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Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering
7 Principles for Finding Meaning in Life & Work NEW EDITION, REVISED AND EXPANDED World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most important books of...
Depression Fallout
Of the millions of Americans who suffer from a depressive illness, few suffer in solitude. They draw the people they love-spouses, lovers, children, parents, friends-into their illness. In her first...
Lost in the Mirror: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder (MBP) afflicts six to ten million Americans and accounts for almost 25 percent of psychiatric hospitalisations. This book provides an expert look into this complex disorder, discussing...
The actor's brain: Exploring the cognitive neuroscience of free will
Is free will just an illusion? What is it within the brain that allows us to pursue our own actions and objectives? What is it about this organ that permits...
Paranoid: Exploring Suspicion from the Dubious to the Delusional
From the pathological killer who gunned down the innocents at Virginia Tech to the average citizen who suspects the government is monitoring phone calls, the signs of suspiciousness and paranoia...
The No-Nonsense Meditation Book: A scientist's guide to the power of meditation
Author: Dr Steven Laureys Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Meditation could retune our brains and help us cope with the long-term effects of the pandemic' - New Scientist 'Readers...
Inner Sense: How the New Science of Interoception Can Transform Your Health
Author: Caroline Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Interoception is one of our most important - and most mysterious - senses. It's how our bodies tell our brains what...
Splitting: The inside story on headaches
'From ice cream headaches to migraine, this fascinating and entertaining account of a common curse draws together modern science, ancient views and personal experience.' Professor Roy Taylor, author of Life...
Blame it on the Brain?: Distinguishing Chemical Imbalances, Brain
Viewing brain problems through the lens of Scripture, Welch distinguishes genuine brain disorders from disorders that may not be rooted in the brain. Understanding that distinction will enable pastors, counselors,...
The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment And the Developing
Just as neurons communicate through mutual stimulation, brains strive to connect with one another. Louis Cozolino shows us how brains are highly social organisms. Balancing cogent explanation with instructive brain...
The Mind Electric: 'Lyrical and spellbinding' New Scientist
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARDS* 'Superb, compelling, delightfully labyrinthine' Telegraph 'The book fans of Oliver Sacks have been craving' The i 'Lyrical and spellbinding' New Scientist 'The...
Take Control of Your Worry T
This is the first authoritative book on Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) - an almost constant worry about almost anything - which affects 3 to 5 per cent of the population...
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your
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The devastating truth about the effects of wheat, sugar, and carbs on the brain, with a 4-week plan to achieve optimum health. In Grain Brain , renowned neurologist David Perlmutter,...
The New Brain: How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your Mind
At the same time research on the brain has moved away from the old emphasis on disease and dysfunction to open up insights into every kind of mental activity. And,...
Fighting Fate
Justin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease (MND) that he would do everything he could to find a cure. MND had...
Neuropedia: A Brief Compendium of Brain Phenomena
A fun and fact-filled AZ treasury for anyone with a head on their shoulders. Neuropedia journeys into the mysteries and marvels of the three pounds of tissue between your ears...
Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living With Joy
In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as motor neurone or Lou Gehrig's disease. It is a disease that systematically destroys nerves...
Brain Repair
Sixty years ago, the Nobel laureate Santiago Ramon y Cajal stated that "in the adult brain, nervous pathways are fixed and immutable; everything may die, nothing may be regenerated." Cajal's...
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds
Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be. 'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize...
The Executive Brain
The Executive Brain is the first popular but rigorous book to explore the most 'human' region of the brain, the frontal lobes. Writing in a lively and accessible style, the...
Impulse: The Science of Sex and Desire
Sex is everywhere in modern society, yet it remains taboo. We all have questions about sex that are too uncomfortable to ask - how do we get reliable answers? In...
The Human Brain: A Guided Tour
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But...
Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement
This volume provides an up to date and comprehensive overview of the philosophy and neuroscience movement, which applies the methods of neuroscience to traditional philosophical problems and uses philosophical methods...
A User's Guide to the Brain
Dr John Ratey explains the brains most important systems, the role they play in determining how we interact with the world and ways in which we can influence their operations...
The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own: Insights from a Practicing
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Neurologist and best-selling author Richard Restak puts readers in touch with the latest scientific findings about the most complex and inscrutable object in creation--the human brain. "By all means let...
Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties
An increase in research into all facets of learning difficulties has resulted in a deeper understanding of the problems. This book includes a description and explanation of reading, spelling and...
The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind
'An elegantly written and cogent guide to contemporary ideas about how and why the brain works' - Independent A compelling and authoritative study of the brain - its past, present...
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
WINNER OF THE 2024 ASJA BOOK AWARD, BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE SELECTION From award-winning journalist Kenneth...
When Breath Becomes Air: The ultimate moving life-and-death story
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For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live. ** SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** 'Rattling....
Mind Sculpture
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The Secret Language of the Body: Regulate your nervous system, heal your body, free your mind
Author: Jennifer MannFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 520g, 352 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'Inspiring, refreshing and practical' Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreThe new...
Malignant Sadness
Author: Lewis WolpertFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 198mm, 185g, 224 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2006Several years ago, Lewis Wolpert had a severe depressive episode. Despite a happy marriage and...
The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
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Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain - for Life
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Brainscapes: An Atlas of Your Life on Earth
Author: Rebecca Schwarzlose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schematic images of...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Author: Oliver Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological...