Dementia Prevention, Emily Clionsky, MD
Dementia Prevention, Emily Clionsky, MD
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Dementia Prevention
Using Your Head to Save Your Brain

Author: Emily Clionsky, MD, Mitchell Clionsky, PhD

Narrator: Nan McNamara

Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/30/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne

Very comprehensive. I didn’t learn that much though. But that’s basically because I’ve already read a lot about this subject. Both my parents had significant dementia so I’m a little obsessed with how to prevent it. The book is very thoughtful and fact based. There no crazy theories or anything. I’d......more

Goodreads review by Ashley

A 3.89. Why would a 42-year-old read a book on dementia prevention? Because my husband and I are watching the insidious nature of dementia unfold with one parent, we're on high alert with prevention (or mitigation?) in another, and with our genetics, we'd like to stall our cognitive demise for as lo......more

A well-researched and practical guide that empowers readers to proactively reduce the risk of dementia through evidence-based strategies. Dementia, a complex and often devastating condition affecting millions worldwide, has become an increasingly prominent concern in our aging society. As the prevale......more