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Brain-Based Learning With Gifted Students Lessons From Neuroscience on Cultivating Curiosity Metacognition Empathy and Brain Plasticity: Grades

Brain-Based Learning With Gifted Students Lessons From Neuroscience on Cultivating Curiosity Metacognition Empathy and Brain Plasticity: Grades

Brain-Based Learning With Gifted Students combines relevant research in neuroscience with engaging activities for gifted elementary students in grades 3-6. This book:Teaches how development and learning processes happen in the brain. Helps students and teachers explore specific brain-based concepts together. Includes a concise research overview on why each concept works and matters. Offers extension ideas to deepen the activities and strategies for applying each concept to other content areas. Aligns to gifted programming standards. Through the lessons in this book students will learn how to cultivate curiosity neuroplasticity metacognition empathy and well-being. Grounded in research on the latest findings in neuroscience this book empowers gifted education teachers with relevant information on brain-based learning. Grades 3-6 | Brain-Based Learning With Gifted Students Lessons From Neuroscience on Cultivating Curiosity Metacognition Empathy and Brain Plasticity: Grades

GBP 26.99
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The Invisible Brain Injury Cognitive Impairments in Traumatic Brain Injury Stroke and other Acquired Brain Pathologies

The Invisible Brain Injury Cognitive Impairments in Traumatic Brain Injury Stroke and other Acquired Brain Pathologies

The Invisible Brain Injury recounts in her own words the experience of Aurora Lassaletta a clinical psychologist who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a traffic accident. Presenting her unique dual perspective as both a patient and a clinician Aurora highlights the less visible cognitive emotional and behavioural symptoms common to acquired brain injury (ABI). This moving account showcases Aurora’s growing awareness of her impairments their manifestation in daily life how they are perceived or not by others and the tools that helped her survive. Each chapter combines Aurora’s perspective with the scientific view of a professional neuropsychologist or physiatrist who provide commentaries on her various symptoms. This book is valuable reading for professionals involved in neurorehabilitation and clinical neuropsychology and for clinical psychology students. It is a must read for ABI survivors those around them and clinicians who are all an essential part of the rehabilitation adjustment and acceptance process involved with ABI. | The Invisible Brain Injury Cognitive Impairments in Traumatic Brain Injury Stroke and other Acquired Brain Pathologies

GBP 24.99
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The New Science of Learning How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain

The New Science of Learning How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain

While preserving the elements that have made the previous two editions so successful—such as chapters on sleep exercise memory and mindset—this third edition introduces students to wholly new aspects of brain function and how they impact learning; and furthermore addresses the challenges of learning online. By introducing new concepts strategies and applications related to learning and memory that are based on current findings in cognitive social and motivational psychology this text offers a richer and more complete picture of how brain science illuminates how we learn. Students assigned this book will be equipped to design effective learning plans employ new strategies recognize learning traps discover ways to work effectively in groups improve recall and realize better academic performance through test-taking and paper-writing strategies. This new edition also addresses the concerns of all students—particularly those unfamiliar with the college setting and its expectations and assumptions—and offers strategies for success. In keeping with the preceding editions this book introduces students to concepts techniques strategies tips and ideas to help them be academically stronger students advance faster in their studies and demonstrate what they have learned more effectively—in short how anyone can learn to be a better learner by learning how to learn in harmony with their brain. The book remains compact and student-friendly offers examples of practice and includes discussion questions at the end of each chapter. | The New Science of Learning How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain

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The Teacher and the Teenage Brain

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education. This book offers a fascinating introduction to teenage brain development and shows how this knowledge has changed the way we understand young people. It provides a critical insight into strategies for improving relationships in the classroom and helping both adults and teenagers cope better with this stage of life. Dr John Coleman shows how teachers and students can contribute to healthy brain development. The book includes information about memory and learning as well as guidance on motivation and the management of stress. Underpinned by his extensive work with schools Dr Coleman offers advice on key topics including the importance of sleep the social brain moodiness risk and risk-taking and the role of hormones. This book is extensively illustrated with examples from classrooms and interviews with teachers. It explicitly links research and practice to create a comprehensive accessible guide to new knowledge about teenage brain development and its importance for education. Accompanied by a website providing resources for running workshops with teachers and parents as well as an outline of a lesson plan for students The Teacher and the Teenage Brain offers an innovative approach to the understanding of the teenage brain. This book represents an important contribution to teacher training and to the enhancement of learning in the classroom.

