brain

"Brain expert Marilee Sprenger explains how applying neuroscience to social-emotional learning yields strategies that create supportive classroom environments and improve outcomes for all students"--Provided by publisher.

"A mystery following Trex, a boy with an experimental implant, Mellie, a reclusive girl training to be a spy, and their adventures together as they're pitted against middle school bullies, their own parents, and an evil, brain-hacking corporation"--Provided by publisher.

"A graphic novel biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the father of neuroscience.".

Visiting a Brain Fair is fun, but Violet and her friends get to learn even more amazing facts about the brain when they enter the magical Maker Maze.

Fourteen-year-old star freshman quarterback Caleb Springer watches his father deteriorate from injuries he suffered playing the very same sport, forcing Caleb to consider whether playing football, the sport of his dreams, is worth risking irreparable physical harm.

"A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege. Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: The very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive lying. Cognitive neurologist Sara Manning Peskin demystifies the most curious neurological phenomena through the perspective of patients, researchers, and science. She introduces us to a woman stuck in The Walking Dead, a family wracked with Alzheimer's disease, and an entire region gripped by a baffling epidemic. By tracing the molecular causes for neurologic diseases, Peskin highlights cutting-edge developments in cognitive research, making the case that these are the stories that will one day teach us how to cure dementia and other diseases of the brain. A Molecule Away from Madness offers a captivating, singular view of the human brain"--Provided by the publisher.

Why can't I stop humming that song? Why do I always feel like I am missing out? And why can't I remember why I walked into this room? You're not the only one. Whether it's procrastinating, feeling like an imposter, or blushing when we least want to, many of our quirkiest behaviors and ideas are hardwired. Why Am I Like This? Provides fascinating scientific answers to thirty-three questions about our sometimes weird, often awkward, and always human tendencies, helping us to become more enlightened and to feel less alone.

"When you go to sleep, what does your brain do? Does it rest too? It can't because it's busy working while you snooze! It repairs, and resets, and helps your body even when you aren't awake. Using up-to-date research to explore our brains' critical functions when we are asleep, psychology experts JoAnn and Terrence Deak invite kids (and adults) to unpack all the amazing things your brain is doing when you're not awake-and why it's so important to get your sleep!"--.

"Examines cutting edge theories on the science of emotion and interviews with people presumed to be 'happy' to investigate where happiness comes from, why humans need it so much, and what it has to do with the human brain"--OCLC.

"Answers to several common and interesting questions that kids have about the brain and human behavior"--Provided by publisher.