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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body, published in Great Britain as 'The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body', [1] is a 2017 book by science journalist Daniel Goleman and neuroscientist Richard Davidson. The book discusses research on meditation. For the book, the authors ...
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain is the third non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. The book was published on May 12, 2014, by William Morrow. [1]
Knowing your keys are on the wall hook, remembering an appointment, understanding what year it is—these thoughts fire off in our brains without a hitch. That is, until something in our body ...
How to Change Your Mind received many positive reviews.. The New York Times Book Review named How to Change Your Mind one of the best books of 2018. [6] [7]Kevin Canfield of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "In 'How to Change Your Mind', Pollan explores the circuitous history of these often-misunderstood substances, and reports on the clinical trials that suggest psychedelics can help with ...
It appeared on numerous best-seller lists in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., [49] [50] and is the most acclaimed of Levitin's four books, receiving the National Business Book Award, [51] the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, the Axiom Business Book Award, and was a finalist for the Donner Prize.
The book was reviewed as "appealing and persuasive" by the Wall Street Journal [8] and "a shining example of lucid and easy-to-grasp science writing" by The Independent. [9] A starred review from Kirkus Reviews described it as "a book that will leave you looking at yourself—and the world—differently."
In the latter book, Graham introduces the character of Mr. Market, a metaphor for how the market works and an attempt to show how manic the market can be. One day Mr. Market may be willing to sell ...
The book is a collection of stories of doctors and patients showing that the human brain is capable of undergoing change, including stories of recovering use of paralyzed body parts, deaf people learning to hear, and others getting relief from pain using exercises to retrain neural pathways.