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Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury Dreamtalk

Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury Dreamtalk

Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury: Dreamtalk tells the survival story of Sheena McDonald who in 1999 was hit by a police van and suffered a very severe brain injury. Sheena’s story is told from her own personal standpoint and also from two further unique and invaluable perspectives. Allan Little a BBC journalist and now Sheena’s husband describes both the physical and mental impact of the injury on himself and on Sheena. Gail Robinson Sheena’s neuropsychological rehabilitation specialist provides professional commentaries on Sheena’s condition assessment and recovery process. The word Dreamtalk created by Allan to describe Sheena’s once hallucinogenic state sets the tone for this book. It humanises and contextualises the impact of brain injury providing support and encouragement for patients professionals and families. It presents exclusive insights into each stage of recovery spanning coma altered consciousness post-traumatic amnesia and rehabilitation; all showing how she has defied conventional clinical expectations and made an exceptional recovery. This book is valuable reading to those who have suffered a brain injury and also to professionals such as neurologists neuropsychologists physiotherapists occupational therapists and speech therapists working in the field. | Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury Dreamtalk

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The Brain that Loves to Play A Visual Guide to Child Development Play and Brain Growth

The Brain that Loves to Play A Visual Guide to Child Development Play and Brain Growth

This delightful visual book provides an accessible introduction to how play affects the holistic development and brain growth of children from birth to five years. Written by a leading expert it brings current theory to life by inviting the reader to celebrate the developing brain that loves to play and is hungry for sensitive human interaction and rich play opportunities. Packed full of images and links to film clips of children playing in a variety of contexts on the companion website chapters focus on different ages and stages of development providing snapshots of real play scenarios to explore their play preferences and the theory that underpins their play behaviour. With clear explanations of what is happening in the body and brain at each stage this book reveals the richness of the play opportunities on offer and the adult’s role in facilitating it. Each chapter follows an easy-to-navigate format which includes: • Best practice boxes showing how play in different contexts has impacted a child’s development • QR codes linking to short film clips on a companion website to exemplify key points • Brain and body facts sections providing short accessible explanations of key theories • Play and pedagogy discussion questions • Extended material to support the level four descriptors for degree-level study. With opportunities to dig deeper full-colour photographs and a fully integrated companion website The Brain that Loves to Play is essential reading for all early years students and practitioners and all those with an interest in child development. | The Brain that Loves to Play A Visual Guide to Child Development Play and Brain Growth

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Brain Words How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching

Brain Words How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching

The past two decades have brought giant leaps in our understanding of how the brain works. But these discoveries-;and all their exciting implications-;have yet to make their way into most classrooms. In Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching authors J. Richard Gentry and Gene Ouellette bring their original research-based framework of brain words dictionaries in the brain where students store and automatically access sounds spellings and meaning. This book aims to fill the gap between the science of reading and classroom instruction by providing up-to-date knowledge about reading and neurological circuitry including evidence that spelling is at the core of the reading brain. Brain Words will show how children's brains develop as they become readers and discover ways you can take concrete steps to promote this critical developmental passage including: Incorporating tools to recognize what works what doesn't and why Practical classroom activities for daily teaching and student assessmentInsights about what brain research tells us about whole language and phonics-first movements Deepened understanding of dyslexia through the enhanced lens of brain science With the insights and strategies of Brain Words you can meet your students where they are and ensure they gain confidence as readers spellers and writers. | Brain Words How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching

