About the Author:
Since 2004, Kenneth S. Kosik, MD, has been the Harriman Professor of Neuroscience Research and Co-Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously, he was a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, and a senior neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he was one of the founding physicians of the Memory Disorders Clinic. His lifelong work is research into the cause and treatment of neurodegeneration, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. His study of a group of interrelated families in a rural mountain town in Colombia who suffer from early onset Alzheimer’s has been the subject of several documentaries. Dr. Kosik also founded and served as Medical Director of the non-profit Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies (CFIT), a model “brain shop” that helped clients maintain and improve their cognitive function. Dr. Kosik, who received his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and served as chief resident at Tufts New England Medical Center, has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on CNN as an expert on brain health. He lives and works in Santa Barbara, California.
Review:
Outsmarting Alzheimer's translates the latest brain science into practical strategies that can not only reduce your risk for Alzheimer's in the future, but boost your current memory abilities and overall health. (Gary Small, MD, Director, UCLA Longevity Center and author of 2 Weeks to a Younger Brain and The Alzheimer's Prevention Program, Kudos to Ken Kosik for providing this authoritative, lively, and practical manual for applying the best evidence available to reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer s disease. --Eric Nestler, MD, PhD, Nash Family Professor, Director, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Kosik s plan is practical, scientifically-informed, adaptable to each person, and tremendously important. Reducing your risk for Alzheimer's is one of life's most important projects - --START NOW! (Jeffrey Cummings, MD,ScD, Camille and Larry Ruvo Chair for Brain Health; Director, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health)
A very timely, important, and even fun book, Outsmarting Alzheimer's first debunks old and misleading myths about the disease and then helps the reader adopt sound strategies to stay sharp and vital longer than previously thought possible. --Alvara Fernandez, co-author of The SharpBrains Guid to Brain Fitness
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