Nervous System category: 536 books
Multiple Sclerosis
Tips and Strategies for Making Life Easier, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An MS diagnosis presents many unanswered questions: How is this diagnosis going to change my life? Where do I begin? How will I manage to take care of my family, work, and travel? No one knows the answers to these questions better than Shelley Peterman Schwarz, who has lived nearly forty years with...
A New Prescription for Addiction
A Comprehensive Treatment Plan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
A New Prescription for Addiction relates a story of discovery for the author, Richard I. Gracer, MD, a long time family physician and pain specialist. In the early 2000's a new law (DATA2000) was passed by Congress, allowing the use of a novel medication , buprenorphine (Suboxone), for the office based...
by Stellah Mupanduki
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Let’s go random! Announce! This amazing healing blog book has random blogging that is meant to exhort, inform, guide, motivate and lead readers to places of peace and salvation. When you have this helping random blogging book of tags, books and healing expressions blogs you move with wisdom and...
Save Your Mind
Seven Rules to Avoid Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
This practical and informative book says that you can avoid dementia and the loss of control that accompanies this brain disease by following the author’s seven specific rules to exercise the brain and body. From the winner of Canada’s most prestigious science award, The Canada Gairdner Awards this...
by Patti Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades...
Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember
The Stroke That Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at age thirty-three.
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on the morning of December 31, 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world—quite literally—upside down. By New Year’s Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours...
Front of the Class
How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
As a child with Tourette syndrome, Brad Cohen was ridiculed, beaten, mocked, and shunned. Children, teachers, and even family members found it difficult to be around him. As a teen, he was viewed by many as purposefully misbehaving, even though he had little power over the twitches and noises he produced,...
Silent Body, Vibrant Mind
Living With Motor Neurone Disease
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In 2001 Peter Anderson was 37 and had the perfect life: very much in love and recently married with an infant daughter he adored; an intelligent and sensitive man working a job he loved as a popular secondary school teacher and a talented sportsman training for a marathon...
The bubble was...
Against Football
One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
**A New York Times Best Seller
“Powerful...an important read." *—Publishers Weekly
New York Times* bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America’s biggest sacred cow: football**
In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no...
by Kathrin Lemler, Stefan Gemmel
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Bien que Kathrin ne puisse pas parler, elle a beaucoup de choses à dire. C'était son souhait de montrer ce qui est important pour elle. À l'âge de dix ans elle raconte sa vie quotidienne à l'école et à la maison. Huit ans plus tard Kathrin prépare son baccalauréat et nous fait savoir lors d'une interview ce qu'elle pense et comment elle se sent maintenant.
Disorders of the Brain
A Guide to Mental Illnesses
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Mental illness has been recognized in people dating back to days of Ancient Greece and Rome. A number of disturbances that were described included feelings of melancholy, hysteria and phobias. The concept that mental illness must be related to biology was first considered by Hippocrates. While at...
Brain Storms
The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2015 - Publishers Weekly
A star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease
Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's, and doctors, researchers, and patients continue to hunt for a cure. In Brain...
Head Strong
The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
From the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and author of the bestselling The Bulletproof Diet comes a revolutionary plan to upgrade your brainpower—in two weeks or less.
For the last decade, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey has worked with world-renowned doctors and scientists to uncover...
by Bob Kern
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
It is pure torture to watch a loved one slowly lose everything and know there is nothing that can be done for them.
It is so important to reassure your loved ones during the early stages of this disease. The more worked up they get, the more inept and useless they feel. Nobody should feel...