Brain Development

Writing is an intensely personal act, yet all writers face similar problems related to focus, procrastination, creativity, and productivity. This book combines the field-tested practices of successful and productive writers with insights from cognitive science. By understanding how your mental processes affect the work, you can master the inner game of writing.

How to Learn Anything Quickly: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Memory, Reading Comprehension, Test-Taking Skills, and Learning through the Brain's Fastest Superlinks Learning Style: Discover the secrets to unlock your brain's powerful memory and comprehension to quickly learn and master any subject and remember everything you read. Tap into your brain's energy powers to succeed in the competitive job market.

In this book, I’ll give you a clear, repeatable system for changing clients’ lives through health and fitness. It’s called the Prescriptive Model, and it’s been tested and proven in over 3,000 gyms around the world.

The ADHD Advantage isn’t another productivity book. It’s a practical, ADHD-affirming system built around how your brain actually works. With warmth, candor, and lived expertise, this guide helps you reclaim your focus, energy, and emotional well-being—20 minutes at a time.

Teach your children science-based mindfulness techniques in a fun, engaging way. The games, meditations, and brain boosters in this book will help them build confidence, self-esteem, and lifelong coping skills.

Our brains are 'plastic' in the sense that new neural pathways can form. By replacing negative thoughts with more positive thought affirmations we can create new pathways.

This powerful hypnosis program is designed specifically to increase motivation and the focus to clear away clutter, let go of possessions you don't need, and create a stress-free zone for yourself.

Ever wonder why your self-control, rationality, and compassion seem to go out the window when dealing with your partner? Couples therapist and psychiatrist Steven Stosny explains it all in this revelatory book about the divide between our adult and our toddler brains. Too often, conflict in our intimate relationships reactivates our least-regulated "toddler" side, bringing out an instinctive desire to assert our own way and make everything a zero-sum game. Dr. Stosny shows the way toward overcoming these destructive impulses.

Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir. After her husband suffered a traumatic brain injury, the couple worked together as he recovered - and they learned to love again.

If you are interested in learning the best ways possible to improve mental health then you need to listen to Exercise for the Brain: 70 Neurobic Exercises to Increase Mental Fitness Prevent Memory Loss. This audiobook is in a fashion that is easy to understand and the author himself has used quite a number of the techniques outlined in the text to his own benefit. As more and more people seek better ways to retain and improve their memory this audiobook is well timed.

Cosmopolitan meets Scientific American in this entertaining and informative question-and-answer book on human attraction. Based on the latest studies in science, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? answers more than 100 wild, weird, and very pressing questions.

Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, writes about losing her father to Alzheimer's disease, saying goodbye in stages, and watching the progression of a disease that steals what is most precious: a person's memory. Past and present come together in this illuminating portrait of grief, of a man, a disease, and a girl and her father.

Mental toughness is the secret key to your success, the engine that enables you to get up when you want to give up, the thin line between setting a goal and achieving it. Like any other muscle, you can train it. In this book, Bruce Merrick has condensed everything you need to develop an unbeatable mind and reach the same level of mental toughness and resilience of the Navy Seals special forces or the ancient Spartan Warriors.

Working memory - your ability to work with information - influences nearly everything you do. What if you could find a way to better handle a crazy schedule or expertly manage risks? What if you could gain an advantage in climbing the career ladder or in sports? What if there were a way to improve your outlook on life, to face each day with more optimism and confidence? Tracy and Ross Alloway, leading experts, show how working memory is the key to all that and more.

The strategies In 30 Days to Turn your Brain into a Money Machine have been tested and used with unbelievable success by a variety of people from all walks of life. I've broken them down into a 30 day action plan to see exactly how you can use their findings to your advantage. All you have to do is follow the simple daily actions, which fit right into your normal day, and you will start to change. Are you ready to change your brain to change your life, starting right now, to make sure you are living to your fullest?

Thanks to technology, we live in a world that’s much more comfortable than ever before. But here’s the paradox: Our tolerance for discomfort is at an all-time low. And as we wrestle with a sinking "discomfort threshold", we increasingly find ourselves at the mercy of our primitive instincts and reactions that can perpetuate disease, dysfunction, and impair performance and decision making.

Do you feel a tightness in your chest and a racing heart anytime you have to speak up for yourself, whether in a large group or small? Does the very idea that others could perceive you as looking uncomfortable or frightened make those symptoms even worse? Do you vigilantly avoid potential panic triggers, and always think the worst is bound to happen? If so, you may be one of the 40 million Americans who suffer from anxiety. Symptoms run the gamut from mildly embarrassing but tolerable to persistent and debilitating.

Neuroscientists Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang (who is also a parent) explain the facets and functions of the developing brain, discussing salient subjects such as sleep problems, language learning, gender differences, and autism. They dispel common myths about important subjects, such as the value of educational videos for babies, the meaning of ADHD in the classroom, and the best predictor of academic success (hint: It's not IQ). Most of all, this book will help you know when to worry, how to respond, and, most important, when to relax.

This simple yet profound guidebook takes you step-by-step through the process of building a life after addiction by adopting new behaviors that create lasting change. An internationally renowned psychiatrist, neurologist, and addiction specialist, Dr. Walter Ling has worked with thousands of addicts, their loved ones, and fellow clinicians. His no-nonsense, no-judgment approach, which he calls the "neuroscience of common sense," advocates holistic methods to prevent relapse and establish new patterns to create a sustainable, meaningful life.

En este magnífico audiolibro, el doctor David Bueno, biólogo y neuroeducador de prestigio mundial, nos invita, de forma magistral y amena, a descubrir qué sucede en el cerebro de los adolescentes con la intención de conocerlos y entenderlos.