Dementia Prevention: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain

Emily Clionsky, MD, and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD, have written a book to help people prevent dementia. They combine scientific findings with their experience to provide a practical guide that empowers readers to improve their brain's future. The book covers various factors that affect cognitive function, such as blood circulation, blood pressure, sugar levels, medications, vision, and hearing. It also includes a dementia risk checklist to help individuals better understand their personal risk profile. The authors' training and experience as behavioral scientists will help readers set better goals, identify roadblocks to success, and overcome these obstacles.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 04 April 2023
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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.

Weight: 538g
Dimension: 158 x 237 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781421446240