Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month (June)

1) The everything guide to the MIND diet: optimize brain health and prevent disease with nutrient-dense foods

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"Provides information on the MIND diet, how it can help reverse and prevent mental decline, and several chapters with recipes that follow the diet"--

2) The telomere effect: a revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer

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Blackburn, Elizabeth H

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Book, CD audio book, Playaway

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Discusses the end sections of each chromosome called telomeres, the enzyme that replenishes them, their role in the aging process, and specific lifestyle habits to that protect telomeres, slow down disease, and lengthen life.

3) The end of Alzheimer's: the first program to prevent and reverse cognitive decline

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Bredesen, Dale E

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In this paradigm shifting book, Dale Bredesen, MD, offers real hope to anyone looking to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer's Disease and cognitive decline. Revealing that AD is not one condition, as it is currently treated, but three, this outlines 36 metabolic factors (micronutrients, hormone levels, sleep) that can trigger "downsizing" in the brain. The protocol shows us how to rebalance these factors using lifestyle modifications like taking B12,...

4) Still Alice

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Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.

5) The Alzheimer's project: momentum in science

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Hoffman, John

6) The Alzheimer's answer book: professional answers to more than 250 questions about Alzheimer's and dementia

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Is Alzheimer's disease hereditary? Are there memory exercises I should be doing now? Is all dementia Alzheimer's, or are there other forms? How do I make time for both my parent with Alzheimer's and my children? How long can someone live with this disease?

All caregivers and families touched by Alzheimer's and dementia face a seemingly overwhelming number of emotional decisions. The Alzheimer's Answer Book

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7) All gone: a memoir of my mother's dementia : with refreshments

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Witchel, Alex

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Just past seventy, Alex Witchel's smart, adoring, ultracapable mother began to exhibit signs of dementia. Her smart, adoring, ultracapable daughter reacted as she'd been raised: If something was broken, they would fix it. But medical reality undid that hope, and her mother continued to disappear in plain sight. So Witchel retreated to the kitchen, trying to reclaim her mother by cooking the comforting foods of her childhood.

8) Chicken soup for the soul: living with Alzheimer's & other dementias : 101 stories of caregiving, coping, and compassion

9) Slow dancing with a stranger: lost and found in the age of Alzheimer's

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Comer, Meryl

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A broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer's advocate shares her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease, examining this devastating condition and its effects on the people who have it and those who care for them.

10) Power foods for the brain: an effective 3-step plan to protect your mind and strengthen your memory

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Barnard, Neal D

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Could that glass of milk affect your memory? Is that aluminum can increasing your risk for Alzheimer's disease? Can a banana be a brain booster? Everyone knows that good nutrition supports your overall health, but did you know that certain foods can protect your brain and optimize its function? In this book the author has gathered research and studies to deliver a program that can boost brain health, reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease, stroke,...

11) What if it's not Alzheimer's?: a caregiver's guide to dementia

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"Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer's disease, the medical profession now distinguishes various types of "other" dementias. This book is the first and only comprehensive guide dealing with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), one of the largest groups of non-Alzheimer's dementias. The contributors are either specialists in their fields or have exceptional hands-on experience with FTD sufferers. Beginning with a focus on...

12) The story of forgetting: a novel

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Block, Stefan Merrill

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Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family's farm in the encroaching shadow of the Dallas suburbs, adrift in recollections of those he loved and lost long ago. As a young man, he believed himself to be "the one person too many"; now he is all that remains. Hundreds of miles to the south, in Austin, Seth Waller is a teenage "Master of Nothingness"-a prime specimen of that gangly, pimple-rashed, too-smart breed of adolescent...

13) The emotional journey of the Alzheimer's family

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Santulli, Robert B

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An empathic discussion of the emotional journey of family and friends who care for people with dementia.

14) AARP Loving Someone Who Has Dementia: How to Find Hope while Coping with Stress and Grief

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Boss, Pauline

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AARP Digital Editions offer you practical tips, proven solutions, and expert guidance. In Loving Someone Who Has Dementia, Pauline Boss provides research-based advice for people who care for someone with dementia.

Nearly half of U.S. citizens over the age of 85 are suffering from some kind of dementia and require care. Loving Someone Who Has Dementia is a new kind of caregiving book. It's not about the usual techniques, but about

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15) Brain food: the surprising science of eating for cognitive power

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Mosconi, Lisa

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"How to eat for maximum brain power and health from an expert in both neuroscience and nutrition. Like our bodies, our brains have very specific food requirements. And in this eye-opening book from an author who is both a neuroscientist and a certified integrative nutritionist, we learn what should be on our menu. Dr. Lisa Mosconi, whose research spans an extraordinary range of specialties including brain science, the microbiome, and nutritional genomics,...

16) Genius foods: become smarter, happier, and more productive while protecting your brain for life

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Lugavere, Max

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Genius Living

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"Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat, change the way you think about how your brain ages, and achieve optimal brain performance with this powerful new guide from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere. After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere put his successful media career on hold to learn everything he could about the workings of the human brain and his mother's...

17) Brain maker: the power of gut microbes to heal and protect your brain--for life

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Perlmutter, David

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"Perlmutter explains the potent interplay between intestinal microbes and the brain, describing how the microbiome develops from birth and evolves based on lifestyle choices, how it can become 'sick,' and how nurturing gut health through a few easy strategies can alter your brain's destiny for the better. With ... dietary recommendations and a ... program of six steps to improving gut ecology, [this book] opens the door to ... brain health potential"--Amazon.com....

18) The brain's way of healing: remarkable discoveries and recoveries from the frontiers of neuroplasticity

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Doidge, Norman

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" The New York Times bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience-what we call neuroplasticity. His revolutionary new...

19) Diet for the mind: the latest science on what to eat to prevent Alzheimer's and cognitive decline-- from the creator of the MIND diet

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Morris, Martha Clare

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Looks at the role that diet plays in brain health and the prevention of cognitive decline and offers a diet designed to ensure that the brain gets the nutrients it needs to function at its best, along with eighty recipes full of brain nutrients.

20) The organized mind: thinking straight in the age of information overload

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Levitin, Daniel J

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Daniel J. Levitin, Ph.D., uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how people with "organized" minds excel--and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and lives.