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    Brain Beat
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    491_9781682133194
    Brain Beat: A Scientific and Evolutionary Perspective of Brain Healthexamines the origins of the pillars of brain health, expounding thecurrent scientific basis for recommending physical exercise, cognitiveexercises, sleep hygiene, socialization and brain-foods. However inaddition to the how question, the more important why question isaddressed from a neuro-archeological and evolutionary standpoint. Theclinical and laboratory brain sciences are replete with ever increasingnumbers of publications about brain plasticity and the powerful aspectsof preventative medicine. Once dismissed as non-existent, we now knowthat brain plasticity and brain building occurs on a daily basis. Whydid physical exercise evolve to produce new brain cells and connectionsand how and why did we become born runners and become wired to run?Why an important function of sleep is the pruning the brainsconnections made during the day and why are diverse diets associatedwith good health in differing traditional human societies? Why issocialization protective against dementia and cardiovascular disease?New scientific, evolutionary and anthropological research is presentedon how these processes were ingrained into our brain circuitry andlinked to appropriate reward mechanisms, some of which have resulted inmismatch diseases today. Disparate disciplines such as geology,climatology and astrophysics give insights as to how our body, brain andmind were forged by fire and ice. With a better understanding of howwe evolved, comes improved adherence and compliance to healthy livingproclivities. In this clearly written book Dr. Michael Hoffman, anoutstanding behavioral neurologist, describes the evolution of the humanbrain. This knowledge of evolution allows the reader to betterunderstand the brains function, as well as the means by which we olderpeople can help preserve this penultimate gift of nature. Kenneth M.Heilman MD, FAAN The James E. Rooks Jr. Distinguish
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