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The True Story of How Barbara Arrowsmith-Young Used Brain Science to Help Children with Learning Disabilities Did you know our brain is plastic?!That's right: because "plastic" means it can change. She created her own brain improvement program, and opened the Arrowsmith School in 1980 to bring the program to other students. Today there are over 100 schools offering the program around the world. The program can also help adults who have brain injuries from stroke or accidents. This book shows how children with learning disabilities and people who have suffered brain injuries can change their brains.

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An Introduction to the World of Neurodiversity This inspirational children's guide by a neurodiverse author challenges misconceptions and shows how differently neurodivergent brains work. Children aged 7-9 learn about individuals with awesome abilities and the advocates who challenge neurodiversity stereotypes. Easy-to-understand, kid-friendly explanations help explain the importance of neurodiverse children having a safe space to feel accepted. Informative, inclusive text, illustrations, with font and color choices designed for both neurodiverse and neurotypical readers have been used. Combining neurodiversity with science, history, and brain-bursting facts, this book will inspire young readers to celebrate everyone's differences.

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Grandin and Panek explore neuroimaging, genetics, and brain science in this book. Readers get an insider's look at what causes autism, how it can be treated and diagnosed. Though coauthored, the narrative is largely told from Grandin's point of view, with many first-person references. Grandin and Panek discuss current practices related to the treatment of autism.

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If the conscious mind-the part you consider you-is just the tip of the iceberg in the brain, what is all the rest doing? Neuroscientist David Eagleman plumbs the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising questions: Why can your foot jump halfway to the brake pedal before you are consciously aware of danger ahead? What do Odysseus and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Why are people whose name begins with J more likely to marry other people whose name begins with J? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? Why did Supreme Court Justice William Douglas deny that he was paralyzed? This subsurface exploration includes diversions into brain damage, drugs, infidelity, synesthesia, criminal law, the future of artificial intelligence, and visual illusions-all highlighting how our perception of the world is a hidden and awe-inspiring construction of the brain.

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Writing for both EMDR therapists and substance abuse counselors, Laurel Parnell provides user-friendly tools to help support clients in recovery with EMDR-based techniques that can be easily integrated into all levels of addiction treatment. Emphasizing the practical clinical application of principles and techniques helpful for addictions and addictive disorders, this book interweaves case material throughout the text, with some chapters presenting in-depth cases to illustrate the techniques. Topics include treating trauma and supporting resilience, tools for affect regulation, and rewiring the motivation-reward circuits.

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Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and emphatic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the advanced world, Daniel Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are essential for professional success and personal fulfillment- -and reveals how to master them. From a laughter club in Bombay, to an inner-city high school devoted to design, to a lesson on how to detect an insincere smile, A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and offers a provocative and urgent new way of thinking about a future that has already arrived.

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Skills for people to learn to be with themselves in the healthiest way possible. Have you ever noticed how cruel and self-sabotaging your critical inner voice can be? Have you been looking outside of yourself for friends and loved ones to reassure you of your worthiness and lovability?

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Tap into the power of neurobiology to create healthy boundaries and more authentic connections with others.Do you struggle to set boundaries with others in your life? Has your past conditioned you to expect pushback when setting boundaries, or caused you to give up on trying to set boundaries altogether? The prospect of setting boundaries can be scary and intimidating, and can put you in a very vulnerable place where your mental health and well-being may even be at risk. There is a science to creating boundaries—one that will empower you, deepen your connection with others, and improve your self-esteem.Setting Boundaries That Stick offers a scientific, neurobiological approach to boundary work. This unique guide will teach you to set healthy boundaries from the inside out by cultivating an “integrated brain,” which allows you to respond to others with intention, rather than simply reacting based on instinct. Also included are exercises and activities to help you understand and create both physical and psychological boundaries, thereby building a solid, holistic framework for a more authentic sense of connection with others.It’s time to set boundaries in a way that empowers you to protect yourself, while also improving your relationships. By working from the inside out, this book will help you set healthy boundaries that actually stick. Tap into the power of neurobiology to create healthy boundaries and more authentic connections with others.Do you struggle to set boundaries with others in your life? Has your past conditioned you to expect pushback when setting boundaries, or caused you to give up on trying to set boundaries altogether? The prospect of setting boundaries can be scary and intimidating, and can put you in a very vulnerable place where your mental health and well-being may even be at risk. There is a science to creating boundaries—one that will empower you, deepen your connection with others, and improve your self-esteem. Setting Boundaries That Stick offers a scientific, neurobiological approach to boundary work. This unique guide will teach you to set healthy boundaries from the inside out by cultivating an “integrated brain,” which allows you to respond to others with intention, rather than simply reacting based on instinct. Also included are exercises and activities to help you understand and create both physical and psychological boundaries, thereby building a solid, holistic framework for a more authentic sense of connection with others.It’s time to set boundaries in a way that empowers you to protect yourself, while also improving your relationships. By working from the inside out, this book will help you set healthy boundaries that actually stick.

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78 Brain-Changing Mindfulness & Yoga Practices Transform your feelings of anxiety, depression and unworthiness into loving self-acceptance. Mindfulness and yoga authority Mary NurrieStearns has created a compassionate and practical workbook that provides a caring healing journey. 78 brain-changing practices help focus on life-enhancing thoughts and actions, which leads to self-understanding, and living with meaning and peace. The book has an interactive format with journaling prompts. Included are step-by-step mindful yoga poses, tips to reduce self-blame, insightful sections to aid in learning to take care of emotions, practices to undo shame, tools for cultivating mindful contentment. BONUS: Clinician treatment notes for each chapter.

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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.

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All of us struggle to find the get-up-and-go we need sometimes, but when prolonged stress and anxiety begin to affect your ability to focus, concentrate, remember, solve problems, or communicate effectively on a regular basis, these symptoms may point to something more than just a stressful week. Based on cutting-edge research, Overcoming Stress-Induced Brain Fog offers quick solutions you can put to work right away, including exercises based in awareness, mindfulness and acceptance, and self-compassion.

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This book is a first-aid kit for better sleep includes simple techniques - acupressure, reflexology, breathing exercises, guided imagery - to relieve occasional sleeplessness and reduce the effects of jetlag in five minutes or less.

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