Dementia Prevention: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain

Emily Clionsky, MD, and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD, are a physician andneuropsychologist couple who have cared for their own parents withdementia, created a test used by doctors to measure cognitive function,and treated more than 25,000 patients with cognitive impairment. InDementia Prevention, they combine the most current scientific findingsabout Alzheimer disease and other dementias with their experience topresent a practical guide that empowers you to improve your brain’s future.

The authors guide you through a science-based tour of dementia, includinghow your brain works and how its function is affected by everything fromblood circulation and blood pressure to sugar levels, medications, vision,and hearing. You will learn how your activity level, weight, habits, mentaloutlook, and social engagement may affect your likelihood of developingdementia. The authors also provide a dementia risk checklist to help youbetter understand your personal risk profile and assist you on your journey.

From how you breathe while you sleep to what you do socially andphysically every day, Dementia Prevention will give you practical—andsometimes surprising—methods to protect your brain.

This audiobook includes a supplemental PDF of illustrations and charts.

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Lydbog: 30. maj 2023