'Swayne deserves to join Oliver Sacks and Henry Marsh on the list of top popular neuroscience writers' - Melanie Reid, The Times 'Beautifully observed, beautifully written .
'A masterpiece' - The New York TimesIf a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
If you endured a terribly painful medical procedure that lasted for one hour, and another identical procedure that lasted for two hours but ended slightly less painfully, which one would your brain remember as being worse?
How is it physically possible for a completely blind individual to confidently ride a bicycle through a crowded, unfamiliar city street without a cane?
Kinder im Autismus-Spektrum zeigen haufig motorische und sensorische Besonderheiten, die ihre Selbststandigkeit und soziale Interaktion beeintrachtigen konnen.
Kinder im Autismus-Spektrum zeigen haufig motorische und sensorische Besonderheiten, die ihre Selbststandigkeit und soziale Interaktion beeintrachtigen konnen.
This new edition of the award-winning The Brain Book uses the latest findings from neuroscience research and brain-imaging technology to take you on a journey into the human brain.
'The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.
Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer's disease, the medical profession continues to advance distinctions of various types of ';other' dementias.
Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer's disease, the medical profession continues to advance distinctions of various types of ';other' dementias.
Gedachtnistraining fur Senioren: Mit 450 unterhaltsamen, spaigen und spannenden Ratseln aus uber 20 Kategorien die grauen Zellen spielerisch-aktiv in Schwung haltenSie mochten im Alter fit im Kopf bleiben, aber immer nur Sudoku langweilt Sie?
Wie soziale Erfahrungen das Gehirn formen - und verletzenInterdisziplinare Perspektive: Neurobiologie trifft SozialpadagogikEin engagiertes Pladoyer fur Kinderschutz und ChancengleichheitAuch fur interessierte Laien geeignetDas menschliche Gehirn ist formbar besonders in Kindheit und Jugend.
Wie soziale Erfahrungen das Gehirn formen - und verletzenInterdisziplinare Perspektive: Neurobiologie trifft SozialpadagogikEin engagiertes Pladoyer fur Kinderschutz und ChancengleichheitAuch fur interessierte Laien geeignetDas menschliche Gehirn ist formbar besonders in Kindheit und Jugend.
Abstract Brain frequencies, or neural oscillations, are rhythmic patterns of electrical activity that arise from coordinated interactions among neuronal populations.
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients.
'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' - Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar - for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount.
The feel-good book packed with practical tips, hacks and habits to learn how to work with your neurodivergent brain, not against it - from the author of the smash-hit book on ADHD, autism and neurodivergence, UNMASKED.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2025A GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH BEST SCIENCE BOOK 2025WATERSTONES BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK 2025'A vital and important book' David Olusoga From an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choiceAnyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct.
Estamos inmersos en un entorno lleno de vibraciones invisibles y, entre ellas, el sonido ha cautivado a la humanidad desde el principio de los tiempos.
Das Delir ist eine haufige, akut auftretende Funktionsstorung des Gehirns, die eine anhaltende kognitive und funktionelle Beeintrachtigung zur Folge haben kann.
Es gibt eine seltene neurologische Storung, bei der Patienten felsenfest davon uberzeugt sind, dass ihnen Organe fehlen, dass sie all ihr Blut verloren haben oder dass sie bereits seit Jahren tot sind.
Eine der revolutionarsten Entdeckungen der modernen Medizin ist die Existenz einer direkten Kommunikationslinie zwischen dem Darm und dem Gehirn - die Darm-Hirn-Achse.