Society Brain

A manual for every woman who wants to stop endless negative self-talk, create unshakable confidence, and jump-start a life of joy and power. It all begins with your thoughts. I never look good in tight skirts. I can’t ask for a raise or my boss will think I’m greedy. I’m getting too old to...

The Role of the Frontal Lobe in Modern Society explores how the brain—particularly the frontal lobe—shapes planning, organization, morality, and decision-making. Written in clear, non-technical language, the book connects brain function to everyday life, education, politics, and cultural behavior. Designed for readers without a neuroscience background, this book offers a scientific yet practical perspective on how the brain influences our individual and collective lives. This volume is part of the Brain and Society series, a collection that bridges brain science and social reality—...

A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures - including humans - think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can live only inside another animal, and, as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host's behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey.

In The Distracted Mind, leading psychologist Larry Rosen and pioneering neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley explain why our minds have become addicted to email, text messages, virtual worlds, and social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Through compelling true stories and scientific research, they show how digital distractions affect every aspect of life, from work, safety, and communication to our relationships and health.

International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity that “is not only eminently reasonable and beautifully-written, it is brave and vital” (Ben Shapiro, #1 New York Times...

An entertaining, scientifically rigorous exploration of the social and biological effects of our wireless world. The way we use technology is affecting our health and happiness. Engaging and entertaining yet scientifically rigorous, this fully revised and updated second edition of i-Minds comprehensively explores an era of screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering it as both godsend and plague. i-Minds is for anyone interested in fostering health and happiness or who is struggling with the role of screened technology in our lives.

Sleep is the most important part of anyone’s journey to a healthy and happy life, and with this book you can learn how to fix your sleep schedule and recover precious hours of relaxation. If you're like most people, odds are you aren't getting enough sleep. Thanks to shifts in our culture...

Digital technology is wonderful, but it's making us miserable, say former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. There's a reason Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Guardian he won't let his nephew on social networks. We've become a nation of tech addicts - although it's not entirely our fault, and it is possible to enjoy the benefits of technology while taking our happiness back from the bots. Wadhwa and Salkever describe the applied neuroscience techniques developers are using to make their products so insidiously habit-forming.

World-class pediatric surgeon, social scientist, and best-selling author of Thirty Million Words Dr. Dana Suskind returns with a revelatory new look at the neuroscience of early childhood development—and how it can guide us toward a future in which every child has the opportunity to fulfill...

Introduction What is Emotional Intelligence (EI)? Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize, understand, and manage our own emotions while also recognizing, understanding, and influencing the emotions of others. The concept, popularized by Daniel Goleman in the 1990s, encompasses skills that are critical for effective communication, relationship-building, and personal well-being. What is Learning? Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values through study, experience, or teaching. It is a lifelong process that is essential for personal and ...

For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And what does it mean for brain health in the future?

Fevered Egos: How Civilization Taught Us to Worship the Human Ego Why do we keep electing tyrants, worshiping narcissists, and celebrating antiheroes—while pretending to hate them? Why do our systems reward cruelty, performance, and domination, even as they leave us anxious, divided, and lost? Because our civilization is built on a trance: the hallucination of the ego. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, history, and culture, Fevered Egos exposes how the left hemisphere of the brain’s cerebral cortex—our mapmaker and narrator—hijacked human perception, crowned itself reality, and ...

Lydia Johnson is an 11-year-old girl from a humble background but with a secret – she is able to astral travel. After her guardian suffers a stroke and is unable to care for Lydia, she ends up in a children’s shelter where she meets an unlikely friend, Simon Wheeler, a 12-year-old boy who comes from a wealthy background, but is orphaned after a fiery car accident that killed his family and left him severely disfigured. Both Lydia and Simon escape their mutual hatred of the shelter through their care and genuine concern for one another. When Lydia experiences a traumatic event that lands...

This audiobook is about my ever expanding, developing, and changing views on what I believe to be consciousness and its construct, reality. Now more than ever, I believe people need to define who they are and why they are here in this reality. The notion of a soul, or an eternal life, or what comes next are questions on everyone's mind. This is an ever-present friend or foe as we see fit. I believe consciousness and brain are the keys to this mystery, as well as to our universe.

'Heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure. A must-read.' Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester 'Nicola is a beautiful human being and her story is full of the joys and sorrows of humanity.' Cathy Rentzenbrink The inspiring, life-affirming memoir from Nicola Nuttall about her incredible...

Swallow. Download. Plug in. Become whomever or whatever you desire. This is the seductive promise of eN, a small electronic chip offering freedom from the misery and misfortune that a common mind endows, granting anyone the life they feel they truly deserve. But, like all promises, reality is often upsetting. eN follows the downward spiral of an eighty-something-year-old artist, one cradling a severed leg and a terrible secret, as he is thrown headfirst into a technology that promises the liberation of the mind, yet merely plagues it with incessant advertising and a debilitating, visceral ...

Read this Roger Browning novel and find yourself seeing, and thinking about, the world as our protagonist JW experiences it. Follow along with someone living with a mental awareness that some like him experience day to day. JW is an intelligent and functioning member of southern society who carries a trait some might relate to autism. Still, he is much more than that. Our walking man could be someone on the spectrum – or just be a bit afflicted outside of one. Walk with him as he struggles with a trigger event of two opposing ideologies colliding in Chapel Hill on August 21, 2018. Go with...

How much do you know about that three-pound hunk of tissue in your head - your brain? Its structure and function drive your behavior in profound ways. Scientists are studying the brain and its chemicals to find behavioral patterns, to figure out the sources of good moods and random outbursts, for example. This compilation from Science News for Students turns to brain science to answer all sorts of questions: Can you actually be addicted to your phone? Why is it so hard to sleep away from home?