Brain Science
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Mary-Frances O'Connor The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
Neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD has devoted decades to researching the effects of grief on the brain, and in this book, she makes cutting-edge neuroscience accessible through her contagious enthusiasm, and guides us through how we encode love and grief. With love, our neurons help us form attachments to others; but, with loss, our brain must come to terms with where our loved ones went, or how to imagine a future that encompasses their absence. Based on O'Connor's own trailblazing neuroimaging work, research in the field, and her real-life stories, The Grieving Brain combines storytelling, accessible science, and practical knowledge that will help us better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace.
$21.99
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The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think
This book explores the latest breakthroughs in male psychology and neurology with Dr.Louann Brizendine's trademark accessibility and candor. Readers are introduced into the male reality, through insights suggesting that the male brain is a lean, mean, problem-solving machine that thrives under competition, instinctively plays rough and is obsessed with rank and hierarchy. It has an area for sexual pursuit, and experiences such a massive increase in testosterone at puberty that he perceive others' faces to be more aggressive. Impeccably researched and at the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, this is a book that every man, and especially every woman bedeviled by a man, will need to own.
$22.99
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Douglas J. Mason The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workbook: Your Program for Regaining Cognitive Function and Overcoming Emotional Pain
A blow to the head or the dramatic acceleration and deceleration that occur in a serious car crash can cause a traumatic injury to the brain. At their most serious, these events are critical and life threatening, but even a mild incident can cause problems with memory, communication, and mental focus. What’s worse, this kind of cognitive function loss often causes other psychological symptoms like depression and low self-esteem. Fortunately, there are things anyone can do to recover from a mild traumatic brain injury, get back lost cognitive ability, and restore a healthy frame of mind. If you or someone you love has suffered a mild traumatic brain injury, this engaging workbook will help you: •Learn the causes and symptoms of MTBI•Understand the brain injury recovery timeline•Manage medical care and set realistic goals for recovery•Recover memory, communication, and visuospatial ability•Cope with related symptoms like depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem
$41.95
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Daniel J. Levitin The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight In The Age Of Information Overload
In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, Ph.D., uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how people excel in the information age-and how readers can use these methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and lives. With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to gambling in Las Vegas, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to daily life. His practical suggestions call for relatively minor changes that require little effort but will have remarkable long-term benefits for mental and physical health, productivity, and creativity.
$25.00
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Gail Saltz The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius
A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between the potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be “disabilities,” revealing how the source of our struggles can be the origin of our greatest strengths.In The Power of Different, psychiatrist and bestselling author Gail Saltz examines the latest scientific discoveries, profiles famous geniuses who have been diagnosed with all manner of brain “problems”—including learning disabilities, ADD, anxiety, Depression, Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and Autism—and tells the stories of lay individuals to demonstrate how specific deficits in certain areas of the brain are directly associated with the potential for great talent. Saltz shows how the very conditions that cause people to experience difficulty at school, in social situations, at home, or at work, are inextricably bound to creative, disciplinary, artistic, empathetic, and cognitive abilities.In this pioneering work, readers will find engaging scientific research and stories from historical geniuses and everyday individuals who have not only made the most of their conditions, but who have flourished because of them. They are leaning into their brain differences to:*Identify areas of interest and expertise*Develop work arounds*Create the environments that best foster their talents*Forge rewarding interpersonal relationshipsEnlightening and inspiring, The Power of Different proves that the unique wiring of every brain can be a source of strength and productivity, and contributes to the richness of our world.
$23.95
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Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired
Parenting isn’t easy. Showing up is. Your greatest impact begins right where you are. Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood. One of the very best scientific predictors for how any child turns out—in terms of happiness, academic success, leadership skills, and meaningful relationships—is whether at least one adult in their life has consistently shown up for them. In an age of scheduling demands and digital distractions, showing up for your child might sound like a tall order. But as bestselling authors Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson reassuringly explain, it doesn’t take a lot of time, energy, or money. Instead, showing up means offering a quality of presence. And it’s simple to provide once you understand the four building blocks of a child’s healthy development. Every child needs to feel what Siegel and Bryson call the Four S’s:• Safe: We can’t always insulate a child from injury or avoid doing something that leads to hurt feelings. But when we give a child a sense of safe harbor, she will be able to take the needed risks for growth and change.• Seen: Truly seeing a child means we pay attention to his emotions—both positive and negative—and strive to attune to what’s happening in his mind beneath his behavior.• Soothed: Soothing isn’t about providing a life of ease; it’s about teaching your child how to cope when life gets hard, and showing him that you’ll be there with him along the way. A soothed child knows that he’ll never have to suffer alone.• Secure: When a child knows she can count on you, time and again, to show up—when you reliably provide safety, focus on seeing her, and soothe her in times of need, she will trust in a feeling of secure attachment. And thrive!Based on the latest brain and attachment research, The Power of Showing Up shares stories, scripts, simple strategies, illustrations, and tips for honoring the Four S’s effectively in all kinds of situations—when our kids are struggling or when they are enjoying success; when we are consoling, disciplining, or arguing with them; and even when we are apologizing for the times we don’t show up for them. Demonstrating that mistakes and missteps are repairable and that it’s never too late to mend broken trust, this book is a powerful guide to cultivating your child’s healthy emotional landscape.
