Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

• Author : Lisa Feldman Barrett
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 04 March 2021

From the bestselling author of How Emotions Are Made 'A series of highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable essays . . . Fascinating and informative, it is popular science at its best' – Observer 'Small in size but big on ideas . . . [Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain] is absorbing, thought-provoking stuff’ – Evening Standard In seven short chapters (plus a brief history of how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You’

• Author : Mona Delahooke
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 17 March 2022

'I will be recommending this book to every parent' Dr Laura Markham 'I adore this book!' Dr Tina Payne Bryson Over her decades as a clinical psychologist, Dr Mona Delahooke has helped countless distraught parents who struggle to manage their children's challenging behaviours. These families are understandably focused on correcting or improving a child's lack of compliance, emotional outbursts, tantrums and other 'out of control' behaviour. But behaviour, no matter how challenging, is not the problem but a symptom;

• Author : Emily Willingham
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 14 December 2021

A candid and practical guide to the new frontier of brain customization Dozens of books promise to improve your brain function with a gimmick. Lifestyle changes, microdosing, electromagnetic stimulation: just one weird trick can lightly alter or dramatically deconstruct your brain. In truth, there is no one-size-fits-all shortcut to the ideal mind. Instead, the way to understand cognitive enhancement is to think like a tailor: measure how you need your brain to change and then find a plan that suits

• Author : Nick Heather,Matt Field,Antony C. Moss,Sally Satel
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 07 March 2022

This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction. As well as presenting the case for seeing addiction as a brain disease, it brings together all the most cogent and penetrating critiques of the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) and the main grounds for being skeptical of BDMA claims. The idea that addiction is a brain disease dominates thinking and practice worldwide. However, the editors of this book argue that our understanding of addiction is undergoing

• Author : Lisa Feldman Barrett
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release : 07 March 2017

Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. “Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.”—The Wall Street Journal “A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.”—Scientific American “A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic

• Author : Rebecca Schwarzlose
• Publisher : Mariner Books
• Release : 23 May 2022

A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of "maps" etched into your gray matter--and how technology can use them to read your mind.

• Author : Elaine Fox
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 12 May 2022

What is the key ingredient to a happy, successful life? There is no one-size-fits-all solution to dealing with life. Elaine Fox, one of the world's leading psychologists and performance coaches, has witnessed this time and again. In her work coaching top athletes, military leaders and business professionals, she has seen that it's the people who know how and when to switch between different approaches - people who have an agile mind - who achieve the best performance. Drawing on 25 years

• Author : Britt Frank
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 22 March 2022

A research-based tool kit for moving past what’s holding you back—in life, in love, and in work. We all experience stuckness in our lives. We feel stuck in our relationships, career paths, body struggles, addiction issues, and more. Many of us know what we need to do to move forward—but find ourselves unable to take the leap to make it happen. And then we blame and shame ourselves, and stay in a loop of self-doubt that goes

• Author : Alan Stein,Jon Sternfeld
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 12 April 2022

Sustain Your Game is built upon a simple premise: each of us will always be under construction, a work in progress, and constantly evolving. The goal is to be moving toward our highest potential, toward making a meaningful contribution, and toward becoming the best version of ourselves. Based on his years as a successful basketball performance coach—having worked with and alongside superstars like Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, and Kobe Bryant—and a keynote speaker to major companies like Pepsi

• Author : David Borgo
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 10 February 2022

The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated via socio-technological networks. Chapters funnel outward, from the solo improviser (Evan Parker), to nonlinear group dynamics (Sam Rivers trio), to networks that comprise improvisational communities, to pedagogical dynamics that affect how individuals learn, completing the hermeneutic

• Author : Amy Johnson
• Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
• Release : 01 October 2021

You are not your thoughts! Learn how to overcome negative thinking habits and self-doubt so you can experience more confidence, freedom, and peace of mind. When you understand how your mind works, unhelpful and noisy thoughts move to the background, and your awareness shifts to something quieter and deeper. This is true peace of mind. And it’s not some unattainable goal reserved for the most enlightened among us. Anyone can experience it. This book will show you how! From

• Author : R. Michael Fisher,B. Maria Kumar
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 10 May 2021

The current dominating worldview and its paradigms of operations are unhealthy and unsustainable. Ecological, economic, political and psychological health are at stake. As experts in a philosophy of fearism, they apply a critical perspective on the dominant Fear Paradigm as root cause of the global crises in the 21st century. They offer a worldview shift via the Fearlessness Paradigm. This is a second major book on this topic, of which the first was Fisher’s The World’s Fearlessness Teachings (2010).

• Author : Christian van Nieuwerburgh,Paige Williams
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 26 March 2022

This book will help you move from surviving to thriving at University. It is a personal guide for a journey of learning and growth that will help you now and in life beyond University. Understand more about what helps you to feel well and do well and experiment with evidence-based activities, explore theories of personal wellbeing and play with some of the latest ideas from the field.

• Author : Howard Burton
• Publisher : Open Agenda Publishing
• Release : 01 October 2020

Conversations About Neuroscience include the following five carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading neuroscientists with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books: I. Constructing Our World: The Brain’s-Eye View - A conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett. This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Lisa Feldman Barrett, University Distinguished Professor in Psychology at Northeastern University. This extensive conversations covers topics such as Lisa’s winding career path from pre-med to clinical

• Author : John Haime
• Publisher : Trafalgar Square Books
• Release : 11 June 2021

An easy-to-implement framework proven to grow rider confidence, tested by the world’s leading equestrian athletes. Without confidence, achievement in competition is unattainable. When confidence is lacking in any sport, equestrian included, chances are your career will be short. Renowned performance coach John Haime has written the book to counter this challenge, providing the mental tools riders need to be better under pressure of all kinds and consistently succeed. Equestrian sport is a partnership: there’s an equine athlete, and