Boost Your Brain: The New Art and Science Behind Enhanced Brain Performance - Hardcover

Fotuhi, Majid; Antoniades, Christina Breda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062199277 ISBN 13: 9780062199270

Publisher: HarperOne, 2013

Synopsis

Based on cutting-edge science, Boost Your Brain is internationally recognized neurologist Majid Fotuhi's complete program for increasing brain size and enhancing brain function, including memory, creativity, comprehension, and concentration.

Our brains don't have to decline as we get older, argues Dr. Fotuhi. Depending on the things we do or neglect to do, we can actually get smarter and measurably improve our brain speed. In Boost Your Brain, the founder of the NeurExpand Brain Center and host of the PBS series Fight Alzheimer’s Early offers a three-month brain-optimization program—with noticeable results in just a few weeks.

Boost Your Brain explores the very latest neuroscience research and offers actionable, authoritative advice on how readers of every age can experience the benefits of a bigger, better brain. Featuring more than two dozen black-and-white illustrations, Boost Your Brain: The New Art and Science Behind Enhanced Brain Performance includes a foreword by Michael Roizen, M.D., coauthor of the bestselling YOU series and author of the Real Age books.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The human brain can actually grow—and a bigger brain means better memory, creativity, speed of learning, and ability to concentrate.

In Boost Your Brain, Majid Fotuhi, M.D., Ph.D., guides you through the innovative brain fitness program that he has developed for his patients at the NeurExpand Brain Center, an institute dedicated to helping people quickly sharpen their brain performance. You start the program with an assessment of your current brain health and then are given specific brain-fit strategies proven to promote brain acuity and longevity, detailing the latest scientific evidence behind each. Concrete advice is given on how to spur new cell growth, which foods help to build new synapses, what creates brain reserve, and more. Dr. Fotuhi also highlights key behaviors to avoid—explaining, for example, how one common sleep disorder can shrink your brain's memory and attention centers by as much as 18 percent!

Dr. Fotuhi brings together the latest brain science discoveries about neuroplasticity, which show not only that the size of the brain can be increased within a matter of weeks—resulting in better focus, memory, and creativity—but that the increase can be scientifically measured. Boost Your Brain is the only book that uses groundbreaking advances in neuroscience to present a clear explanation and prescriptive plan for how to access the benefits of significantly enhanced brain performance—at any age.

About the Author:

Majid Fotuhi, M.D., Ph.D., has created the NeurExpand Brain Center (www.neurexpand.com) and serves as its chief medical off cer. He has more than twenty-f ve years of clinical, research, and teaching experience at Johns Hopkins and Harvard Medical School, is the recipient of the distinguished teaching award from the American Academy of Neurology, and has appeared on CNN, ABC, Discovery Channel, and The Dr. Oz Show.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062199277
• ISBN 13: 9780062199270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304