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  • Disturbances of the Mind

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    Sergei Korsakoff, Alois Alzheimer, James Parkinson, Hans Asperger and other eminent scientists, are all names which have become synonymous with a disease, a syndrome, or an autistic disorder. Although the names of these psychiatrists and neurologists are familiar, we often know little about the individuals themselves and the circumstances surrounding their discoveries. What exactly did they ... Leer más

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    Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

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  • My Age of Anxiety

    Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

    de Scott Stossel ...
    A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the conditionAs recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Scott Stossel gracefully guides us across the terrain of ... Leer más

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  • Looking for Spinoza

    Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

    A famed neuroscientist explores the emotions that make life worth living in "clear, accessible, and at times eloquent prose" ( San Francisco Chronicle).In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet, the neurobiological roots of joy and sorrow remained a mystery. Today, we spend countless resources doctoring our feelings with ... Leer más

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  • Psychology

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    A riveting exploration of who we are and why we behave the way we do.Why do we become aggressive? How does the brain allow us to see, hear, and feel? Can listening to Mozart improve IQ? How do babies learn to perceive and think? How can we reduce obesity and cigarette smoking? Is being physically attractive an advantage? Psychology, the scientific study of the mind and our behaviour, has never ... Leer más

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  • The Intentional Brain

    "A tour de force: an assessment of the 'culture' of mind–brain relations beginning with the ancients and ending in the present." —Edward Shorter, PhD, National Book Award finalist and author of A History of PsychiatryNeuropsychiatry has a distinguished history, yet its ideals and principles fell out of fashion in the early twentieth century as neurology and psychiatry diverged into separate ... Leer más

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  • A Sense of Self

    Memory, the Brain, and Who We Are

    How do our brains store—and then conjure up—past experiences to make us who we are?A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. This process shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behavior and ... Leer más

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  • Dreaming

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    What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in ... Leer más

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    How Memory Shapes our Past

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  • The Midnight Disease

    The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

    "An original, fascinating, and beautifully written reckoning . . . of that great human passion: to write."—Kay Redfield Jamison, national bestselling author of An Unquiet MindWhy is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice ... Leer más

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  • From Paralysis to Fatigue

    A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era

    The first book to put the physical symptoms of stress in their historical and cultural context.This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "total allergy syndrome" are only the most recent examples of ... Leer más

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  • The Human Mind

    It is the most complex and mysterious object in the universe. Covered by a dull grey membrane, it resembles a gigantic, convoluted fungus. Its inscrutability has captivated scientists, philosophers and artists for centuries. It is, of course, the human brain.With the help of science we can now begin to understand the extraordinary complexity of the brain's circuits: we can see which nerve cells ... Leer más

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