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Part One: Your Brain Is a Work in Progress
1. Introduction
2. What, Me, Worry? - An Introduction to Cognitive Decline
3. The Gift of Adult Brain Plasticity - David’s Story
4. My Earth is Spinning Faster and Faster - Special Challenges for Developing & Sustaining a Mode...
5. The Great Awakening – How I Finally Saw the Light
6. The Incredible Lifelong Power of Brain Plasticity - Lessons Learned from the Development of a Coch...
7. Transforming Lives - It’s All About Your Brain and Your Future
Part Two: Brain Plasticity Throughout Life
8. The Human Roller Coaster - The Rise and Fall of Human Ability Across a Lifetime
9. Cranking Up the New Machinery - The Acquisition of Skills and Abilities in Early Life
10. How Does a Brain Remodel Itself?  ...
11. Reaching the Mountain Top - Your Brain, in Technicolor
12. Slowly Sliding Back Down the Slope - How Cognitive Abilities Decline in Aging—and Imperil our Old...
13. Believing in Brain Plasticity - Applying this Science to Recover a Life
Part three: creating “you”
14. You Are Special - How Your Brain Remodeled Itself to Create the Unique Person You Are
15. Your Parallel Universes - Growing, Sustaining, and Controlling All of Your Brain Worlds
16. Loading Your Own Encyclopedia Magnifica - Memory Acquisition and Use
17. A Typical Day in the Life of a Brain - Perceiving, Recognizing, Recording, Pondering, Understandi...
18. Transformation, Part Deux - How Improvements in the “Little Things” Can Change the Course of a Li...
PART FOUR: THE BRAIN IN RETREAT
19. Losing Ground, Just by Having a Birthday - Our Abilities Change as We Age
20. It’s Not Just About Growing Older - Other Things Can Contribute to our Neurological Struggles
22. Machinery in Need of Repair - Physical, Chemical, and Functional Changes in Older (or Wounded) Br...
23. Why Is My Brain Slowly Losing It? - Root Causes of Changes in the Aging Brain
24. Pushing Harder on that Accelerator, in Reverse - How “Negative Learning” Can Speed Up Brain Decli...
25. Frankly, This Subject Is Depressing Me - How Other Medical Issues Contribute to and Accelerate De...
26. Alzheimer’s Disease - How Changes in the Brain Can Lead to a Catastrophic Collapse
27. That Troublesome Body Hooked Up to My Brain - A Healthy Brain Is Crucial for Sustaining a Healthy...
PART FIVE: STRENGTHENING, CORRECTION, AND REJUVENATION THROUGH BRAIN TRAINING
28. Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks - How I Began to Realize that There Are Very Good Uses for a Plastic...
29. “Science to the People” - Bringing this New Form of Help from the Lab into the Real World
30. Reorganizing Your Life with a Brain Fitness Goal - Daily Activities that Contribute to the Mainte...
31. Programs for Brain Rejuvenation and Brain Recovery - Features of Effective, Internet-Delivered, N...
32. What Does Mike Do? - How I Have Organized My Life So I Can Continue to Thrive and Grow
33. Can’t I Just Take a Pill? - Other Useful Strategies that Can Contribute to Your Brain Health
34. My Memory Is Pretty Good, but My Back Is Driving Me Crazy… - Helping Your Brain Help Your Body
35. Driving Matters - Navigating the Modern World
36. Improving Yourself – Taking a Holistic Approach to Improving Your Life
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