What is cognitive fitness? Cognitive fitness goes far beyond memory. It embraces thinking, learning, recognition, communication, and sound decision-making. Cognitive fitness is the bedrock of a rewarding and self-sufficient life.
A Guide to Cognitive Fitness will show you how to sidestep threats to your brain’s wellness. You’ll learn how to build a “cognitive reserve” to address your brain’s changes. Most of all, you’ll shape and secure fulfilling and lasting mental fitness.
As never before, you can attain lasting brain health. Harvard Medical School doctors have identified six steps which, together, can spur and protect cognitive fitness.
This multi-pronged plan includes and integrates proven approaches like optimal nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, social interaction, sleep, and stimulating activities. By incorporating simple, specific changes into your daily routine, you can add years of enduring mental stamina and vitality.
Prepared by the editors of Harvard Health Publishing in consultation with Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Medical Director, Center for Memory Health, and Senior Scientist, Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife. 53 pages. (2020)