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Making a good brain great, the amen clinic program for achieving and sustaining optimal mental performance, Daniel G. Amen

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-297) and index

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index present

non fiction

Making a good brain great

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Daniel G. Amen

the amen clinic program for achieving and sustaining optimal mental performance

Introduction making a good brain great -- Pt. 1. brain centered principles to change your life -- Your brain is involved in everything you do -- When your brain works right, you work right; -- When your brain is troubled, you have trouble in your life -- Your brain is the most complex organ in the universe -- Your brain is very soft, housed in a very hard skull (injuries can change your -- Life, and no one knows about it!) -- Know and heal the brain systems that run your life: -- Amen clinic brain system quiz -- One size does not fit everyone: most problems (such as add, anxiety and -- Depression) are not single or simple disorders -- How do you know unless you look? -- New knowledge from imaging -- Yes you can, change your brain and change your life! -- The myth of the perfect brain: we all need a little help -- Pt. 2. The amen clinic program for making a good brain great -- Protect your brain -- Eat right to think right: food as brain medicine -- Brain workouts: keeping the brain young through mental exercise -- Exercise for your brain -- Coordinate your brain -- Brain sex -- Improving reality: brain's role in perception -- Serenade the brain: musical interventions -- Soothing the brain: calming the stress that kills cells -- Keeping the brain young: preventing problems of aging -- Supercharging neurons: brain specific supplements -- When to get help for your brain -- Fifteen days to making a good brain great -- Appendix: why spect: common questions about brain imaging -- Glossary -- References and further reading