Brain Disease

Are you or is someone who you love and care for living with Multiple Sclerosis? For people struggling to discover a happier, healthier way to live with this lifelong disease, it sometimes seems like an impossible task. Now, author Daryl H Bryant shares his own challenges, frustrations, anxiety, and ultimate victories in managing MS. His new book shares his stories as a person faced with the disease. Bryant is not a doctor, but a person living with Multiple Sclerosis.

Diagnosis Dystonia takes you on a personal and educational journey full of valuable information for those newly diagnosed, as well as those who have been living with dystonia for years. Tom’s perspective as a long time dystonia patient is invaluable, offering coping skills, healthy living strategies, and treatment options. He also provides practical information for emotionally adjusting to the diagnosis and subsequent lifestyle changes, and how to live in the world with something “different.”

Do you want to easily understand how generic traumas, anxiety, stress, and chronic diseases may influence your nervous system and consequently your mental and physical health? The polyvagal theory helps us understand how we can defend ourselves, and how we can face diseases better, especially mental disorders, such as anxiety, stress, depression, etc. The aim of this audiobook is helping people understand the polyvagal theory, its interconnection with the vagus nerve, and the extremely effective benefits that it could bring to our body and our health.

At twenty-four, Arnold Beisser was a recent medical school graduate and a nationally ranked tennis player. But overnight a devastating bout of polio left him permanently paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on an iron lung to draw his next breath. Polio robbed Arnold Beisser of his strength, his athletic ability, and almost his life. Yet he discovered in this unthinkable trap not only the expected sadness and despair, but wonder, delight, and the pleasure of everyday living.

Lost in My Mind is a stunning memoir describing Kelly Bouldin Darmofal's journey from adolescent girl to special education teacher, wife and mother - despite severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Spanning three decades, Kelly's journey is unique in its focus on TBI education in America (or lack thereof).

In this highly personal account, Dr Gibbs documents the effect his diagnosis has had on his life and explains his advocacy for improving early recognition of Alzheimer’s. Weaving clinical knowledge from decades caring for dementia patients with his personal experience of the disease, this is an optimistic tale of one man’s journey with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.

No matter how simple it may be, solving mathematical equations can be a challenge for quite a number of persons Through his book titled Secret of Mental Math Arithmetic: 70 Secrets to Super Speed Calculation Amazing Math Tricks, Jason Scotts seeks to provide the solution to those mathematical problems.

Cosmic Publications is proud to give all our listeners this unofficial summary guide to Dr. Sanjay Gupta's book Keep Sharp - Build a Better Brain at Any Age. Our summary guide takes the original book and provides a comprehensive full summary that takes all of the key points and takeaways from each chapter, providing you with a simple and quick way to appreciate the original even more.

Many people claim they would rather be diagnosed with cancer than dementia or Alzheimer's. What they may not realize is that decreased or impaired brain function is not a foregone conclusion as we get older. Our own lifestyle choices and habits can have a significant impact - for good or ill - on our brains. And that means there's hope. Drawing from the latest medical research, Dr. Richard Furman helps listeners understand brain health and shows them how to make three powerful lifestyle changes that can help decrease the probability of developing dementia or Alzheimer's.

The author, Yuchi Yang, has been a registered dietitian for more than twenty years. She has been counseling patients with Parkinson’s on food and nutrition to optimize their health with diet. Levodopa (L-dopa) is the most commolny used medication to treat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Dietary protein can compete with L-dopa to cross the blood-brain barrier and decrease the efficacy of the drug. Such problem of protein and levodopa competition usually appears years after the initiation of L-dopa therapy.

Imagine life with death as a constant companion. It quietly sits next to you, coloring thoughts, feelings and words, utterly transforming your outlook on life. When Bruce H. Kramer was diagnosed with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an always fatal neurological disease, the doctor who broke the devastating news thought he was giving Kramer a death sentence. It turned out to be a life sentence.

Did you now that the largest of our 12 cranial nerves is the vagus nerve? Did you also know that this autonomic-nervous-system related nerve, if stimulated in the right way, can reduce our body pain stress, inflammation, trauma, depression and abdominal plains? If you never heard about vagus nerves, which are usually referred to in the singular, they are the longest and maybe the most important autonomic nerves in human body. Approximately 80 percent of its nerve fibers drive information from the body to the brain.

The time to rethink degenerative brain disorders has come. With no biological boundaries between neurodegenerative diseases, illnesses such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's result from a large spectrum of biological abnormalities, hampering effective treatment. Acclaimed neurologist Dr. Alberto Espay and Parkinson's advocate Benjamin Stecher present compelling evidence that these diseases should be targeted according to genetic and molecular signatures rather than clinical diagnoses.

I'm Not Stupid, I Have Hearing Loss is a story of hearing loss and hearing aids. Including hearing and brain care tips, the author shares experiences of having hearing loss and wearing hearing aids.

We tend to think that we will eventually get around to addressing the problem of memory loss. We may ignore the earliest symptoms of dementia, such as brain fog and depression, along with forgetting phone numbers or names or needing to make grocery lists. These are symptoms of neurodegeneration in areas of the brain involving memory.

Dr. Okun is well-known for infusing his audiences with positivity and optimism. In this book, he reveals the breakthroughs and therapies surrounding Parkinson's disease that will pave the road to meaningful progress, which extends far beyond a single drug or stem cell. He paints the broader and more exciting picture and reviews the portfolio of breakthroughs spanning drug, cell, vaccine, device, genetics, care, and behavior.

Steve Dimon believes that 80% of heart attacks, strokes, and cancers, as well as diabetes and obesity are preventable, treatable, and beatable through proper diet, nutrition, exercise, supplementation, and lifestyle change. And he's living proof of that. On April 22, 2012 he suffered an Ischemic stroke. Paralyzed from head to toe on his left side, he spent a month in two different hospitals and three months in outpatient therapy.

In a candid and witty memoir, Jodi recounts how her life was transformed when, as a 33-year-old wife and mother, she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Unwilling to accept her new fate, Jodi's family searches for a doctor who will join their fight against the odds.

After 12 years of playing basketball at the highest professional level, Brian Grant could have been forgiven for thinking that the hardest part of his life was behind him, that he'd be able to kick back and enjoy the fruits of his considerable labors. But soon after his retirement from the NBA, Grant was diagnosed with Young-Onset Parkinson's Disease, ushering in a challenge greater than any he'd faced before. In Rebound, Grant shares his remarkable life before, during, and after those NBA years with no shortage of compassion and wit.

Who doesn’t want to be smarter, think faster, have a better memory? This book, combining inspirational Chicken Soup for the Soul stories written just for this book and accessible leading-edge medical information from Harvard Medical School neurologist and instructor Dr. Marie Pasinski, will motivate listeners to get more out of their gray matter!