Neuropsychology category: 992 books
Neuroleadership
A Journey Through the Brain for Business Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
This book takes you on a journey through the brain, its function and its impact on leadership. The young business field of neuroleadership is founded on the belief that understanding the brain can give leaders new and powerful insights into human behaviour and how to effectively tap into that knowledge...
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
A successful Wall Street trader turned neuroscientist reveals how risk taking and stress transform our body chemistry
Before he became a world-class scientist, John Coates ran a derivatives trading desk in New York City. He used the expression “the hour between dog and wolf” to refer to...
The Science of Fear
How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
“An invaluable resource for anyone who aspires to think clearly” (The Guardian) from the New York Times bestselling author of Superforecasting and Future Babble
From terror attacks to collapsing economies, from painkiller epidemics to mass gun violence and poisonous toys from China, our...
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
Bridging the Two Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art...
Mind Hacks
Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary,...
This Is Your Brain on Music
The Science of a Human Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain.
Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing...
Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids
The One Brain Book You Need to Help Your Child Grow Brighter, Healthier, and Happier
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Every week new discoveries about the brain make the news, often promising parents the latest “right” way to nurture their kids’ developing brains and behavior. And every day there’s a new technology that demands your child’s attention, a new game or toy that purports to make your kid smarter,...
by Michelle Vines
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
"Asperger's on the Inside" is an acutely honest and often highly entertaining memoir by Michelle Vines about life with Asperger's Syndrome. The book follows Michelle in exploring her past and takes the reader with her on her journey to receiving and accepting her diagnosis.
Instead...
Cure
A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability to heal the body.
Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partner's...
by Rolf Dobelli
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Have you ever . . .
Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it?
Paid too much in an eBay auction?
Continued to do something you knew was bad for you?
Sold stocks too late, or too early?
Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances?
Backed the...
Trastornos neurocognitivos en el adulto mayor
Evaluación, diagnóstico e intervención neuropsicológica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 17, 2019
El libro Trastornos neurocognitivos en el adulto mayor: evaluación, diagnóstico e intervención neuropsicológica plantea con la mayor cantidad de evidencia científica posible los aportes que se han realizado en la conceptualización, la evaluación, el diagnóstico y la rehabilitación sobre el...
On Being Human
Why Mind Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In this thought-provoking book, psychologist Jerome Kagan urges readers to sally forth from their usual comfort zones. He ponders a series of important nodes of debate while challenging us to examine what we know and why we know it. Most critically he presents an elegant argument for functions of mind...
Think Tank
Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A spirited collection of essays by cutting-edge neuroscientists that irreverently explores the quirky and counterintuitive aspects of brain function
Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: “What idea about brain function would...
Liars, Lovers, and Heroes
What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This exciting, timely book combines cutting-edge findings in neuroscience with examples from history and recent headlines to offer new insights into who we are. Introducing the new science of cultural biology, born of advances in brain imaging, computer modeling, and genetics, Drs. Quartz and Sejnowski...