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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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¿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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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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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...
15) Polyvagal Theory: A Self-Help Polyvagal Theory Guide to Reduce With Self Help Exercises Anxiety, Dep
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Leverage the cutting-edge scientific discovery of the polyvagal theory and unlock your body's natural self-healing capabilities with this definitive guide! If you are tired of having to deal with brain fogs, creative blocks, panic attacks, as well as other mental disorders, if you're sick of struggling with chronic illnesses with seemingly no end in sight, then you've come to the right place. Since the discovery of the Polyvagal Theory by Dr Stephen...
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"Neurocosmic Brain" is the ultimate brain model. It will heal, empower and stabilise your mind by growing new brain cells to enhance your neuroplasticity. Your epigenetics would express more healthy genes rather than lethal genes by cumulative effects of positive psychology, music, meditation, intuition, goal settings and metacognitions explored in this brain model.
The neurocosmic brain model speeds up the growth of brain. It could be cultivated...
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La verdadera historia de cómo nuestro cerebro y nuestro sistema nervioso cambian a lo largo de nuestra vida, con o sin "entrenamiento cerebral".
Hace cincuenta años, los neurocientíficos pensaban que un cerebro maduro era algo fijo como una mosca atrapada en ámbar, incapaz de cambiar. Hoy sabemos que nuestro cerebro y nuestro sistema nervioso cambian a lo largo de nuestra vida. Este concepto de neuroplasticidad ha capturado la imaginación de...
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"Neuron" is a part of the college-level Principles of Biology course series and the Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the anatomy and physiology of the neurons in the brain.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced systematically so students can...
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"Neurotransmitter Pathways" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the anatomy and physiology of the neurotransmitter circuitry, including the cell origins and the targets of the neurotransmitter pathways.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles...
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#1 We had a very ancient ancestor that was very similar to a modern-day amphioxus. They inhabited the oceans about 550 million years ago. They had no brains, but they had senses like yours and could sense changes in light.
#2 The emergence of predators during the Cambrian period transformed the planet into a more competitive and dangerous place. Creatures that could...
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