Psychology Brain

From New York Times best-selling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir - reminiscent of the New York Times best-seller Brain on Fire - about her experience as one of only a few people to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving 10 rounds of a chemically induced coma approximating brain death.

What if you could read minds, bend conversations to your advantage, and influence anyone - without them even noticing? Dark Psychology is a straight-talking, no-holds-barred toolkit of powerful psychological hacks that give you the upper hand in any situation. From sales and social dynamics to persuasion, dating, negotiation and beyond.

The most powerful technology ever known is already in place—your brain. As incredible as that organ is, it hasn’t received an update. Your brain is meant to keep you safe (and it does that very well!), but you must improve your operating system to reach your goals, find joy, and get results at work.

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.

Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about 40 million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to understand and treat fear and anxiety, explains the range of these disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy. LeDoux's groundbreaking premise is that we've been thinking about fear and anxiety in the wrong way.

Hemingway's Brain is an innovative biography and the first forensic psychiatric examination of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway. After committing 17 years to researching Hemingway's life and medical history, Andrew Farah, a forensic psychiatrist, has concluded that the writer's diagnoses were incorrect. Contrary to the commonly accepted diagnoses of bipolar disorder and alcoholism, Farah provides a comprehensive explanation of the medical conditions that led to Hemingway's suicide.

Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you're consciously aware of danger? Why do you notice when your name is mentioned in a conversation that you didn't think you were listening to? Why are people whose name begins with J more likely to marry other people whose name begins with J? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? Renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate these surprising mysteries.

Retraining your brain is all about changing your perspective of life. Circumstances in life may trick you to have a biased view of life. It is important that you maintain a clean and sober mind at all times if you want to live a happy life. This audiobook gives you a chance to enjoy life again. Whether you have gone through the hardest relationships or you have already given up on life, you should give this audiobook a chance. This audiobook shows you a practical approach to life, using real-life examples.

The research is clear: Human beings are born to play. In Game On? Brain On!, Lindsay Portnoy unpacks the games and playful experiences that invite engagement and deep learning. Using cognitive science to explore the ways in which play helps students acquire and maintain critical skills, Portnoy shows how inviting creativity and excitement into the classroom results in big gains for everyone.

¿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.

When you tame your most impulsive, primitive reactions to the crazy situations you face every day, you'll help others do the same. Tame the Primitive Brain offers a new and simple system to understanding and controlling the behavior of others. Noted body language, behavior, and communication expert Mark Bowden explains the fastest and most effective ways to understand why someone acts toward you the way they do; why you react to their behavior in the way you do; and most important, what exactly to do to achieve the right outcomes.

The frontal lobe controls everything we think and do and controls how we learn. This audiobook will teach you many new ways to improve your focus and memory. It will explain neurogenesis and neuroplasticity. Our brain is what gives us our capability to succeed, so why not do everything we can to improve it?

Imagine unlocking your full brain power with ADHD-optimized nutrition. You don't need a fancy pantry overhaul. The truth is many brain-boosting foods are affordable and readily available. Not only will this book help your focus and mood, but it might even save you time and money!

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.

It all starts with your brain: How you think, how you feel, how you interact with others, and how well you succeed in realizing your goals and dreams. When your brain works right, so do you. When it’s out of balance, you feel frustrated, or worse. Yet amid all the advice that bombards us daily about how to keep the rest of our body strong and healthy, we hear very little about how to keep the most complex and magnificent organ of all - the human brain - in top working order.

The Psychology of Emotions eBook is your ultimate guide to understanding and managing your emotions for a happier and healthier life. Do you struggle with controlling your emotions, and often wonder why they can control you? With this comprehensive 19-chapter eBook, you'll delve into the fascinating world of human emotions and gain insights into how they influence our daily lives. Chapter 1 starts with the introduction of emotions, what they are, and how they affect our behavior. In Chapter 2, we explore the latest scientific research behind emotions and how they're processed in our brains....

Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation and decision making. The assumption is that below a mental "surface" of conscious awareness lies a deep and complex set of inner beliefs, values, and desires that govern our thoughts, ideas, and actions, and that to know this depth is to know ourselves. In this profoundly original book, behavioral scientist Nick Chater contends just the opposite: Rather than being the plaything of unconscious currents, the brain generates behaviors in the moment based entirely on our past experiences.

We all experience the occasional negative thinking from time to time, but if you feel overwhelmed by these thoughts too often, then you need to closely examine how these thoughts are negatively impacting your lifestyle. The solution is to practice specific strategies and techniques that create more "space" in your mind to enjoy inner peace and happiness.

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!

From a course they created for professionals, Mark Waldman and Chris Manning adapted their lectures and present simple brain exercises, based on the latest neuroscience research, to guide listeners on what makes us happy, wealthy, and wise. The promise of their original class - and now of this book - is to help people create more "wealth" in their lives, defined as the combination of money, happiness, and success. The book presents both the scientific background and sets of NeuroWisdom exercises that will help everyone transform their environment.