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Maintaining Your Brain Network
Maintaining Your Brain Network
Maintaining Your Brain Network
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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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PublisherKevin Kramer
Release dateAug 27, 2012
ISBN9781476430355
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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

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