Keep Your Brain Young or Sober and Free

Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity

Author: Guy M McKhann

Using the latest knowledge on how the brain ages to help us feel younger and healthier

In Keep Your Brain Young, two of the world's most prominent brain doctors explain all of the normal changes that can affect the brain as we age. While showing what we can do to minimize these changes and how to boost mental and physical functioning through our post-forty years. Soundly based on the authors' own breakthrough research, this pathbreaking guide discusses the latest techniques for maintaining memory, managing stress, and coping with age-related sleep disorders. The authors include prescriptive exercises that can be put into action right away. Keep Your Brain Young has been featured on the Today show, in Time magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.

Guy McKhann, MD (Baltimore, MD), is Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Director of the school's Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. Marilyn Albert, PhD (Boston, MA), is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She is Director of the Gerontology Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and of the Harvard-Mahoney Neuroscience Institute at Harvard Medical School.

Publishers Weekly

McKhann, a professor of neurology at John Hopkins, has coauthored this manual on the workings of the brain with his wife, Albert, director of gerontology research at Massachusetts General Hospital. Although the writing is dry, there is excellent information here for the aging adult. The authors acknowledge that growing older quite naturally involves some physical changes in the brain. They present the most effective ways, based on scientific research and case histories, to minimize these changes and their impact on everyday life. Strategies are offered to improve memory, such as doing mental exercises and maintaining a regular exercise program. For the disease-free older adult, the authors recommend a well-balanced diet and getting an adequate amount of sleep. They stress the importance of recognizing and seeking medical assistance for depression, hearing or vision loss and urinary and sexual problems. McKhann and Albert also deal extensively with a variety of brain disorders including tumors, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's, and detail the latest medical treatments and drugs that may ameliorate some of these conditions. (May) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Sober and Free: Making Your Recovery Work for You

Author: Guy Kettelhack

Achieving sobriety is a cause for celebration, but maintaining sobriety presents a new set of challenges. And while traditional methods work for many people, for others they simple do not. The voices presented here offer you new, and sometimes unusual, perspectives on how to maintain sobriety. From managing slips and relapses to relearning how to create significant relationships, Sober and Free stresses the importance of finding the way of maintaining sobriety that works best for your personality and lifestyle.

Library Journal

Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs have helped thousands recover from addictive behaviors. Yet these programs do not work for everyone. These two titles offer other choices. Moderate Drinking is the official handbook of Moderation Management (MM), a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 by Kishline for problem drinkers who want to cut back. This approach, although highly controversial in America, has already been successfully implemented abroad and is making strides in this country. Kishline skillfully argues against using the disease model for alcoholism and outlines her philosophy and goals. She carefully and specifically details who should not try her methods. Overall, this is a helpful book. Still other alternatives to conventional treatments are described in Sober and Free. Kettelhack, a gay recovering alcoholic and author of several works, including First Year Sobriety (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992), uses individual case histories to illustrate his argument that recovery is possible by many methods. According to the author, each person must find the way that works best for him/her. Moderate Drinking should be purchased by all public and alcohol studies libraries. If space and budgets permit, Sober and Free should also be included. Together, these books help balance the plethora of works on abstinence and conventional treatments.January Adams, Franklin Twp. P.L., Franklinville, N.J.