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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain.
“Compelling…Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip.” —The New York Times Book Review
The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once...
“Compelling…Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip.” —The New York Times Book Review
The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once...
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The average human brain weighs three pounds-80 percent of which is water-and yet it's capable of outstripping the computational and storage capacities of the most complex computer. But how the mind works remains one of humankind's greatest mysteries.
With boundless curiosity and enthusiasm, Shannon Moffett, a Stanford medical student, takes us down the halls of neuroscience to the front lines of cutting-edge research and medicine to meet some of...
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Los recuerdos son una parte integral de la experiencia humana. Nos persiguen, los atesoramos, y durante nuestras vidas reunimos más de ellos en cada nueva experiencia. Sin la memoria no seríamos capaces de mantener una relación, manejar nuestros autos, conversar con nuestros hijos, leer un poema, ver televisión o hacer prácticamente cualquier cosa. La memoria: una breve introducción explora las fascinantes particularidades de la memoria humana....
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How does the brain think? An alternative way of looking at how matter produces mind. Calling on new research in neuroscience and a new interpretation of old ideas, this book tackles the age-old questions of how thinking, consciousness and emotion happen. We can be irrational and unpredictable but we are completely understandable, the author explains in this fascinating introduction to our complex inner world. Chapters include explanations and key...
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Ser más productivos y efectivos en todo lo que hacemos, ya sea en nuestro trabajo o en nuestra vida personal, no solo es posible, sino que es cada vez más una obligación para ser exitosos en el mundo digital en el que nos hallamos, con todos los retos que supone y todas las consecuencias que tienen en nuestra forma de trabajar y en nuestra vida.
En este libro, la autora sintetiza años de estudio y de trabajo con todo tipo de profesionales y organizaciones...
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Get the Summary of Brandy Schillace's Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher" recounts the story of Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed a pioneering kidney transplant on Richard Herrick using his identical twin brother Ronald's kidney. The book delves into the history of organ transplantation, the challenges of immune system rejection, and the advancements in surgical...
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Irene de Caso explica de forma comprensible y amena los actuales avances neurocientíficos relacionados con las drogas psicodélicas, así como sus aplicaciones clínicas y vivenciales. José Carlos Bouso, PhD, Director Científico, ICEERS.
Conozca los usos terapéuticos de las sustancias psicodélicas clásicas y los empatógenos como herramientas revolucionarias de neuroplasticidad y salud mental. Descubra cómo la psilocibina, la DMT o la MDMA...
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A study in 2014 by the National Center for Learning Disabilities stated the prevalence of those with learning disabilities living in poverty doubles the prevalence of those with learning disabilities not living in poverty. After reading this horrific fact, I began an organization, The Elevator Project Special Needs Program, which is dedicated to lifting those with learning disabilities out of poverty through individualized training of vocational and...
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Around the world, a swelling tide of people are discovering an astonishing, life-altering truth. This book tells their extraordinary stories:
• an anxious PhD student builds his confidence by changing his workout
• back exercises help one woman negotiate a fix to a botched home repair
• a Microsoft executive grows credibility by shifting her stance
• an executive team leads their company to a 30% increase in valuation by dancing together
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'A masterpiece of popularization' Times Literary Supplement 'A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual's liability to disease... Martin is a highly civilized scientist, who seasons his text with witty parentheses. He also provides many examples from literature, ranging widely from Shakespeare, Goethe and Hardy to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Kafka... Interesting, informative...
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En este libro aprenderá todos los fundamentos de los psicodélicos y por qué toda esta investigación es tan gran noticia para la salud pública en este siglo. Tras un viaje muy largo y extraño, puede que los psicodélicos vuelvan, por fin, para quedarse. Rick Doblin, PhD, Fundador y Director Ejecutivo, MAPS.
En esta guía aprenderá todo lo esencial sobre la historia, neurociencia, legalidad, aplicaciones terapéuticas y reducción de riesgos...
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This book is a concise guide into the everchanging and complex discipline of neuroscience for those students who are looking for clarity in a complex subject. The manner the information is presented to the reader is easy to comprehend and to apply those priciples to acadamic course work. The information provded is direct and to the point while continuing to provide the reader with the depth of understanding to successfully comprehend the basic principles...
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Defined as operations other than war, stability operations can include peacekeeping activities, population control, and counternarcotics efforts, and for the entire history of the United States military, they have been considered a dangerous distraction if not an outright drain on combat resources. Yet in 2005, the U. S. Department of Defense reversed its stance on these practices, a dramatic shift in the mission of the armed forces and their role...
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¿Por qué es tan fácil para cualquier niño descubrir de manera implícita las reglas ocultas del lenguaje y tan difícil memorizar listas o multiplicar números de muchos dígitos? Para explorar el desarrollo de la educación con una mirada complementaria y desde la usina del pensamiento, reunimos en cada capítulo a los referentes más destacados de la neurociencia y de la ciencia cognitiva. Exploramos así un espacio de encuentro inevitable entre...
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A behind-the-scenes view of cutting-edge medical research and discoveries that are helping people with disabilities regain control, this book is an insightful look into the possibilities of technology and the associated ethical, political, social, and financial controversies. After he was stabbed and paralyzed from the neck down, Matthew Nagle, a former high school football star, made scientific history when neurosurgeons implanted microelectrodes...
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Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe. However, B. Alan Wallace, a respected Buddhist scholar, proposes that the contemplative methodologies of Buddhism and of Western science are capable of being integrated into a single discipline: contemplative science. The science of consciousness introduces first-person methods of investigating the mind...
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Frente a la gran difusión e impacto de las neurociencias, presentamos este texto de Michele Farisco al mundo de la lengua española. Consideramos de vital importancia cultivar y difundir los resultados de estudios serios que se encuentran apartados tanto de la postura biologicista, que hace uso de las neurociencias para extender sus conclusiones de modo totalmente arbitrario y falso, como de aquellas posiciones que mantienen una actitud de condena...
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"In the busy, information-filled world in which we live, it's often easy to forget things and hard to keep track of how details get stored in our brain. The Complete Guide to Memory serves to provide a one-stop resource that covers the essentials on memory. World-renowned memory expert, Dr. Richard Restak, addresses the following topics in detail: how memories form; the different kinds of memory; changes in brain structure; the mind-body connection;...
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Can science and art find common ground? Are scientific and artistic quests mutually exclusive? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric Kandel, whose interests span the fields of science and art, explores how reductionism - the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable ideas - has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths. Their common use of reductionist strategies demonstrates...
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