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Outsmarting Alzheimer's what you can do to reduce your risk

"An easy-to-follow, research-based guide to the simple, low-cost lifestyle choices you can make to reduce the risk or slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Develop a personalized plan, including recipes, brain-training games, exercises. Includes advice for caregivers&qu...

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Main Authors: Kosik, K. S. 1950-, Bowman, Alisa (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Reader's Digest, the Reader's Digest Association, Inc., [2015]
Subjects:
Alzheimer's disease > Prevention.
Self-care, Health.
Summary: "An easy-to-follow, research-based guide to the simple, low-cost lifestyle choices you can make to reduce the risk or slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Develop a personalized plan, including recipes, brain-training games, exercises. Includes advice for caregivers"-- Provided by publisher.
Item Description: "Understand the six keys to protecting brain health ; personalize your 3-week plan based on the latest science ; make fun and easy lifestyle changes."
Physical Description: xviii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index.
ISBN: 9781621452447 (hardback)
1621452441 (hardback)
9781621452454 (epub)
162145245X (epub)
Author Notes: Since 2004, Kenneth S. Kosik, MD, has been the Harriman Professor of Neuroscience Research and Co-Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously, he was a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, and a senior neurologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he was one of the founding physicians of the Memory Disorders Clinic. His lifelong work is research into the cause and treatment of neurodegeneration, particularly Alzheimer's disease. His study of a group of interrelated families in a rural mountain town in Colombia who suffer from early onset Alzheimer's has been the subject of several documentaries. Dr. Kosik also founded and served as Medical Director of the non-profit Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies (CFIT), a model "brain shop" that helped clients maintain and improve their cognitive function. Dr. Kosik, who received his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and served as chief resident at Tufts New England Medical Center, has been featured in the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , and on CNN as an expert on brain health. He lives and works in Santa Barbara, California.

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