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Practical Neurocounseling Connecting Brain Functions to Real Therapy Interventions

Practical Neurocounseling Connecting Brain Functions to Real Therapy Interventions

Practical Neurocounseling demonstrates the importance of considering brain health in counseling showing mental health professionals how to understand and assess the functioning of different parts of the brain without sophisticated software or intensive training. Chapters map out individual brain areas and give tips and guidance that therapists can use to tailor their approaches to meet specific cognitive emotional and behavioral needs. The interventions provided in each chapter are gender and culturally neutral with easy-to-follow directions for application. LORETA brain maps for each of the 19 brain sites help identify brain locations to brain function and areas of dysregulation and corresponding step-by-step interventions can be used to regulate sites and behaviors. More than just a collection of techniques Practical Neurocounseling is a valuable guide for clinicians interested in the relationship between brain activity and behavior. It’s also an ideal book for professors and students in any neurocounseling course and for clinicians working in talk therapy. | Practical Neurocounseling Connecting Brain Functions to Real Therapy Interventions

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Restoring the Brain Neurofeedback as an Integrative Approach to Health

Restoring the Brain Neurofeedback as an Integrative Approach to Health

This thoroughly updated second edition of Restoring the Brain is the definitive book on the theory and the practice of Infra-Low Frequency brain training. It provides a comprehensive look at the process of neurofeedback within the emerging field of neuromodulation and essential knowledge of functional neuroanatomy and neural dynamics to successfully restore brain function. Integrating the latest research this thoroughly revised edition focuses on current innovations in mechanisms-based training that are scalable and can be deployed at any stage of human development. Included in this edition are new chapters on clinical data and case studies for new applications; using neurofeedback for early childhood developmental disorders; integrating neurofeedback with psychotherapy; the impact of low-frequency neurofeedback on depression; the issue of trauma from war or abuse; and physical damage to the brain. Practitioners and researchers in psychiatry medicine and behavioral health will gain a wealth of knowledge and tools for effectively using neurofeedback to recover and enhance the functional competence of the brain. | Restoring the Brain Neurofeedback as an Integrative Approach to Health

GBP 38.99
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Brain Laterality Up Right Forward

Brain Laterality Up Right Forward

Brain Laterality answers one of the major questions we ask ourselves every day: where? The book provides a thematic comprehensive overview of the brain mechanisms that influence whether we go to the left or right on which side we stand and which hand we use. Covering a broad range of topics including handedness apraxia and motor control alongside theories of emotion creativity and genetics the book condenses a vast amount of research from multiple fields into a concise and entertaining read. Featuring anecdotes from the author's own illustrious research and clinical career this book is a must-read for psychology students neuropsychologists neurologists and anyone interested in the brain's role in handedness directional movement intention action and posturing. | Brain Laterality Up Right Forward

GBP 35.99
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Brain and Mind

Brain and Mind

The relationship between brain and mind is one of the most baffling problems in science but potentially one of the most interesting. First published in 1985 this collection of original essays traces the development of mind in animals and human beings from its origins in the evolution of larger brains with a capacity for creating mental models of the environment. Examples are given of the way in which the brain may use this increased capacity to represent both the physical and social worlds and the authors suggest that this type of mental activity might underly what human beings recognize in themselves as ‘awareness’ or ‘consciousness’. Brain and Mind brings together much of the latest research and provides a useful framework for the study of this increasingly important subject. The contributors are experts in a wide range of disciplines and draw their conclusions from a broad base of clinical and experimental evidence. Students of psychology zoology anatomy medicine and philosophy as well as anyone who has wondered about their own mind and its relation to the brain will find this a fascinating and stimulating source.

