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Travelers to unimaginable lands : stories of dementia, the caregiver, and the human brain / by Kiper, Dasha,author.; Doidge, Norman,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."These compelling case histories meld science and storytelling to illuminate the complex relationship between the mind of someone with dementia and the mind of the person caring for them. After getting a master's degree in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper became the live-in caregiver for a Holocaust survivor with Alzheimer's disease. For a year, she endured the emotional strain of looking after a person whose condition disrupts the rules of time, order, and continuity. Inspired by her own experience and her work counseling caregivers in the subsequent decade, Kiper offers an entirely new way to understand the symbiotic relationship between patients and those tending to them. Her book is the first to examine how the workings of the "healthy" brain prevent us from adapting to and truly understanding the cognitively impaired one. In these poignant but unsentimental stories of parents and children, husbands and wives, Kiper explores the existential dilemmas created by this disease: A man believes his wife is an impostor. A woman's imaginary friendships drive a wedge between herself and her devoted husband. Another woman's childhood trauma emerges to torment her son. A man's sudden Catholic piety provokes his wife. Why is taking care of a family member with dementia so difficult? Why do caregivers succumb to behaviors--arguing, blaming, insisting, taking symptoms personally--they know are counterproductive? Exploring the healthy brain's intuitions and proclivities, Travelers to Unimaginable Lands reveals the neurological obstacles to caregiving, enumerating not only the terrible pressures the disease exerts on our closest relationships but offering solace and perspective as well."--
Subjects: Case studies.; Informational works.; Alzheimer's disease.; Brain; Caregivers.; Dementia; Dementia.; Memory disorders.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The singularity is nearer : when we merge with Al / by Kurzweil, Ray,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This successor volume to The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come. In this entirely new book, Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity -- assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of human potential. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by expanding biological capacity with nonbiological intelligence in the cloud; how life is improving with declines in poverty and violence; and the growth of technologies that can be applied to everything from clothes to building materials to growing human organs. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics as how AI will impact unemployment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which will reanimate people who have passed away through a combination of data and DNA"--
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Brain; Genetics.; Human evolution.; Nanotechnology.; Robotics.; Technology;
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The mindspan diet : reduce Alzheimer's risk, minimize memory loss, and keep your brain young / by Estep, Preston W.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The neuroscientist who lost her mind : my tale of madness and recovery / by Lipska, Barbara K.,author.; McArdle, Elaine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness--only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettablelessons about the brain and mind.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Lipska, Barbara K.; Brain metastasis; Melanoma; Neuroscientists;
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Memory activity book : engaging ways to stimulate the brain, for people living with memory loss or dementia / by Lambert, Helen,author.; American Association of Retired Persons,issuing body.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Creative activities and seat work.; Brain; Memory.;
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We bought a zoo / by Mee, Benjamin.;
Subjects: Mee, Benjamin.; Mee Family.; Dartmoor Wildlife Park.; Brain; Zoo directors; Zoos;
© c2008., Doubleday Canada,
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Love yourself well : an empowering wellness guide to supporting your gut, brain & vagina / by Bosworth, Lo,1986-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A frank and accessible guide to optimizing women's health by Lo Bosworth--the CEO and founder of Love Wellness--tracing the interconnectivity of the gut, brain, and vagina, and providing natural solutions to intimate problems."--Publisher marketing.
Subjects: Bosworth, Lo, 1986-; Self-care, Health.; Women;
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Left neglected [sound recording] / by Genova, Lisa.; Paulson, Sarah,1974-;
Read by Sarah Paulson.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Audiobooks.; Brain; Life change events; Self-realization in women;
© p2011., Simon & Schuster Audio,
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The body keeps the score : brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma / by Van der Kolk, Bessel A.,1943-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Reversing Alzheimer's : the new toolkit to improve cognition and protect brain health / by Sandison, Heather,author.; Bredesen, Dale E.,writer of foreword.; Hanley, Kate,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.One of the foremost Alzheimer's dementia-care clinicians presents an individualized, step-by-step, whole-body, evidence-based approach to reversing and preventing cognitive decline, aiming to help people with dementia return to themselves and help those who are living in fear of developing dementia take good care of their current and future brain health.
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimer's disease; Memory disorders;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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