Mental Brain

In The Traumatic Stress Recovery Workbook, trauma and neuroscience expert Jennifer Sweeton provides forty brain-changing techniques for overcoming PTSD that you can begin using right away to build resilience, boost self-confidence, and develop self-efficacy. You'll learn what happens in your brain after experiencing trauma, and why it reacts in ways that cause even more distress. You'll also discover evidence-based strategies grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience to manage psychological and physical—or somatic—symptoms—so you can get back to your life.

Unleash positive thinking and productive imagination and flip negative thoughts and behaviors into a lifetime to improve every aspect of your life - each morning, one day at a time.

What if great sex wasn't just great sex: What if great sex could actually change your life? Your Brain on Sex offers a groundbreaking and intriguing look at how each one of us can transform our lives by focusing our thoughts on our true sexual desires. This book lays out a bold yet simple path for uncovering your true self through sex. It's more than just great sex. It's smart sex - sex that can change your life. You will learn how to discover your true desires, understand what they mean, and use those secrets to create powerful change.

According to R. Douglas Fields, PhD, we all have a rage circuit we can't fully control once it is engaged. The daily headlines are filled with examples of otherwise rational people with no history of violence or mental illness suddenly snapping in a domestic dispute, barroom brawl, or road rage attack. We all wish to believe that we are in control of our actions, but the fact is, in certain circumstances we are not. Something in our environment can unexpectedly unleash an automatic and complex rage response.

This is a book about practical neuroscience. That means that while it is scientifically based, it gets down to how you can compensate for your brain's evolutionary habits and excel in spite of them. Our brains are stuck in the year 10,000 BC, so let's find out how to make that work for us.

Do you know how to use your brain? Only recently has science begun to understand the incredible functioning of the human brain, an organ so complex, it makes the most sophisticated computer look like a toy. Now Tony Buzan has taken what is known and developed this "how-to-learn" program that can help you achieve your full potential. Discover how to sharpen your mental skills and unlock talents and abilities you never even knew you had, like creativity, leadership, and confidence.

Living a brain-healthy life is not just to reduce the risk of dementia and other serious health issues but also to improve the quality of your life and brain performance now. Investing in brain health will cost you nothing but time and effort - and the brain-healthy recommendations in this book can all be followed for free! Brain health expert Dr. Sabina Brennan's steps are simple to follow and within your control so can be integrated into daily life with ease over the course of 100 days.

Even smart kids do stupid things. It's a simple fact of life. No one makes it through the teenage years unscathed - not the teens and not their parents. But now there's expert help for both generations in this groundbreaking new guide for surviving the drama of adolescence. In WHY Do They Act That Way? nationally renowned, award-winning psychologist Dr. David Walsh explains exactly what happens to the human brain on the path from childhood into adolescence and adulthood.

Nowadays, with all the stress we accumulate at work, children, school, and money, it is very easy to slip into bad habits which do nothing but further worsen our lives, increase our fears, worries, and stress, and lead to a sedentary, poor and unhealthy lifestyle. We have a lot of expectations of us and of our loved ones to increase our monetary income, to lose excess weight, and find the ideal partner.

Intelligent Thinking is your succinct guide with the most effective thinking strategies (though a few might sound counterintuitive) to help you learn how to think intelligently.

Our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are all connected. When we get stuck in our thoughts, this can impact our feelings and emotions negatively. A downward spiral of anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can follow. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety offers proven strategies and techniques for anyone suffers with anxiety, panic attacks or compulsive disorders to break free by rewiring your brain.

Inside this book, you’ll discover a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look into the most effective behavioral change system on the planet. This proven system is loved by therapists the world over, and has helped millions of patients because it actually works. If you’re looking for practical, lasting, and profound behavioral change, then this book is for you. No matter what issues you’re struggling with, CBT is an incredibly effective technique for rebuilding your mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors. So don’t put up with suffering any longer.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Before 25) is based on Dr. Jesse Payne's and Daniel Amen's work together with young people and parents and educators who work with young people. It is an owner's manual specifically written for the developing brain, packed with interesting information, relatable stories and easy-to-follow brain prescriptions and enhancement strategies. Its step-by-step instructions are tailored to optimize brain power while minimizing brain interference.

Actions have consequences - and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on Earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are important (where would we be without positive reinforcement?), few have heard there's a science of consequences, with principles that affect us every day. Ten years in the making, The Science of Consequences takes an interdisciplinary approach to show how something so deceptively simple can help make sense of so much.

Your keys. Your phone. Your scheduled tasks for the day. How many things do you forget on a regular basis? In a busy, fast-paced and technology driven world, our attention is often divided among a million things at once, making it easy for important information to slip through the cracks. As we become more and more dependent on apps and other tools to aid our memory, the ability of our brains to independently capture and retain information becomes weaker and weaker. But your memory is a muscle that can be exercised and strengthened with the right training.

If you're in a job interview, how should you think about the mindset of the interviewer? If you've just been promoted, how do you handle the tensions of managing former peers? And what are the telltale mental signs that it's time to start planning your next career move? Professor, author, and popular radio host Art Markman focuses on three essential elements of a successful career - getting a job, excelling at work, and finding your next position - and expertly illustrates how cognitive science, especially psychology, sheds fascinating and useful light on each of these elements.

Recovering from a brain injury can be a challenging and prolonged process. Learn how to maximize your recovery from the effects of brain injuries with the guidance of Sandeep Vaishnavi, MD, PhD, and Vani Rao, MBBS, MD, two leading medical experts with extensive experience helping patients recover from concussion and other brain injuries. Healing the Traumatized Brain explains how the brain works, how injuries affect the brain, and how to use your brain's own power to recover.

It has been remarked that if the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t. Commencing with a brief history of neuroscience, from the ancient practice of drilling holes in the head to relieve headaches to the latest results from MRI and CT scans, this accessible guide sets out to explore exactly what we do know about the brain. Including the most up-to-date research on the cerebral processes, this entertaining introduction assumes no previous scientific knowledge.

Anxiety and panic attacks are debilitating. They steal your confidence, peace of mind and hope but they can be defeated. This book explains what you are going through, why your body reacts the way it does, and then gives you the tools to defeat it. The book takes you through, step by step, touching on events that may have happened to you. It's relatable, it's understandable, and it's for you.

Learn powerful, science-based techniques to boost focus, drive, and energy hour-by-hour throughout the day - every day. As leadership consultants and executive trainers, Bonnie St. John and Allen P. Haines have heard the same complaints from clients for years; periodic burnout, lack of focus, and low energy. So they dug into the latest research on neuroscience, psychology, and physiology looking for big answers. Instead they found small answers; proof that small adjustments in daily routines, can fight the forces that sap our energy and store focus and drive.