Aging: The Owner's Manual (Owner's Manual for the Brain)
Language: English
Pages: 100
ISBN: B00IHZY68C
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated
At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual—until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily lives. Drawing from the frontiers of psychology, neurobiology, and cognitive science, yet organized and written for maximum usability, The Owner's Manual for the Brain, Fourth Edition, is your comprehensive guide to optimum mental performance and well-being. It should be on every thinking person's bookshelf.
- What are the ingredients of happiness?
- Which are the best remedies for headaches and migraines?
- How can we master creativity, focus, decision making, and willpower?
- What are the best brain foods?
- How is it possible to boost memory and intelligence?
- What is the secret to getting a good night's sleep?
- How can you positively manage depression, anxiety, addiction, and other disorders?
- What is the impact of nutrition, stress, and exercise on the brain?
- Is personality hard-wired or fluid?
- What are the best strategies when recovering from trauma and loss?
- How do moods and emotions interact?
- What is the ideal learning environment for children?
- How do love, humor, music, friendship, and nature contribute to well-being?
- Are there ways of reducing negative traits such as aggression, short-temperedness, or irritability?
- What is the recommended treatment for concussions?
- Can you delay or prevent Alzheimer's and dementia?
- What are the most important ingredients to a successful marriage and family?
- What do the world's most effective managers know about leadership, motivation, and persuasion?
- Plus 1,000s more topics!
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Numbers and cross-references refer to those in the larger work. Finishing Well “Do not go gentle into that good night.” —Dylan Thomas Use It or Lose It Although not all of us will be blessed with the opportunity to experience the perspective of old age, certainly all of us have an interest in knowing what research in cognitive science has discovered about the effect of aging on mental structure and ability. This chapter focuses on findings that can help us to age with maximum effectiveness.
Peace in 1962) was asked, “What does one do after one wins the Nobel prize?” Pauling quipped, “One changes fields!” Never stop learning. Never stop setting goals. Disuse breeds disuse. Use what you know and have. Fight idleness and boredom with all your energy. If you can’t think of anything to do, remember that there are plenty of organizations looking for volunteers. You can be helpful either from the confines of your own home (by telephoning, addressing, sewing, mending), in an an office.
6.1). Learning means new synapses, and new synapses mean higher density, which counterbalances the normal brain weight loss. Accordingly, performance continues to improve with age among those who use their brains, while it declines among those whose brains retire when they retire from their jobs. Figure 6.1. The Effect of Inactivity and Disuse on the Brain Quartz and Sejnowski (2002) report that “nuns [in the Nun Study] who are more educated and perform stimulating work, such as teaching, tend.
Baltimore study (which emphasizes personality), the Seattle Longitudinal Study emphasizes mental ability over the life span. The director is Warner Schaie (a professor at Pennsylvania State University). Here are some of their major findings (Schaie, 1996, pp. 12–15): 1. “There is no uniform pattern of age-related changes across all intellectual abilities.” Different abilities decline at different times for different sexes for different reasons. 2. The primary factors that prevent decline in.
Innovate by seeing things only from your own point of view—a bias common to the younger, less experienced mind. Second, age brings wide experience and its associated capacity to see the big picture, while youth tends to reveal its limited perspective. Third, older people are better able to foresee problems based on past experience with similar situations. Fourth, the critical thinking ability of seniors continues to grow, as the cumulative wisdom of the years provides a more patient and.