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Alan Hall PhD
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How do we remember things? How does a low voltage current passing through the brain improve our ability to do math? How is brain size and shape related to intelligence? Do smart pills really work? This essay discusses these and other issues relating to brain function.
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Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be impenetrable to science. In The Ravenous Brain, neuroscientist Daniel Bor departs sharply from this historical view, and proposes a new model for how consciousness works.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Effectively demystifies consciousness
- De Gary en 11-18-12
De: Daniel Bor
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The Deeper Genome
- Why There Is More to the Human Genome than Meets the Eye
- De: John Parrington
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 9 h
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Over a decade ago, as the Human Genome Project completed its mapping of the entire human genome, hopes ran high that we would rapidly be able to use our knowledge of human genes to tackle many inherited diseases, and understand what makes us unique among animals. But things didn't turn out that way.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Scientific Writing/ Wrong Narrator
- De Richard en 11-24-15
De: John Parrington
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Mind to Matter
- The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality
- De: Dawson Church
- Narrado por: Dawson Church
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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The idea that “thoughts become things” has become a meme in popular culture. It’s held as a firm proposition in metaphysics, and some spiritual teachers ascribe infinite powers to the mind. But are these claims scientifically accurate? What does the scientific evidence tell us about the scope of the human mind to transform thoughts into reality?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding info... delivery less so.
- De Bruce Eichelberger en 07-01-18
De: Dawson Church
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101 Theory Drive
- A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory
- De: Terry McDermott
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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It's not fiction: Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist - malnourished, contentious, inspiring, explosive, remarkably ambitious, consistently brilliant. He is one of the foremost figures of contemporary neuroscience, and his decades-long quest to understand the inner workings of the brain's memory machine has begun to pay off.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pretty Dang Funny
- De Will en 05-14-10
De: Terry McDermott
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Why We Sleep
- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- De: Matthew Walker
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I recommend this to EVERYONE
- De M. Balfour en 12-11-17
De: Matthew Walker
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The Intention Experiment
- Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
- De: Lynne McTaggart
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Award-winning science journalist and author Lynne McTaggart invites listeners to take part in the world's largest mind-over-matter experiment in The Intention Experiment. By thinking positively about life and consciousness, people can, in fact, change their lives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Middle of the road
- De Thomas en 08-12-08
De: Lynne McTaggart
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Drugged: The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs
- De: Richard J. Miller
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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In Drugged, Miller takes listeners on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture. Drugged brims with surprises, revealing the fact that antidepressant drugs evolved from rocket fuel, highlighting the role of hallucinogens in the history of religion, and asking whether Prozac can help depressed cats. Entertaining and authoritative, Drugged is a truly fascinating book.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting reading but heavy on the biochemistry
- De Scott en 06-28-14
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A User's Guide to the Brain
- Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
- De: John J. Ratey
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
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John Ratey, best-selling author and clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, lucidly explains the human brain's workings, and paves the way for a better understanding of how the brain affects who we are. Ratey provides insight into the basic structure and chemistry of the brain, and demonstrates how its systems shape our perceptions, emotions, and behavior. By giving us a greater understanding of how the brain responds to the guidance of its user, he provides us with knowledge that can enable us to improve our lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, mediocre narration
- De Dr. B en 09-25-18
De: John J. Ratey
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Your Brain, Explained
- What Neuroscience Reveals About Your Brain and its Quirks
- De: Marc Dingman
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brains create them? Your Brain, Explained is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in how your brain works and explains the latest research on the brain functions that affect you on a daily basis. You'll also discover what happens when the brain doesn't work the way it should, causing problems such as insomnia, ADHD, depression, or addiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!!
- De Amazon Customer en 05-04-22
De: Marc Dingman
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine
- The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
- De: Dean Buonomano
- Narrado por: Aaron Abano
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell and perceive time. The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological flow and enables "mental time travel" - simulations of future and past events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book on an underrated subject
- De Neuron en 05-09-17
De: Dean Buonomano
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Brain Rules for Aging Well
- 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
- De: John Medina
- Narrado por: John Medina
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts - and the prescription to age well - in his signature engaging style. With so many discoveries over the years, science is literally changing our minds about the optimal care and feeding of the brain. All of it is captivating. A great deal of it is unexpected.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Scientific and practical
- De symya08 en 04-29-18
De: John Medina
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Autopilot
- The Art & Science of Doing Nothing
- De: Andrew Smart
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
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Andrew Smart wants you to sit and do nothing much more often - and he has the science to explain why. At every turn we’re pushed to do more, faster, and more efficiently: That drumbeat resounds throughout our wage-slave society. Multitasking is not only a virtue, it’s a necessity. But Andrew Smart argues that slackers may have the last laugh. The latest neuroscience shows that the “culture of effectiveness” is not only ineffective, it can be harmful to your well-being.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not worth it.
- De B Lee en 04-30-14
De: Andrew Smart
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 19 h y 22 m
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The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a Wonderful Book
- De JKC en 06-02-16
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The Brain That Changes Itself
- Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
- De: Norman Doidge M.D.
- Narrado por: Jim Bond
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, MD, traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed - people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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***MIND BLOWN***
- De Laura Elsasser en 04-04-21
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The Compatibility Gene
- How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves
- De: Daniel M. Davis
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Most of the 25,000 genes we possess are the same for all of us. Compatibility genes are those that vary most from person to person and give each of us a unique molecular signature. These genes determine both the extent to which we are susceptible to a vast range of illnesses and the different ways each of us fights disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If interested in medicine, got to read
- De Howard Sterling en 06-29-16
De: Daniel M. Davis