Brain

Seeing Anxiety and Depression: Brain SPECT Imaging
Healing Anxiety And Depression
by Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Lisa C. Routh, M.D.
Healing Anxiety and Depression reveals the major anxiety and depression centers of the brain; offers guidelines and diagnostic tools to determine the specific type of anxiety and depression; and provides a comprehensive program for treating each type.

Drugs and Alcohol: Short-Circuiting Brain Chemistry
End Your Addiction Now
by Charles Gant, M.D. and Greg Lewis, Ph.D.
Potentially addictive substances, including nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, Prozac, and Valium to name only a few function by short-circuiting brain chemistry. Their chemical structures are such that they literally substitute for the neurotransmitters

True or False: The brain has a sex at birth.
Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget
by Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP
True. Our sex is fixed and immutable-and not just at birth, but from the very moment of conception. That sex has implications for all the systems in our bodies, including our brains. But in a sense, this is a trick question, because while we are

Avocado Dip
Brain Foods for Kids : Over 100 Recipes to Boost Your Child's Intelligence
by Nicola Graimes
BRAIN FOODS FOR KIDS includes: A clear and easy-to-follow introduction to the principles of good childhood nutrition and information on all the latest science on brain-boosting foods. Practical, kid-tested advice on incorporating the essential foods into

Your Baby's Amazing Brain
Baby Minds: Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love
by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.
Remember that feeling of excitement and exhilaration the day your baby was born? You examined her tiny face and gazed with amazement into her unaccustomed eyes wondering what she must be feeling in her first experience of the outside world.

The Brain, Memory, and Alzheimer's Disease
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM) Alzheimer's Disease : The Complete Guide to Preventing, Treating, and Coping with Memory Loss (What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About...(Paperback))
by Deborah Mitchell, Gayatri Devi, M.D.
Perhaps the biggest mystery that faces humankind is not whether there is life on other planets or how the universe began, but exactly how the human brain works. I believe the human brain is the last frontier. What is thought? What is memory?

Nature or Nurture? It's All in the Brain
What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
by Lise Eliot, Ph.D.
Wouldn't you know it? Just as I get this beautiful, healthy neuron filled with dye and ready to image, Julia wakes up and starts crying. The experiment takes a long time to set up; I've been at it most of the day and need just ten more uninterrupted

Alcohol, Memory Blackouts and the Brain
by National Institute of Health
Alcohol primarily interferes with the ability to form new long-term memories, leaving intact previously established long-term memories and the ability to keep new information active in memory for brief periods.

Adolescent Brain and Alcohol Effects
by National Institute of Health
Many people begin to drink alcohol during adolescence and young adulthood. Alcohol consumption during this developmental period may have profound effects on brain structure and function.

Learn as much as possible about how your brain works
Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot : Unleashing Your Brain's Potential
by Richard M. Restak, M.D.
This is the most important factor in getting smart and staying smart. In order to do this, you don't have to become a neurologist or subscribe to scholarly journals on neuroscience (the study of the brain at every operating level ranging from everyday

The Cortisol Connection
Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory
by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., Cameron Stauth
He was afraid that he had early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, and feared that I would soon doom him with that diagnosis. He knew that if he did have Alzheimer's, conventional medicine could do little to help him.

Development, Part 1
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
by John J. Ratey, M.D.
She was doing it again. That young woman who periodically showed up dressed in a Western shirt and kerchief was standing in front of the automatic sliding doors at the Safeway supermarket.

Alcohol's Effects on the Adolescent Brain
by National Institute of Health
Adolescence and young adulthood are developmental stages of transition during which humans, as well as members of many other species, mature physically and behaviorally into their adult state. Adolescents and young adults need to acquire the physical

Brain Injury Signs and Symptoms
by CDC
A blow or jolt to the head can disrupt the normal function of the brain. Doctors often call this type of brain injury a concussion or a closed head injury. Doctors may describe these injuries as mild because concussions are usually not life threatening.

Introduction
The New Brain: How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind
by Richard M. Restak, M.D.
We have learned so much about the human brain during the past two decades that it's fair to speak of a revolutionary change in our understanding. The era of the Old Brain is giving way to that of the New Brain.

Prologue
Where Is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back From Brain Injury
by Cathy Crimmins
Accidents divide things into the great Before and After. 'Even before his brain injury, Alan had a hard time remembering names,' I'll say. 'Since Daddy's accident, I have to work more,' I tell our daughter, Kelly.

A Handbook of Health
by Woods Hutchinson
We are exceedingly proud of our brain and inclined to regard it as the most important part of our body. So it is, in a sense; for it is the part which, through its connecting wires, called the

How the Brain Develops
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
The raw material of the brain is the nerve cell, called the neuron. When babies are born, they have almost all of the neurons they will ever have, more than 100 billion of them. Although there is research that indicates some neurons are developed

Your Brain Is Involved In Everything You Do
Making a Good Brain Great : The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance
by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Your brain is involved in everything you do. This is the first principle of the Amen Clinics. The sensation of waking up cuddled next to your husband's or wife's warm body is felt in the brain. The brain directs your urge to make love and be physically

Origin and Nature of Emotions
by George W. Crile, M.D.
The brain in all animals (including man) is but the clearing-house for reactions to environment, for animals are essentially motor or neuromotor mechanisms, composed of many parts, it is true, but integrated by the nervous system.