Dementia Prevention

Using Your Head to Save Your Brain

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421446257

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By Emily Clionsky, Mitchell Clionsky
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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PAPERBACK
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248

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Introduction: An Ounce of Prevention Section 1: Nature and Origin of Dementia 1. What is Dementia? 2. Normal Cognitive Aging Section 2: Dementia Risk Model 3. Genetics and Early Life Factors 4. Midlife Medical Conditions Impacting Dementia Risk 5. Lifestyle Factors of Smoking, Diet and Exercise 6. Breathing, Sleeping, Breathing While Sleeping 7. Metabolic and Vitamin Deficiencies 8. Alcohol, Drugs, and Medications 9. Sensory and Emotional Factors That Amplify Dementia Risk 10. Putting It All Together in an Interactive Dementia Risk Model Section 3: Where Do You Stand and What You Can Do About It 11. Take the Test: Your Dementia Prevention Checklist 12. Everybody Wants to Feel Better, But Nobody Wants to Change 13. Use Your Brain to Save Your Brain 14. Applying the Change Formula to Your Life Epilogue Bibliography Index
Emily Clionsky, MD (SPRINGFIELD, MA), is an internal medicine doctor with 25 years of experience and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She has treated thousands of patients with memory loss at her private practice. Mitchell Clionsky, PhD (SPRINGFIELD, MA), is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with 45 years of experience evaluating and treating patients with cognitive impairment, dementia, ADHD, and traumatic brain injury. Together, they developed the Memory Orientation Screening Test (MOST), which has been used by hundreds of doctors.

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