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Brain health

McKay, Sarah, (Neuroscientist)2025

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Your brain, like every part of your body, needs and deserves all the TLC you can give it so you can live a long and healthy life. In Brain Health For Dummies, neuroscientist and author Dr. Sarah McKay walks you through some simple and easy steps you can take--right now--to get smarter, stay healthier, and better support the elders in your life. This is the ultimate, evidence-based guide to help you understand how your brain works around the clock to keep you sharp, healthy, and happy. It offers straightforward advice to help you optimise your brain health.

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Main title:

Brain health / by Sarah McKay, DPhil.

Author:

McKay, Sarah, (Neuroscientist)

Imprint:

Collation:

xvii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series title:

For dummies

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Part 1. An introduction to brain health. Embracing brain health fundamentals ; Getting to know your brain and nervous system ; Measuring and monitoring brain health ; Examining brain health disorders and diseases ; Calculating the causes and risks of brain health problemsPart 2. Charting brain health at different ages and stages. Nurturing healthy brain development in childhood ; Fostering healthy brain development in adolescence ; Supporting healthy brain agingPart 3. Beyond aging : other factors that impact brain health. Understanding the interplay of sex and gender in brain health ; Managing brain health after head injury ; Wondering at the world : the environment and brain healthPart 4. Keeping your brain healthy. Nourishing your brain : nutrition and brain health ; Moving your body for brain health ; Sleeping your way to better brain health ; Socializing your way to a healthier brain ; Challenging your cognition for better brain healthPart 4. Avoiding brain health hazards. Buffering against toxic stress ; Rethinking drugs and alcohol ; Avoiding metabolic syndrome ; Avoiding hearing lossPart 6. The part of tens. Ten ways to hurt your happy, healthy brain ; Ten functions of a high-performing, happy, healthy brain.

ISBN:

9781394273379 (paperback)

Dewey class:

616.831

Language:

English

Added title:

Brain health for dummies

Subject:

Cognition disordersBrain -- HealthMental healthMemoryBrain -- Care and hygieneBrain -- Diseases -- PreventionNeurosciences

BRN:

521897