The Healthy Aging Brain: Sustaining Attachment, Attaining Wisdom
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What would you do if you could live to 122, like the Frenchwoman Madame Calment, whose life span is the oldest ever recorded? What if you could do so and stave off dementia, Alzheimer s, and other common ailments of aging? What would happen if we stopped thinking of ourselves as aging and in decline, and instead started thinking of ourselves as chronologically advantaged? More effective than age-defying creams and anti-aging pills is a concrete understanding of how our bodies and our brains age, and what we can do to work with this natural process to make life as long and as fulfilling as possible. This is just what The Healthy Aging Brain offers. Here, expert psychologist and veteran therapist Louis Cozolino reveals that groundbreaking brain research proves that our brains continue to grow and change throughout our lives. He offers a neuroscientifically-based account of just how our brains age and evolve over time. In short, Cozolino says, our individual health and longevity are inextricably linked to those around us. How we age is grounded in our human relationships."
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393705137
ISBN13:9780393705133
Release Date:October 2008
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:380 Pages
Weight:1.42 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 5.9" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
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The Healthy Aging Brain
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
The Healthy Aging Brain is an excellent read. I have read several of Louis Cozolino's books and find his style of writing, his ability to personalize it for the reader, and just generally make it user friendly for professional and non-professional (Neuro-biology) readers most extraordinary. He is engaging and I recommend this book for young and old alike. Cozolino makes it profoundly clear how very important it is to stay deeply connected with one another and how important our elders and their stories handed down to our children are. And in so doing this actually stops the aging brain from loosing plasticity. Through the reconnecting of the wise mind (aging brain) and the children (developing brain) we not only live longer lives but heal and maintain a healthier social order.
Best overview of aging ever!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This book gives an overall biological and psychological description of the aging process from birth to death. It is easy to read and understand for all of us who, without a doubt will go through this fascinating growth, as illuminated by the author. I would like to send copies to everyone I know.
Gaining wisdom
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The Healthy Aging Brain is a valuable companion for those travelling the pathway towards well being and wisdom in late adulthood. A useful psychology resource that grounds the scientific basis for the psycho-biological links between attachment and subsequent emotional development, lifestyle, activity and creativity. Josephine Bowler PhD, Registered Psychologist, New Zealand.
Physiology and psychology blend in a powerful survey
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Any who would desire to live to a ripe old age will find this survey of aging issues a key to understanding the groundbreaking brain research taking place. Longevity brings with it challenges in health and brain health: especially as our brains continue to grow and change throughout our lives. Discussions of how to get the brain to age optimally are explored in an account of how individual health and longevity are linked to choices in daily lives. Physiology and psychology blend in a powerful survey.
well written and packed with up-to-date information
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Lou Cozolino has written another valuable book that offers insights into the latest research in neuroscience. This book is accessible to lay people and professionals alike, and is also an enjoyable read. Consistent with his previous books (the Neuroscience of Human Relationships and the Neuroscience of Psychotherapy), Cozolino offers a compassionate understanding of the role of attachment over the course of the life span. This book offers hope for gaining wisdom and enjoying one's life during the later years.
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