EP #1217: DEMENTIA PREVENTION: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain with Mitchell Clionsky, MD

Lisa is joined by Mitchell Clionsky, Ph.D. to talk about the book he co-wrote with Emily Clionsky, MD, DEMENTIA PREVENTION: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain. Emily Clionsky, MD is an internal medicine doctor with 25 years of experience and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She has treated thousands of patients with memory loss at her private practice. Mitchell Clionsky, PhD is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with 45 years of experience evaluating and treating patients with cognitive impairment, dementia, ADHD, and traumatic brain injury. Together, they developed the Memory Orientation Screening Test (MOST), which has been used by hundreds of doctors. They live in Springfield, MA. 

For more information, visit: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12532/dementia-prevention. 

Ways to improve your brain's future 

• Dementia is not inevitable. It is preventable in 1 out of 2 people.
• How the brain's function is affected by everything from blood circulation and blood pressure to sugar levels, medications, vision, and hearing
  
  
• How activity level, weight, habits, mental outlook, and social engagement may affect the likelihood of developing dementia
• How you breathe while you sleep and how it can protect/harm your brain 
  
  
• The 20 factors that impact dementia risk, including 17 that are changeable in adulthood 
• Proven psychological methods to change your habits and health to alter your brain’s future

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DEMENTIA PREVENTION: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain is the culmination of 45 years of extensive clinical evaluation and treatment. It brings together proven science from a wide spectrum of medical specialties -- ones that often do not talk to one another or read the others’ research. Drs. Emily and Mitchell Clionsky skip the fads, the unsupported claims of advertised products, and fringe theories.