Seven Second Memory. Memory techniques that will change your life.

By Lamont & Eadie

Discover how you can literally regrow your brain connections, reverse the ageing process and transform your memory in this amazing new book. Brain growth can occur at any age and is the best, non-prescription protection against Alzheimer's and other memory loss diseases.

Easy to read, the book contains clear instructions, gives examples and a memory agility workout. It’s a PLAIN English guide book to a younger brain age. It’s easy to follow, logical and written by a leading neuro-science expert and an experienced educator and trainer.

Find out:
•Why it takes seven seconds to remember
•How to harness your seven second memory
•The six key memory skills that will give you a youthful memory
•Simple techniques for re-growing your brain power and helping you to remember
•How to never again forget a face or a name
•The seven easy-to-do memory techniques that will keep your youthful memory alert
•Practical techniques that you can use now in your personal and professional life
•How your brain works and why you sometimes forget
•Lifestyle strategies to support your youthful memory

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lamont & Eadie
• Release date: May 18, 2011
• ISBN: 9780473189181

Lamont & Eadie

Gillian Eadie, M.Ed, BA, DipTchg, LTCL, Churchill Fellow, Gillian is an award-winning educator, currently at the University of Auckland and whose career includes 20 years as a school principal in prestigious private schools. She has established the Healthy Memory Company with her sister, Dr. Allison Lamont, PhD, MA (Hons), MNZAC, MNZPsS a practising psychotherapist, whose research into age-related memory loss has been internationally acclaimed and published by Verlag in 2008. Their articles, books and memory programmes are scientifically based on Dr. Lamont's research findings. They focus on the key skills needed to keep brains active, alert and growing at any age.

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Seven Second Memory

Memory techniques that will

change your life

Dr Allison C. Lamont & Gillian M. Eadie

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2011 Dr Allison C. Lamont & Gillian M. Eadie

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Edition 3

SPONSORED BY THE BRAIN & MEMORY FOUNDATION

First published, 2009

Edition 2, 2010

Edition 3, 2011

ISBN 978-0-473-18918-1 (ebook)

CONTENTS

PART A: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HOW YOUR MEMORY WORKS AND WHY YOU SOMETIMES FORGET.

NORMAL MEMORY CHANGES

WORRIED YOUR MEMORY ISN’T AS SHARP AS IT USED TO BE?

BRAIN MATTERS

SENSORY MEMORY

SHORT TERM MEMORY

LONG TERM MEMORY

PART B: SEVEN POWERFUL MEMORY TECHNIQUES

PAY ATTENTION! LEARN TO APPLY THE SEVEN-SECOND RULE

Memory tips for creating strong memory traces

ELIMINATE DISTRACTION

Memory tips for eliminating distraction

ORGANIZE EVERYTHING!

Memory Tips for organizing your living spaces

Memory tips for organizing information to remember

Remembering Lists

ASSOCIATING AND CONNECTING

UNDERSTAND THE INFORMATION

REPETITION AND REVISION

KNOW HOW YOU LEARN BEST

GROW THOSE DENDRITES!

Exercise your brain - keep your synapses firing

PART C: GROW YOUR YOUTHFUL BRAIN SIX CRITICAL MEMORY SKILLS

WORD RECALL

Memory tips How to practise verbal memory efficiency:

SHAPE RECALL

Memory tips for shape recall

SHORT TERM MEMORY

Short Term Memory Tips

WORKING MEMORY

Working Memory Tips

FACE RECOGNITION

Tips for successful prospective remembering

PART D: MASTER YOUR LIFESTYLE AND IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY

ENGAGE IN LIFE

1. Increase Your Daily Water Intake

2. Eat in moderation

3. The Fats You Must Have

4. You Need Antioxidants

5. Eat a Balance of Protein, Good Fats, Carbohydrates and Vitamins

6. Create Your Own Brain Food Plan

7. Plan to Have Healthy Snacks on Hand

8. Take Exercise and Breathe Deeply!

YOUR BRAIN-BOOSTING MEAL PLANNER

Breakfast

Morning / Afternoon snack

Lunch

Dinner

Dessert or Supper

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS AND BRAIN FUNCTION

MANAGING STRESS IMPROVES MEMORY

SLEEP

ANSWERS

APPENDIX:

MEMORY PROBLEMS THAT AREN’T PART OF NORMAL AGEING

BRAIN-BOOSTERS YOU NEED – SHOPPING LIST

Additional choices to add in following weeks: Ó

BRAIN BOOSTING RECIPES

Introduction

Do you:

• Lose your glasses? The car keys?

• Forget names?

• Forget why you went into another room?

• Forget a name of someone you should have remembered?

• Lose the word you were just going to say?

• Forget whether you have taken medication?

• Go to the supermarket for milk, and buy everything but?

• Have to pay a late fee because you forget to pay the phone bill?

• Have trouble remembering appointments?

• Forget important birthdays and anniversaries?

• Forget whether you turned out the light, turned off the oven?

So, what’s happening?

Are you losing your edge?

Are you getting Alzheimer’s?

No!

It’s NOT a ‘senior moment’

It’s NOT the catastrophic loss of brain cells

** If you are really worried, go to the Answers page where the warning signs of dementia are listed. The USA Alzheimer’s Foundation suggest memory loss is now the single greatest health worry of baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 **

It’s NOT your brain shutting down

Your memory is still all there!

Did you pick up this book because you are worried you don’t remember things as well as you used to? Many people are worried about memory, and become afraid that occasional lapses may be the beginning of losing memory altogether.

Attitudes to memory are evident even within our language. How often have you heard someone mutter, as they search for car keys or struggle to find a word, I’m having a senior moment or even worse, Must be my Alzheimer’s!

Until relatively recently, it was believed that by the age of 50, brain cells were lost daily at a prodigious rate and signalled a rapid slide into senility. In later years, it does become harder to recall names, dates, where keys were left, or what was done two days ago. But science has established that it is more likely your memory powers have dulled simply because your brain (and maybe your body!) is no longer in tip-top shape.

Helping you maintain peak mental fitness is the purpose of this book.

Part A:

What you need to know about how your memory works and why