Human Brain

In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world. Mental abilities—like seeing, learning, fearing, trusting, and focusing—are discussed from both human and horse perspectives. Throughout, true stories of horses and handlers attempting to understand each other—sometimes successfully, sometimes not—help to illustrate the principles.

WHY DO "GOOD" DRIVERS MAKE BAD DECISIONS? WHY DO "GOOD" DRIVERS MAKE BAD DECISIONS Accidents don’t happen when drivers run out of skill; they happen when drivers run out of cognitive energy. When the brain's "body budget" is depleted by stress or fatigue, it defaults to ancient, automated instincts that ignore modern safety rules. The Road to Zero is the first book to apply over 70 years of combined research in neuroscience and behavioral analytics to solve the trucking industry's most persistent problem. Rob Friday provides the framework to move safety from a compliance function to a ...

Discover how your brain unlocks imagination, problem solving, and innovation. Have you ever wondered why brilliant ideas appear when you least expect them? Or why some people seem endlessly creative while others feel stuck? Wired for Wonder: The Neuroscience of Human Creativity and Innovation reveals the fascinating science behind imagination and shows how anyone can cultivate a more innovative mind. Drawing on the latest research in brain science, this book explores how creativity arises from the dynamic interaction of brain networks, neurotransmitters, and emotional states. You’ll learn...

You Are Not One Mind. Meet the Ghost in Your Skull. Deep beneath your rational thoughts and complex emotions resides an ancient intelligence—silent, powerful, and in control. It doesn't speak your language. It doesn't share your values. It operates on a 320-million-year-old code: Survive. Dominate. Acquire. Repeat. This is the Reptilian Brain, the primal R-Complex, the serpent coiled within. The Serpent's Code is your guide to unmasking this ghost in the machine. It exposes the illusion of the singular "I" and reveals how this ancient operating system unconsciously forges your reality—...

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.

Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human...

Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments - using such low-tech tools such as cotton swabs, glasses of water, and dime-store mirrors.

From the renowned neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Incognito comes the companion volume to the international PBS series about how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life. "An ideal introduction to how biology generates the mind.... Clear...

Do you wish you could use someone’s mental process to your advantage and to control the way they think and feel? Then keep reading! People can react unpredictably in life. Not being able to tell what someone else is thinking can put you at a severe disadvantage when trying to achieve your goals. The whims, thoughts, motives, and behaviors of others can completely derail the efforts that you put forward to achieve your goals, change your circumstances, and to make something better of your life. Being at the mercy of the unpredictable behavior and temperament of others leaves far too much ...

The culmination of three decades of Allan Schore's groundbreaking work, this book details how the right brain―the psychobiological locus of Freud's unconscious mind―plays a fundamental role in the early origin of human nature (the general characteristics and feelings attributed to human beings). The early developing right brain not only grounds our bodily-based subjective experience of the world, but also allows us to make sense of it.

Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: The very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive lying.

This Pulitzer Prize finalist provides the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial...

Hey, this matters to you because within the pages of this groundbreaking nonfiction book, a hidden world is unveiled—a world teeming with danger, threat, and an ancient species known as the "Vril reptiles". I invite you to embark on a journey that transcends the boundaries of ordinary understanding into: -the depths of a reality that challenges our very existence. In the gripping narrative that follows, our protagonist, Donald Marshall, a courageous individual whose experiences defy conventional belief, lays bare the existence of a species that has lurked in the shadows of human history...

New York Times bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year “It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote...

Just over 125,000 years ago, humanity was going extinct until a dramatic shift occurred—Homo sapiens started tracking the tides in order to eat the nearby oysters. Before long, they’d pulled themselves back from the brink of extinction. What saved us during that period of endangerment? The...

Optimizing consciousness and performance is the theme of this book. If you are looking for strategic scientific and psychological hacks to boost performance, this book is for you. Quantum physics and consciousness have been linked in various ways. Some theories suggest that consciousness plays a fundamental role in shaping the physical world, while others suggest that quantum mechanics provides a possible explanation for the relationship between consciousness and the physical world. May this book bring you to the next level of self realization and consciousness where you may achieve the ...

Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology...

A seismic shift is underway—one that will redefine work, value, and even what it means to be human. Artificial Intelligence is not just disrupting industries—it’s beginning to outperform humans in areas once considered exclusively ours: complex reasoning, creativity, even emotional...

Most of us would agree that there’s a clear—and even obvious—connection between the things we believe and the way we behave. But what if our actions are driven not by our conscious values and beliefs but by hidden motivations we’re not even aware of? The “hidden brain” is Shankar...

Is it possible to venture beyond daily living and experience heightened states of awareness? Deepak Chopra says that higher consciousness is available here and now. “Metahuman helps us harvest peak experiences so we can see our truth and mold the universe’s chaos into a form that brings...