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Brain Health For Dummies
Your ticket to a healthier brain and a healthier you!
Your brain, like every part of your body, needs and deserves all the TLC you can give it so you can live a long and healthy life. In Brain Health For Dummies, neuroscientist and author Dr. Sarah McKay walks you through some simple and easy steps you can take—right now—to get smarter, stay healthier, and better support the elders in your life.
This is the ultimate, evidence-based guide to help you understand how your brain works around the clock to keep you sharp, healthy, and happy. It offers straightforward advice to help you optimize your brain health,
How to lessen your chance of disease and decline by managing common health risks Simple lifestyle tips to help you maintain a healthy brain at every stage of life Sex- and age-specific strategies to help keep your brain in top form Optimal performance is something your brain works on all day long. Make sure you're living your best life by learning how to maintain your hardest-working organ with Brain Health For Dummies. Grab a copy today!
Your brain, like every part of your body, needs and deserves all the TLC you can give it so you can live a long and healthy life. In Brain Health For Dummies, neuroscientist and author Dr. Sarah McKay walks you through some simple and easy steps you can take—right now—to get smarter, stay healthier, and better support the elders in your life.
This is the ultimate, evidence-based guide to help you understand how your brain works around the clock to keep you sharp, healthy, and happy. It offers straightforward advice to help you optimize your brain health,
How to lessen your chance of disease and decline by managing common health risks Simple lifestyle tips to help you maintain a healthy brain at every stage of life Sex- and age-specific strategies to help keep your brain in top form Optimal performance is something your brain works on all day long. Make sure you're living your best life by learning how to maintain your hardest-working organ with Brain Health For Dummies. Grab a copy today!
358 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 20, 2024
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January 18, 2026
An excellent book for those who want to understand (and easily access information about) the scope of current neuroscience knowledge about the brain, understand the basics of the brain and nervous system and how it works and apply this knowledge in maximising their own brain health and that of their children from birth through childhood and adolescence.
Neuroscientist Sarah McKay has written this book in a very accessible way. It has an excellent and detailed table of contents which means you can dive in and out for what interests you. The book doesn’t need to be read from front to back. The information is robust and the style of writing friendly and connecting.
I was drawn to Dr McKay’s work when I began communication and leadership coaching some years back. My first career had been in speech pathology, specialising in working with people with communication challenges due to acquired brain injury. I had been away from that work for 20 years and wanted to get back to speed on neuroscience basics that I could trust to be based in solid research rather than stories about the brain that can be well intentioned but not scientifically informed.
The book is a good basic handbook for anyone - and also a good launching pad for anyone who chooses to take up the author’s online Neuroscience Academy and Bootcamp courses… which - as a coach - I have found invaluable. 9/10
Neuroscientist Sarah McKay has written this book in a very accessible way. It has an excellent and detailed table of contents which means you can dive in and out for what interests you. The book doesn’t need to be read from front to back. The information is robust and the style of writing friendly and connecting.
I was drawn to Dr McKay’s work when I began communication and leadership coaching some years back. My first career had been in speech pathology, specialising in working with people with communication challenges due to acquired brain injury. I had been away from that work for 20 years and wanted to get back to speed on neuroscience basics that I could trust to be based in solid research rather than stories about the brain that can be well intentioned but not scientifically informed.
The book is a good basic handbook for anyone - and also a good launching pad for anyone who chooses to take up the author’s online Neuroscience Academy and Bootcamp courses… which - as a coach - I have found invaluable. 9/10
March 10, 2025
Woke. Far-left feminist biased.
This author has written other books about feminism. She is a feminist. A very political left-wing person from Oxford university, a socialist university.
The way that she wrote this book was very biased. The book has a section dedicated to the differences in neuroscience of different genders (which she believes that there are more than 2 of)… Anytime she wrote about men’s mental health it was always in a critical, condemning, and negative light. On the other hand, anytime she wrote about women’s mental health, it was always evangelistic, justifying, explanatory, positive, and making excuses by blaming straight white men for “gender inequality”.
This book is too woke to take seriously. It is honestly, concerning that the world has come to this.
This author has written other books about feminism. She is a feminist. A very political left-wing person from Oxford university, a socialist university.
The way that she wrote this book was very biased. The book has a section dedicated to the differences in neuroscience of different genders (which she believes that there are more than 2 of)… Anytime she wrote about men’s mental health it was always in a critical, condemning, and negative light. On the other hand, anytime she wrote about women’s mental health, it was always evangelistic, justifying, explanatory, positive, and making excuses by blaming straight white men for “gender inequality”.
This book is too woke to take seriously. It is honestly, concerning that the world has come to this.
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