neurosciences

Interweaving the latest research with personal tales and real world examples, this offers reassurance and provides valuable insights into how listeners can embrace their personal quirks and unique talents to harness their awesome potential, and more comfortably navigate their complex world.

Vanessa Potter reveals the terror ofsudden blindness, and the grueling six-month recovery she endured to recognize and make sense of the world around her.

Neuroscientist, blogger, and author Burnett offers a humorous, inside look at how the human brain works, and the strange things it does including develop superstitions and conspiracy theories, have blackouts and insomnia, and remember faces but not names.

Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike--strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents--and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities.

"[Explores] the brain's role in creating our world, our experience of it, and ourselves; [arguing that the brain] works as a storyteller--creating a narrative that allows us to navigate and make sense of a world that it is busy constructing for us"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the collaboration between Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky and looks at their role in undoing assumptions about the human mind and the decision-making process.

Discusses how the brain works and how to treat it well, including getting enough exercise and sleep, how to learn effectively, and how the brain evolved, and presents twelve principles for optimum brain performance at work, home, and school.

As the control center of the body, the brain is constantly functioning--even during sleep. Readers will begin to understand the intricacies of this essential organ and a multitude of its functions. Covering a wide scope of topics, this book is sure to capture the interest of young scientists..

Explores how neuroscience can help people understand the human brain and consciousness, and debates whether or not cutting edge technologies should have to power to mend or manipulate the mind.

A career memoir of neuroscientist James Fallon, describing how while studying his family's brain scans for research he discovered that his own scan reflected a pattern similar to those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered new insights into the role of biology in behavior.