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If you've ever wondered why you seem to get trapped in an endless cycle of obsessive, compulsive thoughts, you don't have to wonder anymore. Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience and evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Rewire Your OCD Brain will show you how and why your brain gets stuck in a loop of obsessive thinking, uncertainty, and worry; and offers the tools you need to short-circuit this response and get your symptoms under control for good. You'll also find tons of proven-effective coping strategies to help you manage your worst symptoms including relaxation, exercise, healthy sleep habits, cognitive restructuring, cognitive diffusion, distraction, and mindfulness.

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Winner of a Bronze 2014 Moonbeam Children's Book Award! Discover the workings of the body's most complex organ! How does the brain control the rest of the body? How does it enable the senses to function, regulate speech, affect balance, and influence sleep and dreams? These 25 illustrations to color explain every aspect of the brain's important jobs, from communicating with the central nervous system to retaining memories. Suitable for ages 8-12.

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Remarkable Discoveries And Recoveries From The Frontiers Of Neuroplasticity The brain can heal itself healthy neurons can take over the functions of broken or missing ones if we guide it correctly. Norman Doidge chronicles patients, doctors and researchers who are exploring new ways to deal with human problems. He introduces patients who have damage to their brains from strokes, trauma, multiple sclerosis, Parkinsons disease, autism and other conditions. Doidge explains the processes of the brain and body in an understandable way, and relates stories of patients who hobble into labs and medical offices on canes and leave without them after their first visit.

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Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior In Brain Lock, Jeffrey M. Schwartz presents a simple four-step method for overcoming OCD that is so effective, it's now used in academic treatment centers throughout the world. Proven by brain-imaging tests to actually alter the brain's chemistry, this method doesn't rely on psycho-pharmaceuticals. Instead, patients use cognitive self-therapy and behavior modification to develop new patterns of response to their obsessions. In essence, they use the mind to fix the brain. Using the real-life stories of actual patients, Brain Lock explains this revolutionary method and provides readers with the inspiration and tools to free themselves from their psychic prisons and regain control of their lives.

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Learn all about sensory signals and how your brain and body communicate (also called interoception) through interactive, playful riddles in this STEM-filled book. This interactive book teaches kids how to deal with overwhelming sensory feelings. Includes pull-tabs that reveal the answers to the playful riddles and endnotes include more information about interoception and lift-the-flap games to reinforce learning.

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Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

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Based on leading neurobiological research, Keep Your Brain Alive introduces a regimen of mental cross-training-a series of deceptively simple exercises that help stimulate the production of natural growth factors called neurotrophins, which in turn grow brain cells and keep the brain younger and stronger. And nothing so easily stimulates the brain as breaking routines and using the five senses in new and unexpected ways. So if you're right-handed, wake up tomorrow and brush your teeth with your left hand. Or close your eyes before you get in the car and insert the key into the ignition. Every time you open a new circuit in your brain, it's like doing a round of mental sit-ups.

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Written for those with ADHD and anyone wishing make better use of their time, this book has effective strategies for combating problems related to inattention, procrastination, disorganization, mismanagement of time, and poor planning. It begins by carefully explaining the neurologic underpinnings of ADHD and focusing on specific executive functions: the brain-based processes that assist in planning, initiating, and carrying out tasks to complete projects. Then using exercises designed to identify areas that need addressing, it aims to "tune up" these executive functions for maximum productivity. This guide includes specific recommendations for improving distractibility, working memory, attention, organization, time management, and response inhibition deficits. With strategies based in the science of how the ADHD brain processes information, this reference bridges the gap between knowledge and action.

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The brain is not hardwired, David Eagleman contends--it is livewired. With his theory of info tropism, he demonstrates why the fundamental principle of the brain is information maximization: in the same way that plants grow toward light, brains reconfigure to boost data from the outside world. Learn how a child can function with one half of his brain removed, how a blind man can hit a baseball via a sensor on his tongue, how new devices and body plans can enhance our natural capacities, how paralyzed people will soon be able to dance in thought-controlled robotic suits, how we can build next generation devices based on the principles of the brain, and what all this has to do with why we dream at night.

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A young child's brain grows at a phenomenal rate in the first years of life. Revised and updated to reflect the latest research on how children learn, 125 Brain Games for Toddlers and Twos is packed with everyday opportunities to contribute to brain development. Each game is accompanied by an annotation on the latest brain research and how the activity promotes brain power in the critical period from twelve to thirty-six months. Also available from ODIN BOOKS (priced separately): 125 Brain Games for Babies; Games to Play with Babies; Games to Play with Toddlers

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Albert Einstein. Steve Jobs. Katharine Johnson. These geniuses are all visual thinkers. Are you?Do you like puzzles, coding, and taking things apart? Do you write stories, act in plays, slay at Wordle? The things you are good at are clues to how your brain works. Are you good at math? Working with your hands? Are you a neat freak or a big mess?With her knack for making science easy to understand, Temple Grandin explains different types of thinkers: verbal thinkers who are good with language, and visual thinkers who think in pictures and patterns. You will discover all kinds of minds and how we need to work together to create solutions to help solve real-world problems.

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In this practical yet powerful guide, psychologist and neuroscience expert Catherine Pittman, author of Rewire Your Anxious Brain introduces 50 new ways to work with your brain's neural connections to find lasting, effective relief from your worst anxiety symptoms. The chapters of this book can be used in any order, as needed, to give you the information you need to act now, whether you're at home or on the go. Also included are quick skills to help you soothe an anxious or stressed-out brain through physical movement, identify what you care about, and banish toxic thinking before it leads to rumination.

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