Brain Science
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Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
“Is Google making us stupid?†When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published.
$29.95
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Shift
Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You. Whether it’s anxiety about going to the doctor, boiling rage when we’re stuck in traffic, or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiraling. But as difficult as our emotions can be, they are also a superpower. Far from being “good†or “bad,†emotions are information. When they’re activated in the right ways and at the right time, they function like an immune system, alerting us to our surroundings, telling us how to react to a situation, and helping us make the right choices.
$39.00
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Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (Adults)
How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong executive skills—the core brain-based abilities needed to maintain focus, meet deadlines, and stay cool under pressure. In this essential guide, leading experts Peg Dawson and Richard Guare help you map your own executive skills profile and take effective steps to boost your organizational skills, time management, emotional control, and nine other essential capacities.
$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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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science Of Exercise And The Brain
Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance. In SPARK, John J. Ratey, MD, embarks upon a fascinating journey through the mind-body connection, illustrating that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADHD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, that has put the local school district of 19,000 kids first in the world in science test scores), SPARK will change forever the way you think about your morning run.
$25.99
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Stop Avoiding Stuff (Motivation)
25 Microskills to Face Your Fears and Do It Anyway We are hardwired to avoid, control, and escape the stuff that makes us uncomfortable. But if you're ready to stop living scared, the tips and tools in this little book will help you pivot back to what really matters to you. Drawing on evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this accessible guide offers 25 microskills to help you face your fears so you can live a truly courageous and meaningful life.
$31.50
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Stress-Proof Brain
Master your emotional response to stress using mindfulness and neuroplasticity. In this breakthrough book, a clinical psychologist and neuroscience expert offers an original approach to help readers harness the power of positive emotions and overcome stress for good. This book will help you develop an original and effective program for mastering your emotional brain's response to stress by harnessing the power of neuroplasticity. By creating a more stress tolerant, resilient brain, you'll learn to shrug off the small stuff, deal with the big stuff, and live a happier, healthier life.
$31.50
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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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The Brain's Way of Healing
Remarkable Discoveries And Recoveries From The Frontiers Of Neuroplasticity The brain can heal itself — healthy neurons can take over the functions of broken or missing ones — if we guide it correctly. Norman Doidge chronicles patients, doctors and researchers who are exploring new ways to deal with human problems. He introduces patients who have damage to their brains from strokes, trauma, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, autism and other conditions. Doidge explains the processes of the brain and body in an understandable way, and relates stories of patients who hobble into labs and medical offices on canes and leave without them after their first visit.
$25.00
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This Is Your Mind On Plants
Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. In this unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively—as a drug, whether licit or illicit. Pollan discusses when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Pollan is also author of many other books including How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, also available at ODIN BOOKS.
$24.00
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Train Your Brain Card Deck
The Train Your Brain Card Deck gives trauma survivors tangible, body-based interventions to retrain the brain and release themselves from the effects of trauma. Developed by trauma expert Dr. Jennifer Sweeton, the techniques in the deck target 5 areas of the brain to help trauma survivors: reduce anxiety and reactivity, develop greater body awareness, boost memory and concentration, regulate strong emotions, improve self-esteem.
$39.95
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Trauma and Memory
Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and utilizing case studies from his own practice, Dr. Levine suggests that although memory can be trusted, he argues that the only truly useful memories are those that might initially seem to be the least reliable: memories stored in the body and not necessarily accessible by our conscious mind. While much work has been done in the field of trauma studies to address "explicit" traumatic memories in the brain (such as intrusive thoughts or flashbacks), much less attention has been paid to how the body itself stores "implicit" memory, and how much of what we think of as "memory" actually comes to us through our (often unconsciously accessed) felt sense.
$28.50
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Traumatized Brain: A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior after Brain Injury
In The Traumatized Brain, neuropsychiatrists Drs. Vani Rao and Sandeep Vaishnavi explain how traumatic brain injury affects the brain. They advise readers on how emotional symptoms such as depression, anxiety, mania, and apathy can be treated; how behavioral symptoms such as psychosis, aggression, impulsivity, and sleep disturbances can be addressed; and how cognitive functions like attention, memory, executive functioning, and language can be improved. They also discuss headaches, seizures, vision problems, and other neurological symptoms of traumatic brain injury. By stressing that symptoms are real and are directly related to the trauma, Rao and Vaishnavi hope to restore dignity to people with traumatic brain injury and encourage them to ask for help. Each chapter incorporates case studies and suggestions for appropriate medications, counseling, and other treatments and ends with targeted tips for coping. The book also includes a useful glossary, a list of resources, and suggestions for further reading.
$28.95
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Use Both Sides Of Your Brain
New Mind-Mapping Techniques To Help You Raise All Levels Of Your Intelligence And Creativity - Based On The Latest Discoveries About The Human Brain Using the latest research on the workings of the human brain, Tony Buzan provides step-by-step exercises for discovering the powers of the right side of the brain and learning to use the left side more effectively. He teaches us how to read faster and more effectively, how to study more efficiently and increase overall memory, how language and imagery can be used for recording, organizing, remembering, creative thinking and problem-solving. 3rd Edition
$22.95
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Visual Thinking
With her genius for demystifying science, Temple Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed and a more varied one, from photo-realistic object visualizers like Grandin, with an intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial†thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She helps us understand how a world geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, she proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers.
$37.99
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Wednesday is Indigo Blue (Synesthesia)
Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia How the extraordinary multi-sensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain. A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter “J†as shimmering magenta or the number “5†as emerald green, hear and taste her husband's voice as buttery golden brown. Synesthetes rarely talk about their peculiar sensory gift—believing either that everyone else senses the world exactly as they do, or that no one else does. Yet synesthesia occurs in one in twenty people, and is even more common among artists.
$39.95
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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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Why We Remember
Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present, and to imagine and plan for the future.
$23.00
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Wired for Music
A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound Music isn’t just background noise or a series of torturous exercises we remember from piano lessons. In the right doses, it can double as a mild antidepressant, painkiller, sleeping pill, memory aid— and enhance athletic performance while supporting healthy aging. Though music has been used as a healing strategy since ancient times, neuroscientists have only recently discovered how melody and rhythm stimulate core memory, motor, and emotion centers in the brain. But here’s the catch: We can tune into music every day and still miss out on some of its potent effects.
$32.95
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Wired to Connect: The Surprising Link
Between Brain Science and Strong, Healthy Relationships Research shows that people cannot reach their full potential unless they are in healthy connection with others. The key to more satisfying relationships—be it with a significant other, a family member, or a colleague—is to strengthen the neural pathways in our brains that encourage closeness and connection. Learn how to rewire your brain for healthier relationships and happier, more fulfilling lives by providing a road map for developing the four distinct neural pathways in the brain that underlie the four most important ingredients for close relationships: calmness, acceptance, emotional resonance, and energy. It includes brain exercises for building better relationships.
$35.95
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Your Amazing Teen Brain
CBT and Neuroscience Skills to Stress Less, Balance Emotions, and Strengthen Your Growing Mind These brain hacks will help you make the most of your growing mind, deal with ALL the feelings, build friendships, and face life’s challenges with confidence. These skills grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and neuroscience help you manage difficult emotions, build better relationships, and face challenges from academic pressure to social drama. You’ll also understand how your brain works and why teen years are so intense. These are real skills you can use to stay cool when emotions take over.
$28.95
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