$39.00
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Alfred David The Secret Life of the Brain: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Mind
This book explores the fascinating advances that have been made in neuroscience, from the intricacies of memory and intelligence, to the enigmatic workings behind our sense of humor and our dreams. Full of illuminating illustrations and diagrams, this book lifts the lid on how drugs affect the brain; the science behind addiction; how the brain deals with trauma and pain; and how love, age and sex affect the brain. Finally, there is insight into cutting-edge scientific theories. The Secret Life of the Brain is written in accessible language for all readers who want to know more about a complex science.
$24.95
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Nicholas Carr The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet's intellectual and cultural consequences yet published.
$29.95
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The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home
Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong executive skills—the core brain-based abilities needed to maintain focus, meet deadlines, and stay cool under pressure. In this essential guide, leading experts Peg Dawson and Richard Guare help you map your own executive skills profile and take effective steps to boost your organizational skills, time management, emotional control, and nine other essential capacities.
$24.95
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Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson The Whole Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activities to Nurture Developing Minds
The Whole-Brain Child Workbook has a unique, interactive approach that allows readers not only to think more deeply about how the ideas fit their own parenting approach, but also develop specific and practical ways to implement the concepts -- and bring them to life for themselves and for their children. Includes: Dozens of clear, practical and age-specific exercises and activities; Applications for clinicians, parents, educators, grandparents and care-givers; and more!
$43.95
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Michael Pollan This Is Your Mind On Plants
Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs opium, caffeine, and mescaline and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. In this unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively as a drug, whether licit or illicit. Pollan discusses when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Pollan is also author of many other books including How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, also available at ODIN BOOKS.
$24.00
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Train Your Brain Card Deck
The Train Your Brain Card Deck gives trauma survivors tangible, body-based interventions to retrain the brain and release themselves from the effects of trauma. Developed by trauma expert Dr. Jennifer Sweeton, the techniques in the deck target 5 areas of the brain to help trauma survivors: reduce anxiety and reactivity, develop greater body awareness, boost memory and concentration, regulate strong emotions, improve self-esteem.
$39.95
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Trauma and Memory
Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and utilizing case studies from his own practice, Dr. Levine suggests that although memory can be trusted, he argues that the only truly useful memories are those that might initially seem to be the least reliable: memories stored in the body and not necessarily accessible by our conscious mind. While much work has been done in the field of trauma studies to address "explicit" traumatic memories in the brain (such as intrusive thoughts or flashbacks), much less attention has been paid to how the body itself stores "implicit" memory, and how much of what we think of as "memory" actually comes to us through our (often unconsciously accessed) felt sense.
$28.50
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Traumatized Brain: A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior after Brain Injury
In The Traumatized Brain, neuropsychiatrists Drs. Vani Rao and Sandeep Vaishnavi explain how traumatic brain injury affects the brain. They advise readers on how emotional symptoms such as depression, anxiety, mania, and apathy can be treated; how behavioral symptoms such as psychosis, aggression, impulsivity, and sleep disturbances can be addressed; and how cognitive functions like attention, memory, executive functioning, and language can be improved. They also discuss headaches, seizures, vision problems, and other neurological symptoms of traumatic brain injury. By stressing that symptoms are real and are directly related to the trauma, Rao and Vaishnavi hope to restore dignity to people with traumatic brain injury and encourage them to ask for help. Each chapter incorporates case studies and suggestions for appropriate medications, counseling, and other treatments and ends with targeted tips for coping. The book also includes a useful glossary, a list of resources, and suggestions for further reading.
$28.95
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Use Both Sides Of Your Brain
New Mind-Mapping Techniques To Help You Raise All Levels Of Your Intelligence And Creativity - Based On The Latest Discoveries About The Human Brain Using the latest research on the workings of the human brain, Tony Buzan provides step-by-step exercises for discovering the powers of the right side of the brain and learning to use the left side more effectively. He teaches us how to read faster and more effectively, how to study more efficiently and increase overall memory, how language and imagery can be used for recording, organizing, remembering, creative thinking and problem-solving. 3rd Edition
$22.95
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Temple Grandin Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
With her genius for demystifying science, Temple Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed and a more varied one, from photo-realistic object visualizers like Grandin, with an intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to abstract, mathematically inclined visual spatial thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She helps us understand how a world geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, she proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers.
$37.99
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Dr. Lise Eliot What's Going on in There? (Brain Development in Early Childhood)
How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life This book discuss the brain's development from conception through the critical first five years and explores the evolution of the senses, motor skills, social and emotional behaviors, and mental functions such as attention, language, memory, reasoning, and intelligence. This remarkable book also analyzes how a baby's brain is "assembled" from scratch, the critical prenatal factors that shape brain development, how the birthing process itself affects the brain, which forms of stimulation are most effective at promoting cognitive development, and how nutrition, stress, and other physical and social factors can permanently affect a child's brain.
$29.00
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Kenneth Nunn, Tanya Hanstock, Bryan Lask, Linn Iril Hjelseth Who's Who Of The Brain: A Guide To Its Inhabitants, Where They Live And What They Do
Residents include Frederick Foresight (the frontal cortex), Mayor of Cephalton-upon-Ridge, who is the `big picture' person responsible for planning and decision-making; Sage Seahorse (the hippocampus), who has an astonishing memory for times, names and places; Annie Almond (the amygdala), the community's alarm system who is always on the alert; and many other fellow citizens. Each character is introduced and their appearance, role and key functions in the brain explained. The authors also show what happens when things go wrong in the brain, and illustrate the work using examples of classic clinical cases.
$35.95
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Louis Cozolino Why Therapy Works
Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino explains the mechanisms of psychotherapeutic change from the bottom up, beginning with the brain, and how brains have evolved especially how brains evolved to learn, unlearn, and relearn, which is at the basis of lasting psychological change. The book also shows how our brains have evolved into social organs and how our interpersonal lives are a source of both pain and power. Readers will explore with Cozolino how our brains are programmed to connect in intimate relationships and come to understand the debilitating effects of anxiety, stress, and trauma. Finally, the book will lead to an understanding of the power of story and narratives for fostering self-regulation, neural integration, and positive change.
$33.95
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Charan Ranganath Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present, and to imagine and plan for the future.
$23.00
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Adrian Barton Wired for Music: A Search For Health And Joy Through The Science Of Sound
In this captivating blend of science and memoir, a health journalist and former cellist explores music as a source of health, resilience, connection, and joy. Music isn’t just background noise or a series of torturous exercises we remember from piano lessons. In the right doses, it can double as a mild antidepressant, painkiller, sleeping pill, memory aid—and enhance athletic performance while supporting healthy aging. Though music has been used as a healing strategy since ancient times, neuroscientists have only recently discovered how melody and rhythm stimulate core memory, motor, and emotion centers in the brain. But here’s the catch: We can tune into music every day and still miss out on some of its potent effects. Adriana Barton learned the hard way. Starting at age five, she studied the cello for nearly two decades, a pursuit that left her with physical injuries and emotional scars. In Wired for Music, she sets out to discover what music is really for, combing through medical studies, discoveries by pioneering neuroscientists, and research from biology and anthropology. Traveling from state-of-the-art science labs to a remote village in Zimbabwe, her investigation gets to the heart of music’s profound effects on the human body and brain. Blending science and story, Wired for Music shows how our species’ age-old connection to melody and rhythm is wired inside us.
$32.95
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Amy Banks, Leigh Ann Hirschman Wired to Connect: The Surprising Link: Between Brain Science and Strong, Healthy Relationships
Research shows that people cannot reach their full potential unless they are in healthy connection with others. The key to more satisfying relationships be it with a significant other, a family member, or a colleague is to strengthen the neural pathways in our brains that encourage closeness and connection. Learn how to rewire your brain for healthier relationships and happier, more fulfilling lives by providing a road map for developing the four distinct neural pathways in the brain that underlie the four most important ingredients for close relationships: calmness, acceptance, emotional resonance, and energy. It includes brain exercises for building better relationships.
$35.95
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Elisa Nebolsine Your Amazing Teen Brain: CBT and Neuroscience Skills to Stress Less, Balance Emotions, and Strengthen Your Growing Mind
These brain hacks will help you make the most of your growing mind, deal with ALL the feelings, build friendships, and face life’s challenges with confidence. These skills grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and neuroscience help you manage difficult emotions, build better relationships, and face challenges from academic pressure to social drama. You’ll also understand how your brain works and why teen years are so intense. These are real skills you can use to stay cool when emotions take over.
$28.95
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Your Fantastic Elastic Brain
Winner of six awards: Academics’ Choice “Smart Book” Award; PubWest Book Design Gold Award; Mom’s Choice Gold Award; Moonbeam Silver Award, Nautilus Silver Award, and The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, this book is a sequel to The Owner’s Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain "Did you know you can stretch and grow your own brain? Or making mistakes helps your brain learn? Just like how lifting weights helps your muscles get stronger, trying new things without giving up strengthens your brain. An excellent choice.
$28.95
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