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3) The Scientific American healthy aging brain: the neuroscience of making the most of your mature mind
Author
Series
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawn from the latest research, this fascinating book offers new insight about how the brain ages; provides strategies for promoting brain health; reveals how aging people can still achieve new levels of intelligence and learn new skiles and more.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 292 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed director of the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering argues that we are more than our brains, explaining the role of bodily influences on mental function while revealing the complex physical and mental network that irrevocably intertwines the brain with the body.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Nightingale-Conant
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
5 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Using research from medical science and quantum physics, Chopra relates how your mind is not only in your brain, but it's influence is in every cell of your body. How to take control of your well-being and improve your physical health.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chopra and Tanzi show readers how, through a person's increased self-awareness and conscious intention, the brain can be taught to reach far beyond its present limitations and become a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Mariner books edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on a wildly popular Atlantic article: an astonishing investigation into the world of microbes, and the myriad ways they control how other creatures -- including humans -- act, feel, and think As we are now discovering, parasites -- microbes that cannot thrive and reproduce without another organism as a host -- are shockingly sophisticated and extraordinarily powerful.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 229 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Walt Hickey explores exactly how this thing we blithely call "entertainment" has such a tremendous effect on us. Through compelling reporting and research and the creation of dozens and dozens of colorful data visuals, Hickey shows how something like a movie or TV show not only has a direct physical effect on the viewer--how the chemistry of our breath changes with a movie's ups and downs, or a scary scene can be literally bloodcurdling--but also...
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