Neuropsychology category: 992 books
Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot
Unleashing Your Brain's Potential
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot, eminent neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author Richard Restak, M.D., combines the latest research in neurology and psychology to show us how to get our brain up to speed for managing every aspect of our busy lives.
Everything we think and everything...
by Rachel Herz, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
"A lively look at all things revolting." —New York Times Book Review
Why do we watch horror movies? What is the best way to persuade someone to quit smoking? And what on earth is the appeal of competitive eating? In this lively, colorful book, Rachel Herz answers these questions...
Seized
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as a Medical, Historical, and Artistic Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Seized is a narrative portrait of a common brain disorder that can alter personality, illuminating the mind-body problem and the limits of free will. An invaluable resource for anyone touched by epilepsy, Seized gives first-hand accounts of three ordinary patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE),...
by Steven Carley
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
“Case Studies” documents personal tragedies over the course of the twentieth century often pertaining to uncontrollable health ailments. At other times these tragedies may or may not be at the hands of another. In either case making the transition from healthy to unhealthy can be a difficult endeavor....
by Samantha Fumagalli
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 17, 2017
È risaputo che i cambiamenti climatici e stagionali e le brusche variazioni di temperatura possono causare vari stati di malessere, come mal di testa, instabilità d'umore, ansia, insonnia, irritabilità, episodi depressivi, comportamenti aggressivi e persino problemi cardiaci e vascolari.
Meno noto...
Brainstorm
The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In this New York Times–bestselling book, Dr. Daniel Siegel shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children’s lives into one of the most rewarding.
Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging...
The Spiritual Brain
A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard shows that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. He offers compelling evidence that religious...
Within Reason
Rationality and Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous?
In Within Reason, leading neurologist...
Neuroscience and Religion
Brain, Mind, Self, and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
For religious persons, the notion of human being is tied inextricably to the notion of God (or the gods) and turns on this question: what is human being? How did we, with our almost infinite capacities for thought, change, and domination, come to be? Imbued with powers far beyond any other animal,...
An Anthropologist on Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver...
by Siri Hustvedt
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition
While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly...
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The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
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...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace.
Drawn...