Brain Science

In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old: too old to matter, of either rightly losing your confidence or wrongly maintaining it, culpably refusing to face the fact that you are losing it. The "it" in Miller's "losing it" refers mainly to mental faculties - memory, processing speed, sensory acuity, the capacity to focus. But it includes other evidence as wel l- sags and flaccidities, aches and pains, failing joints and organs. What are we to make of these tell-tale signs?

Earth has attained world peace at last. Overseen by the World Council, based in Jerusalem, the planet has truly become a global community, and humanity has reached an age of enlightenment. This is the time when the visitors arrive. Wielding near-miraculous technology, they arrive claiming to have seeded Earth with humans, and have returned to claim "their own." Their claims and their appearance seem prophesied by the Bible, and religion and politics clash as arguments break out about whether these visitors have the right to take people.

It’s been more than 20 years since mysterious impact points opened up, bringing forth frightening creatures and infecting certain people with strange and terrible powers. Fortunately, normal people can rest easy thanks to Sentinel - a private security force equipped to handle threats both monstrous and human. There’s just one problem: Kali, the daughter of Sentinel president Gregory Zakorra, is infected. Her ability has brought her nothing but bad luck and she has spent her life trying to hide it.

How much do you know about that three-pound hunk of tissue in your head - your brain? Its structure and function drive your behavior in profound ways. Scientists are studying the brain and its chemicals to find behavioral patterns, to figure out the sources of good moods and random outbursts, for example. This compilation from Science News for Students turns to brain science to answer all sorts of questions: Can you actually be addicted to your phone? Why is it so hard to sleep away from home?

This is the audio summary of Head Strong, a book that takes a deep-dive into some of the latest findings from the world of neuroscience, all in an effort to teach us how to boost brain performance.

This audiobook is a combo of three books that gives you all the information you need about the brain (and a woman's brain, in particular), neural networks, artificial intelligence, psychopaths, split personality, speed-reading strategies, and neuroplasticity among others.

Do you suffer from chronic anxiety, panic attacks, depression, or chronic inflammation? Did you know that learning the techniques for Vagus Nerve stimulation can help you truly feel better? If you want to know how that’s possible, keep reading. This audiobook will guide you through the discovery of a fundamental part of your nervous system, and it will show you the characteristics and the potential of Vagus Nerve stimulation.

The audiobook focuses on various topics on neuroscience ranging from neural networks to functioning of hypothalamus to the differences between a woman's and man's brain. You will also learn about the importance of brain health and ways to enhance your brain functioning.

Questioning, skepticism, reasoning...all these things have one thing in common: They are the traits of a true critical thinker, someone who doesn't just accept something because everyone else is screaming the same claims. You're going to learn more about some of the following things: Inductive and deductive thinking, skeptical reasoning, rationalism and what it entails, how to make better decisions with logic and numbers, and so much more!

Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. Accident? Stroke? Did someone slip him an overdose of Botox? The answer, he discovers, is much, much worse. He’s only a copy of Marc, a digital brain without a body, burdened with all Marc’s human memories, but without access to human sensual pleasures. Now he has to find a reason to keep on, um, “living.” Adam the Mindclone meets the real Marc Gregorio - and his new girlfriend Molly Schaeffer. Adam loves her, too. But how does a digital entity experience love? He can’t even experience pizza. And a power-mad military contractor will stop at nothing to control the technology for his own ends....

Many of us know people whom society and doctors would consider personality disordered or mentally ill. We often use these labels for diagnoses and treatment. Sometimes the labels aren't accurate due to difficulties in testing for disorders and due to the differing views of the physicians and psychoanalysts. But are these people really disordered after all? Is there truly a normal personality that exists, and if it does exist - what is it?

If your mind has a mind of its own, this is the audiobook that will teach you how to discipline it and stop it wandering off.... Can you really rewire an adult brain? In theory the answer is yes, but there's a problem: no one seems to know exactly how to do it. In Override, science journalist Caroline Williams sets off on a mission for the answer. Delving into the latest studies on brain plasticity, she tries to square her findings with brain plasticity - that the brain adapts physically as we learn something new.

Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? Both visionary and practical, I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works captures the zeitgeist of an emerging age, providing the understanding of how a radically changed media world is influencing human behavior.

Smartphone? Coole Sache. Internet? Wie kann man ohne überleben!? Zeit, die Menschen zu feiern, die das möglich gemacht haben. Tobias Schrödel, IT-Experte und Deutschlands erster Comedy-Hacker, erzählt die Geschichten rund um die Brains, deren Hardware; Software und Internet-Anwendungen das Leben von uns allen für immer verändert haben - und die teilweise niemand kennt. Das muss sich ändern! Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt! Aber Vorsicht: Es wird absurd, lustig, tragisch und vielleicht sogar ein kleines bisschen lehrreich.

Electra Kittner - now an Electra-Alisha split personality infected with an STD-like T-Plague mutation - must cure herself first before battling a new set of enemies in cyber- as well as 3D-space. She must also contend with a relentlessly harsh government, as well as random acts of terrorism masterminded by a rogue paramilitary force allied with China and Russia, all interwoven into the fabric of her professional and personal lives fraught with technological and political uncertainties. Can she hold adversaries at bay?

Thus speaks the Irani-Electra duo at the start of chapter one. The duo is back in action and ready to reconstruct personal and professional worlds. But new challenges await.

Max, a graduate student, is recruited by Big Brains America (BBA) - a covert megamind created to safeguard world peace and keep Earth from extinction. The US Government and one titan entrepreneur agree to pursue with BBA the most ambitious space mission in history: A bold jaunt through space-time to Jupiter and to Earth’s newly-discovered sister planet, Aoratosia, where supposedly no human has landed before. The crew, with Max as its captain, meets with the unexpected. We are not alone.

Lucifer has been expelled to a place worse than Hell...Tucson, Arizona. After a flubbed attempt to overthrow Heaven, Lucifer (Lucious to his friends) is dumped on Earth—the one place he can die. Without options, he does the unthinkable and realigns with his old nemesis, God, for a shot at payback on those who betrayed him. But there is a price. God wants Lucious to join an arm of redemption-seeking degenerates to cleanse the world of demonic influence. Now, Lucious has to learn to put aside his hatred of mankind, or they will not survive.

A lone-wolf former US marine, a CID officer, and an MI6 agent in an African paradise soon grapple with organized crime, human trafficking, trophy hunting, money laundering, corruption, drugs, foreign exploitation, and more. Left with no choice, each understands that iron for iron is what’s needed. Will they collaborate, or will their egos interfere? They have seven days. The clock is ticking.

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