Dana Press: 12 books
Cerebrum 2010
Emerging Ideas in Brain Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Cerebrum 2010 offers a feast for readers keen to know what the world’s leading thinkers see as the newest ideas and implications arising from discoveries about the brain. Drawn from Cerebrum’s highly regarded Web edition, this fourth annual collection brings together the foremost experts in brain...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
How can discoveries in neuroscience influence America’s criminal justice system? Neuroscience and the Law examines the growing involvement of neuroscience in legal proceedings and considers how scientific advances challenge our existing concepts of justice. Based on an invitational meeting convened...
A Well-Tempered Mind
Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
A Well-Tempered Mind investigates the intriguing connection between music education and brain development in children. Peter Perret and Janet Fox use the details of an innovative music education program for elementary school students to explore this fascinating relationship. A Well-Tempered Mind describes...
The Creating Brain
The Neuroscience of Genius
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Michelangelo was raised in a rustic village by a family of modest means. Shakespeare's father was a middle-class businessman. Abraham Lincoln came from a family of itinerant farmers. Yet all these men broke free from their limited circumstances and achieved brilliant careers as creative artists and...
Treating the Brain
What the Best Doctors Know
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Even in this information age, it is a daunting task to find clear, concise, and credible sources for essential medical facts. And for those dealing with the symptoms of often serious neurological disorders, finding trustworthy and straightforward information is gravely important.
Treating the...
A Good Start in Life
Understanding Your Child's Brain and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
The social and cognitive development of children is a complex yet crucial process for parents to understand, and though there are numerous books on child development, A Good Start in Life stands out from the rest as an acclaimed and important work on the connections between childhood brain and behavioral...
by Michael S. Gazzaniga
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2005
Will increased scientific understanding of our brains overturn our beliefs about moral and ethical behavior? How will increasingly powerful brain imaging technologies affect the ideas of privacy and of self-incrimination? Such thought-provoking questions are rapidly emerging as new discoveries in...
The Temperamental Thread
How Genes, Culture, Time and Luck make Us Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Temperament is the single most pervasive aspect of us and our fellow human beings. We notice it; we gossip about it; we make judgments based on it; we unconsciously shape our lives around it.
In The Temperamental Thread, developmental psychologist Jerome Kagan draws on decades of research to...
by Bruce S. McEwen, Elizabeth Lasley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The End of Stress as We Know It provides readers with the "gold standard" in understanding how their bodies work under stress and why they have the power to avoid its debilitating effects. Bruce McEwen, Ph.D., one of the world's authorities on the subject of stress, here provides unshakable...
Deep Brain Stimulation
A New Treatment Shows Promise in the Most Difficult Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
There are disorders that defy treatment with prescribed pharmaceuticals: a man’s hands shake so hard that he cannot hold anything; a woman is mired in severe inescapable depression. For these patients and others, an alternative is emerging: deep brain stimulation. In this fascinating and timely...
Try to Remember
Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory, and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In the 1990s a disturbing trend emerged in psychotherapy: patients began accusing their parents and other close relatives of sexual abuse, as a result of false “recovered memories” urged onto them by therapists practicing new methods of treatment. The subsequent loss of public confidence in psychotherapy...
The Neuroscience of Fair Play
Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
We remember the admonition of our mothers: “Treat others as you want them to treat you.” But what if being nice was something we were inclined by nature to do anyway? Renowned neuroscientist Donald Pfaff upends our entire understanding of ethics and social contracts with an intriguing proposition:...