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Gary Small, MDExclusive Representation
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- Alzheimer's & Dementia
- Aging
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Memory Fitness and Keeping Your Brain YoungWe all forget things sometimes – our keys, a phone number, the reason we went to the market. According to Dr. Gary Small, author of the bestsellers, The Memory Bible and The Memory Prescription, we can easily eliminate much of this forgetfulness through memory exercises and a brain fitness program. Based on his recent scientific discoveries, Dr. Small can immediately improve your mental performance and help you to keep your brain young. You’ll learn the most successful memory techniques for names and faces and other practical daily memory challenges. Dr. Small’s program of memory training and mental aerobics will improve your memory ability now, and help get you on the road to keeping your brain young for years to come.
Diagnosis and Management of Dementia and Associated Behavioral ConditionsDiagnosis and management of dementia and behavioral conditions is a major challenge for the clinician. Patients present with multiple psychiatric, neurologic, and medical complications so that assessment and differential diagnosis require a clear knowledge of the most effective and efficient assessment available tools and strategies. When and how to use neuropsychological assessments, screening laboratory and genetics tests, and neuroimaging techniques are critical. Symptomatic treatments help alleviate cognitive and functional symptoms and several drug classes are useful for agitation and other behavioral disturbances. Research into more effective approaches is moving forward. Working with caregivers effectively and managing behaviors with non-pharmacological interventions often compliments pharmacological interventions. This presentation will provide an update on the latest strategies for dealing with this challenging patient population.
Other Titles Include:Memory Training Techniques
Minimize Stress to Maximize Memory
Lifestyle Choices to Maximize Memory
Speaker Information
A Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Neuropsychiatric Institute, Gary Small, MD is also a Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Additionally, he serves as Director of the following UCLA programs: the Memory Clinic, the Memory and Aging Research Center, the Alzheimer's Disease Center Imaging Core, and the Center on Aging.
Dr. Small’s revolutionary work with PET scans revealing Alzheimer's lesions in the brain has led to a better understanding of the development of the disease. His work also includes identifying the first link between a person's self-awareness of memory failure and the major known genetic risk factor for developing Alzheimer's Disease. Dr. Small has also started one of the first memory clinics to help adults improve memory function through mental exercise and drug treatment and has spearheaded memory-training classes throughout Southern California.
In presentations across the country, Dr. Small describes the newest research on how food, medicines, exercise, alcohol, stress, and many lifestyle choices directly affect the aging of our brains, and how we can make informed decisions to prevent memory loss and maintain brain health. He also teaches his most successful memory techniques for names and faces and other practical daily memory challenges. Maintaining memory fitness is as vital as staying physically fit, and Dr. Small’s program of memory training and mental aerobics will improve your memory ability now, and help get you on the road to keeping your brain young for years to come.
The author of more than 400 journal articles, book reviews, letters, editorials, books, book chapters, and abstracts, Dr. Small serves on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals. He is the author of The Memory Prescription: Dr. Gary Small's 14-Day Plan to Keep Your Brain and Body Young. His latest bestselling book, The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young, highlights a novel approach to helping the brain stay young through a healthy diet, stress management, and key memory.
Dr. Small earned his medical degree at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and served as an intern in internal medicine at the Children's Hospital and Adult Medical Center in San Francisco, California. He then completed a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was appointed Chief Resident of the Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service, and completed a clinical fellowship in psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He then became a fellow in geriatric psychiatry at the UCLA.
The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Dr. Small is listed in “America's Top Doctors and Best Doctors in America,” and his accomplishments have been recognized by the International Psychogeriatric Association Research Award, the Senior Investigator Award from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and the American Psychiatric Association's Jack Weinberg Award in Geriatric Psychiatry. In 2002, Scientific American magazine named him one of the world's top 50 innovators in science and technology.
Dr. Small’s research has been featured in many lay publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Time magazine, and The International Herald Tribune. He is a frequent guest on "20/20," "Good Morning America," "Today," CNN, "ABC World News," "NBC Nightly News," and "CBS News."
Testimonials
"Your talk was so well-delivered and well-received...over 87% said they would change their behavior as a result of what they'd learned; if even a portion follow through, you will have made a real community health impact here!"
- Neurological Sciences Institute
"Your presentation was the most popular in the 'Most Interesting Topic' category. We feel the day was a huge success!"
- Valley Presbyterian Hospital
"I understand why Scientific American magazine recently named Gary Small as one of the world’s top 50 visionaries in science and technology."
- Hugh Downs
"A great storyteller & lecturer, with a lot of humility. Engaging. Excellent."
- Central CA Psychiatric Society