Chemo brain is divided into three parts:

My Experiences - My baseline evaluation and follow-up appointment, as well as my ideas on therapies for improvement.
Links - Links to articles and studies that discuss the causes, symptoms and possible therapies of chemo brain. 
New Thinking – New ideas and about the healing chemo brain.

Until recently it was thought that brain cells did not regenerate; however this thinking has changed.  From my personal experience, as well as from other with similar problems, there definitely seems to be a link between chemotherapy and toxic therapies producing a subsequent decline in cognitive function.

As always, I invite you to explore these links and decide for yourself if this makes sense to you.

Baseline Evaluation for Chemobrain 

The methodology that I have come up with for evaluating my own chemo brain now and for the future is straightforward.  I recently had an evaluation performed by Dr. Paula Ogrocki at the University Foley Elder Health Center in Cleveland, Ohio. This evaluation will serve as a baseline for the state of my Chemo Brain.  In about six months I will take the same test again, and record any differences such as improvements, hopefully.   At that time, I will outline what I did to gain any improvement in my mental functioning, for example any kind of mental exercises I did between the baseline and the re-test.

I retested my chemo brain after six months-  

Six Month Neuropsychological Evaluation

What Are the Side Effects to Chemotherapy?
Make no mistake - if your therapy includes toxic chemo or radiation, you will experience side effects. The more chemo or radiation, the more damage will be done to your body. Understanding the side effects of both conventional and alternative therapies is critical. Don't expect your doctor to do a thorough job of educating you.

Seeking Solutions to Chemo Brain
Chemo brain is not well understood by oncology and therefore is best left up to you to research and manage. While my chemo brain experiences were frustrating and scary at times, I feel that I am slowly improving. As with every medical problem on this site, exercise, nutrition, supplements, detoxification, etc., will help your chemo brain and will contribute to a higher quality of life. 

Cells Help to Maintain Cognition & Cell Renewal
In the “Why beatingmyeloma.org?” page, I provide a definition of the word “synergy.” The link below goes to several articles citing the relationship between exercise and how it benefits your brain function. Getting my heart rate up each day helps my brain to function better, heal nerve damage, resolve my blood clot and it generally makes me feel better and calm.  better.

The Mind-Altering Benefits of Exercise

As I find more information about the possible healing of chemo brain, I will be adding those articles in the future.