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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How children think is one of the most enduring mysteries--and difficulties--of parenthood. The marketplace is full of gadgets and tools that claim to make your child smarter, happier, or learn languages faster, all built on the premise that manufacturers know something about your child's brain that you don't. These products are easy to sell, because good information about how children's minds really work is hard to come by. In their new book, neuroscientists...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"As a scientist, David Linden had devoted his career to understanding the brain processes and behaviors that are common to us all. That is, until a few years ago, when he found himself on OKCupid. Looking through that vast catalog of human difference, he got to thinking, where does it all come from? Why does one person have perfect pitch, a taste for hoppy beer, and an aversion to bathroom selfies? That is, what makes you, you, and me, me? In Unique,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shelter Harbor Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The study of the brain has spawned many disciplines. Disorders of and damage to the brain have given neurologists clues as to how the brain functions. Neuroscientists have unpicked the chemical processes that power nerve signals and build memories, while psychologists explore the link between our thoughts and the physical activity of the brain. The brain tells the history of neuroscience in 100 stories."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Concerns about memory and other thinking skills are common, particularly in middle age and beyond. Due to worries about declining brain health, some seek out dubious products or supplements purportedly designed to improve memory and other cognitive abilities. Fortunately, scientific research has uncovered a clear- cut set of evidence- based activities and lifestyle choices that are inexpensive or free and known to promote brain and cognitive functioning....
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The first few years of life were thought to be the most important in brain development. With the aid of modern brain-imaging technologies, we now know the brain undergoes a substantial remodeling process during adolescence. This insightful title is designed to empower readers as they learn how areas of the brain related to decision-making, planning and goal setting, impulse control, and social interactions are affected by this process of change....
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"When an unexpected medical crisis sends [the author] on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain--and thus has a fundamental connection to female consciousness itself."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Grain Brain and his son, also a medical doctor, explore how modern culture threatens to rewire our brains and damage our health, offering a practical plan for healing. Includes a ten-day practical program with meal plan and recipes.
Modern culture is rewiring our brains and damaging our health. We immerse ourselves in foods whenever we want; enter an enticing world of digital media; buy goods and services...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo Vital
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Desintoxica tu mente, coňctate con quienes te rodean y despierta a una felicidad duradera. Un manifiesto contundente sobre los devastadores efectos de nuestra dependencia tecnol̤gica. ¿Cùndo fue la l͠tima vez que te sentiste verdaderamente pleno, con la mente despejada, bien descansado y conectado contigo mismo y con el mundo a tu alrededor? Si ha pasado mucho tiempo, este libro es para ti. La vida contempor̀nea nos brinda infinitas oportunidades...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"With the advent of the modern cognitive neurosciences, along with anthropological and historical research, the scientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena has become far more sophisticated and wide-ranging. It suggests answers as to how and why religion became so prominent in human societies and in human consciousness. Neurotheology--a term coined by Aldous Huxley in 1962 in his novel Island and introduced into the scientific literature...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Reveals every aspect of the human brain's anatomy and how it functions with extraordinary clarity. Fully updated to include the latest cutting-edge technology and research, such as brain implants and stimulation, how memory works, and the far-reaching changes that take place in the brain during early life.
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