Synopses & Reviews
Today, we know beyond any doubt that the brain plays a crucial role in our everyday health, and, indeed, makes us who we are. But the Internet, television, and newspapers abound in contradictory information about it, and, as a result, the insights we wish for and the medical choices we need to make are rarely as clear as they need to be -- especially when a family member's well-being is at stake. For decades The Dana Foundation, a philanthropic organization founded in 1950 dedicated to science, health, and education, has focused its medical initiatives on brain research. The culmination of that relentless commitment is now all here in this complete health guide to the brain. The editors -- Floyd E. Bloom, M.D.; M. Flint Beal, M.D.; and David J. Kupfer, M.D. -- are three of the world's leading medical experts in neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry. Together with more than one hundred of America's most distinguished scientists and medical professionals, they have created an essential, easy-to-understand, and practical reference guide to the brain and how it works.
The Dana Guide to Brain Health is a resource that today's health consumer can trust, or what Foundation chairman William Safire calls "a kind of basic 'bible' of the brain."
The first truly accessible all-in-one source of its kind, this illustrated home reference features the latest facts and medical discoveries, combined with clear, up-to-date information on seventy-two psychiatric and neurological disorders, their diagnoses, and their treatments.
Filled with informative diagrams, tables, sidebars, graphs, charts, photographs, and drawings, along with a section listing every major consumer advocacy/information organization, related to brain disorders, The Dana Guide to Brain Health sets a new standard. In its pages readers will discover:
and#149; The crucial steps for taking care of our brains
and#149; The intimate connection between brain health and body health
and#149; How the brain develops from the prenatal period and childhood through adolescence and adulthood
and#149; How the brain regulates breathing and blood flow
and#149; How we learn, remember, and imagine
The Dana Guide to Brain Health is simply the most authoritative, comprehensive, and clearly written guide to the bodily organ that is the key to our everyday health. No home should be without it.
Synopsis
Developed by the world's leading experts, this authoritative home reference explores the amazing diversity of jobs the brain does, from regulating the body to supporting emotions. Diagrams, charts, drawings & sidebars. of full-color photos.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-671) and index.
About the Author
FLOYD E. BLOOM, M.D., is Chairman of the Department of Neuropharmacology at The Scripps Research Institute in California, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and former editor in chief of the journal Science. He lives in San Diego.
Table of Contents
1.How to think about the brain --2.How we know : learning the secrets of the brain --3.Basic brain care : protecting your mental capital --4. Thebrain-body loop --5.Prenatal development --6.Brain development in childhood --7. Theadolescent brain --8. Thebrain in adult life and normal aging --9. Thebody manager --10.Emotions and social function --11.Learning, thinking, and remembering --12.Conditions that appear in childhood --13.Disorders of the senses and body function --14.Emotional and control disorders --15.Infectious and autoimmune disorders --16.Disorders of movement and muscles --17.Pain --18.Nervous system injuries --19.Disorders of thinking and remembering.