Our Aging Brain Changing and Growing

By Harold W. Nash

As you read Our Aging Brain: Changing and Growing, you will begin to understand how a healthy brain functions as we use it every moment of the day. Among the topics discussed are myths or misconceptions, aging hypotheses, important concepts, cell-to-cell message sending, changes which occur as we age, brain disorders and strokes, neurotransmitters, and how to keep your brain healthy. Supporting those topics are diagrams, pertinent vocabulary, and a bibliography.The book is written for people ages forty-five and above. This age group experiences many of the changes in the brain which are described throughout the book. Much brain we search has been released during the 1990s, the Decade of the Brain, Our Aging Brain: Changing and Growing shares same of that information. Many reviewers and readers have said that anyone interested in the brain will enjoy the book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966616200
• ISBN13: 9780966616200
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Ontarolina Pub Co
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Informative, accessible, reader friendly.

In Our Aging Brain: Changing And Growing, Harold Nash describes how a health brain functions through every moment of the day. Nash dispels myths and misconceptions as he surveys aging hypotheses, key concepts, cell-to-cell message transmission, brain disorders and strokes, neurotransmitters, the changes that occur in the human brain as we age, as well as how to keep the brain healthy. Highly recommended for the non-specialist general reader, Nash's informative, accessible text is enhanced with diagrams, glossary, and a bibliography for further study.