Mental Brain

The statistics on suicide are staggering. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 800,000 people die by suicide every year, which is one person every forty seconds, and for each completed suicide there may be twenty or more attempts. In How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me, Susan Blauner is the perfect emissary for a message of hope and a program of action for these millions of people.

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does - humans are a musical species.

From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what’s average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us.

This transformative book will enable you to leverage your ADHD to establish order, meet deadlines, and create a peaceful environment that serves you.

En este audiolibro innovador y práctico, Daniel J. Siegel y Tina Payne Bryson desmitifican las crisis y los conflictos, explicando los nuevos conocimientos científicos sobre cómo está constituido el cerebro y cómo madura. Incluyendo claras explicaciones, estrategias correspondientes a las distintas edades para enfrentarse a las luchas cotidianas e ilustraciones que ayudan a explicar estos conceptos a los niños, El cerebro del niño enseña a cultivar un desarrollo emocional e intelectual sano para que los niños puedan tener una vida equilibrada, significativa, y conectada.

The brain's superpowers have been discovered by neuroscience. Your genius mind knows how to make your brain dissolve worry and stay in your best internal states longer. The result is a life full of possibility. The Worry-Free Mind shows you how to decipher the architecture of your model of reality, shift it to a newer version, and overcome your tendency to worry every day.

For the modern world, it seems as if sexuality and spirituality have always been at odds. But what if the two are actually deeply connected? And what if science could prove this connection? From neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, Sex, God, and the Brain argues that our religious and spiritual experiences derive directly from our sexual being. While others have speculated on a connection between religion and sex, Newberg is the first to demonstrate that the underlying biological mechanism of religious, spiritual, and sexual experiences are identical.

Unbreakable Mind will help you understand your thoughts, organize them, and attach the appropriate action to them. Mental clarity equals peace and control of your mind. The goal of this book is simple: You'll actually have something real that works if you just follow the instructions along with an understanding of the mind in a way that just makes everything so simple to comprehend and apply!

Do you find yourself constantly overwhelmed by daily tasks, unable to focus, or struggling with impulsive decisions because of ADHD? Are you frustrated by your inability to manage time and organize your space effectively? Have you tried countless strategies that left you feeling exhausted and defeated? Meet your guide to mastering executive functioning skills and transforming your ADHD into a strength.

Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international best seller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answers to these and many other age-old questions. The cutting-edge research presented in The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how we understand the role that neuroscience plays in our lives.

Filled with simple, everyday actions we can take to avoid disease, promote vitality, and prevent dementia and late onset Alzheimer's, The Aging Brain is an easy-to-use guide to maintaining brain and body health throughout our lives. Based on solid, up-to-date scientific research, the interventions explained in this book not only prevent progression toward dementia even in those who have already shown mild cognitive impairment, they also reduce disability and depression and keep people living independently longer than those who do not practice these methods.

Es posible cambiar, en cualquier momento de la vida, nuestras ideas más arraigadas, nuestra forma de pensar y también nuestra experiencia emocional. Para lograrlo es suficiente una herramienta sencilla y extremadamente efectiva en la transformación de nuestro cerebro: el buen uso de la conversación.

Has your mind ever been filled with such negative thoughts that you even worry about what will happen in the following minutes? People do not know that this type of behavior is generated by overthinking, which can generate many more consequences, such as anxiety and depression. In this book, learn how to master your mind to build mental toughness to focus on the present. We will teach you everything you need to know so as not to compromise your mental health and, on the contrary, improve it and have a much better emotional well-being.

A prize-winning journalist with a background in neuroscience, Helen Thomson spent years tracking down people who live with the world's most extraordinary neurological disorders - like a man who tried to break his back because his legs no longer felt like his own, and another who believed that he was dead for nine years. Not content to simply read about these cases on paper, Thomson reached out to 10 people with these afflictions, and they agreed to tell her their stories.

Our brains are doing their best to help us out, but sometimes we get hurt instead. And sometimes we hurt people we love, too, because we just don’t know what to do with all of our feelings. With humor and patience, Dr. Faith G. Harper shows you the science behind why your brain is acting up and ideas for new ways to respond when you’re feeling scared, sad, anxious, or angry. You can train your brain to be your friend and help you live a happy, calm, and healthy life.

For more than 20 years, The Baby Book author William Sears' advice has been trusted by millions across the country, and around the world. Now, he and The Anti-Alzheimer's Prescription author Vincent M. Fortanasce have put together the essential guide to a clearer, calmer, and happier brain. Laced with relatable personal stories from family members and patients, The Healthy Brain Book weds Fortanasce's deep neurological and psychiatric expertise with Sears' sympathetic bedside manner and listener-friendly writing.

A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information.

Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, while also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.

At thirty-seven, Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo was content to be single. She was fulfilled by her work on the neuroscience of romantic love—how finding and growing with a partner literally reshapes our brains. That was, until she met the foremost neuroscientist of loneliness. A whirlwind romance led to marriage, to sharing an office at the University of Chicago. After seven years of being inseparable at work and home, she lost her beloved husband following a devastating battle with cancer.

An empowering journey through the mechanisms of the mind from one of the world’s leading mental health experts.