The Healthy Aging Brain: Sustaining Attachment, Attaining Wisdom

by Louis Cozolino

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393705137
• ISBN13: 9780393705133
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

The Healthy Aging Brain

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!

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

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

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

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.