The Healthy Aging Brain: Sustaining Attachment, Attaining Wisdom
A neuroscientifically based account of how our brains age and change over time.\ 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 common ailments of aging?\ What would happen if we stopped thinking of ourselves as aging and in decline,\ and instead started thinking of ourselves as chronologically advantaged?\ More effective than age-defying creams...
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A neuroscientifically based account of how our brains age and change over time.
Introduction 1Pt. I Building the Social Brain1 The Brain As a Social Organ 132 Creating Attachment 353 Sustaining the Social Brain: A New Look 51Pt. II The Social Brain Across the Life Span4 Current Theories of the Aging Brain 675 Growth and Adaptation 866 Hemispheres and Hormones 104Pt. III Attachment and Wisdom7 The Emergence of Wisdom 1278 The Maturation of Emotion 1489 Challenges to Wisdom 16710 Stories as Nurturance 185Pt. IV Body and Soul11 Nurturing Your Body 20512 Nurturing Your Relationships 22313 Grandparenting 24414 Optimal Challenge and Maximum Inclusion 263Appendix 1 52 Ways to Avoid Hardening of the Categories: A Program of Personal Experiments 287Appendix 2 Suggested Readings 291Credits 299References 303Index 311
\ ShiftWeaving tales of his own psychology practice with plenty of science and specific exercises for keeping one’s brain pliant, Cozolino has moved the discourse on aging several leaps forward.\ \ \ \ \ The ScientistI highly recommend reading The Healthy Aging Brain. This book, reassures readers that mental deterioration need not accompany growing old, and to that end, Cozolino even provides an appendix listing 52 different activities to keep older brains vibrant.\ \ \ Journal of Analytical PsychologyCozolino's breadth of knowledge, warmth and compassion, and capacity to seize on the appropriate nuggets from the wealth of research in the field of neurobiology shine through.\ \ \ \ \ Journal of Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryThis is the third book by Louis Cozolino that I have had the privilege to read and review. Each is golden in its own way….and I would recommend this book as well; not only to understand the brain and how it functions, but also because of the wisdom contained in it.\ \ \ \ \ Adaptation and Aging Activities[E]xtremely well-written and communicates complex topics in a very understandable and entertaining manner. . . . [A] very useful reference resource for helping to educate aging adults and possibly their caregivers on cognitive changes, cognitive plasticity, and associated social functioning in later life.\ \
