検索キーワード： 神経科学・神経心理学

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living...

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication...

How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable...

Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rather unusual way: governed by the narrowly focused, target-driven left hemisphere of the brain.

This groundbreaking book explores the revolution in psychotherapy that brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains into a therapeutic context. Louis Cozolino is a master at synthesizing neuroscience and demonstrating how it applies to psychotherapy practice. Here, he argues that all forms of psychotherapy are successful to the extent to which they enhance change in relevant neural circuits.

For millennia, philosophers and scientists have been trying to unlock the secrets of the mind with only limited success—until now. Today, with modern technologies including the best in neuroscience, medical imaging, and recent advances in artificial intelligence, we are making more progress than ever before. In Introduction to Cognitive Science, Professor Thad A. Polk takes you on a fascinating tour of the latest discoveries in the relatively new field of cognitive science. In 24 exciting lectures, Professor Polk shares dozens of the most challenging questions in cognitive science today.

Hillman refers to soul as “a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself”. The value of seeing beneath, between, and beyond to achieve new perspectives for learning, integration, transformation, and growth was a personal challenge for Hillman, who claimed depth psychology can be summed up in one excerpt from Heraclitus: “You could not discover the limits of the soul (psyche), even if you traveled every road to do so; such is the depth…of its meaning."

What happens when a child’s sleep goes seriously wrong? Professor Paul Gringras takes us inside some of the most extraordinary cases in paediatric sleep medicine. A child who becomes dangerously cold every night. A ten-year-old sleepwalker who falls from an upstairs window. A six-year-old who...

What happens in the brain on the brink of death? One person’s last words might be lucid, revealing deep-seated thoughts and emotions. Another person might be brought to intensive care and never awaken. Electroencephalograms of dying patients record surprising activity in portions of the brain...

You told yourself you'd start that project Monday. Monday came and went. Then you swore you'd get back on track after the weekend — but the weekend dissolved into scrolling, snacking, and a vague guilt you couldn't shake. It's not laziness. Your brain's reward system has been quietly hijacked, and willpower was never going to fix it. You've tried the productivity hacks. The morning routines. Maybe even a "dopamine detox" that left you white-knuckling through a joyless weekend only to binge harder on Monday.

THE ATTENTION PARADOX: THE HARDER YOU CHASE PERFECT FOCUS, THE MORE YOU UNDERMINE IT. Perhaps you're a parent trying to balance work demands with being present for your children; a student struggling to concentrate through long lectures. You might be a professional drowning in emails and...

Anxiety is the most prevalent mental health condition in the UK and it is estimated that 1 in 10 people globally will experience symptoms of an anxiety disorder. Yet, we know very little about how and why we experience anxiety, and as many as 30 per cent of sufferers don't have an effective...

I Forgot to Live is a reflective journey through consciousness, memory, performance, suffering, mortality, and meaning. Blending philosophy, psychology, and lived experience, it follows the quiet crisis of a life spent on autopilot and the deeper awakening that begins when a person finally turns inward. Through themes such as unconscious living, nostalgia, ambition, nihilism, death, and attention, the book asks a question that is both simple and profound: What does it mean to actually live?

Master the neuroscience of manifestation and rewire your brain to attract opportunities when you feel entirely stuck. Transform daily routines and a stagnant mindset into an empowering reality using proven cognitive psychology. Perfect for an uplifting morning commute, this self-help audio...

How do you escape ‘business as usual’ thinking and regularly and reliably create breakthrough ideas? Millions are spent every year in the quest to generate breakthrough ideas to drive growth. Yet fewer than 25% of people believe they’re doing a good job of harnessing creativity to get to big ideas. The Breakthrough Brain helps you harness human creativity with the digestible, inspiring and immensely practical Neuroscience of Creativity framework.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Over 1 million copies sold! “An essential how-to book to reduce stress, calm anxiety, and keep your brain active.” —Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable Do you want to reduce your stress levels, boost your memory, mood, and focus, and be more creative? Then...

“Consciousness might be the greatest mystery of the universe, and Annaka Harris is our best detective… You’ll never think about what happens between your ears in the same way again.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again “Follow along as Annaka Harris...

Start Over Voices is a powerful audiobook and Kindle collection featuring inspiring stories read by the authors themselves. Hear the emotion, courage and resilience behind each remarkable journey as ordinary people share how they overcame extraordinary adversity.

What if everything you thought you knew about ADHD was wrong? For decades, ADHD has been misunderstood as nothing more than an attention disorder. But what if it's really about a nervous system that never slows down, emotions that feel larger than life, burnout, rejection, creativity, resilience...

Trauma does not stop processing when you fall asleep. The brain continues working through threat, memory, emotion, and survival long after the conscious mind shuts down.