50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Neurovetenskap

The Brain's Way of Healing explores the astonishing advances in the discovery of neuroplasticity, showing that the brain has its own unique way of healing, only recently uncovered. Norman Doidge discusses a series of remarkable recoveries: patients told they would never improve have years of chronic pain alleviated or damage from debilitating strokes undone, and symptoms of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, brain injury, autism or learning disorders are reversed. He also shows how the ris...

Releasedatum: 2015-01-29 115,00 kr

*Nominated for the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award* *An NBC News Notable Science Book of 2015* *Named one of Publishers Weekly 's Best Books of 2015* *A Book of the Month for Brain HQ/Posit Science * *Selected by Forbes as a Must Read Brain Book of 2015* *On Life Changes Network ’s list of the Top 10 Books That Could Change Your Life of 2015* In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer’s disease, ecstatic epileps...

Releasedatum: 2015-08-04 85,00 kr

In Mind Change , Susan Greenfield discusses the all-pervading technologies that now surround us, and from which we derive instant information, connected identity, diminished privacy and exceptionally vivid here-and-now experiences. In her view they are creating a new environment, with vast implications, because our minds are physically adapting: being rewired. What could this mean, and how can we harness, rather than be harnessed by, our new technological milieu to create better alternatives and...

Releasedatum: 2014-08-21 149,00 kr

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize Shortlisted for the MJA Health Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the BMA Medical Book Awards A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Foreword by Oliver Sacks What is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more - and the future of our society...

Releasedatum: 2017-01-01 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 95,00 kr

Eat for your mental health and learn the fascinating science behind nutrition with this "must-read" guide from an expert psychiatrist (Amy Myers, MD). Did you know that blueberries can help you cope with the aftereffects of trauma? That salami can cause depression, or that boosting Vitamin D intake can help treat anxiety? When it comes to diet, most people's concerns involve weight loss, fitness, cardiac health, and longevity. But what we eat affects more than our bodies; it also affects our bra...

Releasedatum: 2020-08-04 149,00 kr

'Reading this felt like being at home - I didn't realise how much I masked. What an incredible book that I know will be re-read many times over.' - Dr Camilla Pang, author of Explaining Humans ' Unmasking Autism is at once a most deeply personal and scholarly account of the damage caused by autistic (and all) people leading masked lives, and how unmasking is essential to creating a self-determined, authentic life... This is a remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity...

Releasedatum: 2022-04-07 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 109,00 kr

The dangers of illegal drugs are well known and rarely disputed, but how harmful are alcohol and tobacco by comparison? What are we missing by banning medical research into magic mushrooms, LSD and cannabis? Can they be sources of valuable treatments? The second edition of Drugs without the hot air looks at the science to allow anyone to make rational decisions based on objective evidence, asking: *What is addiction? Is there an addictive personality? *What is the role of cannabis in treating ep...

Releasedatum: 2020-01-16 149,00 kr

'Authoritative, compassionate and commonsensical . . . an honest, sensitive and thorough introduction to understanding and living with autism . . . highly recommended.' - Psychological Medicine 'Packed with down to earth, practical ideas . . . readable, interesting . . . informative . . . if you buy only one title about autism this year it should be this one.' - Collette Dritte, Nursery World Over 500,000 people of all ages in the UK have disorders in the autistic spectrum. About one-third also ...

Releasedatum: 2012-10-25 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 45,00 kr

'A practical manual for your brain.' - Dr Megan Rossi, author of Eat Yourself Healthy A groundbreaking science-based guide to protecting your brain health for the long term. Whatever your age, having a healthy brain is the key to a happy and fulfilled life. Yet, for both young and old, diseases of the brain and mental health are the biggest killers in the 21st century. We all know how to take care of our physical health, but we often feel powerless as to what we can do to protect our mental well...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-05 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 9,00 kr

You Are 1-Click Away From Discovering How To Turn On Your Body's Self-Healing Ability By Leveraging Your Understanding Of The Polyvagal Theory To Neutralize Stress, Anxiety, Depression And Many Other Physical & Mental Health Issues! Ever since Dr. Stephen Porges developed the Polyvagal theory to explain how our autonomic nervous system controls our physical responses as well as emotional reactions, a lot of research and experimentation has gone into this theory to prove just how th...

Releasedatum: 2020-05-14 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 35,00 kr

'A fine book' The Sunday Times 'Powerful' Guardian 'Wonderful' The Telegraph 'Moving, funny, warm' Mail on Sunday 'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro ' This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I had to hand. Words. Then, as the enormity of the social crisis my family was part of began to dawn, I wrote with the thought that other forgotten lives might be nudged into the light along with hers. Dementia is one of the greatest social, m...

