
- How cells know to die, thus avoiding cancer
- A pill for aging?
- 10. Your retirement
- Retiring from a job raises your risk of disability, disease, depression, and dementia
- Nostalgia is good for you
- The Blue Zone
- An hour-by-hour plan for retirement
- Acknowledgments
- Index