Neuroscience Brain

Behavior change is hard, but O’Mara shows that by adopting strategies that are well-founded in the science of brain and behavior, individuals and organizations can adapt to the demands of the modern world.

The placebo effect, where you believe something works and it does (sometimes), whether it’s weight-loss products or even wrinkle creams: Is it the supplement working, or is the mind doing all of the heavy lifting? Does it have any relation to hypnosis and how the subconscious mind thinks? Find out how and why. What is multiple sclerosis, and what are its effects? Memory: we all wish we had a better one....

The placebo effect, what is it and does it truly work? What are its health advantages, its medical benefits? What about weight loss and wrinkle creams? Is it your brain, or the supplement working? Is this a victory of your brain, or is this a win for medicine? Does the Placebo effect associate itself with hypnosis? How does it fit in with subconscious thinking? This book will teach you what multiple sclerosis is and how to comprehend its various subtypes and treatments.

Figure out what your baby is thinking from the moment they are born. Your baby has a strong desire to communicate, but it isn’t always easy to work out just what they are trying to tell you. In this fascinating, research-led book, parenting author Tanith Carey and Clinical Psychologist Dr...

From the acclaimed author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler comes a stirring manifesto on love in the modern age. Who wrote the book of love? In an impassioned polemic, Ron Rosenbaum—who has written books on the mysteries of Hitler’s evil, the magic of Shakespeare’s words, and...

Read by the author. 'Brilliant. A fascinating insight' – Jim Kwik, New York Times bestselling author of Limitless In Braintenance, neuroscientist and communicator Dr Julia Ravey empowers you to change habits, reach your goals and have more control of your life with practical, research-led...

The real story of science isn’t a triumphant breakthrough. It’s messy, mysterious, and deeply human. In Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a Eureka moment, but a fraught, often chaotic...

If you're in a job interview, how should you think about the mindset of the interviewer? If you've just been promoted, how do you handle the tensions of managing former peers? And what are the telltale mental signs that it's time to start planning your next career move? Professor, author, and popular radio host Art Markman focuses on three essential elements of a successful career - getting a job, excelling at work, and finding your next position - and expertly illustrates how cognitive science, especially psychology, sheds fascinating and useful light on each of these elements.

Science confirms the distinction between the biological brain and the conscious mind. Each day, a game of mind versus matter plays out on a field defined by the problems we must solve. Most are routine, and don't demand a more mindful approach. It's when we're faced with more difficult challenges that our thinking becomes vulnerable to brain patterns that can lead us astray.

El autor explora el uso de herramientas espirituales como la meditación, la respiración consciente, la compasión, el perdón y la gratitud, y demuestra, con fundamentos científicos, cómo estas prácticas impactan el cerebro y mejoran nuestro bienestar.

Beauty and the Brain: The Aesthetic Compass NeuroAesthetics: Where Consciousness and the Physics of the Universe Meet explores how we as a society perceive beauty. This fascinating book provides an explanation of how aesthetic appreciation occurs by a match of the structure of the brain and external forms. It also describes the brain mechanisms by which humans perceive beauty and how the logarithmic spiral form common in the universe is the same form inside the human brain. The listener will learn deep truths about how humans perceive beauty by sharing certain fundamental logarithmic spiral brain maps and logarithmic spiral forms external to the brain, such as Hurricanes, Galaxies and Snail Shells.

Blind Them…with SCIENCE! How much better would your life be if you had an army of Nobel Laureates, MacArthur ‘geniuses’ and National Medal of Science winners whispering tips in your ear about your body language, or how to resist that impulse purchase you’ll regret tomorrow, or when to...

Boy or girl? Even before a person is born, that’s the first thing everyone wants to know - underscoring just how much value human societies of all types place on gender. In His Brain, Her Brain, we take a closer look at the anatomical, chemical, and functional differences in the brains of men and women - as well as some surprising similarities. For instance, studies of infants find few differences in cognitive skills between boys and girls; but there is no denying that boys love trucks, whereas girls prefer dolls.

Holistic brain health exercises, from body and brain games to good brain food. Health and science writer Sondra Kornblatt, along with the numerous experts she’s interviewed in A Better Brain for Better Aging, can help you put your head on straight through healthy activities for the body and stimulating exercises for good brain health. Improving your exercise, feeding your brain, and practicing simple movements can do wonders for your mental and physical health.

Are we really the masters of our own destiny? Neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shows how far our future is already hardwired in our brains. Like Sapiens and Thinking Fast and Slow, The Science of Fate revolutionises the way we understand our species and ourselves. So many of us believe that we...

A hard-hitting critique of how managed care and the selective use of science to privilege quick-fix therapies have undermined in-depth psychotherapy—to the detriment of patients and practitioners In recent decades there has been a decline in the quality and availability of psychotherapy in...

“Enough with speculation about our digital future. Infinite Reality is the straight dope on what is and isn’t happening to us right now, from two of the only scientists working on the boundaries between real life and its virtual extensions.” —Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be...

A Harvard researcher investigates the human eye in this insightful account of what vision reveals about intelligence, learning, and the greatest mysteries of neuroscience. Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science's great mysteries. And...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes a myriad of physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms that impact function and quality of life for those with the disease and those providing care. Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis is a practical guide for meeting the challenges of this lifelong, unpredictable disease.

Die Faszination für die Tiefen der menschlichen Seele begleitet uns seit Jahrhunderten: Wenn Mediziner*innen Fallgeschichten aus ihrer Praxis erzählen, dann hört man ihnen zu. Das Ärzteehepaar Nicole und Christian Knobloch behandelt in seiner Praxis seit über zwanzig Jahren Menschen mit psychiatrischen und neurologischen Erkrankungen. In zahlreichen Fallgeschichten berichten sie nun erstmals aus dem breiten Spektrum der Neurologie und Psychiatrie. So begegnet ihnen eine junge Mutter, deren ALS-Diagnose bereits ihr Leben überschattet – doch ihr Schlafzimmerblick bringt die Ärzte auf eine rettende Spur.