Every brain begins as a female brain. It only becomes male eight weeks after conception, when excess testosterone shrinks the communications center, reduces the hearing cortex, and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice ...
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neurosc...
Rick HansonJesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else s. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, ...
An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Para...
Oliver W. SacksTo these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Thes...
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: H...
Sharon BegleyIn this fascinating and far-reaching book, Newsweek science writer Sharon Begley reports on how cutting-edge science and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism have come together to reveal that, contrary to popular belief, we have the power t...
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And ...
Bruce PerryHow does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of cou...
One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time.' --The Washington Post'Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his pa...
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma an...
Jonathan ShayAn original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.\r\n\r\nIn this moving, dazzli...
Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury a...
Michael Paul Mason"A POWERFULLY WRITTEN BOOK . . . HEAD CASES SOUNDS AN ALARM BELL FOR OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM." —OLIVER SACKS Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strang...
Why Weight? A Guide to Ending Compuls...
Geneen RothAfter Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, Roth offers a workbook that will enable readers to explore for themselves the issues that lead to compulsive eating.
The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own: Insi...
Richard M. RestakNeurologist and best-selling author Richard Restak puts readers in touch with the latest scientific findings about the most complex and inscrutable object in creation--the human brain. 'By all means let Richard Restak take you on this...
Balanced, authoritative . . . brilliant.' --The London Times'Written by one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century, Migraine . . . should be read as much for its brilliant insights into the nature of our mental func...
Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Soci...
Barbara G. MarkwayAmericans struggle with anxiety. Among the disorder's most common forms is social phobia, a persistent fear of scrutiny and evaluation by others. Social phobia cripples the lives of some 15 to 20 percent of the US population. This dis...
The Man Who Wasn't There: Tales from ...
Anil AnanthaswamyIn the tradition of Oliver Sacks, science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy skillfully inspects the bewildering connections among brain, body, mind, self, and society by examining a range of neuropsychological ailments from autism and Alzh...
The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashi...
Thomas ArmstrongADHD. dyslexia. autism. the number of illness categories listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the last fifty years. With so many people affected, it is time to revisit our perceptions on this "culture of ...
The Essential Difference: Male And Fe...
Simon Baron-CohenWe all know the opposite sex can be a baffling, even infuriating, species. Why do most men use the phone to exchange information rather than have a chat? Why do women love talking about relationships and feelings with their girlfriend...
Master Your Panic and Take Back Your ...
Denise F. BeckfieldThis practical, self-empowering book on overcoming debilitating panic attacks is now in a completely revised, updated and expanded third edition, and includes the latest information and new research findings on agoraphobia, exposure t...
Your Body is Your Brain: Leverage You...
Amanda BlakeWINNER: Nautilus Books for a Better World--Social ScienceAround the world, a swelling tide of people are discovering an astonishing, life-altering truth. This book tells their extraordinary stories:an anxious PhD student builds his co...
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How B...
Sandra BlakesleeYour body has a mind of its own. You know it’s true. You can sense it, even though it may be hard to articulate. You know that your body is more than a vehicle for your brain to cruise around in, but how deeply are mind and body tru...
From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain. Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the coun...
Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neur...
Paul BroksA finalist for The Guardian First Book Award, Into the Silent Land is a stunning look into how the human brain constructs a "self," or the essence of who we are as individuals. A neuropsychologist with twenty-five years' experience an...
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, an...
Antonio R. DamasioSince Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspec...
Reading in the Brain: The New Science...
Stanislas Dehaene"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work." -Oliver Sacks, M.D. The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astoun...
Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understandi...
Daniel C. DennettCombining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in...
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gi...
Gerald M. EldelmanHow does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? The quest for a scientifically based understanding of consciousness has attracted...
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (St...
Sigmund FreudOn three or four occasions in his career as a psychoanalytic theoretician, Freud changed his mind on fundamental issues.Setting forth in rich detail Freud's new theory of anxiety, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926) is evidence f...
Hysteria—the tormenting of the body by the troubled mind—is among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most elusive. Freud’s recognition that hysteria stemmed from traumas in the patient’s pa...
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become ...
Joseph LeDouxIn 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more...
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious U...
Joseph LeDouxWhat happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even thou...
This original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thi...
The Illusion of Determinism: Why Free...
Edwin A. LockeDeterminism 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...