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Virtually everyone fears mental deterioration as they age. But in the past thirty years neuroscientists have discovered that the brain is actually designed to improve throughout life. How can you encourage this improvement?Brain Power shares practical, state-of-the-evidence answers in this inspiring, fun-to-read plan for action. The authors have interviewed physicians, gerontologists, and neuroscientists; studied the habits of men and women who epitomize...
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Karen Rachels' "Body, Brain, Love: A Therapist's Workbook for Affect Regulation and Somatic Attachment," is a first-of-its-kind contribution to the dynamic and unfolding world of body-brain integration. This workbook accessibly integrates three critical areas of therapeutic work brought to us by the Decade of the Brain: 1) brain-based attachment theory, 2) the neuroscience of affect regulation, and 3) practical somatic skills to grow clients' brains.
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"Count yourself lucky to have found this book. It contains some of the most fascinating information and material you will ever read." —Jack Canfield, New York Times–bestselling author of The Success Principles
Self-Intelligence is the self-help book for people who long to transform their lives and who trust only proven scientific tools, but also prefer page-turners to dry prose.
Cutting-edge brain science meets...
Self-Intelligence is the self-help book for people who long to transform their lives and who trust only proven scientific tools, but also prefer page-turners to dry prose.
Cutting-edge brain science meets...
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Ne ratez pas ce guide clinique à la pointe de la neuropsychologie développementale!
La neuropsychologie développementale a largement évolué au cours de ces dernières décennies. Il ne s'agit plus simplement d'appliquer, à des enfants, les cadres théoriques qui définissent les troubles acquis de l'adulte. Aujourd'hui, cette discipline intègre les apports de la psychologie du développement cognitif et des neurosciences développementales...
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Une approche psychologique et neurocognitive afin de comprendre les effets que le binge drinking peut avoir sur notre fonctionnement émotionnel, cognitif et cérébral.
Comme tout pan de la société, nos modes de consommation d'alcool évoluent. Ces dernières années, un phénomène nouveau s'est intensifié: le binge drinking. Cette pratique, qui consiste à boire épisodiquement de manière très intense jusqu'à l'ivresse, est aujourd'hui très...
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The Secret Behind Our Perceptions Finally Revealed! Why do we gravitate to products endorsed by celebrities? Why does time seem to go by faster as we get older? Why are some athlete's perpetual winners and others losers? Exploring the brain's ability to interpret and make sense of the world, Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler describes how your perception can be reality or fantasy and how to separate the two, which is the basis of improving your Perceptual Intelligence...
67) Le diagnostic des troubles du neurodéveloppement chez l'adulte: TSA, TDAH, dyslexie, tics et SGT
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Un ouvrage de référence sur le diagnostic des troubles du neurodéveloppement chez l'adulte!
Si les troubles du neurodéveloppement (TND) sont largement reconnus et diagnostiqués chez les enfants, nombre d'adultes se trouvent en situation d'errance diagnostic. En effet, peu de cliniciens sont correctement formés à l'évaluations, spécifique et complexe, des TDN chez l'adulte.
Maëva Roulin, psychologue spécialisée en neuropsychologie, accompagne...
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Esta tercera edición tiene como propósito entregar una perspectiva actualizada del desarrollo de la conceptualización de la inteligencia en el marco de la psicología científica, enfatizando las controversias más relevantes y destacando los enfoques más contemporáneos al respecto, como las investigaciones realizadas sobre inteligencia en Latinoamérica. El texto se orienta a alumnos de pregrado y a todos los profesionales que buscan una visión...
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"Affective Disorders: Depression, Mania and Bipolar Disorder" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the characteristics, symptoms, and treatment of affective disorders, including depression, mania, and bipolar disorder, including the neurobiological basis and pathology of these mental disorders.
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Are you tired of feeling like you can't trust your own senses? Do you ever wonder if what you're seeing or hearing is actually real, or just a trick of your mind? If so, The Illusion of Perception is the book for you. With captivating examples and mind-bending insights, this book will challenge everything you thought you knew about perception. Discover how optical illusions can fool even the most rational minds, and how cognitive biases can influence...
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Our brains have numerous functioning parts, all of which serve us at any one moment. But decades of research reveal the existence of two basic brain operating systems"-two fundamental ways in which the whole brain processes incoming information. Because of this phenomenon of brain dominance, most of us tend to favor the input of either our dualistic" left-brain (which focuses on parts instead of wholes) or our holistic right hemisphere. This means...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Overview of Physiology and Neuropsychology is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Miguel Nicolelis, Professor of Neurobiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology and Neuroscience and Orthopaedic Surgery and Co-Director of the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University. This thought-provoking conversation dives into Miguel Nicolelis' extensive and important research for over 20 years now and how he has been blurring the line...
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"Experimental Methods in Neuropsychopharmacology" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the experimental methodologies in studying the behavior and pharmacological responses in animals, and the scientific principles underlying such experimentations.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained...
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Este libro se ha convertido en un texto imprescindible, para trabajadores sociales y profesionales que están comprometidos con el cambio social y el desarrollo de las comunidades. Producto de una larga y fructífera trayectoria profesional y docente, Yolanda Contreras de Wilhelm nos brinda un método fundamentado y probado en la práctica para la intervención de los grupos.
La autora describe la conformación, vida y evolución...
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What if digital communication felt as real as being touched?
This question led Michael Chorost to explore profound new ideas triggered by lab research around the world, and the result is the book you now hold. Marvelous and momentous, World Wide Mind takes mind-to-mind communication out of the realm of science fiction and reveals how we are on the verge of a radical new understanding of human interaction.
Chorost himself has computers in his head...
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El desarrollo de nuestro cerebro-cuerpo-mente-espíritu no es una atribución determinada por la suerte, el destino o los genes. Es el resultado, sobre todo, de lo que cada uno hace por sí mismo y de la relación que construye con el entorno. Esto se traduce en una conformación cerebral quedefine la posibilidad de ser creativos, inteligentes y eficaces en las actividades que debemos y queremos realizar, y en definitive, de lograr una vida plena.
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Having studied how boys and girls develop differently, Michael Gurian turns his attention to adult men in this entertaining, informative, and groundbreaking book on the male brain. Following two decades of neurobiological research, What Could He Be Thinking? answers the questions women and the world are asking about husbands, fathers, boyfriends, and coworkers. Mixing neurobiology with Gurian's very readable writing style, anecdotes from everyday...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011: Top 25 Books" Nicholas Humphrey has held posts at Oxford and Cambridge universities, and is now professor emeritus of psychology at the London School of Economics. His many books include A History of the Mind and Seeing Red.
A radically new view of the nature and purpose of consciousness
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly?...
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A once vibrant oak tree in her yard began dying, voicing cries of help through its dead leaves and moss-covered branches. Inside the house Barbara too was in crisis, the recipient of her husband's anger and rage. As time passes Barbara can no longer stay strong. While she deals with her own demons, the oak too weakens. Based on a true story, this woman takes us inside her emotionally charged existence, letting us feel the anguish of domestic abuse,...
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