Your Memory: Use It or Lose It: The Use of Mnemonic Exercises in the Fight Against alzheimer's
Author: John David Merwin
USE IT OR LOSE IT
This little volume has been designed as a self-help tool for anyone intent on improving his or her memory skills. While it is an accepted fact that physical exercise is an essential element in maintaining a healthy body, there is seldom, if ever, a suggestion that regular brain exercises might play an important role in improving memory or in restoring a healthy brain. The author draws upon his personal experience and the extensive study of memory phenomena over a span of half a century in selecting and presenting a series of exercises, which, if conscientiously followed, can achieve meaningful results. Recent clinical studies at London's University College and at the Albert Einstein Hospital in the Bronx, New York, confirm that Alzheimer's patients who are beginning to forget names can learn to remember. After just one month of training several of the patients showed considerable improvement. Many of the feats of memory, which are recommended in the later chapters of this volume, are beyond the comprehension of the uninitiated and are often referred to as miracles. They are, in fact, nothing more than the achievements of anyone who is truly determined to succeed in improving and/or restoringhis or her memory.Should the mnemonic exercises described and recommendedherein also prove helpful in improving the mental condition of persons in the early stages of Alzheimer's the author's fondest hopes will surely be realized.
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Children With Cancer The Quality of Life
Author: Christine Eiser
"Physicians and families have become aware that cancer has huge implications for the quality of the child's life. Children with Cancer: The Quality of Life is an attempt to describe how quality of life is affected at different stages of the disease process. Comprehensive reviews are provided of the impact on the child's physical activity, social life, and school and educational achievements. Special consideration is given to children with leukemia (one of the more common cancers) and brain tumors." Cancer not only affects the child but every member of the family. Consequently, there is coverage of cancer's effects on parents and on healthy brothers and sisters. To the extent that improvements in survival have been achieved by national and international collaboration between clinicans, it is concluded that efforts to improve the quality of these children's lives is dependent on collaboration between clinicians, nurses, and behavioral scientists at national and international levels. This book provides an impetus for such collaboration.
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