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Pub. Date
2022.
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"From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what's average to an understanding of how everybrain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us. With style and wit, Chantel Prat takes us on a tour of the meaningful ways that our brains are dissimilar...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari argues that humankind's greatest invention is our ability to create and believe fictions. While all other animals communicate realities with which they interact, humans create a separate layer of subjective, interpretative realities. The fiction most universally embraced today is money. "Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill," says Harari....
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Series
Super smart science volume 3
Pub. Date
©2013.
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"Neurology explores the complexities of the Central Nervous System, beginning with the different sections (lobes) of the brain, continuing to the spinal cord and concluding with the structure and function of the neuron. Bold images engage the reader and color-coded text reinforce new material. Learn advanced vocabulary and bring out your inner Neurologist!" -- Publisher description.
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Holistic approach to neurobehavioral and neuroacademic disorders, based on the premise that epidemic "functional disconnection syndrome" is environmental and not genetic in origin. Provides methods of assessment and rehabilitation programs for parents and other care givers. The Brain Balance Program is a drugless method of stimulating the slower hemisphere through sensory-motor and sensory-academic exercises along with nutritional and behavioral...
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Pub. Date
c2021
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"Introduces young readers to the dangers of a tranquilizer and depressant addiction and shows ways that users have found help. Learn about the physical and mental effects of tranquilizer and depressant abuse and their negative impacts on lives"-- www.childsworld.com
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Neurological disorders are now the world's leading source of disability, and the fastest growing of these disorders is Parkinson disease. Between 1990 and 2015 the number of people with Parkinson's doubled to over 6 million and is projected to double again by 2040. The causes are shocking, and the remedies are woefully out of date and ineffective. It's time to take action. We need widespread education about the pandemic, better and more broadly available...
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Pub. Date
c1988
Description
Compares the human brain to the brain of other animals, presents historic notions about the brain from prehistoric headhunting to the scientific age, explains how the brain and nervous system function, and describes related disorders, surgical care, and mental health.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In this riveting and informative book, renowned zoonotic disease expert Steven Phillips, MD, and his patient-turned Lyme warrior Dana Parish explode conventional wisdom as they reveal the alarming connection between Lyme disease and other autoimmune disorders and detail what readers need to know in order to heal from their pain"--
Phillips was already a renowned physician specializing in complex, chronic diseases when he became a patient himself....