Making a Good Brain Great : : the Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance

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Introduction: making a good brain great -- Pt. 1.nine 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 complicated 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: making love is good for your brain -- Improving reality: the 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 -- Getting more help: knowing when and how to do it -- Fifteen days to a better brain -- Appendix: why spect: what spect imaging can tell clinicians and patients that they cannot obtain elsewhere -- Glossary -- References and further reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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