Brain Development

Chief CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta helped countless people keep their brains sharp and effortlessly productive with KEEP SHARP. In 12 Weeks to a Sharper You, he now provides a step-by-step 12-week program to help you put his transformational ideas into daily practice. This workbook makes it easy to apply Gupta’s groundbreaking tips and research to establish healthy behaviors for life. The 12-week program will help you feel less anxious, sleep better, improve energy, think more clearly, and become more resilient to daily stress.

Encuentra las respuestas a todas las preguntas relacionadas con tus pensamientos, tus emociones, en síntesis: con la forma maravillosa en que funciona tu cerebro. ¿Por qué sientes celos, ansiedad, angustia? ¿Sabías que existen áreas cerebrales de la fidelidad? ¿Sabes qué le sucede a tu cerebro cuando te enamoras? ¿Sabías que algunas neuronas sí pueden regenerarse? Eduardo Calixto, colaborador de Martha Debayle en W Radio y destacado experto en Neurociencias, te explica de manera clara y práctica el funcionamiento de tu cerebro y su papel en tu vida diaria.

Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important and often maddening ways. It’s no wonder that many parents approach their child’s adolescence with fear and trepidation. According to renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel Siegel, however, if parents and teens can work together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all the tumult, they will be able to turn conflict into connection and form a deeper understanding of one another. In Brainstorm, Siegel illuminates how brain development affects teenagers’ behaviour and relationships.

It all starts with your brain: How you think, how you feel, how you interact with others, and how well you succeed in realizing your goals and dreams. When your brain works right, so do you. When it’s out of balance, you feel frustrated, or worse. Yet amid all the advice that bombards us daily about how to keep the rest of our body strong and healthy, we hear very little about how to keep the most complex and magnificent organ of all - the human brain - in top working order.

Beilock examines how attention and working memory guide human performance, how experience and practice and brain development interact to create our abilities, and how stress affects all these factors.

Diagnosis rates of neurological disorders are climbing at an alarming rate. Yet psychiatric drugs don't cure the problems; they only disguise the symptoms. Dr. Robert Melillo's pioneering work that began in the 1990s with the creation of his groundbreaking Brain Balance program has brought a new understanding to the cause of these conditions: an imbalance between the left and right sides of the child's developing brain. Today, more than fifty thousand children have successfully completed the Brain Balance program and have experienced dramatic improvements in behavioral and emotional outcomes.

Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey show us how to build habits that fill our lives with greater joy and satisfaction. Based on the latest neuroscience and attachment theory—but written in everyday language—The Four Habits of Joy-Filled People is practical and easy to comprehend. The authors provide exercises and tools you can put into practice immediately.

Two New York Times best-selling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last 20 years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard J Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us.

You can learn to play music, no matter what you've been told about your musical talent or aptitude. With the right instruction and methods, learning to play music can be an endless source of joy and fulfillment. And learning to play music isn't just fun, it's also the ideal brain fitness activity. Dr. Turknett, a neurologist, self-taught multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of Brainjo and the Brainjo Method of instruction, distills the principles of learning to play music down into a set of universal "laws" that can be applied to any instrument.

Your mental health is as important as your physical health and, in times of stress, it's vital to have enhanced cognition and reserves of resilience. This book is packed with practical tips, based on scientific evidence, that will teach you how to implement lifestyle strategies that will improve your brain health, cognition, and overall well-being.

Do you ever feel like your emotions control you instead of the other way around? Maybe stress keeps piling up, small things push you over the edge, or overthinking makes everything feel worse. It’s exhausting—like no matter what you do, negativity keeps creeping back in. You’re not broken, and you’re not alone. The way you think and feel isn’t set in stone. Change is possible, and it starts with understanding what’s really happening inside your mind.

In this book, I’ll give you a clear, repeatable system for changing clients’ lives through health and fitness. It’s called the Prescriptive Model, and it’s been tested and proven in over 3,000 gyms around the world.

El psiquiatra y neurocientífico clínico Daniel Amen, MD, con más de 40 años de práctica clínica con decenas de miles de pacientes, comparte los hábitos diarios más efectivos que ha observado para mejorar el cerebro, dominar la mente, potenciar la memoria y hacerte sentir más feliz, saludable y conectado con tus seres queridos. Incorporar los pequeños hábitos y prácticas del Dr. Amen a lo largo de un año te ayudará a: Gestionar tu mente para apoyar tu felicidad, paz interior y éxito. Desarrollar estrategias de por vida para enfrentar cualquier estrés que se presente.

Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Cortisol, Endorphin and Testosterone - these are the six substances that internationally acclaimed Swedish public speaker and coach David JP Phillips will guide you through to understand just how our chemistry can affect us and how we can take control and affect it. In this simple and accessible guide, learn how to harness the immense power of your mind to its fullest potential and optimize your body's chemical factory to achieve lasting transformation. This book will lead you to the future you desire and is for everyone who wants to feel high on life for real.

This "Sharp Focus" program was designed to assist the listener in gaining self-thoughts related to energy, focus, willpower, organization and follow-through.

Our brains are 'plastic' in the sense that new neural pathways can form. By replacing negative thoughts with more positive thought affirmations we can create new pathways.

What does a three-pound brain have to do with one’s sex life? A lot, actually. Hooked is about what’s happening to your brain when you’re having sex. Learn about your brain, the positive effects of sex within permanently committed relationships, and how you can protect yourself (especially your brain) from the dangers of casual sex.

What If 10+ Hours Of Affirmations Could Change Your Life Forever? Do you find yourself overwhelmed by negative self-talk, unsure how to break free from its grip? Are you struggling to balance your goals with the demands of daily life, leaving little room for personal growth? Have you ever wished for a way to shift your mindset and invite success, love, and motivation into your life? If so, Positive Affirmations for Black Men & Women (2 in 1) is the life-changing guide you’ve been searching for.

The human brain can actually grow - and a bigger brain means better memory, creativity, speed of learning, and ability to concentrate. Boost Your Brain is the only book that uses groundbreaking advances in neuroscience to present a clear explanation and prescriptive plan for how to access the benefits of significantly enhanced brain performance - at any age.

Con el tono más accesible, las investigaciones científicas más avanzadas y la amenidad que lo caracteriza, el doctor Eduardo Calixto explica qué ocurre en nuestro cerebro cuando enfrentamos crisis existenciales, cómo ayudan algunos alimentos a tener mejor salud cerebral, por qué es importante no saltarse el desayuno y hacer ejercicio.