Nervous System The Brain category: 536 books

Andrew N. Wilner is a recipient of the Click 2008 AAN Journalism Fellowship Award! The Epilepsy Foundation estimates that 2.7 million Americans have epilepsy, and that an additional 181,000 new cases are diagnosed every year. Being diagnosed with any chronic disease can cause confusion and...

• Comprehensive, up-to-date information on the diagnosis and treatment of early Alzheimer's • Learn about the latest therapies, safest medications, and most effective alternatives • How to help manage and prevent memory loss through proper diet, vitamins, herbs, and simple lifestyle...

If you've been told by your doctor, "You have Parkinson's disease," you probably found it difficult to hear those words. Such a diagnosis can be frightening and leave you filled with questions. How will it affect your life? What are your treatment options? These authors are uniquely qualified...

A comprehensive guide for service members, veterans, and their families dealing with the all-too-common repercussions of combat duty, including traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, chronic pain and musculoskeletal injury, and substance abuse. Written...

Post Traumatic Stress DisorderIs this the hero of whom I have readCurled up in a blanket on the hospital bedHe twisted and turned as he sleptThis dreaming savior of people weptHe saw the number of people trapped in a burning office buildingAnd some that jumped to their death to escape...

When Julie and her husband, Tim, were preparing for the birth of their first child, they had no idea that their lives were about to change on a much greater scale than what they had anticipated. Their daughter, Meredith, unexpectedly suffered complications at birth resulting in a significant brain...

In our modern world, we're bombarded by so many electromagnetic waves it's been called "electromagnetic pollution." It comes from appliances like hairdryers, refrigerators, computers, microwave ovens, air conditioners, compact fluorescent bulbs, vacuum cleaners and, of course, cell phones....

If you suffer from migraines and are looking for a cure, this book is for you. "The Real Cure For Migraines" doesn't rely on old wives tales or third-hand information. This book is the result of personal experience and twenty years of research, trial and error, and intense study. It provides...

In early September a woman known only as 'Linda' walked into a Toronto homeless shelter. She was well-dressed, without identification and completely lost to herself. Within weeks, police launched a continent-wide search to find out who she was. Toronto Star reporter Sandro Contenta stumbled onto Linda's...

Psychotherapy is a part of psychology that deals with the treatment of disorders of the mind. Are in fact many people who suffer from a psychological disorder, and in particular of some form of neurosis. The neuroses are problems of low and medium severity that do not match the organic, or that are not caused by brain damage or other visible causes.

MY/ OUR STORY "Life is God's novel; so let Ultimate Source write it, as it unfolds." - me (as inspired by the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer) A book being written and published "on the go" A life "turned on it's head" (upside down) Just...

Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. Trigeminal neuralgia involves loss of the myelin around the trigeminal nerve. Myelin is a phospholipid membrane that wraps around axons to provide them with insulation....

Like William Styron's Darkness Visible, Flying Lessons: On the Wings of Parkinson's Disease is a chronicle of the human spirit, an inspiring tale of life lived to the fullest. When Joan Grady-Fitchett was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, her doctor explained that this degenerative brain...

"Rest is the basis of dynamic activity. . . . Want to be more creative, loving, and successful? Follow Dr. Maas's powerful practical advice for doing less but accomplishing more."         --Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., author of The Power of 5 and TM "As the world speeds...