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http://www.amazon.com/Your-Miracle-Brain-Brainpower-Creativity/dp/B0057DB004From Library JournalYes, you can change your brain, and it doesn’t take surgery. Carper, the author of best sellers like Miracle Cures, explains how nutrition can do the trick.Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Review”A dazzling achievement… will give hope and comfort to millions of people.” — Norman Rosenthal, M.D., Research Scientist, National institute of Mental Health”Product Details    Paperback: 400 pages    Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (January 9, 2001)    Language: English    ISBN-10: 0060984406    ASIN: B0057DB0045.0 out of 5 stars Mind your brain, March 5, 2000By Robert A Hill (Chicago, USA)This is the third Jean Carper book I have read, and I was delighted to find so much new information to help postpone the effects aging. Like most of us, I have always assumed the conventional belief that the aging brain simply deteriorates. This is not true. Not only does Ms. Carper’s new book examine the latest scientific evidence showing how simplistic that notion is, but she goes on to identify many of the practical things each of us can do to develop new health habits that will improve our mental functions. “Your Miracle Brain” will certainly be a best seller, but more importantly, it will transform the way our minds think about our brains.5.0 out of 5 stars A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste, August 20, 2005By David StapletonLet me cut to the chase, there are numerous supplements you can take to keep your mental facilities in top working order, but if you are looking for the ONE thing you can do that will provide the best overall results – take a multivitamin daily.Ms. Carper has provided another fine study of the current research (circa 2000) related to the human brain and the effect of various supplements or lack thereof. If there is one complaint that I have about the book, it is that it is dated, continued research in the field would argue for an updated edition of the book.The four sections of the book cover the workings of the brain, what to eat, what supplements to take and how to prevent vascular problems from affecting your brain. True to her usual form the author presents the research for each topic, broken up by nutrient or supplement, further broken down by details of the impact on the brain of a shortage and the research data to support claims that the nutrient or supplement may correct the problems, and how much to take for full effect.The discussions are intriguing in that the author’s conclusions require so little action on the reader’s part to correct or prevent the stated neurological problems (topics range from depression to aggression to forgetfulness to age related problems like Alzheimer’s).One of the reasons I bought this book was because I was heading back to grad school (in my 40s), and I wasn’t quite sure I was up to it. Having completed 13 semester credits in biological and chemical sciences over two 6 week summer sessions with a flawless 4.0 grade average, I can say that I feel at the top of my mental game and ready for admission to grad school. My current set of supplements include: a multivitamin with minerals, coenzyme Q10, Omega 3 fish oil, ginko biloba and grape seed extract.Getting back to my initial statement, unless you have a perfect diet (be honest), you need a multivitamin with minerals to ensure that you are providing the basic nutrition for a healthy brain, once you are there you can look into the other supplements for further improvement. P-) Please contribute back by OCRing *and* Spellchecking/Proofreading (!) this book. I recommend ABBYY Finereader 10 for doing this work in a relatively easy way. There are other applications as well. The important thing is to spellcheck and correct any mistakes the automatic software run did – often people just run automatic conversion and upload here a pdf that has many mistakes and/or can’t be converted to other digital formats.  If you start to do the process please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Thank you.