SAVING YOUR BRAIN --- THE REVOLUTIONARY PLAN TO BOOST BRAIN POWER, IMPROVE MEMORY, AND PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST AGING AND ALZHEIMER'S by Jeff Victoroff. Bantam, 2002
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pvii)

PREFACE (pxi-xii)

PART 1 --- WHAT'S HAPPENING TO US? (p1-62)

Introduction --- why brains change (p3-11)

    1) Adam's and Eve's brains (p12-23)

    2) What and where is memory? (p24-30)

    3) The brain's voyage of life (p31-45)

    4) What is "alzheimer's," and are you getting it? (p46-59)

PART 2 --- WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? (61-384)

Introduction --- Twain's Maxim and Pascal's bet (p63-73)

    5) Is stress destroying your brain? (p74-96)

    6) Is your job eating your brain? (p97-119)

        "Perpetual devotion to what a person calls his or her work is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things!" QUOTE = Robert Louis Stevenson

      [1] Mental stimulation and memory loss (p98-100)

      [2] Workplace hazards and memory loss (p100-104)

      [3] Pesticides and Parkinson's --- the gene connection (p104-105)

      [4] Solvents and Alzheimer's --- the gene connection (p105-108)

      [5] Modern-day mill-reek --- lead and zinc (p108-110)

      [6] Job stress --- are we working too hard? (p110-111)

      [7] Fifteen tons --- what do you get? (p111-112)

      [8] Demand and control (p112-114)

        It's the "demand/control" imbalance that is hard on you!

      [9] Glucocorticoids at work (p114-115)

        Working women and stress (p115)

      [10] Dual roles (p115-117)

      [11] The abusive workplace and the human brain! (p117-119)

    7) Can sex hormones keep you smart? (p120-140)

    8) Can non-sex hormones keep you smart? (p120-140)

    9) Dodging aluminum may save your brain (p163-173)

    10) Saving your brain's blood flow (p174-199)

    11) Food for thought --- the brain-saving diet (p200-237)

    12) Good news --- antioxidants save your brain (p239-258)

    13) Botanicals for the brain --- the growing promise of natural neuroprotection (p259-279)

    14) Smart drugs --- utopian dream or fast-approaching reality (p280-297)

    15) More good news --- anti-inflammatories help save your brain (p298-314)

    16) Saving your brain by saving your skull (p315-342)

    17) Brain fitness I --- using your body to build your brain (p343-363)

    18) Brain fitness II --- using your mind to build your brain (p364-384)

CONCLUSION --- what the future holds for the human brain (p385-398)

SELECTED REFERENCES (p399-434)

INDEX (P435-450)

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