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Brain Art and Neuroscience Neurosensuality and Affective Realism

Brain Art and Neuroscience Neurosensuality and Affective Realism

The first of its kind this book examines artistic representations of the brain after the rise of the contemporary neurosciences examining the interplay of art and science and tackling some of the critical-cultural implications. Weaving an MRI pattern onto a family quilt. Scanning the brain of a philosopher contemplating her own death and hanging it in a museum. Is this art or science or something in-between? What does it mean? How might we respond? In this ground-breaking new book David R. Gruber explores the seductive and influential position of the neurosciences amid a growing interest in affect and materiality as manifest in artistic representations of the human brain. Contributing to debates surrounding the value and/or purpose of interdisciplinary engagement happening in the neuro-humanities Gruber emphasizes the need for critical-cultural analysis within the field. Engaging with New Materialism and Affect Theory the book provides a current and concrete example of the on-going shift away from constructivist lenses arguing that the influence of relatively new neuroscience methods (EEG MRI and fMRI) on the visual arts has not yet been fully realised. In fact the very idea of a brain as it is seen and encountered today—or The Brain as Gruber calls it—remains in need of critical wild and rebellious re-imagination. Illuminating how artistic engagement with the brain is often sensual and suggestive even if rooted in objectivist impulses and tied to scientific realism this book is ideal for scholars in Art Media Studies Sociology and English departments as well visual artists and anyone seriously engaging discourses of the brain. | Brain Art and Neuroscience Neurosensuality and Affective Realism

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Educating Children and Young People with Acquired Brain Injury

Educating Children and Young People with Acquired Brain Injury

Educating Children with Acquired Brain Injury is an authoritative resource book on the effects of brain injury on young people and how educators can understand and support their needs. This new edition has been updated to reflect changes to legislation and practice relating to special educational needs and will enable you to maximise the learning opportunities for young people with acquired brain injury (ABI). Considering key areas in special educational needs such as communication interaction cognition sensory and physical needs the book provides information on the multifaceted needs of children and young people with ABI and how these needs can be met. This book will help you to: Understand the difficulties that young people with ABI experience Support these students by using appropriate strategies to help their learning Understand and address the social and emotional difficulties experienced by these students Work in partnership with families and other professionals Understand information from other professionals by reference to a glossary of terms Access further useful information from relevant resources and organisations Written for SENCOs teachers teaching assistants educational psychologists and other education professionals across all settings Educating Children with Acquired Brain Injury is full of useful information and advice for parents and other family members clinical and behavioural psychologists therapists and support workers involved with children and young people with ABI. | Educating Children and Young People with Acquired Brain Injury

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Me Before / Me After A Group Rehabilitation Programme for Brain Injury Survivors

Me Before / Me After A Group Rehabilitation Programme for Brain Injury Survivors

Me Before Me After is a complete programme for professionals who run rehabilitation groups for brain injury survivors. The programme's overarching goal is to retrieve the person behind the injury by helping survivors master the consequences of their brain injury. The approach combines CBT principles that develop awareness and recognition of mental events with CBT techniques that are instrumental in achieving behaviour change. The manual focuses on the three aspects of acquired brain injury that are integral to achieving gains through rehabilitation: 1) Change-awareness: develops awareness of the changes that are consequent upon brain injury. 2) Change-investigation: helps understand why these changes occur; how we interpret them and how we cope with them. 3) Change-mastery: helps gain mastery over these changes by developing and mobilising adaptive capability. Including extensive resources for practitioners clients and support workers this comprehensive manual provides everything you need in order to run the most effective brain injury rehabilitation groups in one place. | Me Before / Me After A Group Rehabilitation Programme for Brain Injury Survivors

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Coaching the Brain Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching

