Presents a variety of enrichment activities, discussion questions, and resources to help teach students about their brains, the physiology and evolution of the brain, definitions and measuring of intelligence, problem solving, and other related topics.
A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness. Most of us accept the way our heart flutters when we set eyes on the one we secretly admire, or...
It's All in Your Head chronicles her harrowing medical odyssey and her attempts to regain some sort of semblance of her old life after treatment.
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Forty years ago, Dr. Hal Huggins questioned this practice, and now legions of dentists, researchers, and citizens are adding their voices of concern.
In this compassionate and empowering book, noted psychologists Gordon J. G. Asmundson and Steven Taylor provide simple and accurate self-tests designed to help you understand health anxiety and the role it might be playing in how you feel.
As entertaining as they are informative, the true stories in this memoir contain authentic magical theory and invaluable technical information.
During these sessions, Jackson and her colleagues focused not on the medical details of the patients' cancer but on their personal lives, including issues such as how they and their family were coping with the diagnosis, ...
These are only a few of the many suspected culture-bound psychosomatic syndromes—specific sets of symptoms that exist in a particular culture or environment—that affect people throughout the world.
In his signature voice, Action Bronson shares all that he’s learned in the past decade to help you help yourself. This isn’t a road map to attaining a so-called perfect body.
To achieve the results we want, we first need to understand how our thinking drives our actions. By understanding the latest science about how the human brain works, we can leverage it to maximize our performance.