Neuroscience category: 1433 books
At War with PTSD
Battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Virtual Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
The Spartans called it The Trembler; recent history has seen it termed shell shock, combat fatigue, soldier’s heart, and Vietnam Syndrome. Whatever the name, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has always been with us. With 20 percent of the Veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq exhibiting...
Un castello di sabbia.
Storie della mia vita e della mia schizofrenia
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 13, 2016
In una nuova edizione, una biografia toccante, che è stata in vetta alle classifiche di vendita negli Stati Uniti. La storia di una malattia mentale raccontata da una paziente d’eccellenza. Pagine cariche di dolore ma anche di coraggio e di speranza. “È il racconto più lucido e positivo sulla...
Vivere con il sole in tasca
Cos'è la psicologia positiva e cosa può fare per noi
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 21, 2017
La psicologia positiva è con tutta probabilità quella che nel campo scientifico è esplosa nel modo più fiammeggiante, diffondendosi rapidamente in tutti i paesi. Ad essa però ha fatto da contraltare una divulgazione di basso livello. Questa guida non promette tesori di saggezza a palate, ma informazioni...
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this...
Suggestible You
The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
National Geographic's riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations...
by Stuart Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick!ABOUT THE BOOKAt first glance, my new job seemed similar to many others in Silicon Valley: on the verge of a merger, executives far removed from their customers, and too many projects to be completed in too little time. Everyone worked late into the evening,...
Fixing My Gaze
A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change
When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion in a three dimensional world for the first time. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This volume of the Medical Basic Guides is about Aneurysms "What You Always Wanted To Know About..." are , straight-to-the-point, easily understandable and comprehensive medical ebooks and guides for everybody. Whether you are just interested in the topic of the book or you are directly...
Shrinks
The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
"An astonishing book: honest, sober, exciting, and humane... [Shrinks] brings you to the very forefront of one of the most amazing medical journeys of our time." --Siddhartha Mukherjee
Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells. But,...
Yasargil:
Father of Modern Neurosurgery
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
M. Gazi Yasargil: Father of Modern Neurosurgery describes Professor Yasargil developing a means of reducing the mortality rates associated with the deadliest of brain pathologies from thirty percent in the mid-1960s to less than two percent. It required not only a vastly redesigned microscope, but...
The Perpetual Now
A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about...
Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment
The William Burroughs Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, inspired him to discover a ground-breaking treatment for Parkinson's Disease. Lees journeys...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Paul Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
‘A masterpiece of popularization’ Times Literary Supplement ‘A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual’s liability to disease… Martin is a highly civilised scientist, who seasons his text with witty parentheses....