Releasedatum: 2014-01-30 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 49,00 kr

No one is immune. For people from champion athletes to desk-bound white-collar professionals, many simple acts of life--a relaxing evening stroll through the neighborhood, an exhilarating run along a sandy beach, just bending down to tie a loose shoelace-are often acts of torture. The walking wounded suffer from torn rotator cuffs, tennis elbow, jogger's knees, bad backs, stiff necks, sore feet, and swollen ankles. It could, without exaggeration, be called a modem epidemic. In this brilliant boo...

Releasedatum: 2011-02-01 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 109,00 kr

Assuming you're searching for a dependable, useful, and modern aide that uncovers all you need to be familiar with the vagus nerve feeling utilizing layman's terms, then, at that point, continue to peruse… Do you have an ailment that hasn't further developed much even after talking with a few specialists and attempting conventional medicines? Is it significant for you to take great mind of your body and apply the improvements of state of the art research? Or on the other hand, you ...

Releasedatum: 2022-05-03 65,00 kr

A practical guide to working with the principles of polyvagal theory beyond the therapy session. Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a grab bag of polyvagal-informed exercises for their clients, to use both within and between sessions. These exercises offer readily understandable explanations of the ways the autonomic nervous system directs daily living. They use the pr...

Releasedatum: 2019-09-12 79,00 kr

As seen on the BBC documentary, Inside Our Autistic Minds, with Chris Packham 'A MUST-READ' Kieran Rose, The Autistic Advocate One of the biggest challenges if you are an autistic adult (or suspect you might be) is navigating the situations which to the predominantly neurotypical population might appear completely benign but which cause you huge stress, anxiety and worry. At work, at university, in social situations, in friendships, relationships, in shops, in unfamiliar environments - there are...

Releasedatum: 2021-12-09 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 75,00 kr

Известный нейрохирург, который регулярно проводит сложные операции и знает мозг изнутри, рассказывает о последних научных открытиях и дает советы, которые помогут улучшить его работу

Releasedatum: 2021-06-01 59,00 kr

Conocer el cerebro es el gran reto de la neurociencia, y se podría decir que es uno de los grandes retos de nuestro tiempo. La autora de este ensayo nos invita a hacerlo a través de su experiencia científica en laboratorios y su continua búsqueda de conocimiento en áreas, todas interconectadas, como la medicina, la filosofía o la espiritualidad. Este libro recoge los resultados de la neurociencia de la meditación donde se muestran los cambios cerebrales que suceden cuando tenemos u...

Releasedatum: 2021-04-07 69,00 kr

The approachable, comprehensive guide to neurobiology Neurobiology rolls the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the nervous system into one complex area of study. Neurobiology For Dummies breaks down the specifics of the topic in a fun, easy-to-understand manner. The book is perfect for students in a variety of scientific fields ranging from neuroscience and biology to pharmacology, health science, and more. With a complete overview of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the nervous syst...

Releasedatum: 2020-10-20 149,00 kr

Este diccionario está dirigido también a los interesados en iniciarse en la maravillosa tarea de comprender el funcionamiento del cerebro y cómo se implementan estos conocimientos en disciplinas de avanzada, entre ellas, neuromarketing, neuroeconomía, neuroliderazgo, neuroaprendizaje y neurocapacitación.

Releasedatum: 2019-05-23 79,00 kr

Brains as Engines of Association tackles a fundamental question in neuroscience: what is the operating principle of the human brain? While a similar question has been asked and answered for virtually every other human organ during the last few centuries, how the brain operates has remained a central challenge in biology. Based on evidence derived from vision, audition, speech and music--much of it based on the author's own work over the last twenty years--Brains as Engines of Association argues ...

Releasedatum: 2019-04-01 479,00 kr

Para tener una vida plena y feliz, lo más importante es tener un cerebro sano. Esta es la premisa que defienden los autores: cómo una mente sana puede dar lugar a un cuerpo igualmente saludable. A través de sus estudios e investigaciones, los autores pretenden demostrar que llevar a cabo un patrón concreto de actividad cerebral nos permite resistir mejor las enfermedades, y puede incluso ayudarnos a vivir más. En El cerebro que cura descubriremos por qué el órgano rector es importante par...

Releasedatum: 2019-02-04 95,00 kr

Människans hjärna har en intellektuell kapacitet dvs. en förmåga att analysera, memorera och logiskt granska stimuli. Denna personlighetsvariabel skolas och tränas intensivt såväl i för-, grund-, gymnasie- som i högskola, vilket lett till att människans intellektuella kapacitet är väl utvecklad och vida överlägsen andra arters. Utöver den intellektuella kapaciteten har människans hjärna en förmåga att registrera och memorera känslor. Denna förmåga, här kallad emotionell ka...

