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100 simple things you can do to prevent Alzheimer's and age-related memory loss / by Carper, Jean.(CARDINAL)517869;
Get smart about alcohol -- Consider alpha lipoic acid and alcar -- Ask questions about anesthesia -- Check out your ankle -- Don't shy away from antibiotics -- Eat antioxidant-rich food -- Know about the apoE4 gene -- Drink apple juice -- Beware of bad fats -- Keep you balance -- Eat berries every day -- Grow a bigger brain -- Control blood pressure -- Get a quick blood-sugar test -- Be a busy body -- Don't be afraid of caffeine -- Count calories -- Watch out for celiac disease -- Treat yourself to chocolate -- Contro bad cholesterol -- Eat choline-rich foods -- Go crazy for cinnamon -- Say yea to coffee -- Build "cognitive reserve" -- Be conscientious -- Keep copper and iron out of your brain -- Eat curry -- Try the dash diet -- Overcome depression -- Prevent and control diabetes -- Get the right diagnosis -- Know the early signs of alzheimer's -- Be easygoing and upbeat -- Get a higher education -- Avoid environmental toxins -- Know the estrogen evidence -- Enjoy exercise -- Be an estrovert -- Have your eyes checked -- Know the dangers of fast foods -- Yes,yes,yes- Eat fatty fish -- Take flic acid -- Eat a low-glycemic diet -- Goodle something -- Raise your good HDL cholesterol -- Guard against head injury -- Be good to your heart -- Keep homocysteine normal -- Avoid inactivity -- Try to keep infections away -- Fight inflammation -- Find good information -- Keep insulin normal -- Have an interesting job -- Drink juices of all kinds -- Learn to love language -- Avoid a leptin deficiency -- Don't be lonely -- Embrace marriage -- Know the dangers of meat -- Consider medical marijuana -- Practice meditation -- Follow the mediterranean diet -- Recognize memory problems -- Keep mentally active -- Take multivitamins -- Build strong muscles -- Take a nature hike -- Do something new -- Get enough niacin -- Think about a nictine patch -- Be cautious about NSAIDs -- Go nuts over nuts -- Worry about middle-age obesity -- Get help for obstructive sleep apnea -- Go for olive oil -- Beware of omega-6 fat -- Know your plaques and tangles -- Have apurpose in life -- Get a good night's sleep -- Forget about smoking -- Have a big social circle -- Don't forget your spinach -- Investigate statins -- Surround yourself with stimulation -- Deal with stress -- Avoid strokes -- Cut down on sugar -- Drink tea -- Take care of your teeth -- Have your thyroid checked -- Beware of being underweight -- Prevent vascular dementia -- Play video games -- Put vinegar in everything -- Get enough vitamin B -- DOn't neglect vitamin D -- Watch your waist -- Walk, walk, walk -- Make it wine, preferably red.Publisher's WeeklyPublisher's Weekly, August 2010Most people think there is little you can do to avoid Alzheimer's, but scientists now know this is not true. After best-selling author Jean Carper discovered that she had the major susceptibility gene for Alzheimer's, she was determined to find all the latest scientific evidence on how to escape it. She discovered 100 simple, scientifically-tested ways to cut the odds of Alzheimer's, memory decline, and other forms of dementia. These range from vinegar to vitamin B12, exercise to meditation, and even a few preventive actions could dramatically change your future by postponing Alzheimer's so long that you eventually outlive it.--From publisher description.AdultAdult
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Alzheimer's disease; Memory disorders in old age; Memory; Alzheimer's disease; Memory disorders in old age;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 13
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Is the algorithm plotting against us? : a layperson's guide to the concepts, math, and pitfalls of AI / by Wenger, Kenneth,1983-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.List of illustrations -- Introduction: Living with lions - - Polarization and its consequences -- Hello, Panda! -- Answering an age-old question -- Intelligent discourse -- Conclusion: From chat rooms to chatbots."Artificial intelligence is all around us. Embedded in Alexa devices and Google Home products, it operates in our houses. It enhances our phones and our cars. AI makes decisions about what shows we should watch, what articles we should read, and what items we should buy. Before long, it will be combing through our medical history and making decisions about our health care. In some parts of the world, AI is being employed in court systems and in law enforcement. Though AI is everywhere, most of us don't understand it. We hardly know what it is, let alone how it affects us. As a result, fears of self-aware machines taking over the world obscure more pressing concerns we should address about the role AI already has in our lives. In *Is the Algorithm Plotting Against Us?*, AI expert Kenneth Wenger deftly explains the complexity at the heart of artificial intelligence. He celebrates the elegance and ingenuity of AI algorithms-and you don't need a computer science degree to follow along. No mere intellectual exercise, though, Wenger exposes AI's underpinnings so we may appreciate both its sophistication and shortfalls. The growing use of AI warrants all of us to consider certain questions and assume certain responsibilities. What does an AI-driven future look like? Will self-driving cars ever surpass human performance? Should AI be allowed in courthouses? What are the implications of AI's application in advertising? Wenger empowers readers to answer these questions for themselves, an essential step we all must take at a time when AI's hold on tech, society, and our imagination is only getting stronger"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Cognitive science; Computer algorithms.; Technology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In the light of what we know / by Rahman, Zia Haider,1969-(CARDINAL)406121;
