MEMORY PRESCRIPTION ---DR. GARY SMALL'S 14-DAY PLAN TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN AND BODY YOUNG by Gary Small with Gigi Vorgan. Hyperion, 2004
    PREFACE (pix-x)

      1) Welcome to my office (p1-15)

        [1] An ounce of prevention (p6-7)

        [2] The memory fitness movement (p7)

        [3] Protecting your brain --- never too late or too early (p8-11)

        [4] Boot camp for the brain (p11-12)

        [5] The memory prescription study (p13-14)

        [6] Refill your prescription for life (p14-15)

          Although the initial 14 days of the "Memory Prescription" program is enough time to jump-start your brain and body into new healthy habits, most people are so pleased with their initial results that they decide to stick with the program for months and years to come.

      2) Rate your current mental and physical fitness level (p16-32)

        [1] Assessing memory ability (p17-18)

        [2] Rate your subjective memory ability (p18-21)

          Subjective memory questionnaire (p18-21)

        [3] Assess your objective memory ability (p21-24)

          Objective memory assessment #1 (p22-23)

        [4] Are you stressed out? (p24-26)

          [1] Update your objective memory assessment score (p104-105)

          [2] Assessing your subjective memory ability (p105-108)

            Subjective memory questionnaire (p106-108)

          [3] Reassess your stress level (p108-110)

            Stress level questionnaire (p109-110)

          [4] Reassess your level of physical fitness (p110-111)

            Physical fitness questionnaire (p210-11)

          [5] Weighing in on Day 14 (p111)

          [6] Primed and Ready (p111-112)

              Stress level questionnaire (p25-26)

            [5] Assess your level of physical fitness (p27-28)

            [6] The memory prescription diet (p28-31)

              (1) Ideal body weights for women (p29)

              (2) Ideal body weights for men (p30-31)

            [7] Following your progress --- charting baselines for setting goals (p31-32)

          3) The 14-day memory prescription (p33-102)

            [1] A few tips before beginning (p34-35)

            [2] The 14-day plan (p35-102)

              4) Your 2-week checkup --- gauge your success (p103-112)

              5) Pump up your mental aerobics (p113-138)

              6) Advanced memory training (p139-160)

              7) Memory prescription diet --- eating for longevity (p161-189)

              8) Focus on stress reduction (p190-213)

              9) Physical fitness jump-start (p214-246)

              10) Drugs and nutrients --- myths, truths, and consequences (p247-268)

              11) Renewing your prescription --- a lifetime of quality longevity (p269-286)

            APPENDIXES (p287-346)

            BIBLIOGRAPHY (p347-354)

            PERMISSIONS AND SOURCE CREDITS (355)

            INDEX --- Brain citations in book (p357-368)

              BRAIN:

                Alcohol protecting (p176-177)

                Bingeing bad for (p162-165)

                Blowing off steam to protect (p196-197) Boot camp for (p11-12)

                Cross training (p117)

                Fats amd (p165-168)

                Front part of (p204)

                Keeping young for life (p285-286)

                Left hemisphere (p17)

                Protecting (p6, 7, 8-11)

                Right hemisphere (p17)

                Shrinks with age (p216, 217)

                Sugar for (p172-176)

              BRAIN AGING (p6-7, 8, 9)

                Aerobic conditioning and (p215)

                Chronic stress in (p190)

                Diet in (p161)

                Head injury and (p229)

                Homocysteine and (p182)

                Oxidative stress in (p169)

                Staving off (p11)

                Stress and (p195)

              BRAIN AND BODY HEALTH, STRATEGIES FOR (p11)

              BRAIN BINGEING (p164)

              BRAIN/BODY CONNECTION (p215)

              BRAIN BOOSTERS (p
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