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Are you looking to improve your mental and physical health, and experience greater happiness and well-being? Look no further than "The Neuroscience of Meditation: Rewiring Your Brain for Health and Happiness" by Maxwell Scott.In this groundbreaking book, Scott delves into the fascinating intersection of meditation and neuroscience, exploring how different meditation practices can help rewire the brain for optimal health and happiness. With 20 chapters...
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Russell A. Poldrack is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. He is the coauthor of the Handbook of Functional MRI Data Analysis. He lives in San Francisco.
A revealing insider's account of the power-and limitations-of functional MRI
The ability to read minds has long been a fascination of science fiction, but revolutionary new brain-imaging methods are bringing it closer to scientific reality. The New Mind Readers...
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Conversations About Neuroscience consists of the following 5 Ideas Roadshow Conversations which are based on in-depth filmed conversations with world-leading neuroscientists. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
I. Constructing Our World: The Brain's-Eye View - A conversation...
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Healing That's Ahead of the Times
Thousands of veterans suffer daily in silence and confusion, oftentimes alone. Many contemplate suicide. The invisible injuries of our current wars have become the "signature wounds" of this generation of combat veterans-leaving these young men and women feeling hopeless, broken and destroyed.
The Miracle Workers of South Boulder Road tells a dramatic story, beginning with a detailed account of how two severely...
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This book is based on an in-depth, filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Greg Hickok, Professor of Cognitive science at UC Irvine, where he directs the Center for Language Science and the Auditory and Language Neuroscience Lab. This thought-provoking conversation examines Greg Hickok's neuroscience research related to speech and language, which led him to eventually reject many aspects of the mirror neuron hypothesis, while giving his views...
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This book is based on an in-depth, filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jennifer Groh, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. After an inspiring story about how she became interested in neuroscience, this extensive conversation examines Jennifer Groh's extensive research on how the brain combines various streams of sensory input to determine where things are, together with the corresponding implications for a wide range...
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Two leading neuroscientists examine the current paradigm of the "neural subject" and what we can learn from neurological trauma, pathology, and adaption.
With the rise of cognitive science and the revolution in neuroscience, the study of human subjects-thinking, feeling, acting individuals-ultimately focuses on the human brain. In both Europe and the United States, massive state-funded research is focused on mapping the brain in all its remarkable...
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Martin Monti, Associate Professor in Psychology and Neurosurgery, Brain Injury Research Centre, UCLA. This extensive conversation examines Martin Monti's innovative work with patients who are in a vegetative state or minimally conscious state, which has led to some surprising results that might well prove to be integral to our development of a deeper understanding of consciousness.
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How pathbreaking research into the brain's connections to the immune system offers new hope for treating diseases, injuries, and the effects of aging.
PROSE Awards Honorable Mention, Biomedicine & Neuroscience category
In the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, self-contained and completely separate from the body's immune system. But over the past twenty years, neuroimmunologist Michal Schwartz, together...
PROSE Awards Honorable Mention, Biomedicine & Neuroscience category
In the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, self-contained and completely separate from the body's immune system. But over the past twenty years, neuroimmunologist Michal Schwartz, together...
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"Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Biomedicine & Neuroscience, Association of American Publishers" Timothy Verstynen is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. Bradley Voytek is assistant professor of computational cognitive science and neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. They are both members of the Zombie Research Society.
A look...
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A fascinating exploration of the history of memory and human civilization
Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of such complexity nor so regularly revisits those memories for happiness, safety, and the accomplishment of complex tasks. Human civilization continues because we are able to pass along memories from one person to another, from one generation to the next.
The Guardian of All Things is a sweeping...
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Nuestra pequeña y golpeada humanidad vive desde hace unos decenios una época bastante oscura. En ella se dan la llamada caída de las ideologías, las amenazas ligadas al ecosistema, una demografía descontrolada, sin olvidar las nuevas e inevitables pandemias y epidemias que, debido en buena parte a la desregulación de los ecosistemas, se abaten sobre nosotros y las otras especies animales que, sin arte ni parte, sufren con los humanos los desastres...
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¿Hay una ciencia de las ideas? Este libro es un apasionado y documentado "¡Sí!" a esa pregunta, que da incluso un paso más. Existe una ciencia de las buenas ideas, esas que resuelven problemas y abren caminos intransitados, una ciencia fundamental no solo para el laboratorio sino para la vida cotidiana y también para aquellas empresas y proyectos que andan buscando la innovación que hoy es parte de todo desarrollo exitoso. En síntesis, una...
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'How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and even question its own place in the cosmos?'
V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist, 2011
How we think, feel, move, remember, imagine, and experience the outside world and our own bodies is the domain of neuroscience. For millennia, the workings of the brain and nerves could be approached only through superstition and conjecture....
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Do you want to be happy? If so-read on. This book has all the answers*
In The Happy Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett delves deep into the inner workings of our minds to explore some fundamental questions about happiness. What does it actually mean to be happy? Where does it come from? And what, really, is the point of it? Forget searching for the secret of happiness through lifestyle fads or cod philosophy-Burnett reveals the often surprising truth...
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The definitive guide to keeping your brain healthy for a long and lucid life, by one of the world's leading scientists in the field of brain health and ageing.
The brain is our most vital and complex organ. It controls and coordinates our actions, thoughts and interactions with the world around us. It is the source of personality, of our sense of self, and it shapes every aspect of our human experience.
Yet most of us know precious little about...
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Ralph Adolphs is the Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Director of the Caltech Brain Imaging Center. He is the coeditor of Living without an Amygdala. David J. Anderson is the Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology and Director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical...
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Konrad Michel, a leading psychiatrist and acclaimed expert, draws on decades of experience to offer necessary new ways of understanding-and preventing-suicide. After one of his first patients died by suicide, Michel devoted himself to researching self-harm. Writing vividly and personally, he recounts more than forty years of working with and learning from suicidal patients.
Michel shows that suicide is not just a consequence of mental illness but...
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