Psychology - Neuropsychology

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The Female Brain

Louann Brizendine

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 ...

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Published: Aug 2007

Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neurosc...

Rick Hanson

Jesus, 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, ...

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Published: Nov 2009

An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Para...

Oliver W. Sacks

To 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...

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Published: Jan 1996

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: H...

Sharon Begley

In 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...

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Published: Nov 2007

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And ...

Bruce Perry

How 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...

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Published: Aug 2017

Awakenings

Oliver W. Sacks

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...

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Published: Jan 1990

Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma an...

Jonathan Shay

An 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...

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Published: Oct 1995

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...

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Published: Apr 2009

Why Weight? A Guide to Ending Compuls...

Geneen Roth

After 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.

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Published: Jun 1989

The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own: Insi...

Richard M. Restak

Neurologist 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...

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Published: Apr 1993

Migraine

Oliver W. Sacks

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...

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Published: Jan 1992

Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Soci...

Barbara G. Markway

Americans 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...

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Published: Oct 1992

The Man Who Wasn't There: Tales from ...

Anil Ananthaswamy

In 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...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashi...

Thomas Armstrong

ADHD. 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 ...

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Published: Oct 2011

The Essential Difference: Male And Fe...

Simon Baron-Cohen

We 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...

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Published: Aug 2004

Master Your Panic and Take Back Your ...

Denise F. Beckfield

This 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...

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Published: Mar 2004

Your Body is Your Brain: Leverage You...

Amanda Blake

WINNER: 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...

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Published: Oct 2019

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How B...

Sandra Blakeslee

Your 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...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Male Brain

Louann Brizendine

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...

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Published: Jan 2011

Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neur...

Paul Broks

A 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...

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Published: Jan 2003

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, an...

Antonio R. Damasio

Since 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...

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Published: Sep 2005

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...

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Published: Oct 2010

Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understandi...

Daniel C. Dennett

Combining 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...

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Published: Aug 1997

Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gi...

Gerald M. Eldelman

How 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...

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Published: May 2005

Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (St...

Sigmund Freud

On 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...

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Published: Sep 1990

Studies in Hysteria

Sigmund Freud

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...

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Published: Jun 2004

Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become ...

Joseph LeDoux

In 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...

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Published: Jan 2003

The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious U...

Joseph LeDoux

What 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...

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Published: Mar 1998

A General Theory of Love

Thomas Lewis

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...

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Published: Jan 2001

The Illusion of Determinism: Why Free...

Edwin A. Locke

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...

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Published: Mar 2018
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