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

by Majid Fotuhi, Christina Breda Antoniades

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062199294
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/02/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Majid Fotuhi, M.D., Ph.D., received his MD cum laude from Harvard Medical School as a member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and his doctoral PhD degree in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is an adjunct professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins’s Mind/Brain Institute, an adjunct professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at George Washington University, and is the medical director of NeuroGrow Brain Fitness Center. Dr. Fotuhi has been interviewed by more than 50 national and international media outlets including ABC News, CNN, CBS, The TODAY Show, Fox News, Discovery Channel, USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, TIMES Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Times (London), and International Business Times. His groundbreaking, proprietary research has been published in The Lancet, Nature, Neurology, Neuron, Proceedings of National Academy of Science, the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease, Journal of Rehabilitation, and Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Reports, among others. 

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Part I The Power Within You 1

Introduction 3

Chapter 1 Your Marvelous Mind: A Growing Machine 11

Chapter 2 How to Grow a Brain 25

Chapter 3 Creating Your Twelve-Week Plan 39

Part II Brain Boosters 61

Chapter 4 The Fit-Brain Workout 63

Chapter 5 Your Recipe for a Bigger Brain 75

Chapter 6 The Path to a Calmer, Sharper Brain 95

Chapter 7 Building Brain "Muscles" 111

Part III Your Plan in Action 135

Chapter 8 Ready, Set, Go 137

Part IV Brain Shrinkers You Should Live Without 167

Chapter 9 Shrinking the Brain One Night at a Time 171

Chapter 10 How Stress or Depression May Be Shrinking Your Brain 183

Chapter 11 Bigger Belly, Smaller Brain 197

Chapter 12 Brain Attacks, Large and Small 209

Chapter 13 The Battered Brain 219

Chapter 14 Washing Away Your Brain's Neighborhoods and Highways 233

Part V On the Horizon 239

Chapter 15 Is It Alzheimer's? 241

Chapter 16 Back to the Future 253

Acknowledgments 263

Notes 265

Index 285

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Fotuhi has summarized the latest discoveries which show how we can grow our brain bigger and stronger through simple lifestyle changes.” — Mehmet Oz, M.D., professor and vice chair of surgery, New York Presbyterian/Columbia

Want to grow a bigger brain, improve your memory, and save your brain from premature aging? Read this book and follow Fotuhi’s advice. I do! — Jean Carper, bestselling author of Stop Aging Now!, Your Miracle Brain, and 100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's

Emerging evidence suggests that brain health and performance can be enhanced by specific lifestyle choices. In this book, Dr. Fotuhi translates the latest scientific literature into simple layman’s terms and offers up actionable plans. If you want to think more clearly and effectively, this is the book for you. — Barbara S. Slusher, Ph.D., Director, Brain Science Institute NeuroTranslational Program, Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

“In Boost Your Brain, Dr. Fotuhi brings his twelve-week brain fitness program-a sort of boot camp for the brain-to readers; translating into plain English the groundbreaking discoveries that allow you to make your brain years, or decades, younger, and tap into the potential of your amazing brain.” — MICHAEL F. ROIZEN, M.D., (from the Foreword) author of RealAge and coauthor of YOU: The Owner's Manual

Boost Your Brain is a phenomenal book that teaches readers how to improve their brain health and memory. Being a two-time USA Memory Champion, and having boosted my brain to champion status, I can say that Dr. Fotuhi touches on all the important keys to developing a powerful brain. — Nelson Dellis, two-time USA Memory Champion

For twenty-five years, I have marveled at Majid Fotuhi’s ability to speak to every type of audience. We can have no better guide to the rapidly evolving fields of cognition and memory, as well as the actions that each of us can take to maximize brain function. — Carl Rosow, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Harvard Medical School

From the Publisher

Dr. Fotuhi has summarized the latest discoveries which show how we can grow our brain bigger and stronger through simple lifestyle changes.

Mehmet Oz

Want to grow a bigger brain, improve your memory, and save your brain from premature aging? Read this book and follow Fotuhi’s advice. I do!

Jean Carper

Boost Your Brain is a phenomenal book that teaches readers how to improve their brain health and memory. Being a two-time USA Memory Champion, and having boosted my brain to champion status, I can say that Dr. Fotuhi touches on all the important keys to developing a powerful brain.

Nelson Dellis

Boost Your Brain is a phenomenal book that teaches readers how to improve their brain health and memory. Being a two-time USA Memory Champion, and having boosted my brain to champion status, I can say that Dr. Fotuhi touches on all the important keys to developing a powerful brain.

NELSON DELLIS

For twenty-five years, I have marveled at Majid Fotuhi’s ability to speak to every type of audience. We can have no better guide to the rapidly evolving fields of cognition and memory, as well as the actions that each of us can take to maximize brain function.

Carl Rosow

Emerging evidence suggests that brain health and performance can be enhanced by specific lifestyle choices. In this book, Dr. Fotuhi translates the latest scientific literature into simple layman’s terms and offers up actionable plans. If you want to think more clearly and effectively, this is the book for you.

Barbara S. Slusher

In Boost Your Brain, Dr. Fotuhi brings his twelve-week brain fitness program-a sort of boot camp for the brain-to readers; translating into plain English the groundbreaking discoveries that allow you to make your brain years, or decades, younger, and tap into the potential of your amazing brain.

MICHAEL F. ROIZEN