Offers advice on how to tap the potential of the mind-body connection to improve overall health, outlining eighteen strategies for such areas as improving willpower, decreasing stress, and balancing hormones.

Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic, Flowers for Algernon. As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation Charly (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical. Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't...

Explains what quantum mechanics can reveal about the human mind, using information theory to illuminate advances in the neurosciences while discussing the physics behind the brain's capacity for instantaneously processing large amounts of information.

The brain is the most complex structure that we are aware of in the Universe. In this book, the author describes the ingenious methods by which we can study the brain, explaining just what shows up on fMRI or PET scans. She describes the experiments that give us clues about learning, memory, and other brain functions, and how painstakingly such knowledge is acquired. She notes that there is an ethical aspect to brain manipulation as we search for...

A new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychoanalyst Doidge traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed--people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, blind people who learn to see, learning...

Printed on board pages, this illustrated book shows and describes the different areas of the brain and the functions they perform.

""In these pages, the author walks you through the different types of brain injury; explodes the common myths surrounding it; demonstrates the ways in which TBI may affect memory, behavior, and social interaction; explores the newest options in treatment and rehabilitation; and shows you how to hold on to your own sense of self as you journey through. Along with the practical information you'll need, the book offers a constellation of instructive,...

Provides parents with the support and information needed to help a child recover from traumatic brain injuries, including information on diagnosis, rehabilitation, medical concerns, effects on learning, preventing further injury, legal issues, and other related topics.

This book shines light on some of the hard-to-reach places in the brain, showing the ways in which we are not the ones driving the boat.

"Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age; why we should think about health span, not life span; and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, how you can make the most of your seventies, eighties, and nineties today, no matter how old you are now"--