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The Brain Health Book: Using the Power of Neuroscience to Improve Your Life by John Randolph
czarina_misha's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting read. Designed for reader to focus on 1 or 2 areas of main interest rather than read cover to cover. I recommend reading the last chapter (neuroscience of habits) for anyone looking to make any lifestyle change.
terraineel's review against another edition
3.0
3.5/5 stars
This book basically told me that I'm going to lose my cognitive ability by 50 and that the lockdown is going to singlehandedly cause my brain to lose its executive function by age 30.
All jokes aside, I guess it was a good wakeup call to get my health together. The author writes in a really accessible way and there's a helpful summary and questionnaire to help you apply the research in the novel. None of the messages are particularly groundbreaking- exercise more, eat more healthy, get enough sleep, interact with people more, don't smoke or get diabetes etc. But it was nice for someone to tell me to get my act together. It's cool to see how our everyday actions and lifestyle choices affect our memory and verbal reasoning. It was also obvious that I wasn't the target demographic of middle aged person with deteriorating mental ability so a lot of the anecdotes weren't particularly relatable (actually they all sounded like my dad so maybe I'll get him to read it)
Would recommend
This book basically told me that I'm going to lose my cognitive ability by 50 and that the lockdown is going to singlehandedly cause my brain to lose its executive function by age 30.
All jokes aside, I guess it was a good wakeup call to get my health together. The author writes in a really accessible way and there's a helpful summary and questionnaire to help you apply the research in the novel. None of the messages are particularly groundbreaking- exercise more, eat more healthy, get enough sleep, interact with people more, don't smoke or get diabetes etc. But it was nice for someone to tell me to get my act together. It's cool to see how our everyday actions and lifestyle choices affect our memory and verbal reasoning. It was also obvious that I wasn't the target demographic of middle aged person with deteriorating mental ability so a lot of the anecdotes weren't particularly relatable (actually they all sounded like my dad so maybe I'll get him to read it)
Would recommend
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