Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife

Author:   Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9780060598709


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 April 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife


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Why can't you remember where you put your keys? Or the title of the movie you saw last week? Anyone older than forty knows that forgetfulness can be unnerving, frustrating, and sometimes terrifying. With compassion and humor, acclaimed journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin explores the factors that determine how well or poorly one's brain will age. She takes readers along on her lively journey--consulting with experts in the fields of sleep, stress, traumatic brain injury, hormones, genetics, and dementia, as well as specialists in nutrition, cognitive psychology, and the burgeoning field of drug-based cognitive enhancement. Along the way, she turns up fresh scientific findings, explores the dark regions of the human brain, and hears the intimate confessions of high-functioning midlife adults who--like so many of us--are desperate to understand exactly what's going on upstairs.

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Author:   Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   HarperCollins Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 13.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 20.40cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780060598709


ISBN 10:   0060598700
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 April 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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[Carved in Sand] combines Ramin's extensive search for a memory cure with solid science about how the brain works. -- Columbus Dispatch


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Investigative journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin is the author of Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife, published by HarperCollins in 2007. Her new book about the back pain industry, Crooked, will be published in April 2017. She's written for many national magazines on topics that include healthcare, neuroscience, business, public policy, travel, art, design and culture. A popular speaker, these days, she's booking lectures that enlighten patients, health care practitioners, corporations and medical facilities about how to manage back pain. Cathryn is married to Ron Ramin, a music composer. They have two adult sons, Avery and Oliver, and a Jack Russell-Daschundt mix dog named Dasch, after the punctuation mark, which he resembles. She divides her time between Northern California and New York City. Facebook: http: //bit.ly/fbcrooked . Twitter: @cjramin

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