Releasedatum: 2017-04-24 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 125,00 kr

This accessible primer gives an introduction to the wide array of MRI-based neuroimaging methods that are used in research. It provides an overview of the fundamentals of what different MRI modalities measure, what artifacts commonly occur, the essentials of the analysis, and common 'pipelines'.

Releasedatum: 2018-03-15 429,00 kr

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES. ____________ Are other animals, or even plants, conscious? Can we create conscious robots? Are we able to assume the consciousness of someone else? We all experience the world differently. REALITY is shaped by our individual memories. So we respond to THE WORLD in our own ways. Our UNIQUE EXPERIENCE underpins what it means to be CONSCIOUS. This raises so many questions such as where does consciousness live? And what is it for? Discover the answers and ...

Releasedatum: 2018-06-14 85,00 kr

Perfect for fans of The Salt Path and The Outrun , this book is a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it means to be different and, above all, how we can all learn to make peace within our own unquiet minds. 'A windswept tale, beautifully told' Raynor Winn - The Salt Path 'A manifesto for the value of difficult people. I loved it' Amy Liptrot - The Outrun In August 2015, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. She wanted to understand why she had stopped...

Releasedatum: 2018-04-19 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 59,00 kr

Views on addiction are often polarised - either addiction is a matter of choice, or addicts simply can't help themselves. But perhaps addiction falls between the two? This book contains views from philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and the law exploring this middle ground between free choice and no choice.

Releasedatum: 2016-09-22 1 049,00 kr

Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We now understand more about ageing - and how to prevent and reverse it - than ever before. In The Telomerase Revolution , Dr Michael Fossel, who has been at the cutting edge of ageing research for decades, describes how telomerase will soon be used as a powerful therapeutic tool, with the potential to intervene in age-related disease, dramatically extend life spans and even reverse human ageing. Telomerase-based treatments are already on o...

Releasedatum: 2015-10-06 Genre:Yrkesrelaterat och teknik > Medicin 85,00 kr

The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas   In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn’t walk across a room, or even name his five children. Doctors told him he would never fully recover. After eight ...

Releasedatum: 2015-06-02 119,00 kr

From the author of Emergence and The Ghost Map , Steven Johnson's Mind Wide Open: Why You Are What You Think takes us on a journey to the frontiers of brain science and reveals exactly how we're hardwired to think and feel. 'You are part reptile, part mammal, part primate. You are a dopamine fiend. You are a walking assembly of patterns and waves, clusters of neurons firing in sync with one another...' Experimenting with the latest technology, Stephen Johnson discovers (among other things) that ...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-04 115,00 kr

With empathy, compassion, and practical tools, a developmental psychologist and sufferer of Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD) sheds light on a little known but common affliction in which sufferers react to harmless stimuli as irritating, distracting, or dangerous We all know what it feels like to be irritated by loud music, accosted by lights that are too bright, or overwhelmed by a world that moves too quickly. But millions of people suffer from Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD), a common afflictio...

Releasedatum: 2014-08-05 125,00 kr

Tinnitus - the perception of sound in the ear, in the absence of external sound - affects around 250 million people worldwide.The Neuroscience of Tinnitus reviews our current knowledge of the neural substrates of tinnitus. Written by a leading researcher in the field, this is the most comprehensive single-author book on tinnitus available.

Releasedatum: 2012-05-24 1 549,00 kr

Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We even create music, fiction, film, and theatre - 'Tragedy' - to encourage crying. Michael Trimble looks at the physiology and evolution of this unique human behaviour, exploring its links with language, consciousness, empathy, and religious practices.

Releasedatum: 2012-11-22 149,00 kr

Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and politically suspect, they view recent advances in neurobiology and its adjacent scientific fields as providing crucial catalysts to a radical rethinking of subjectivity. Merging three distinct disciplines—European philosophy from Descartes to the present, Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, an...

Releasedatum: 2013-06-11 329,00 kr

This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and biological rhythms, and in particular rhythmic entrainment, in a way that considers cultural context alongside theoretical research and discussions of potential clinical and therapeutic implications. Consi...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-22 459,00 kr

Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a potentially critical part of this vital organ has been overlooked—until now. The Other Brain examines the growing importance of glia, which make up approximately 85 percent of the cells in the brain, and the role they play in how the brain functions, malfunctions, and heals itself. Long neglected as little more than cerebral packing material, glia (meaning “glue”) are now known to regulate the flow of information between neurons a...

Releasedatum: 2009-12-29 169,00 kr