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Columbia University neurologist Scott Small uses fMRI imaging on mice to research our aging brains. Turns out, you’ve got some control over how sharp you stay.

Saving for care in our old age usually falls by the wayside in favor of the things we want to pay for now. A relatively little known provision in some health care bills allows people to voluntary contribute to a national fund that would pay at least $50 a day for at home nursing care for people who are disabled.

A personal change expert offers an exceptional guide to navigating a major life transition–retirement. He provides an upbeat listening experience–with the help of uncredited voice pros who ask questions and give headlines and quotes. Selman’s clear, energetic voice gives the program real motivational juice. Offering more than financial advice, he says that retirement is both an end and a beginning and that paying attention to the psychological and social parts of the change will make it more satisfying. Unrealized work ambitions, regrets, resentments, and unhappy marriages all can keep us from retiring peacefully if we don’t address these issues. Selman’s diagnostic questions and detailed help in creating a retirement road map make this one of the most useful guides ever in this brief format. Listen to a sample from the book . . .

Treating bipolar disorder with prescription medications may be a necessary first step to get the symptoms of this disease under control. However, the drugs used for this health problem are indeed strong. For that reason, many people search for gentler, more natural approaches to tempering the episodes to provide some type of relief.

A renowned Alzheimer’s researcher has a new way of framing the disorder not just as a single disease, but the result of a number of things that happen as the brain ages.