Brain Science > Professional/Educator/Parent
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Pain is Really Strange
Answering questions such as 'how can I change my pain experience?', 'what is pain?', and 'how do nerves work?', this short research-based graphic book reveals just how strange pain is and explains how understanding it is often the key to relieving its effects.Studies show that understanding how pain is created and maintained by the nervous system can significantly lessen the pain you experience. The narrator in this original, gently humorous book explains pain in an easy-to-understand, engaging graphic format and reveals how to change the mind's habits to transform pain.
$15.95
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Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology
An Integrative Handbook of the Mind. Our mental lives are profoundly relational. The interactions we have with one another shape our mental world. Yet as any neuroscientist will tell you, the mind is shaped by the firing patterns in the brain. And so how can we reconcile this tension—that the mind is both embodied and relational? Interpersonal Neurobiology is a way of thinking across this apparent conceptual divide. This Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology is designed to aid in your personal and professional application of the interpersonal neurobiology approach to developing a healthy mind, an integrated brain, and empathic relationships.
$39.95
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Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices
Dana provides therapists with a grab bag of polyvagal-informed exercises for their clients, to use both within and between sessions. These exercises offer readily understandable explanations of the ways the autonomic nervous system directs daily living. They use the principles of polyvagal theory to guide clients to safely connect to their autonomic responses and navigate daily experiences in new ways. The exercises are designed to be introduced over time in a variety of clinical sessions with accompanying exercises appropriate for use by clients between sessions to enhance the therapeutic change process.
$45.99
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Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation
Here Stephen W. Porges brings together his most important writings since the publication of that seminal work. At its heart, polyvagal theory is about safety. It provides an understanding that feeling safe is dependent on autonomic states, and that our cognitive evaluations of risk in the environment, including identifying potentially dangerous relationships, play a secondary role to our visceral reactions to people and places. Our reaction to the continuing global pandemic supports one of the central concepts of polyvagal theory: that a desire to connect safely with others is our biological imperative. Indeed, life may be seen as an inherent quest for safety. These ideas, and more, are outlined in chapters on therapeutic presence, group psychotherapy, yoga and music therapy, autism, trauma, date rape, medical trauma, and COVID-19.
$60.00
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Polyvagal Theory (Self Regulation)
Neurophysiological Foundations Of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen W. Porges’s decades of research. A leading expert in developmental psychophysiology and developmental behavioral neuroscience, Porges is the mind behind the groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory, which has startling implications for the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, and autism. Adopted by clinicians around the world, the Polyvagal Theory has provided exciting new insights into the way our autonomic nervous system unconsciously mediates social engagement, trust, and intimacy.
$65.95
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Power of Neurodiversity
Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain (published in hardcover as Neurodiversity). Bestselling author, psychologist, and educator Thomas Armstrong illuminates a new understanding of neuropsychological disorders. He argues that if they are a part of the natural diversity of the human brain, they cannot simply be defined as illnesses. Armstrong explores the evolutionary advantages, special skills, and other positive dimensions of conditions such as ADHD, dyslexia and autism.
$24.95
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Reset Your Child's Brain
A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time. Victoria L. Dunckley, who specializes in working with children and families who have failed to respond to previous treatment, has pioneered a new program. In her work with more than 500 children, teens, and young adults diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, 80 percent showed marked improvement after completing the four-week program presented here. Interactive screens, including those on video games, laptops, cell phones, and tablets, overstimulate a child’s nervous system. While virtually no one in today’s connected world can completely shun electronic stimuli, Dunckley shows how the most vulnerable among us — our children — can and should be spared their damaging effects.
$30.95
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Secret Life of the Brain
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Mind This book explores the fascinating advances that have been made in neuroscience, from the intricacies of memory and intelligence, to the enigmatic workings behind our sense of humor and our dreams. Full of illuminating illustrations and diagrams, this book lifts the lid on how drugs affect the brain; the science behind addiction; how the brain deals with trauma and pain; and how love, age and sex affect the brain. Finally, there is insight into cutting-edge scientific theories. The Secret Life of the Brain is written in accessible language for all readers who want to know more about a complex science.
$24.95
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Social Neuroscience of Education
This book explains how the brain, as a social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late life. Positioning the brain as distinctly social, Louis Cozolino helps teachers make connections to neurobiological principals, with the goal of creating classrooms that nurture healthy attachment patterns and resilient psyches. Louis Cozolino, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Pepperdine University and a private practitioner. He is the author of The Healthy Aging Brain, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships, The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, and The Making of a Therapist.
$50.00
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The Applied Polyvagal Theory Flip Chart
A Psycho educational Tool to Harness the Power of the Vagus Nerve for Emotional Balance, Self-Regulation, and Resilience These are approachable, interactive, and tangible tools to teach the “science of safety†and bring these complicated concepts to life. Whether your clients are struggling with trauma, anxiety, panic, depression, addiction, chronic pain, codependency, or more, this flip chart will allow them to apply the principles of polyvagal theory to their own well-being. Intended for in-session use, this flip chart features: a two-sided 9†x 12†design that stands upright for easy visibility and portability; 24 exercises, diagrams, and photos on client-facing pages with detailed explanations and supplemental prompts on therapist-facing pages; and dry-erase surface client-facing pages for easy markup, customization, and reuse.
$63.95
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What's Going on in There? (Brain Development in Early Childhood)
How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life This book discuss the brain's development from conception through the critical first five years and explores the evolution of the senses, motor skills, social and emotional behaviors, and mental functions such as attention, language, memory, reasoning, and intelligence. This remarkable book also analyzes how a baby's brain is "assembled" from scratch, the critical prenatal factors that shape brain development, how the birthing process itself affects the brain, which forms of stimulation are most effective at promoting cognitive development, and how nutrition, stress, and other physical and social factors can permanently affect a child's brain.
$29.00
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Who's Who Of The Brain
A Guide To Its Inhabitants, Where They Live And What They Do Residents include Frederick Foresight (the frontal cortex), Mayor of Cephalton-upon-Ridge, who is the `big picture' person responsible for planning and decision-making; Sage Seahorse (the hippocampus), who has an astonishing memory for times, names and places; Annie Almond (the amygdala), the community's alarm system who is always on the alert; and many other fellow citizens. Each character is introduced and their appearance, role and key functions in the brain explained. The authors also show what happens when things go wrong in the brain, and illustrate the work using examples of classic clinical cases.
$35.95
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Whole Brain Child Workbook
Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activities to Nurture Developing Minds. The Whole-Brain Child Workbook has a unique, interactive approach that allows readers not only to think more deeply about how the ideas fit their own parenting approach, but also develop specific and practical ways to implement the concepts -- and bring them to life for themselves and for their children. Includes: Dozens of clear, practical and age-specific exercises and activities; Applications for clinicians, parents, educators, grandparents and care-givers; and more!
$43.95
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Why Therapy Works
Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino explains the mechanisms of psychotherapeutic change from the bottom up, beginning with the brain, and how brains have evolved—especially how brains evolved to learn, unlearn, and relearn, which is at the basis of lasting psychological change. The book also shows how our brains have evolved into social organs and how our interpersonal lives are a source of both pain and power. Readers will explore with Cozolino how our brains are programmed to connect in intimate relationships and come to understand the debilitating effects of anxiety, stress, and trauma. Finally, the book will lead to an understanding of the power of story and narratives for fostering self-regulation, neural integration, and positive change.
$33.95
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