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LIVING WITH AN AGING BRAINA SELF-HELP GUIDE FOR YOUR SENIOR YEARS Robert Werman, M.D. Grow old along with me / The best is yet to be, wrote Robert Browning in his poem “Rabbi Ben Ezra”. Those of us approaching, or already inhabiting, this unknown land might not entirely agree, but in this inspiring volume by Dr Werman, we are shown how to make the most of old age, especially as regards our brains and how to use them to lead fulfilling lives. The book is packed with useful scientific facts on aging and how to differentiate between the symptoms of merely the “wear and tear” of our bodies and brains, and real disease. It is aimed at members of the general public, and contains fascinating real-life examples, some of them from Dr Werman’s own practice as a neurologist and his life experience. Published by Freund Publishing House Ltd. © 2003 Hardcover, 199 pages Price: $25.00 including airmail delivery ISBN 965-294-141-7
CONTENTS Chapter 1 Are You Losing Your Brain? Chapter 2 Discovering Our Aging Brains Chapter 3 Fighting Senility With Mental Flexibility Chapter 4 Overcoming the Deficits of the Aging Brain Chapter 5 The Advantages of an Active Mind Chapter 6 Insomnia and the Aging Brain Chapter 7 The Sense of Time and Biological Clocks in Aging Chapter 8 The Body and the Aging Brain Chapter 9 Depression and the Aging Brain Chapter 10 Substances: Food, Alcohol, Medicines and Drugs Chapter 11 The Talking Treatment Prevents Losing More of Your Brain Chapter 12 Prelude to the Rest of Your Life Appendices
About the Author Robert Werman, M.D. finished medical school in 1952. He trained for three years in neurology at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City, with an additional two years as a neurologist and psychiatrist in the U.S. Navy. He began postdoctoral work in the properties of single nerve cells and was appointed assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical School. After a year’s research in Cambridge, England, he was appointed Research Professor of Psychiatry at Indiana University. He also served as professor of anatomy and physiology at Indiana University. Dr Werman moved to Israel in 1967 as professor of neurophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has more than 200 publications related to the nervous system. In the years 1964-1967, Dr Werman led the team that discovered the first new central nervous system transmitter, a simple chemical called glycine, active as a short-term inhibitory transmitter in the spinal cord. This ground-breaking work opened the way to the discovery of a host of other chemical messengers in the central nervous system, particularly in the brain. GABA, a related compound, accounts for most of the short-term inhibition in the brain. Link to the author's website: http://lobster.ls.huji.ac.il/~rwerman/ Book reviews: The Jerusalem Post
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