Coaching the Brain Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching

Everything we do and sense happens through our brain. In Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching highly experienced coaches Joseph O’Connor and Andrea Lages ask and answer the question: ‘How can we use our knowledge of the brain to help ourselves and others to learn change and develop?’. This book will show you how to apply insights from the latest neuroscience research in a practical way in the fields of personal development coaching and cognitive therapy. Accessible and practical it begins with an overview of how the brain works along with an explanation of how our brain changes due to our actions and thoughts illuminating how these habits can be changed through neuroplasticity. Understanding the neuroscience of goals and mental models helps us to work with and change them and clarity about emotions and the emotional basis of values can help achieve happiness. Most importantly neuroscience illuminates how we learn as well as the power of expectations. The book also explores the key lessons we can take from neuroscience for high performance and leadership. Eminently accessible this book gives you new tools to help yourself and others create better futures. As a whole the book will provide you with a new respect for the depth and complexity of your thinking and emotions. Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching with its clarity and practical application will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training as well as leaders coach supervisors and HR and L&D professionals and will be a key text for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology. | Coaching the Brain Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching

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Autism and The Predictive Brain Absolute Thinking in a Relative World

Autism and The Predictive Brain Absolute Thinking in a Relative World

What if our previous teachings and beliefs regarding processing stimuli reading emotions and understanding human behaviour is all untrue? In this book Peter Vermeulen investigates new findings on the predictive brain and what these insights mean for autism and current interventions. Recent research has shown that the classic ideas about how the human brain first needs to process incoming information about the world before it can react are no longer tenable. Rather to survive in the volatile uncertain complex and ambiguous environment of modern society what we need is a brain that predicts the world quickly and unconsciously while taking proper account of the context. This book explains the new theories relating to the predictive brain summarising some of the more recent highly technical research studies about the predictive mind and autism into as accessible and understandable language as possible. Shedding new light on the predictive brain and its relation to autism the chapters lead readers to the inevitable conclusion that many of the current interventions used in connection with autism urgently need updating and outline possibilities for revising. This approachable book synthesises advanced research for professionals across disciplines working with people with autism spectrum disorder along with readers who have or have family members with ASD. | Autism and The Predictive Brain Absolute Thinking in a Relative World

GBP 29.99
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Brain Injury A Practical Guide for Clinicians

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Brain Injury A Practical Guide for Clinicians

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Brain Injury discusses how acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be integrated into existing approaches to neuropsychological rehabilitation and therapy used with people who have experienced a brain injury. Written by practicing clinical psychologists and clinical neuropsychologists this text is the first to integrate available research with innovative clinical practice. The book discusses how ACT principles can be adapted to meet the broad and varying physical cognitive emotional and behavioural needs of people who have experienced brain injury including supporting families of people who have experienced brain injury and healthcare professionals working in brain injury services. It offers considerations for direct and indirect systemic and multi-disciplinary working through discussion of ACT concepts alongside examples taken from clinical practice and consideration of real-world brain injury cases across a range of clinical settings and contexts. The book will be relevant to a range of psychologists and related professionals including those working in neuropsychology settings and those working in more general physical or mental health contexts. | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Brain Injury A Practical Guide for Clinicians

GBP 31.99
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Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain

Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain

Linguistic Morphology is a unique collection of cutting-edge research in the psycholinguistics of morphology offering a comprehensive overview of this interdisciplinary field. This book brings together world-leading experts from linguisics experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to examine morphology research from different disciplines. It provides an overview of how the brain deals with complex words; examining how they are easier to read how they affect our brain dynamics and eye movements how they mould the acquisition of language and literacy and how they inform computational models of the linguistic brain. Chapters discuss topics ranging from subconscious visual identification to the high-level processing of sentences how children make their first steps with complex words through to how proficient adults make lexical identification in less than 40 milliseconds. As a state-of-the-art resource in morphology research this book will be highly relevant reading for students and researchers of linguistics psychology and cognitive neuroscience. It will also act as a one-stop shop for experts in the field. | Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain

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Christian and Faith-based Counseling for Brain Injury Techniques for Survivors and Families

Christian and Faith-based Counseling for Brain Injury Techniques for Survivors and Families

Christian and Faith-based Counseling for Brain Injury is the first book of its kind to offer faith-based therapy to address the emotional cognitive and mental health needs of individuals who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). A highly researched piece of work the book puts forth an innovative and effective method for not only addressing the challenges of a life-changing injury but also for creating a sense of purpose. Through the nuances of faith-based counselling this book focuses on the spiritual and existential aspects of understanding the diagnosis and creating a purpose post-injury. It examines how brain injury can affect an individual by exploring the deficits of brain injury the impact of brain injury and the challenges specific to damage to certain brain lobes. It also describes the mental health issues such as depression anxiety grief anger and posttraumatic stress that can affect both the survivor and their family members. Offering targeted counseling techniques and adaptive strategies it shows how faith-based counselors can effectively treat brain injury. This book is valuable reading for all individuals invested in providing support to the TBI community. It is aimed at counselors lay counselors healthcare professionals social workers psychotherapists seminary students and upper-level graduate students. It will further be of use to for clinicians working in the outpatient level of care and private practice settings. | Christian and Faith-based Counseling for Brain Injury Techniques for Survivors and Families

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Psychological Therapies in Acquired Brain Injury

Psychological Therapies in Acquired Brain Injury

The psychological impact of an acquired brain injury (ABI) can be devastating for both the person involved and their family. This book describes the different types of psychological therapies used to ameliorate psychological distress following ABI. Each chapter presents a new therapeutic approach by experts in the area. Readers will learn about the key principles and techniques of the therapy alongside its application to a specific case following ABI. In addition readers will gain insight into which approach may be most beneficial to whom as well as those where there may be additional challenges. Covering a wide array of psychological therapies samples range from more historically traditional approaches to those more recently developed. Psychological Therapies in Acquired Brain Injury will be of great interest to clinicians and researchers working in brain injury rehabilitation as well as practitioners researchers and students of psychology neuropsychology and rehabilitation.

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Group-Based Interventions for 'Understanding Brain Injury' A Manual and Workbook for Practitioners and Patients

Group-Based Interventions for 'Understanding Brain Injury' A Manual and Workbook for Practitioners and Patients

This hands-on volume is both manual and workbook designed to be used alongside the Understanding Brain Injury Group. This group aims to increase the understanding and acknowledgement of acquired brain injury and find ways of coping with the consequences. The manual section outlines the steps needed for practitioners to run the Understanding Brain Injury Group successfully and the workbook section – also available as a downloadable resource – is intended to be used by patients. The chapters in the manual mirror the structure of the eight sessions of the group highlighting differing aspects of having a brain injury. Initially the sessions cover psychoeducation regarding brain injury and what neurorehabilitation entails. Following this the group then focuses on living with the consequences of brain injury whether that represents physical cognitive emotional or lifestyle changes. Participants are invited to share their experiences and discuss coping strategies to help with both the new limitations as well as the unwanted emotions that frequently exist after brain injury. Goals are set at the beginning of the group and are revisited at the end to decide on whether they were being realistic overachieving or pessimistic in their outlook at the start of the group. Throughout the members of the group can record their session activity in the accompanying workbook. Created to be used by clinicians therapists or any individual this resource can be used in a post-acute setting such as a neurorehabilitation unit a slow-stream rehab setting such as community neurorehabilitation or homes specifically aimed at catering for the needs of those with neurological impairments. | Group-Based Interventions for 'Understanding Brain Injury' A Manual and Workbook for Practitioners and Patients

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Living with Mild Brain Injury The Difficulties of Diagnosis and Recovery from Post-Concussion Syndrome

Living with Mild Brain Injury The Difficulties of Diagnosis and Recovery from Post-Concussion Syndrome

This important book presents a unique personal account of the impact a mild traumatic brain injury can have. It tells the story of Pauline who was 33 when a late football tackle caused a bleed in her brain which went undiscovered for 18 months. The account includes descriptions of hidden symptoms of concussion and post-concussion syndrome pitfalls in diagnoses the uneven progress of recovery and the effect of the varied reactions which others have to an acquired brain injury. The author incorporates memories alongside extracts from clinic notes diary entries and emails to reflect the disjointed progress of diagnosis and recovery as- although similar- no two head injuries are the same. Through this book the reader gains an appreciation of the confusion experienced by many brain injury survivors which sheds light on why some may develop unusual behavior or mental health issues and how such issues can be alleviated. Brain injuries are poorly understood by the general public and this can lead to difficult interactions. Moreover complications in diagnosis means some may not realize they have this milder form of brain injury. This book will enlighten brain injury survivors and affected families and allow professionals an insight into their patients’ experiences. As concerns grow over the risks which contact sports pose this book shows how even mild brain injuries can wreak havoc with careers relationships and one’s sense of self but that a happy life can still be found. | Living with Mild Brain Injury The Difficulties of Diagnosis and Recovery from Post-Concussion Syndrome

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The Brain Code Mechanisms of Information Transfer and the Role of the Corpus Callosum

The Brain Code Mechanisms of Information Transfer and the Role of the Corpus Callosum

Originally published in 1986 this stimulating and unorthodox book integrates the major findings of hemispheric research with the larger questions of how the brain stores and transmits information – the ‘brain code’. Norman Cook emphasizes how the two cerebral hemispheres communicate information over the corpus callosum the largest single nerve tract of the human brain. Excitatory mechanisms are involved in the duplication of information between the hemispheres; in contrast inhibitory mechanisms are implicated in the production of hemispheric asymmetries and crucially in high-level cognitive phenomena such as the right hemisphere’s role in providing the ‘context’ within which left hemispheric verbal information is placed. These callosal mechanisms of information transfer are not only fundamental to the brain code; they are the simplest and most easily demonstrated ways in which the neocortex ‘talks to itself’. The Brain Code demonstrates how popular topics within psychology at the time such as laterality hemisphere differences and the psychology of left and right are central to further progress in understanding the human brain. This book provides stimulating reading for students of psychology artificial intelligence and neurophysiology as well as anyone interested in the broader question of how the brain works. | The Brain Code Mechanisms of Information Transfer and the Role of the Corpus Callosum

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Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates

Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates

Originally published in 1976 the object of this volume was to present a relatively up-to-date overview of what was known what was suspected and what remained to be discovered concerning the general question of the evolution of the vertebrate brain and behaviour and to present a list of references for those who wanted to delve deeper into one or another aspect of the problem. Accordingly it contains chapters by palaeontologists sensory morphologists and physiologists comparative neurologists and comparative psychologists. The chapters are arranged in a sequence loosely approximating the order in which the various animals brain structures or behaviour first appeared. Therefore the chapters fall naturally into sections each section directed to a group of vertebrates beginning with those which have very remote common ancestry and progressing to those with more recent common ancestry with mankind. | Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates

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Embracing Hope After Traumatic Brain Injury Finding Eden

Embracing Hope After Traumatic Brain Injury Finding Eden

This important book provides a firsthand account of a university professor who experienced traumatic brain injury. It tells the story of Michael Arthur who had recently accepted a position as vice principal of a new high school. After only two weeks on the job he was involved in a car accident while driving through an intersection in northern Utah. Through his personal account he takes the reader into the dark interworkings of his mind as he tries to cope with his new reality. He provides insight into how he learned how to process information and even speak without stumbling on his words while also sharing how his significant relationships suffered as he tried to navigate the restless seas of doubt while trying to circumvent his unyielding symptoms. The book is about finding optimism and gaining insight into the struggles of the brain-injured patient and about trying to understand the perspectives of loved ones who can’t quite grasp the idea of an invisible injury. From the sudden onset of garbled speech to the challenges of processing information the changing dynamic of the author’s life is highlighted to help family members and healthcare workers better understand. | Embracing Hope After Traumatic Brain Injury Finding Eden

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