Brain Development

A leading science writer examines how the brain's capacity reaches its peak in middle ageFor many years, scientists thought that the human brain simply decayed over time and its dying cells led to memory slips, fuzzy logic, negative thinking, and even depression.

With their labile and rapidly developing brains, adolescents are particularly susceptible to addiction, and addiction leads to anxiety and depression. What few parents will know is that what we think of as the most typical addictions and problematic teen behaviours - smoking, drinking, drug taking, sex leading to teenage pregnancy - are on the decline. The bad news is that a whole raft of addictions has taken their place.

El psiquiatra y neurocientífico clínico Daniel Amen, MD, con más de 40 años de práctica clínica con decenas de miles de pacientes, comparte los hábitos diarios más efectivos que ha observado para mejorar el cerebro, dominar la mente, potenciar la memoria y hacerte sentir más feliz, saludable y conectado con tus seres queridos. Incorporar los pequeños hábitos y prácticas del Dr. Amen a lo largo de un año te ayudará a: Gestionar tu mente para apoyar tu felicidad, paz interior y éxito. Desarrollar estrategias de por vida para enfrentar cualquier estrés que se presente.

Whether you are on the spectrum yourself or take care of a loved one who is: The fear of not making the right decisions and failing to ensure the best development possible for yourself or the person you are taking care of is an uncomfortable feeling. Therefore, caregivers and people who are neurodivergent themselves often feel like the pressure is always on. Fortunately, there is a proven way that supports independence and improves the ability to live an organized and anxiety-free life, even on the spectrum: Cultivating the right habits.

Written by a doctor of over thirty years’ experience, a mental health expert, author and teacher, Professor Dr Shirley Barr MD has a wealth of expertise with which to help you nail down your anxious feelings once and for all. This book has an abundance of information in easy-to-understand science, with practical tips and advice that you can start using straight away.

What if I told you that thoughts are just sentences in your brain - not reality? What if I told you that emotions are just temporary sensations in your body - that can pass in 90 seconds when we don't resist them? Thinking we are alone, based on the sentences in our brain or the sensations in our body - and feeling broken because of them - dictates so many of our decisions.

When her six-year-old daughter found her collapsed on the kitchen floor, Rachel had no idea how much her life was about to change. A brain scan revealed a dark shadowy mass, a huge abnormal growth of tissue that, whilst benign, was still growing and would surely kill her. It was too big to operate on. It needed to be "managed", and Rachel had, at best, two years to live. Refusing to accept the bleak prognosis, Rachel was determined to stay alive.

In The Power of Showing Up, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson share a powerful scientific framework that is bound to revolutionize the art of parenting. They provide the key ingredients that can help any parent raise a well-balanced and secure child who enjoys life and thrives in adversity. In The Power of Showing Up, Siegel and Bryson leverage their decades of experience in the area of child psychology to show parents that there is a better way. Perfection shouldn’t be the goal. Instead, parents should focus on establishing a secure attachment with their child.

In the modern world of today with its attendant abundance of information, traditional time management skills just don't cut it anymore. Between the email inboxes full to bursting, ever-expanding to-do list, endless meetings that always seem to go nowhere, it's enough to drive a person insane. Unlike many other guides of this genre, this guide takes you by the hand on a 30-day life-changing productivity plan. By the end of this journey, you're going to become hardwired to deal with the challenges of a fast-moving world efficiently without breaking a sweat.

It’s a universal fact that no matter who you are, you can start living your best life today. It doesn’t matter where or how you started, using the same principles that anybody else has, you can win at the game of life. You see, you’re no different than anyone else, but you’re using Your Best Life Principles. And because you’re no different to anybody else, you are seeing the same successes. You’re realizing the same dreams.

This audiobook contains proven steps and strategies to organize your mind to help you overcome bad habits in your life. It will help you understand how your mind works. It will give you easy steps on how you can beat bad habits and addictions that are preventing you from living your life to the fullest.

How to live with GBS, embrace life and look to the future with hope.

In her inspiring book, reading specialist and motivational speaker, Keli, shares her personal journey of overcoming trauma and adversity to become a successful educator, healer, and role model. With her loving and compassionate demeanor, Keli has dedicated her life to teaching young children as a Kindergarten Reading Specialist and helping others through energy healing.

In the vastness of the human experience, we sometimes overlook the relationships most precious to our hearts. That of our sacred privilege and responsibility to nurture all children. Conscious Brain Training from your heart is a key to cultivating happiness.

Expanding upon one of the most-read New York Times Magazine features of 2012, Smarter penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in 2008 showing that "fluid intelligence" - the ability to learn, solve novel problems, and get to the heart of things - can be increased through training. But is it all just hype?

Women's brains are different. It's not one-size-fits both men and women. Yet many women still believe the myths we tell ourselves. Dispel the myths! Stop underestimating your abilities. Stop downplaying your successes. And stop apologizing. In Think Like a Girl, award-winning psychologist, professor, and TEDx speaker Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway will help you discover how.

It only takes about seven seconds for the look on their faces to determine someone's mood. Body language is considered louder than talking directly. Your ultimate aim in relationships should be to be able to communicate appropriately. If your partner doesn't understand how you feel, not expressing yourself rightly can cause a lot of problems. Human beings must be able to express reasoning, solutions, and conclusions in ways that the listener is interested in or otherwise have no meaning.

Sick and tired of always procrastinating? Switch your mind to build discipline, ruthless focus, and unleash your productivity... It's no exaggeration to say that spending a few minutes a day learning to build discipline and focus will reap benefits for decades to come. This is one of the personal development and motivation audiobooks that will help you do just that. In this short audiobook, you will discover how to ruthlessly pursue your goals by forging an unbreakable sense of focus and discipline.

This audiobook is going to dive into the various ways in which human beings experience and express stress throughout their lives. Ineffective thinking patterns that you don’t even realize you are engaging in will be introduced. You will also learn several practical techniques that you can instantly utilize to help alter them will be presented.

Do you know that failure to master your emotions will make you live a life full of regrets and one that is lower than you were meant to live? And for your information, you experience thousands of emotions each day, which means that you have the ability to handle these emotions each time they occur. It remains the fact that emotions control every part of your life, from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep.