Focusing on Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) as a life-long neurological problem that affects adults as well as children, this definitive book describes the various forms ADD takes, how professionals distinguish ADD patterns from "unacceptable" behavior, and how medication and behavior modification techniques can balance its negative and positive ...
In a fashion still more personal than his previous books, Oliver Sacks gives us portraits of several neurological patients, following them as far as possible into their otherworldly modes of being: a surgeon who is consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car ...
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople--and everyone else--with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you're coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the ...
Using both clinical experience and biological discoveries, three San Francisco Psychiatrists explore the significant role that love plays in our lives, how it helps us to grow as individuals and as members of a community.
In this title, MIT Professor Steven Pinker explains the origins of language and its evolution, the instinctive way we use language, and the relationships between 'proper' languages and slang, pidgins, and other 'improper' versions.
In the tradition of the works of Oliver Sacks, this fascinating journey into the deep architecture of the mind introduces readers to a range of patients suffering from strange neurological afflictions, explains how Dr. Ramachandran's evaluations reveal what actually occurs in the brain, and explores what these findings reveal about dreams, ...
Is it really possible to change the structure and function of the brain, and in so doing alter how we think and feel? The answer is a resounding yes. In late 2004, leading Western scientists joined the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India, to address this very question-and in the process brought about a revolution in our understanding of ...
Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women's brain functions. This revolutionary book combines two decades of her work and the latest information from the scientific community to provide a truly comprehensive look at the way women's minds work.
Based on new scientific research, the coauthor of "Why God Won't Go Away" reveals the controversial discovery that God--however the term is defined--is good for people both physically and emotionally.
This book studies the relationship between biological factors (mostly brain activity) and behaviour. It shows students how such aspects of brain physiology as neuro-transmission and neuroanatomy relate to "real" psychological topics such as language, sexual behaviour, drug addiction, depression, depression and schizophrenia. The fifth edition has ...
Schwartz, a UCLA psychiatrist, examines how and why the mind and the brain have been defined as separate things. MIND AND THE BRAIN also explores how brain dysfunctions are being reconsidered and how new treatments are reconstructing neural pathways once believed to be irreparable.
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Hermans volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book has elicited and explains how the issues surrounding the ...
The final volume in a highly-acclaimed trilogy, this book attempts to undo the mind-body split proposed by Descartes by arguing, like Spinoza in the 17th century, that feelings and emotions are integral to life and our greatest cultural contributions.
Michael Paul Mason is one of an elite group of experts who appear in the wake of tragic accidents and coordinate care that can last a lifetime. On the road with Mason, we encounter survivors of brain injuries as they struggle to map and make sense of the new worlds they inhabit. We meet a snowboarder whose life became permanently surreal after an ...
A remarkable tour de force by a world-renown neuroscientist explains that human beings were never born to read; this invention changed the very organization of man's brain and altered the intellectual evolution of the species.
This book examines our emotions from a biological rather than psychological perspective. It is a provocative far-reaching account of what our emotions are, how they operate in the brain, and how they influence our lives. The author presents some unexpected findings about such psychological disorders as anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks.
"Biological Psychology Fifth Edition" is a comprehensive survey of the bases of behaviour that is both authoritative and up-to-date. Building on the strengths of its predecessors, it continues to offer an outstanding illustration program and a very broad perspective - encompassing lucid descriptions of behaviour, evolutionary history, development, ...
After Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, Roth offers a workbook that will enable readers to explore for themselves the issues that lead to compulsive eating.
Freud's case study of an 18-year old female patient who comes to him with hysterical symptoms is one of his most fascinating cases. In "Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria", he unravels the mystery of "Dora" and her relationships, using her dream reports and her mannerisms.
Acknowledging the difficulty many readers have when first attempting to learn about the brain's psychological functions, the authors of A Colorful Introduction to the Human Brain have created a book that makes the fascinating world of brain psychology research accessible to readers with little or no background in neuroscience. Readers learn the ...
Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionised thinking throughout the world about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing behaviour problems as 'mental illness', psychiatry, Szasz argues, absolves the individual of responsibility for his actions, placing blame instead on the illness. In "The ...
Using the latest research in neurology and psychology, Restak, an eminent neuropsychologist and bestselling author of "The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own, " explains how the brain works and tells how to make it work better. Included are 28 easy, practical exercises designed to improve cognitive abilities. 44 illustrations.
I Can't Get Over It was written to guide survivors of crime, acidents, rape, family violence, and sexual abuse through the process of recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Now in an updated edition, this guide includes new information on suicide, traumatic memories, depression, guilt, and the new EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization ...
Acknowledging that scientific discovery constantly alters our understanding of the human mind, John J. Ratey of the Harvard Medical School nevertheless posits his map of the brain, explaining its structure and functioning. Using the findings of neuroimaging and biochemistry, Ratey identifies four theatres, or capacities, of the mind that together ...
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