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  • Suspicious Minds

    How Culture Shapes Madness

    A “clear, witty, and engaging” (The Boston Globe) journey through the brain that connects neuroscience, biology, and culture. An “intellectual landmark” (Edward Shorter, Literary Review of Canada).The current view of delusions—the strange beliefs held by people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses—is that they are the result of biology gone awry, of neurons in the brain misfiring. In ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Five Levers Of PTSD

    by Jordan Vezina ...
    The Five Levers of PTSD recounts the author's story of how he developed PTSD via a series of concussions and a traumatic childhood. He also presents a theory of PTSD in stark contrast to the current psychological model: PTSD is a result of Traumatic Brain Injury.A system is also put forth that may allow those suffering from PTSD, anxiety and depression to improve their symptoms through the use of ... Read more

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  • Nerve

    Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool

    by Taylor Clark ...
    Nerves make us bomb job interviews, first dates, and SATs. With a presentation looming at work, fear robs us of sleep for days. It paralyzes seasoned concert musicians and freezes rookie cops in tight situations. And yet not everyone cracks. Soldiers keep their heads in combat; firemen rush into burning buildings; unflappable trauma doctors juggle patient after patient. It's not that these people ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • La conexión emocional

    Formación y transformación de la forma que tenemos de reaccionar emocionalmente

    Series series Con vivencias
    ¿Por qué ciertas personas reaccionan con seguridad y energía ante las dificultades, mientras que otras reaccionan con sentimientos de pequeñez y desánimo? Y lo que en la práctica es aún más importante, ¿cómo podemos cambiar esta manera involuntaria de reaccionar emocionalmente?El cerebro de los humanos ha evolucionado (neuronas espejo) para poder trabajar en red con otros cerebros a través de la ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Your Brain: The Missing Manual

    The Missing Manual

    Puzzles and brain twisters to keep your mind sharp and your memory intact are all the rage today. More and more people -- Baby Boomers and information workers in particular -- are becoming concerned about their gray matter's ability to function, and with good reason. As this sensible and entertaining guide points out, your brain is easily your most important possession. It deserves proper upkeep ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Neurophysiology Study Guide: Membranes And Transport, Ion Channels, Electrical Phenomena, Action Potential, Signal Transduction & More. (Mobi Medical)

    Neurophysiology Study Guide Audience: Intended for everyone interested in Neurophysiology, particularly undergraduate and graduate life science students, medical students, and nursing students.FEATURES:- Fully illustrated- Written in clear, concise format. - Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms. - Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases- Access the guide ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fixing My Gaze

    A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions

    A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for changeWhen 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 branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space. Leaves created ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Traumatized Brain

    A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior after Brain Injury

    Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
    Useful information and real hope for patients and families whose lives have been altered by traumatic brain injury.A traumatic brain injury is a life-changing event, affecting an individual’s lifestyle, ability to work, relationships—even personality. Whatever caused it—car crash, work accident, sports injury, domestic violence, combat—a severe blow to the head results in acute and, often, lasting ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Soul Made Flesh

    The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World

    by Carl Zimmer ...
    In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of the age of the brain and modern consciousness. Told here for the first time, the dramatic tale of how the secrets of the brain were discovered in seventeenth-century England unfolds against a turbulent backdrop of civil war, the Great Fire of London, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 改變你的心智:用啟靈藥物新科學探索意識運作、治療上癮及憂鬱、面對死亡與看見超脫

    Translated by 謝忍翾 ...
    Series series Common
    **暢銷名作《雜食者的兩難》、《烹》作者重磅新書《紐約時報》2018十大好書.暢銷榜第一名探索心智邊界與運作模式的雄心之作讓我們進入意識深處,那個藏著宇宙,藏著所謂「神性」的地方**  「日常生活的問題、困頓、憂慮、沮喪都已消失……我似乎終於能夠冥想永恆的真理。」「我立刻感到進入神的懷抱。祂與我合一。」「我看到數字產生顏色,顏色附帶著聲音。」——這是超脫,是神人合一的神袐體驗。許多人,包括最講求科學實證、最唯物論的人,都曾在這樣的經歷中脫胎換骨,擺脫過去。  還有另一種現象,以神經科學的語言來說,是「大腦中主宰自我和大多數判斷的預設模式網路停止活動,更原始、更古老的腦區浮出」,如幼兒的大腦,在那裡,自我感消融了,萬世萬物如同新造,各種創意、想像,噴薄而出。——這是用藥物達成的心智模式,文學家和藝術家從中汲取絕妙靈感,灣區第一代電腦工程師也因此得以設計出無數電路晶片。  以上兩者的交會點 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Around the Writer's Block