"A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. An investment banker approaching forty, his career collapsing and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London town house. Confronting the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost college friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared many years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced with a confession of unsettling power. Zia Haider Rahman takes us on a journey of exhilarating scope, ranging over Kabul, London, New York, Islamabad, Oxford, Princeton, and Sylhet, and dealing with love, belonging, finance, cognitive science, and war. Its framework is an age-old story: the friendship of two men and the betrayal of one by the other, both of them desperate in their different ways to climb clear of their wrong beginnings. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic recession, the novel chronicles the lives of people carrying unshakable legacies of class, culture, and faith as they struggle to tame their futures. In the Light of What We Know is by turns tender, intimate, and panoramic, telescoping the great upheavals of our young century into a first novel of rare ambition and profundity. "--
Subjects: Fiction.; Male friendship; Investment banking; Missing persons; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; World politics; Men's friendships.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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Defy aging : a beginner's guide to the new science of longer life and better health / by Bennett, Beth(Geneticist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Shows why and how the body deteriorates as life goes on and offers an easy-read overview of new solutions coming out of current studies of aging"--Page [4] of cover.Many books on aging focus on managing lifestyle approaches to longevity, but few explore the process of aging from the inside out. This book explains what is going on inside cells and organs that result in the outward appearances of aging and how readers can stop-and even reverse-these processes.What is aging, and why do we get old? -- The why of aging, or evolutionary explanations for why we grow old -- The how of aging -- Skin -- Muscles -- Skeleton -- Cardiovascular system -- The brain and cognitive decline -- Interventions part 1: actions you can take -- Interventions part 2: drugs and supplements you can take.
Subjects: Aging.; Older people; Older people; Aging;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A bittersweet season : caring for our aging parents-- and ourselves / by Gross, Jane.(CARDINAL)396187;
Finding our better selves -- The early heroic rush -- The myth of assisted living -- The vestiges of family medicine -- A job for professionals -- The best doctors money can buy -- September eleventh -- September twelfth -- The biology, sociology, and psychology of aging -- A nursing home Thanksgiving -- The Make-A-Wish Foundation -- Follow the money -- Therapeutic fibs -- Cruel sorting -- As complicated as a Rubik's cube -- The time for talking -- N-O-W -- Dying days -- Orphans -- Lost and found.In telling the story of caring for her own aged and ailing mother, the author, a "New York Times" journalist offers indispensable advice on virtually every aspect of elder care. Here are just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent and yourself. As painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate them. Avoid hospitals and emergency rooms, as well as multiple relocations from home to assisted living facility to nursing home, since all can cause dramatic declines in physical and cognitive well-being among the aged. Do not accept the canard that no decent child sends a parent to a nursing home. Good nursing home care, which supports the entire family, can be vastly superior to the pretty trappings but thin staffing of assisted living or the solitude of being at home, even with round-the-clock help. Every state has its own laws, eligibility standards, and licensing requirements for financial, legal, residential, and other matters that affect the elderly, including qualification for Medicare. Assume anything you understand in the state where your parents once lived no longer applies if they move. Many doctors will not accept new Medicare patients, nor are they legally required to do so, especially significant if a parent is moving a long distance to be near family in old age. An adult child with power of attorney can use a parent's money for legitimate expenses and thus hasten the spend down to Medicaid eligibility. In other words, you are doing your parent no favor, assuming he or she is likely to exhaust personal financial resources, by paying rent, stocking the refrigerator, buying clothes, or taking him or her to the hairdresser or barber. The author weaves the specifics of her personal experience with a comprehensive resource for effectively managing the lives of one's own parents while keeping sanity and strength in tact.
Subjects: Gross, Jane; Adult children of aging parents; Aging parents; Caregivers.; Caregivers; Parent and child;
Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 21
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Cog / by Van Eekhout, Greg,author.(CARDINAL)352021; Blue, Beatrice,1991-illustrator.(CARDINAL)795277;
"Cog looks like a normal twelve-year-old boy. But his name is short for 'cognitive development,' and he was built to learn. But after an accident leaves him damaged, Cog wakes up in an unknown lab--and Gina, the scientist who created and cared for him, is nowhere to be found. Surrounded by scientists who want to study him and remove his brain, Cog recruits four robot accomplices for a mission to find her. Cog, ADA, Proto, Trashbot, and Car's journey will likely involve much cognitive development in the form of mistakes, but Cog is willing to risk everything to find his way back to Gina."--Goodreads.Ages 8-12.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Science fiction.; Robots; Voyages and travels; Friendship; Survival; Children's stories.; Friendships.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 17
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The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined / by Pinker, Steven,1954-(CARDINAL)332272;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A foreign country. Human prehistory ; Homeric Greece ; The Hebrew bible ; The Roman Empire and early Christendom ; Medieval knights ; Early modern Europe ; Honor in Europe and the early United States ; The 20th century -- The pacification process. The logic of violence ; Violence in human ancestors ; Kinds of human societies ; Rates of violence in state and nonstate societies ; Civilization and its discontents -- The civilizing process. The European homicide decline ; Explaining the European homicide decline ; Violence and class ; Violence around the world ; Violence in these United States ; Decivilization in the 1960s ; Recivilization in the 1990s -- The humanitarian revolution. Superstitious killing : human sacrifice, witchcraft, and blood libel ; Superstitious killing : violence against blasphemers, heretics, and apostates ; Cruel and unusual punishments ; Capital punishment ; Slavery ; Despotism and political violence ; Major war ; Whence the humanitarian revolution? ; The rise of empathy and the regard for human life ; The republic of letters and enlightenment humanism ; Civilization and enlightenment ; Blood and soil -- The long peace. Statistics and narratives ; Was the 20th century really the worst? ; The statistics of deadly quarrels, Part 1 : the timing of wars ; The statistics of deadly quarrels, Part 2 : the magnitude of wars ; The trajectory of great power war ; The trajectory of European war ; The Hobbesian background and the ages of dynasties and religions ; Three currents in the age of sovereignty ; Counter-enlightenment ideologies and the age of nationalism ; Humanism and totalitarianism in the age of ideology ; The Long Peace : some numbers ; The Long Peace : attitudes and events ; Is the Long Peace a nuclear peace? ; Is the Long Peace a democratic peace? ; Is the Long Peace a liberal peace? ; Is the Long Peace a Kantian peace? -- The new peace. The trajectory of war in the rest of the world ; The trajectory of genocide ; The trajectory of terrorism ; Where angels fear to tread -- The rights revolutions. Civil rights and the decline of lynching and racial pogroms ; Women's rights and the decline of rape and battering ; Children's rights and the decline of infanticide, spanking, child abuse, and bullying ; Gay rights, the decline of gay-bashing, and the decriminalization of homosexuality ; Animal rights and the decline of cruelty to animals ; Whence the rights revolutions? ; From history to psychology -- Inner demons. The dark side ; The moralization gap and the myth of pure evil ; Organs of violence ; Predation ; Dominance ; Revenge ; Sadism ; Ideology ; Pure evil, inner demons, and the decline of violence -- Better angels. Empathy ; Self-control ; Recent biological evolution? ; Morality and taboo ; Reason -- On angels' wings. Important but inconsistent ; The pacifist's dilemma ; The Leviathan ; Gentle commerce ; Feminization ; The expanding circle ; The escalator of reason ; Reflections.We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval Europe was more than thirty times what it is today. Slavery, sadistic punishments, and frivolous executions were common features of life for millennia, then were suddenly abolished. How could this have happened, if human nature has not changed? Pinker argues that thanks to the spread of government, literacy, trade, and cosmopolitanism, we increasingly control our impulses, empathize with others, debunk toxic ideologies, and deploy our powers of reason to reduce the temptations of violence.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Nonviolence; Violence; Violence;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 19
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Gnar country [audio-enabled device] growing old, staying rad / by Kotler, Steven,1967-author(CARDINAL)654867; Cronin, James Patrick,narrator(CARDINAL)357406; Harper Audio (Firm)(CARDINAL)539013; Playaway Products, LLC(CARDINAL)868990;
