The Scientific American healthy aging brain : the neuroscience of making the most of your mature mind / Judith Horstman.

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint, [2012]

xiv, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.

First edition.

Machine generated contents note: What's Old, Anyway? -- How Scientists Are Researching Your Brain -- pt. ONE How Your Brain Grows -- ch. 1 The Well-Aged Brain: Older and Happier -- The Myth of a Sad Old Age -- Actually, It's Getting Better All the Time -- Great Late Achievers -- Are Grandparents Safer Drivers? -- Do You Think I'm Sexy? Apparently, Yes -- at Any Age -- A Swell of Centenarians: One Hundred Reasons to Take Care of Your Brain -- ch. 2 How Your Brain Grows: Zero to Sixty -- In the Beginning: Your Fetal and Baby Brain -- A Brief Tour of Your Brain -- The Gray and the White: Neurons and Myelin -- Childhood: Building the Brain -- The Teen Brain: Not Yet Ready for Prime Time -- Get Smart Younger, Delay Dementia Older -- The Peak Years: Twenties to Sixties -- ch. 3 Your Brain Growing Older: What to Expect in a Healthy Aging Brain -- The Usual Effects of Aging -- Do the Brains of Men and Women Age Differently? -- How Memory Works: The Short Version.

Includes bibliographical references and index.