Here to Help: Brain Health

For life’s big and small moments Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh staff have created Here to Help booklists. Here to Help booklists provide information and support in navigating life experiences. Librarians at your neighborhood library are here to help too and can offer suggestions for these or other topics of interest, as well as community information and resources. Through these booklists you can create opportunities to find connection, solace, comfort, or information for action. 

The books in this list provide information and resources for adults about brain health.  

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The Age-Proof Brain: New Strategies to Improve Memory, Protect Immunity, and Fight Dementia

Improve your brain health—now and in the future. While there’s no magic pill that will turn an aging brain into a healthy, youthful one, you are far from powerless when it comes to keeping your brain in tip-top shape. By learning how your brain works, how to keep it working optimally, and identifying changes you can start making immediately, you can drastically improve your health-immediately and in the long-term.





Change Your Brain Every Day: Simple Daily Practices to Strengthen Your Mind, Memory, Moods, Focus, Energy, Habits and Relationships

In Change Your Brain Every Day, psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years’ clinical practice with tens of thousands of patients to give you the most effective daily habits he has seen that can help you improve your brain, master your mind, boost your memory, and make you feel happier, healthier, and more connected to those you love. You can also check out this title as eBook on Libby.


Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: the Science Behind Memory

If memory is a simple thing, why does it so often go awry? Why is forgetting so common? How can you be certain about something you remember—and be wrong about it? In Why We Forget, Dr. Andrew Budson and Dr. Elizabeth Kensinger address these questions and more, using their years of experience to guide readers into better memory. You can also check out this title as always availableeAudio on Hoopla. 



Supercharge Your Brain: How to Maintain a Healthy Brain Throughout Your Life

In this ground-breaking new book, leading expert Professor James Goodwin explains how simple strategies concerning exercise, diet, social life, and sleep can transform your brain health paradigm, and shows how you can keep your brain youthful and stay sharp across your life. You can also check out this title as always availableeBook or eAudio on Hoopla. 


Simply the Brain

Simply The Brain explores everything that goes on in the brain when you think, feel, and perceive the world around you. If you’re seeking a guide that breaks down the inner workings of the mind and the brain, in a way that is easy to understand and jargon-free, then this essential guide is packed with everything you need to understand the basics quickly and easily.


The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain is Different and How to Understand Yours

From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what’s average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us. You can also check out this title as eBook on Libby. 


Neuroscience

Investigating how your senses work, how you move, and how you think and feel, Neuroscience For Dummies, 2nd Edition is your straight-forward guide to the most complicated structure known in the universe: the brain. Covering the most recent scientific discoveries and complemented with helpful diagrams and engaging anecdotes that help bring the information to life, this updated edition offers a compelling and plain-English look at how the brain and nervous system function. You can also check out this title as always availableeAudio on Hoopla. 


Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. You can also check out this title aseBookoreAudioon Libby.


Medical Medium Brain Saver: Answers to Bain Inflammation, Mental Health, OCD, Brain Fog, Neurological Symptoms, Addiction, Anxiety, Depression, Heavy Metals, Epstein-Barr Virus, Seizures, Lyme, ADHD, Alzheimer's Autoimmune & Eating Disorders

With Medical Medium Brain Saver and its companion volume, Medical Medium Brain Saver Protocols, Cleanses & Recipes, Anthony William sheds light on our brain and nervous system. Brain Saver unveils the why behind more than 100 brain- and nervous system-related symptoms, diseases, and disorders; Protocols reveals the truth about how to heal in even more detail.


How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

This is How the Mind Changed, a seven-million-year journey through our own heads, packed with vivid stories, groundbreaking science, and thrilling surprises. Discover how memory has almost nothing to do with the past; meditation rewires our synapses; magic mushroom use might be responsible for our intelligence; climate accounts for linguistic diversity; and how autism teaches us hugely positive lessons about our past and future.