    Using Brain Science to Solve Writer's Resistance

    by Rosanne Bane ...
    Discover the tricks that your brain uses to keep you from writing—and how to beat them.Do you:Want to write, but find it impossible to get started?Keep your schedules so full that you don’t have any time to write?Wait until the last minute to write, even though you know you could do a better job if you gave yourself more time?Suddenly remember ten other things that you need to do whenever you sit ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • Clinical Neuroanatomy, 28th Edition

    A concise, highly visual overview of neuroanatomy and its functional underpinningsClinical Neuroanatomy, Twenty-Eighth Edition offers an accessible, easy-to-remember synopsis of neuroanatomy and its functional and clinical implications. Since many of us learn and remember better when material is presented visually, this acclaimed resource includes not only clinical material such as brain scans and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Understanding Pain

    Exploring the Perception of Pain

    An expert explores the biological and emotional nature of pain: why it hurts and why some pain is good and some pain is bad.If you touch something hot, it hurts. You snatch your hand away from the hot thing immediately. Obviously. But what is really happening, biologically—and emotionally? In Understanding Pain, Fernando Cervero explores the mechanisms and the meaning of pain. When you touch ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Affective Neuroscience : The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

    The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

    by Jaak Panksepp ...
    Series series Series in Affective Science
    Some investigators have argued that emotions especially animal emotions are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective Neuroscience Jaak Panksepp provides the most up-to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD $65.99 USD

  • Losing Reality

    On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry

    A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind controlIn this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neuroenology

    How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine

    In his new book, Gordon M. Shepherd expands on the startling discovery that the brain creates the taste of wine. This approach to understanding wine's sensory experience draws on findings in neuroscience, biomechanics, human physiology, and traditional enology. Shepherd shows, just as he did in Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, that creating the taste of wine ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Neuroscience and Philosophy

    Brain, Mind, and Language

    In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), which questions the conceptual commitments of cognitive neuroscientists. Their position is then criticized by ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Splitting

    The inside story on headaches

    'From ice cream headaches to migraine, this fascinating and entertaining account of a common curse draws together modern science, ancient views and personal experience.' – Professor Roy Taylor, author of Life Without Diabetes**'An insightful, entertaining book' – Daily MailWritten by a leading neuroscientist, Splitting tells the fascinating true story about headaches, and the sec... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Man and Woman:An Inside Story

    An Inside Story

    The saga of sex differences in brain and behavior begins with a tiny sperm swimming toward a huge egg, to contribute its tiny Y chromosome plus its copies of the other chromosomes. Genetic, anatomic and physiologic alterations in the male ensue, making his brain and behavior different in specific respects from his sister. Brain-wise, specific cell groups develop differently in males compared to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Leg to Stand On

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Here the doctor becomes the patient as Dr. Sacks chronicles the mountaineering accident which left him with the uncanny feeling of being "legless," and raises profound questions of the physical basis of identity."One of the great clinical writers of the 20th century." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn A Leg to Stand On, it is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation

    How the brain helps us to understand and navigate space—and why, sometimes, it doesn’t work the way it should.Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have—older than language. In Dark and Magical Places, Christopher Kemp embarks on a journey to discover the remarkable extent of what our minds ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 眼見為憑:從眼睛到大腦,從感知到思考,探索「看見」的奧祕

    We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think

    Translated by 鄧子衿 ...
    Series series 科學人文
    我們為何能輕易在人群中認出家人或朋友的面孔?如此理所當然的行為,其運作機制卻是科學界的重大奧祕之一!從視覺到人工智慧,揭開人腦與電腦的「看見」之謎幾乎大腦所有的行為,都與視覺息息相關,當我們了解視覺形成的原理,不僅能夠明白「看見」代表的意義,更能一窺大腦運作的堂奧。哈佛大學神經科學教授理查.馬斯蘭藉由解析眼睛的內在組成與行為,解答了關於大腦處理資訊的關鍵問題:即人類如何感知、學習和記憶資訊。視覺神經細胞是高度特化、細緻而多元的神經細胞,一條視神經中約包含百萬根神經纖維,也因此「視覺的形成機制」一直是科學界亟欲解開的謎題。《眼見為憑:從眼睛到大腦,從感知到思考,探索「看見」的奧祕》分為三部分,理查.馬斯蘭帶領讀者從第一部「視覺的開始」出發,解說光線進入視網膜時發生的各項細節、介紹視網膜與視神經上功能不同的細胞及其機制;第二部分進一步闡述這些神經細胞如何各司其職接收訊息 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • I of the Vortex

    From Neurons to Self

    A highly original theory of how the mind-brain works, based on the author's study of single neuronal cells.In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the "mindness state" evolved to allow predictive interactions between mobile creatures and their environment. He illustrates the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Recursive Mind

    The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization - Updated Edition

    A groundbreaking theory of what makes the human mind uniqueThe Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. "I think, therefore I am," is an example of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD