Mental Brain

The “winner effect” is a term used in biology to describe how an animal that has won a few fights against weak opponents is much more likely to win later bouts against stronger contenders. As Ian Robertson reveals, it applies to humans, too. Success changes the chemistry of the brain, making you more focused, smarter, more confident, and more aggressive. The effect is as strong as any drug. And the more you win, the more you will go on to win. But the downside is that winning can become physically addictive.

The brain is the seat of our consciousness, identity, and higher thoughts. But it is also a flesh and blood machine that can wear down, grow tired, and malfunction. Learn how to prevent this and be your best. The Brain Boost Blueprint is a guide to how to revitalize, polish, and fix-up your brain. The truth is, you’re probably underperforming mentally. It’s not personal, it’s just how you’re wired. This audiobook provides a series of steps and plans for you to get on track to your best thinking days.

This insightful guide, written by someone who’s stood exactly where you’re standing right now, contains all the information you need to make a real difference to your experience of everyday life. Better yet, you’ll get a bonus 14-day ADHD-friendly weight loss plan along the way!

As we age, our memories become unreliable; we misplace things and forget details. In Ultimate Memory Magic, memory expert Jim Karol shows that these side effects of aging are not inevitable. His memory-boosting system, called Cogmental Intelligence, goes beyond preserving mental acuity and actually enhances memory and mental function through lifestyle changes and mental exercises. Concentration, alertness, and focus can all be strengthened - by anyone, at any age.

Unlock the hidden potential of your mind with this super brain hypnosis. This nine minute hypnosis is designed to help you develop a brilliant memory, increase mental clarity and focus, and learn faster and retain what you learn.

Most people never tap into the brain's true potential! In this book, you will learn how your brain evolved to work the way it does, which neurotransmitters are responsible for specific feelings, what drugs such as caffeine or alcohol truly do when they hit your brain, which specific activities are responsible for the release of neurotransmitters you need to make improvements in your life, how to achieve deep sleep every night, how physical movement changes your brain, what happens during meditation and what can replace meditation to achieve the same results, and more.

In every area of life, from business to relationships to health, we act on outdated instincts that were built to help us survive a world ruled by scarcity and danger. But in today's world, those same instincts stop us from succeeding in the environment in which we actually live: a diverse world of abundant choices, and almost limitless connections. Now evolutionary biologist Dr. Rebecca Heiss offers a new approach that harnesses the power of our instincts, and redirects them to work for us rather than against us.

Ever felt the weight of sluggishness and lack of concentration pulling you down? Just like a fatigued muscle, a tired brain can seriously hinder performance. In The Tired Brain, we debunk the myth that mental energy is beyond our control and that external factors like stress and workload are constantly calling the shots. Discover how to manage your mental energy to sustain focus, motivation, and peak performance. Inside, uncover effective strategies to recharge your mental batteries.

In Improve Your Brain Power in Only 10 Days, author Steven McRyan will teach you how anybody can learn proven and powerful daily brain improvement techniques guaranteed to quickly allow you to read faster, learn faster, and study better than your competition in less than 10 days! In this amazing brain-training audiobook, you will learn valuable, easy-to-implement, and free methods that anybody can use for the rest of your life, in order to think better and improve your memory.

Are we "noble in reason"? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but a "kluge", a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind - think duct tape, not supercomputer - that sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature.

¿Por qué a unas personas se les dan mejor los estudios que a otras? ¿Qué diferencias entre los estudiantes determinan su habilidad para aprender? ¿Cómo podemos adquirir conocimientos más profundos, duraderos y transferibles a nuevas situaciones? Estas son preguntas de enorme interés que la neurociencia y las ciencias cognitivas han investigado en las últimas décadas. Sus conclusiones resultan tan sorprendentes como alentadoras.

You don't have to be a scientist to make your brain work for you. Happy Brain, Happy Life is all about how to fine tune your brain to the finest condition possible. We start with what makes a happy and healthy brain, and then we go into how to get there. Once we get there, we talk about the specific actions and behaviors we can use in our daily lives to ensure that you are set for health, wealth, and love.

What makes you the way you are - and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level: in the wiring of our brains.

In Sleepyhead, science writer Henry Nicholls uses his own experience with chronic narcolepsy as a gateway to better understanding the cryptic, curious, and relatively uncharted world of sleep disorders. Charming, eye-opening, and deeply humanizing, Sleepyhead will help us all uncover the secrets of a good night's sleep.

According to R. Douglas Fields, PhD, we all have a rage circuit we can't fully control once it is engaged. The daily headlines are filled with examples of otherwise rational people with no history of violence or mental illness suddenly snapping in a domestic dispute, barroom brawl, or road rage attack. We all wish to believe that we are in control of our actions, but the fact is, in certain circumstances we are not. Something in our environment can unexpectedly unleash an automatic and complex rage response.

Welcome to a journey through the most complex and fascinating organ in your body - the brain. Discover how this control center directs all of your thoughts, behavior, and emotions. Get to know the biology behind how you perceive, process and understand the world around you. In "The Brain: Our Control Center," you will explore the mysteries of the human brain through 18 comprehensive chapters. With each page, gain a profound understanding of the brain’s anatomy, psychology, and cognitive processes. Learn about brain cells and their unique functions, and how they work together to control ...

In 1994, The Bell Curve and its controversial thesis catapulted the topic of genetic racial differences in IQ to the forefront of a renewed and heated debate. Now, in A Terrible Thing to Waste, award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the fray, arguing that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, but that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. Featuring extensive scientific research and Washington's sharp, lively reporting, A Terrible Thing to Waste is sure to outrage, transform the conversation, and inspire debate.

There is a process called neuroplasticity that occurs inside the human brain that essentially allows the development of new brain cells. New brain cells are born out of new experiences. The application of positive or negative habits can transform you, respectively, into a better or worse person. So, can you really learn to rewire your brain through the construction of new habits, positive restructuring of thoughts, becoming more organized, and zeroing in on your mental health problems? Yes, you can!

Will increased scientific understanding of our brains overturn our beliefs about moral and ethical behavior? How will increasingly powerful brain imaging technologies affect the ideas of privacy and of self-incrimination? Such thought-provoking questions are rapidly emerging as new discoveries in neuroscience have raised difficult legal and ethical dilemmas. Michael Gazzaniga, widely considered to be the father of cognitive neuroscience, investigates with an expert eye some of these controversial and complex issues.

Larry S. Sherman, a neuroscientist and lifelong musician, and Dennis Plies, a professional musician and teacher, collaborate to show how our brains and music work in harmony. They consider music in all the ways we encounter it—teaching, learning, practicing, listening, composing, improvising, and performing—in terms of neuroscience as well as music pedagogy, showing how the brain functions and even changes in the process. Every Brain Needs Music draws on leading behavioral, cellular, and molecular neuroscience research as well as surveys of more than a hundred musical people.