The scientific American healthy aging brain: the neuroscience of making the most of your mature mind

Good news about getting older from Scientific American and Scientific American MindThe Scientific American Truth About Your Aging Brain taps into the most current research to unearth secrets about the brain as it ages. Neurologists and psychologists have discovered the brain from ages 35 to 65 is much more elastic and supple than anyone previously realized. Far from disintegrating, the aging brain can continue to develop and adapt in many ways. Happiness increases and, while our short-term memory may not be what it was, we gain better control and develop better neural networks—something that was entirely beyond us when we were younger. Offers new insights on how even an aged brain can repair itself, and the best strategies for keeping your brain healthyShows how aging people can still achieve new levels of intelligence, acquire new skills, perspective, and productivityDispels myths about the aging brain-improvementExplores what we should be aware of and what to expect as our brains matureIn a hopeful but truthful tone, this book helps us understand the good and bad of our aging brains. INDICE: AcknowledgmentsPreface: Live Long, and Live WellIntroduction: Welcome to the New Old AgeWhat's Old, Anyway?How Scientists Are Researching Your BrainPart One: How Your Brain GrowsChapter 1: The Well-Aged Brain: Older and HappierThe Myth of a Sad Old AgeActually, It’s Getting Better All the TimeGreat Late AchieversAre Grandparents Safer Drivers?Do You Think I'm Sexy? Apparently, Yes—at Any AgeA Swell of Centenarians: One Hundred Reasons to Take Care of Your BrainChapter 2: How Your Brain Grows: Zero to SixtyIn the Beginning: Your Fetal and Baby BrainA Brief Tour of Your BrainThe Gray and the White: Neurons and MyelinChildhood: Building the BrainThe Teen Brain: Not Yet Ready for PrimeTimeGet Smart Younger, Delay Dementia OlderThe Peak Years: Twenties to SixtiesChapter 3: Your Brain Growing Older: What to Expect in a Healthy Aging BrainThe Usual Effects of AgingDo the Brains of Men and Women Age Differently?How Memory Works: The Short VersionWhy White Matter MattersThe Aging Brain: Is It Less Connected?Forgetting May Be Vital to RememberingFive Things Most People GetWrong About MemoryThe Good News: Slower Is Sometimes BetterMore Easily Distracted: Why Multitasking Is a TaskPart Two: Threats to Your BrainChapter 4: WhatCan Go WrongWhen Your Brain Needs Help: How Can You Tell?The Darkness of DementiaMild Cognitive Impairment: A Subtle LossStroke: The Brain AttackA Healing StrokeParkinson's DiseaseYour Brain on Diabetes: Not So SweetTraumatic Brain Injury: A Blow to Your Thinking BrainDepression: An Abnormal StateThe Legacy ofCancer: “Chemo Brain”Too Much of a Good Thing: When Medications Mess Up Your MindWhat--Me Worry?Chapter 5: Alzheimer's Disease: The Brain KillerWhat Is Alzheimer's Disease?Chasing the CauseAnxiety and Alzheimer's Disease: Another Reason to ChillMaybe It's Bad Neural Housekeeping?The Search for a Cure—or Even aTreatment That WorksLooking Beyond the BrainAn Ounce of Prevention: MarijuanaMight Benefit Aging BrainsThe Future--Without Alzheimer's DiseasePart Three: How to Optimize Your Aging BrainChapter 6: The Big Five for Optimal Brain FunctionThe Cognitive ShopHow to Keep Your Brain Healthy and NimbleChapter 7: Exercise Your Body: Move Your Body for a Better BrainThis Brain Was Made for WalkingIt’s Never too Late to Start ExercisingA Fine Balance: Yoga, Tai Chi, and Fall PreventionChapter 8: Challenge Your BrainEducated Brains Stay Better LongerWhy Testing Boosts LearningDo Brain Fitness Products Work?Computer Training May Keep You Driving LongerThe Bottom LineChapter 9: Nutrition: Fuel for ThoughtGlucose Is Not So Sweet to the BrainForget the FructoseOmega-3, the Essential OilYour Brain on Berries, Chocolate, and Wine: The Flavonoid ConnectionCaffeine: A Perk for Your BrainIs There a Pill for That? Supplements and VitaminsChapter 10: The Social TreatmentYou’ve Got a Friend, We HopeTalk to Teens, Live LongerFinding and Making Friends in Later LifeChapter 11: Creativity, Spirit, and Attitude: Enrich ThyselfThe Art of an Active BrainLive Larger to Live BetterThe Power of Meditation for the Aging BrainSmile! It Could Make You HappierAttitudes Matter: The Optimism FactorPart Four: Your Future BrainChapter 12: The Future of the BrainA Fix to Reverse Memory DeclineAre You Saving for Those Final Years?RX for This Good LifeChapter 13: Living in the NowLiving with an Aging BrainHow We (Eventually) DieGoing Out with a Bang: The Brain Surges Just Before DeathLiving in the NowSourcesIllustration CreditsGlossaryResources for Aging and CopingAbout the AuthorIndex

• ISBN: 978-0-470-64773-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 06/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés