Friday, December 10, 2010

The 10 books on brain health in 2008 - for the 'spiritual training?

Here you have the 10 most popular Cognitive Brain Fitness and health books of 2008. I hope you find them as stimulating as I do!

1. Brain Rules 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home and school (Pear Press, March 2008)

- Dr. John Medina, director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University, writes a binding and comprehensive introduction to the daily impact of many recent brainSearch.

2. The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain person, think like a thin (Oxmoor House, March 2007)

- Dr. Judith Beck, director of the Beck Institute of Cognitive Therapy and Research, links the world of research-based cognitive therapy with a broad question: maintaining weight loss.

third brain that change: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of Brain Science (Viking, March 2007)

- Dr. Norman Doidge,Psychiatrist and author of the New York Times bestseller list, it brings us ", a collection of compelling stories about the amazing capabilities of the brain to learn a new, thread and ask."

4. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Little, Brown and Company, January 2008)

- Dr. John Ratey, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, summarizes the benefits of exercise for more research on the brain.

5.The Art of Changing the Brain: enrichment of teaching practice through research on the biology of learning (Stylus Publishing, October 2002)

- Dr. James Zull, Director Emeritus of the University Center for Innovation in teaching and training at Case Western Reserve University, writes a must for educators and students to read throughout their lives.

6. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a new science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves books (Ballantine,January 2007)

- Sharon Begley, Newsweek science writer excellent introduction to research on neuro-plasticity based on a Mind and Life Institute meeting.

7. Thanks: how the new science of gratitude can safely (Houghton Mifflin, August 2007)

- Prof. Robert Emmons, a psychology professor at UC Davis and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology, is writing a book that combines solid research-based synthesis of the issue andpractical suggestions.

8. The executive brain: frontal lobes and the civilized world Mind (Oxford University Press, January 2001)

- Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, clinical professor of neurology at New York University School of Medicine, offers a fascinating look at the role of frontal executive functions and roles through life.

9. The Brain Trust Program: a science based on three-part action plan) to improve memory (Perigee Trade, September 2007

-Dr. Larry McCleary, former acting Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Children's Hospital in Denver, covering many of the recommendations lifestyle for brain health in this practical book.

10. A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, attention, and the four theaters of the brain (Pantheon, January 2001)

- This book (pre-Spark), Dr. John Ratey presents a stimulating description of how the brain works. An excellent book for all new Brain 101the field.

I ask you ... You already have a book to read next?

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