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The Memory Prescription: Dr. Gary Small's 14-Day Plan to Keep Your Brain and Body Young

Gary Small, Gigi Vorgan

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Director of the UCLA Center on Aging, Small (The Memory Bible) presents his "boot camp for the brain" program, which pulls together the four most well-proven strategies for brain and body health: mental activity, physical conditioning, stress reduction and a "healthy brain diet." Small admits no one has found "the fountain of youth," but claims to be "among the billions awaiting a first sighting." In the meantime, he suggests using this book's memory assessment tests, basic low-fat meal plans and brain-teasing exercises to achieve "quality longevity." He peppers his chapters with a "subjective memory questionnaire," "right brain" and "left brain" exercises and advanced memory drills that suggest assigning visual images to words and names (e.g., "Weinberger: a bottle of wine falling on a burger"). Employing a chatty writing style that occasionally lapses into infomercial-speak ("But wait, there's more!"), Small manages to intersperse authoritative scientific evidence from leading research universities throughout the text.

But much of the information here can be found in a variety of other fitness and lifestyle books, such as relaxation and stress reduction techniques, healthy diet and exercise plans, and examples of the power of positive thinking and keeping mentally active.

Small pays scant attention to popular (if unproven) memory-boosting rejuvenators like hormone replacement therapy and ginkgo biloba.

Small's reporting on memory research may be up to the minute, but overall his book feels padded and unoriginal.
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The nation's preeminent memory expert, Gary Small, M.D., director of the UCLA Center on Aging, is at the forefront of the brain fitness movement.

Dr. Small leads a major international memory loss research team, which is sponsored by the National Institute of Aging.

He speaks around the world on memory loss and has appeared on 20/20, Good Morning America, and the Today show -- and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, and USA Today.

He lives in Los Angeles.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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The Memory Prescription: Dr. Gary Small's 14-Day Plan to Keep Your Brain and Body Young
Gary Small, Gigi Vorgan
 Pierre Tariot, M.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine
"Worried about your brain? Don't be. The answers are finally all in one place -- this practical, light-hearted, and reassuring manual."--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
 Alan Gelenberg, M.D., University of Arizona College of Medicine
"Dr. Small's 14-Day "Boot Camp for the Brain" is an easy way to safeguard your brain and body against aging."--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
 Stephen Salloway, M.D., Brown University Medical School
"I guarantee readers of The Memory Prescription will have more confidence in their memory and an increased sense of well-being."--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.



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