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With New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Hanson's four steps, you can counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day.
Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences and slowly from good ones, but you can change this.
Life isn’t...
Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences and slowly from good ones, but you can change this.
Life isn’t...
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Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind.
"Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science."—The Wall Street Journal
"A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented."—Scientific American...
"Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science."—The Wall Street Journal
"A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented."—Scientific American...
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For the first time, a Neuroscientist and Senior Lecturer at MIT reveals the surprising science that supports The Law of Attraction as an effective tool for self-discovery and offers a guide to discovering your authentic self to access your best life now.
Self-help books like The Secret show us that if we can tap into "The Law of Attraction," we have the power to change our destiny simply by reshaping our mind. Millions of people have used the ancient...
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A prizewinning 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 ten people with these afflictions, and they agreed
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A Short-Cut to Understanding Affective Neuroscience is a remarkable book that will appeal to academics and laymen, theoreticians and clinicians. Readers will appreciate Lucy Biven's thorough research and her straightforward language. She does not avoid complexity and uncertainty when addressing challenging questions in neuroscience.
-Donald Campbell: Past President and Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society
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"How Freud, Jung, and Wilson Cured Addiction and the Treatment Industry Closed Its Ears: A Peer Reviewed Analysis of the Brain," lays out in critical detail how the theoretical foundation for the cure of addictions was in place a century before technological advances would support those findings. This volume presents to the world the only neuro-chemical diagnostic model for addictions based upon personality, as well as the first emotion regulation...
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"Cognitive Learning" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the process of cognitive learning psychologically.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced systematically so students can learn and retain the materials intuitively....
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Our senses! Thanks to them, our brains are constantly flooded with information about the world around us. What may surprise you is that we're not all wired the same way, and some of us are unable to understand exactly what we're sensing. People with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), a newly identified neurological condition, as well as those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), are frequently misunderstood by others when they over- or under-react...
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An all-star lineup of scientists takes you to the front lines of brain research.
Are we born to be shy? Why do we remember some events so clearly and others not at all? Are creativity and depression somehow linked? Do our dreams really have deeper meanings?
Now in paperback, here is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the most important recent findings about how our health, behavior, feelings, and identities are influenced by what goes on inside...
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Get the Summary of Temple Grandin's Visual Thinking in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Temple Grandin's "Visual Thinking" delves into the distinctions between visual and verbal thinkers, with Grandin herself being a visual thinker. She categorizes visual thinkers into object visualizers and spatial visualizers, each with unique strengths. Grandin's visual thinking has been pivotal in her work with animal behavior...
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Determinism is the doctrine that everything we think, feel, believe, and do is caused by factors outside our control-that we have no choice regarding our character, our thoughts, our actions, our lives. There have been many forms of determinism but the one that is most popular today is based on neuroscience, with the enthusiastic support of many psychologists, philosophers, and physical scientists (e.g., physicists). This version argues that we are...
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Get the Summary of Lisa Feldman Barrett's How Emotions Are Made in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Lisa Feldman Barrett's research challenges the classical view of emotions as innate and universal. She introduces the concept of "emotional granularity," showing that emotions are not linked to distinct physical patterns or neural fingerprints. Instead, emotions are constructed by the brain through a process called...
15) Sea Lavender
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Sea Lavender "Time and memory are inextricably linked, without one there cannot be either.”
Imagine if it were possible to explore another’s' memory in vivid sense-surround virtual reality...finding and recording, erasing or supplanting life's forgotten recollections. Experimental neuroscientist Doctor Elizabeth's Graham has done just that by developing powerful tools to navigate through distant memories and uncover long lost secrets. Unknown...
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Have you ever felt out of place? Nearly everyone has experienced that sort of unease in one context or another, but prior experience serves to remind them that the feeling will pass. Imagine, then, living over 40 years as a virtual outsider – always feeling like you don't belong among humanity, but never able to come to grips with the reason why. You try to join in conversations, but your poor timing and difficulty relating to others serves only...
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Get the Summary of Sally Shaywitz's Overcoming Dyslexia in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Overcoming Dyslexia" by Sally Shaywitz demystifies dyslexia, presenting it as a biological and cognitive disorder rather than a result of poor motivation or education. Shaywitz connects scientific insights from brain imaging with practical classroom applications, advocating for early detection and intervention. Personal narratives...
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El estudio de los procesos cognoscitivos se ha convertido en un reto de profundización, dada su injerencia en ámbitos clínico-patológicos de la enfermedad mental y el daño cerebral. Muchos textos académicos han descrito los procesos de evaluación neuropsicológica; sin embargo, pocos están dirigidos a la formación básica del quehacer del neuropsicólogo. La presente publicación apunta en esa dirección. Cada capítulo aborda una función...
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At a first look, human behavior seems an inexplicable mess. Why do we behave irrationally? Why is change so hard? What is happiness and why does it seem to escape us? The Control Heuristic offers a new perspective to answer these questions and provides a guiding light to understand the subconscious processes that guide our behavior. Luca Dellanna, author of 5 books, writes here a revealing journey into the true motivations for human behavior. Understanding...
20) Ser cuerpo
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Cómo repensar el trabajo, la educación, el deporte, la arquitectura, el diseño, la moda, la salud y la espiritualidad desde el punto de vista del cuerpo.
La cada vez mayor difusión de las prácticas corporales basadas en la percepción del cuerpo desde su interior está develando escenarios diferentes e inesperados en todos los campos. Gran parte de las dificultades que encontramos al vivir nacen del hecho que es nuestro ser el que se adapta a...
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