Executive Brain Vitality
Achieving Optimal Brain Health and Maintenance: A Practical Manual
- 1st Edition - June 22, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Michael Hoffmann
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 8 3 9 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 8 4 0 - 0
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Request a sales quoteExecutive Brain Vitality: Achieving Optimal Brain Health and Maintenance presents research on the effect of brain exercise as a preventative measure for neurodegenerative diseases and other conditions. This volume examines the neurological impact of such exercises from research to clinical application, offering up-to-date research and practical steps. The current book will be of interest to researchers in neurodegeneration and chronic disease as well as practitioners and clinicians interested in the preventative approach in medicine.
- Discusses how to maintain and improve brain health
- Includes how to mitigate chronic diseases
- Provides practices for brain health and fitness
- Suggests preventative exercises for neurodegenerative conditions
Neuroscientists, clinicians working with brain health
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the authors
- Preface
- Notice
- 1. Why is this important? Collateral effects at personal, environmental, and national levels
- What this book is about
- Why is this important?
- 2. How to accomplish brain fitness: The five brain rules
- Overview of the five brain fitness rules (Fig. 2.1)
- 2.1. Physical exercise
- 2.2. Sleep health
- 2.3. Nutrition/brain foods
- 2.4. Cognitive exercises
- 2.5. Socialization
- 3. The evolutionary origins and purpose of brain fitness
- 3.1. Physical exercise
- 3.2. Evolutionary perspective regarding the complex nature of sleep regulation
- 3.3. Brain foods
- 3.4. Cognitive evolution insights
- 3.5. Social intelligence
- 4. Measuring success with performance metrics
- Overview
- Sleep performance metrics
- Physical exercise performance metrics
- Brain foods performance metrics
- Cognitive exercises performance metrics
- Socialization performance metrics
- A summary of the five brain fitness scores
- Overall summary of the five brain fitness scores
- Examples of two different metric evaluations
- Wearable smart technology (WST) devices
- A global metric
- 5. The brain is an electrochemical organ amenable to device therapies
- Overview
- The brain has its own inherent neuroplasticity
- Neuroarcheological insights into human neuroplasticity
- The brain has four times the neuroplasticity capability compared with muscle
- The human brain is less genetically hard wired than the chimpanzee brain and consequently is much more amenable to neuroplasticity processes
- Blazing brains
- The major modifying conditions
- Antiaging factors (senotherapeutics)
- Mitochondrial health and treatments
- Gut microbiome
- Excluding deleterious medications and neurotoxicological agents
- Neurostimulation devices and new horizons in brain disorder treatment
- Special emphasis on gamma wave therapy for neurological disorders
- Examples of superlative neuroplasticity
- Creativity in the latter part of life
- Neuroplasticity and artificial intelligence
- Medical coaching
- 6. Brain coaching is the key to success
- Coaching: Definition and importance
- Health and wellness coaching: Literary review
- Coaching: Complimentary but different
- Proposing ‘brain-health’ coaching
- Cart before the horse? Primacy of brain-health coaching
- Relationships in coaching: Socialization
- Listening: A silent healer
- Self-reflection in coaching and cognitive exercise
- Coaching duration, modality, and metrics
- Coaching standards and competencies
- Coaching resources
- Key takeaways
- 7. Executive brain health targeted at key influencers: Sustainability with the brain in mind
- Out of sight, out of mind
- Sustainability and human behavior
- Key influencers and the brain
- Caring leaders and employee engagement—We are wired to care
- Power of one influencer
- Sustainability begins at home: Cognitive fitness
- Well-being at work
- Developing key influencers: Brain health coaching
- Sustainability and executive brain health are inextricably linked
- Appendix 1 Brain fitness 100: An overall summary checklist
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 22, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 248
- No. of pages (eBook): 248
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443298394
- eBook ISBN: 9780443298400
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Michael Hoffmann
Dr. Michael Hoffmann is a Professor Neurology at the University of Central Florida, a Cognitive Neurology Consultant for Roskamp Neurosciences Research Institute and the Director of Stroke and Cognitive Neurology James Haley Veterans Hospital.
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