Read by James Patrick CroninGnar: adjective, short for "gnarly," def: any environment or situation that is high in perceived risk and high in actual risk. Country: noun, def: any defined territory, landscape or terrain, fictitious or real. Cutting-edge discoveries in embodied cognition, flow science, and network neuroscience have revolutionized how we think about peak performance aging. On paper, these discoveries should allow older athletes to progress in supposedly "impossible" activities like park skiing (think: jumps and tricks.) To see if theory worked in practice, Kotler conducted his own ass-on-the-line experiment in applied neuroscience and later-in-life skill acquisition: He tried to teach an old dog some new tricks. Recently, top pros have been performing well past a previously considered prime: World-class athletes such as Kelly Slater, the greatest surfer of all time, is winning competitions in his fifties; Tom Brady can beat players half his age. But what about the rest of us? Steven Kotler has been studying human performance for thirty years, and taught hundreds of thousands of people at all skill levels, age groups, and walks of life, how to achieve peak performance. Could his own advice work for him? Gnar Country is the chronicle of his experience pushing his own aging body past preconceived limits. Its a book about goals and grit and progression. Its an antidote for weariness that is inspiring, practical, and, often hilarious. It is about growing old and staying rad. It's a feverish reading experience that makes you put down the book, get out there, and move. Whether hurtling down a mountain side, running your first 10K race, or taking your career to new heights, Kotler challenges us to test ourselves, surpass our limits, and achieve our own impossible, whatever it might be. Part personal journey, part science experiment, part how-to guide, Kotler takes us on his punk rock, high-velocity joy-ride for a better life in spite--and often in defiance of--the perceived limitations of the aging human body.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Aging.; Athletes.; Extreme sports.; Sports for older people.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The measure of our age : navigating care, safety, money, and meaning later in life / by Connolly, M. T.(Marie-Therese),author.(CARDINAL)872586;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Challenges: care -- health -- facilities -- home -- money -- the autonomy-safety conundrum -- lagging norms -- Downstream, upsteam: who to call? -- forensics -- parents' keepers? -- harm and healing -- Change: new models -- law -- movement -- mystery and meaning."An elder justice expert uncovers the failures in the systems that are supposed to protect us as we age, and provides a battle plan for families and policy-makers to counter the greed and incompetence. Between 1900 and 2000, Americans gained, on average, thirty years of life. That dazzling feat allowed tens of millions of Americans to reach the once-rare age of 85, now the fastest-growing age group. The bad news: For millions of Americans, the Golden Years are appallingly tarnished, leaving them and those who love them at a loss for what to do. More than 34 million family members care for an older relative for "free," but with costs to them in time, money, jobs, and health. Countless seniors are targeted by scammers and make riskier decisions about care, housing, money, and driving due to cognitive decline. And epidemics of isolation and loneliness make older people unnecessarily vulnerable to all sorts of harm. These problems touch millions of families regardless of class, race or gender. Today, one in ten older Americans is neglected or exploited with devastating results. And the systems supposed to safeguard them-like nursing homes, guardianship, Adult Protective Services, and criminal prosecution-often make problems worse. Weaving first-person accounts, her own unrivaled experience, and shocking investigative reporting across the worlds of medicine, law, finance, social services, caregiving, and policy, MT Connolly exposes a reality that has been long hidden-and sometimes actively covered up. But things are not hopeless. Along with diagnosing the ailments, she gives readers better tools to navigate the many challenges of aging-whether adult children caring for aging parents, policy-makers trying to do the right thing, or, should we be so lucky to live to old age, all of us"--
Subjects: Aging; Older people; Older people; Older people;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Phobias : the history and science of fear from Hippocrates to Freud to the present day / by Saul, Helen.(CARDINAL)662496;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Draws on examples from literature, history, and personal memoirs to analyze phobias, examines theories regarding their causes, and discusses treatment options.
Subjects: Phobias.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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