Maintaining Your Brain Network
By Kevin Kramer
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Maintaining Your Brain Network will teach you the basics of how the brain commits sensory input to memory in terms you can understand.
Exercise and nutrition are important to a healthy brain network and are discussed in terms of what is good for your overall health and specifically the health of your brain.
Memory exercises are included in the discussion of daily brain exercises and there are more examples in the appendix.
Lifestyle changes, like breaking patterns, socializing, continued learning and reinventing yourself are presented as the best way to make more brain connections every day.
Finally, suggestions are given to insure the participant stays on the program by making it easy and fun!
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Maintaining Your Brain Network - Kevin Kramer
Maintaining Your Brain Network
Easy to understand techniques to improve your Cognitive Network
and prepare your brain for the effects of ageing.
Kevin E. Kramer
Copyright 2012 by Kevin E. Kramer
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.
Printed in the United States of America
Published by Kevin E. Kramer on Smashwords.com
Maintaining Your Brain Network, Techniques to Improve Your Neuro-Coginitive Network
ISBN 9781476430355
First Edition
Table of Contents
Preface
Boost Your Brain Health – A True Story
Memory Maintenance for All Ages
Some Statistics
How the Network Grows – For Beginners
Learning and Memory through the Ages
Nutrition & Exercise
Triggers, The start of dementia
A Maintenance Plan for your Brain
Making Lifestyle Changes for a Healthy Memory
Personal Interest Inventory
Sample Games & Activities
Starting a Memory Maintenance club
Preface
Maintaining Your Brain Network will teach you the basics of how the brain commits sensory input to memory in terms you can understand.
Exercise and nutrition are important and are discussed in terms of what is good for your overall health and specifically the health of your brain.
Memory exercises are included in the discussion of daily brain exercises and there are more examples in the appendix.
Lifestyle changes, like breaking patterns, socializing and reinventing yourself are presented as the best way to make more brain connections every day.
Finally, suggestions are given to insure the participant stays on the program by making it easy and fun!
Boost Your Brain Health – A True Story
Boost Your Brain Health by P. Murali Doraiswamy, M.D.
Gary Small, M.D., remembers the patient well. An accomplished mathematician in his early 70’s, the man consulted Small after struggling with calculations, and after his wife noticed he was getting cranky. Small, director of the UCLA Center on Aging put the mathematician through a battery of tests – and the man got top scores on all of them, including 30 out of the 30 on a memory test and a whopping 140 on his IQ test. So when Small saw the patient’s brain scan, he was stunned: it had all the markings of full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.
Usually, people with such profound brain changes can barely carry on a conversation.
says Small. This man was still doing high-level mathematics.
Though the case is extreme, it is not unique. In fact, up to 20 percent of people autopsied who had shown no major memory problems are discovered to have had Alzheimer’s, says Yaakov Stern, Ph. D., a neuropsychologist at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.
So how does the brain continue to function sometimes quite efficiently-despite changes that should cause severe disability? An answer, many scientists believe, is the cognitive reserve
: a combination of a person’s innate abilities and