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National Geographic's riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain, disease, and everyday events. Drawing on centuries of research and interviews with leading...
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"SEE THROUGH THE LIES YOUR BRAIN TELLS YOU Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Your brain was wired this way when it evolved, primed to learn quickly from bad experiences, but not so much from the good ones. It's an ancient survival mechanism that turned the brain into Velcro for the negative, but Teflon for the positive. Life isn't easy, and having a brain wired to take in the bad...
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Considerada como una de las obras más influyentes del siglo xx en el campo de la psicología, El malestar en la cultura indaga en el efecto que sobre las pulsiones del individuo ha tenido el desarrollo de la civilización, como moldeadora pero también como represora del comportamiento humano. En efecto, Freud defiende la existencia de un antagonismo irreconciliable entre las pulsiones agresivas, innatas en los individuos, y la cultura, pues esta,...
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Modern times are stressful-and it's killing us. Unfortunately, we can't avoid the things that stress us out, but we can change how we respond to them. In this breakthrough book, a clinical psychologist and neuroscience expert offers an original approach to help readers harness the power of positive emotions and overcome stress for good. Stress is, unfortunately, a natural part of life-especially in our busy and hectic modern times. But you don't have...
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Publisher Annotation: After studying more than 200,000 brain scans of people from 155 countries, Dr. Amen has discovered five primary brain types and seven neuroscience secrets that influence happiness. In You, Happier, he explains them and offers practical, science-based strategies for optimizing your happiness. 352pp., 100K
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"Cognitive Learning" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the process of cognitive learning psychologically.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced systematically so students can learn and retain the materials intuitively....
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"How Freud, Jung, and Wilson Cured Addiction and the Treatment Industry Closed Its Ears: A Peer Reviewed Analysis of the Brain," lays out in critical detail how the theoretical foundation for the cure of addictions was in place a century before technological advances would support those findings. This volume presents to the world the only neuro-chemical diagnostic model for addictions based upon personality, as well as the first emotion regulation...
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A Short-Cut to Understanding Affective Neuroscience is a remarkable book that will appeal to academics and laymen, theoreticians and clinicians. Readers will appreciate Lucy Biven's thorough research and her straightforward language. She does not avoid complexity and uncertainty when addressing challenging questions in neuroscience.
-Donald Campbell: Past President and Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society
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An all-star lineup of scientists takes you to the front lines of brain research.
Are we born to be shy? Why do we remember some events so clearly and others not at all? Are creativity and depression somehow linked? Do our dreams really have deeper meanings?
Now in paperback, here is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the most important recent findings about how our health, behavior, feelings, and identities are influenced by what goes on inside...
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Get the Summary of Temple Grandin's Visual Thinking in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Temple Grandin's "Visual Thinking" delves into the distinctions between visual and verbal thinkers, with Grandin herself being a visual thinker. She categorizes visual thinkers into object visualizers and spatial visualizers, each with unique strengths. Grandin's visual thinking has been pivotal in her work with animal behavior...
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Determinism is the doctrine that everything we think, feel, believe, and do is caused by factors outside our control-that we have no choice regarding our character, our thoughts, our actions, our lives. There have been many forms of determinism but the one that is most popular today is based on neuroscience, with the enthusiastic support of many psychologists, philosophers, and physical scientists (e.g., physicists). This version argues that we are...
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Sea Lavender "Time and memory are inextricably linked, without one there cannot be either.”
Imagine if it were possible to explore another’s' memory in vivid sense-surround virtual reality...finding and recording, erasing or supplanting life's forgotten recollections. Experimental neuroscientist Doctor Elizabeth's Graham has done just that by developing powerful tools to navigate through distant memories and uncover long lost secrets. Unknown...
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Get the Summary of Lisa Feldman Barrett's How Emotions Are Made in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Lisa Feldman Barrett's research challenges the classical view of emotions as innate and universal. She introduces the concept of "emotional granularity," showing that emotions are not linked to distinct physical patterns or neural fingerprints. Instead, emotions are constructed by the brain through a process called...
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A new term has emerged from the disability movement in the past decade to help change the way we think about neurological disorders: Neurodiversity.
ADHD. Dyslexia. Autism. The number of categories of illnesses listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the past fifty years. With so many people affected by our growing - culture of disabilities, - it no longer makes sense to hold on to the deficit-ridden idea of neuropsychological...
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Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the mysteries of literary creativity: the drive to write, what sparks it, and what extinguishes it. She draws on intriguing examples from medical case studies and from the lives of writers, from Franz Kafka...
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Have you ever felt out of place? Nearly everyone has experienced that sort of unease in one context or another, but prior experience serves to remind them that the feeling will pass. Imagine, then, living over 40 years as a virtual outsider – always feeling like you don't belong among humanity, but never able to come to grips with the reason why. You try to join in conversations, but your poor timing and difficulty relating to others serves only...
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