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Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from
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Edward M Hallowell, M.D., John J Ratey, M.D.
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 ...
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The Female Brain
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Louann Brizendine
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.
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Trauma and recovery
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Judith Lewis Herman
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 ...
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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Oliver W Sacks
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 ...
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The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
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Daniel Coyle
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 ...
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Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Steven Pinker
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.
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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V S Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., Sandra Blakeslee
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, ...
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The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
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Jeffrey M Schwartz, M.D., Sharon Begley
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.
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A General Theory of Love
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Thomas Lewis, M.D., Richard Lannon, Fari Amini
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.
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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Maryanne Wolf, Catherine Stoodley (Illustrator)
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.
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Why Weight?: A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating
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Geneen Roth
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.
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Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
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Sharon Begley
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 ...
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How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist
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Andrew Newberg, M.D., Mark Robert Waldman
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.
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Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Workbook
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David H Barlow, Ph.D., Michelle G Craske, Ph.D.
Do you have rushes of fear accompanied by a pounding heart, trembling, dizziness, and feelings of unreality that make you think you're sick, dying, or losing your mind? Do these feelings interfere with your normal daily routine, or prevent you from doing things you would normally do? If you are prone to panic attacks and constantly worry about ...
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Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating
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Geneen Roth
Twenty years after its original publication, "Feeding the Hungry Heart" continues to inspire women and men, helping them win the battle against a hunger that goes deeper than a need for food. This book contains stories both heartrending and inspiring from many of those whom Roth has met through her lectures, workshops, and retreats.
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Biological Psychology
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James W Kalat
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 ...
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Stuttering: An Integrated Approach to Its Nature & Treatment
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Barry Guitar
This new Third Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the etiology and development of stuttering and details appropriate approaches to accurate assessment and treatment. There is a new chapter on related fluency disorders that discusses evaluation and treatment of stuttering associated with neurological disease or trauma, psychological ...
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Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
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Professor Antonio R Damasio
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.
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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
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Joseph LeDoux
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.
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I Can't Get Over It
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Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D.
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 ...
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Peace from Nervous Suffering
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Claire Weekes
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Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual
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Kenneth G Shipley
This updated edition provides a resource for comprehensive speech-language pathology assessment methods and procedures. It contains forms, sample materials, rating scales, step-by-step assessment and diagnostic procedures, profiles, worksheets, evaluation tools and anatomical illustrations.
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Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
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Sigmund Freud
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.
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
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Thomas Stephen Szasz
A classic work that has revolutionized thinking throughout the Western world about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. "Bold and often brilliant."-- "Science" "Bold and often brilliant." "--Science" "It is no exaggeration to state that Szasz's work raises major social issues which deserve the ...
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Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience
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Professor Mark R Rosenzweig, S Marc Breedlove
"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, ...
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