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なぜ、私たちは、周りの言葉にこんなに苦しんだりするのでしょう？ 人を息苦しくさせる――ＳＮＳにあふれる呪いの言葉、病気にもしてしまう暗示。刷り込まれる負けグセ。 脳を中毒にする――イケニエを裁く快楽、罰を見たい本能や正義という快感。ウソつき

Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and their extraordinary transformations.

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.

In this book, Prusiner tells the remarkable story of his discovery of prions - infectious proteins that replicate and cause disease but surprisingly contain no genetic material - and reveals how superb and meticulous science is actually practiced with talented teams of researchers who persevere. He recounts the frustrations and rewards of years of research and offers fascinating portraits of his peers as they raced to discover the causes of fatal brain diseases.

■脳で9割わかる ■どんなに複雑そうな人でも脳は単純 ■嘘か本当か、敵か味方か…言動の裏にある「本心」とは？ ■理解できないあの人の頭のなかが最新脳科学で明らかに！ 「あの人は一体何を考えているのだろう」 「どうして、いつも私に冷たいのかな」

Dr. Oliver Sacks argues the migraine cannot be understood simply as an illness, but must be viewed as a complex condition with a unique role to play in each individual's life.

Muchos científicos han afirmado que conocemos mejor el universo exterior que el que tenemos dentro de nuestra cabeza. La doctora en neurociencia Estefanía Estévez, reconocida divulgadora y conferenciante, nos lleva de viaje a los secretos de nuestro cerebro durante el descanso. Narrada por esta joven investigadora, comprender cómo opera el dispositivo más sofisticado del universo nos ayudará a cuidarlo mejor de modo que trabaje a nuestro favor.

No one can avoid gray hair and wrinkles, but what about preventing the brain from aging? Dr. Eric Braverman, "America's Brain Doctor" and best-selling author has created a simple, science-based plan that can help prevent the worst mental side effects of aging: memory loss, cognitive decline, and mood changes.

You're having a baby! Or at least your partner is which means you are too. Not literally of course, but you’ll be in the middle of nine months of flying hormones, back rubs, and excitement, anticipation and nervousness the like of which you’ve never experienced before. You’re in for the ride of your life. And you're going to be a dad. Fatherhood is just around the corner and it’s ace – but are you ready? Most pregnancy books are for the mother but this one is just for you, the new father.

Alva Noë is one of a new breed - part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist - who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: Do away with the 200-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain.

Think you have a good memory? Think again. Memories are our most cherished possessions. We rely on them every day of our lives. They make us who we are. And yet the truth is they are far from being the accurate records of the past we like to think they are. True, we can all admit to having suffered occasional memory lapses, such as entering a room and immediately forgetting why or suddenly being unable to recall the name of someone we've met dozens of times. But what if we have the potential for more profound errors of memory?

Faites-vous partie de ces gens qui pensent qu'ils n'ont aucune mémoire ? Qu'ils ne sont pas créatifs ? Qu'ils se feront toujours manipuler ? Et si je vous disais que vous vous trompez ? Améliorer vos relations sociales, booster votre cerveau, gagner tous vos paris... tout ceci ne dépend que de vous et de votre capacité à bien utiliser votre cerveau ! Je vais vous confier un secret... les personnes qui décident d'exploiter les capacités de ce formidable outil, de le comprendre et de jouer avec lui, ont une longueur d'avance sur les autres (à vrai dire, c'est presque injuste !).

La situation n'est pas désespérée. La solution est en nous. Ça y est, nous avons dépassé le stade critique. Le dernier rapport du GIEC atteste que la vie sur terre deviendra à terme insoutenable. La cause : le réchauffement climatique que nous avons-nous-mêmes enclenché. Nous savons que nous sommes en perdition et nous ne réagissons pas. Pourquoi ? Sans qu'on le sache, se joue depuis des millénaires dans notre cerveau une terrible bataille. D'un côté il y a le striatum, petite structure nerveuse qui génère du plaisir. De l'autre il y a le cortex préfrontal, organe destiné à contrôler nos pulsions.

È l'organo che più ci contraddistingue come specie, quello che – a torto o a ragione – ci fa sentire superiori agli altri esseri viventi, il fondamento della nostra civiltà e, per alcuni, la sede dell'anima; ma a che cosa serve davvero il nostro cervello, e come funziona?

Se riuscissimo a stabilire un "principio di coscienza" e a misurarlo sarebbe una rivoluzione scientifica, morale e filosofica di enorme portata. Questo audiolibro racconta la storia di un'appassionante spedizione alla ricerca dei segni della coscienza nel coma, nel sonno e nel sogno; e di tutto ciò che ne consegue.

Neuroeconomia, neuromarketing, neuroestetica, neuroteologia...: si affacciano oggi sulla scena nuove e sempre più fantasiose discipline frutto del cortocircuito tra saperi antichi e scoperte recenti sul funzionamento del cervello. Sui media proliferano articoli divulgativi, corredati da foto a colori del cervello, che ci mostrano il luogo preciso dove si sviluppa un certo pensiero o una certa emozione, facendoci credere che sia possibile vedere direttamente, senza mediazioni, il cervello al lavoro. Ma le cose stanno veramente così?

Ungewöhnliche Einblicke in den Alltag der Neuro-Chirurgie - und in das menschliche Gehirn: Ein weltweit renommierter Gehirn-Chirurg erzählt von außergewöhnlichen Fällen und seinem Alltag im Operations-Saal. Das faszinierende Sachbuch zum Thema Gehirn-Chirurgie und Neuro-Wissenschaft. Prof. Dr. Peter Vajkoczy ist Direktor der Klinik für Neuro-Chirurgie an der Berliner Charité. Bis zu hundert Patienten aus aller Welt betreut er auf seinen drei Stationen und führt mit seinem Team bis zu fünf, sechs Operationen pro Tag durch – meist geht es um Schlaganfälle, Gehirntumore, Bypässe und Störungen an der Wirbelsäule.

Disfruta de este viaje a través de los sentidos y descubre la infinidad de posibilidades que nuestro cuerpo tiene para ofrecer.

Los magos utilizan efectos ópticos y manipulan la atención: consiguen que miremos, pero que no veamos. Se aprovechan de nuestras predisposiciones y de la fragilidad de nuestros recuerdos, porque el secreto de la magia está en el funcionamiento de nuestra mente. Para desvelarlo, este libro nos propone un viaje a través de la cognición humana; un recorrido por el amplio mundo de la atención, la percepción, las memorias y las decisiones.