About the Brain
Brain Repair
Donald G. Stein, Simon Brailowsky & Bruno Will, 1997,
Oxford University Press, Inc., NY
ISBN 0-19511-918-5
The authors of this book are neuroscientists who present in lay terms the advances being made in brain research. They discuss the concept of brain plasticity, and explain how the brain manufactures a number of chemicals that foster growth and repair of damaged neurons.
Child Neuropsychology:
Assessment and Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Anne Teeter Ellison & Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, 2007, Springer
ISBN 0-38747-670-9
Child Neuropsychology guides therapists and neurologists toward common goals: early, accurate diagnosis and finely focused interventions across disciplines. By analyzing the affects of brain development on children and adolescents? behavioral, cognitive, learning, and psychosocial abilities and deficits, this groundbreaking volume brings vital perspectives to assessment and treatment. Leading experts Ellison and Semrud-Clikeman start with the basics of child clinical neuropsychology and functional neuroanatomy, taking readers through examination protocols and assessment instruments to treatment planning and methods.
Creating Mind: How the Brain Works
John E. Dowling, 2000, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.
ISBN 0-39397-446-4
In this compact volume, Dowling, a Harvard biologist specializing in vision, explains how the human brain is structured, how it processes and stores information and how it occasionally malfunctions, while discussing its evolutionary roots.
How Brains Think
William H. Calvin, 1996, Basic Books
ISBN 0-465-07278-X
This book tries to fathom how our inner life evolves from one topic to another, as we create and reject alternatives. Drawing on anthropology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, and the neurosciences, Calvin also considers how a more intelligent brain developed using slow biological improvements over the last few million years. Although the author is a theoretical neurophysiologist, he writes in lay language which readers will appreciate.
The Human Brain Coloring Workbook
Kapil Gupta, 1997, Princeton Review
ISBN 0-67977-885-3
The Human Brain Coloring Workbook is a break-through approach to understanding the brain's organization and functions. It features 125 striking, computer-generated illustrations that will help you gain a clear and enduring comprehension of this highly intricate structure. After completing the lessons in this book, not only will you understand the brain's basic configurations and functions, you will also have a fully colored and labeled resource ready for review whenever you need to brush up.
Introducing Mind & Brain
Angus Gellatly, 2008, Totem Books
ISBN 1-84046-854-8
A fresh look at the nature of the mind, consciousness and personal identity. Exactly how does the biological tissue that is inside our head allow us to experience love, remember childhood experiences and make us laugh out loud? This handy guide traces the historical development of ideas about the brain and its function and also looks at planning and action, memory, attention, emotions and vision.
Left Brain - Right Brain: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience
Sally P. Springer & Georg Deutsch , 1997, W. H. Freeman and Company
ISBN 0-7167-3111-8
A very readable, science-based overview of brain asymmetry and its implications. It is also an excellent introduction to contemporary research on brain-behavior relationships. The authors discuss topics such as developmental disabilities, the nature of hemispheric specialization, disorders of speech and language, and the role of the right hemisphere in language.
Neuropsychology (Handbook of Perception and Cognition)
Dahlia W. Zaidel, 1994, Academic Press
ISBN 0-127752-90-0
Fourteen contributions offer an overview for those in the field of neuropsychology as well as those in the many disciplines which intersect it. Following a history of neuropsychology is a discussion of brain structure, function, and evolution; the neuropsychology of perceptual functions, attention, language, and emotion; the prefrontal cortex; movement sequencing disorders and apraxia; developmental aspects; aging and dementia; the creation and perception of art; sex differences in the brain; and neuropsychological rehabilitation.
Physiology of Behavior (10th ed.)
Neil R. Carlson, 2009, Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 0-20566-627-2
Thoughtfully organized, this text offers scholarly, yet accessible coverage and effectively emphasizes the dynamic interaction between biology and behavior. Collaboration with a talented artist has provided beautiful, accurate, and informative full-color illustrations.
Right Hemisphere Communication Disorders: Theory and Management
Connie A. Tompkins, 1995, Singular Publishing Group, CA
ISBN 1-56593-176-9
Drawing on cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, and speech-language pathology, Tompkins explains the current status of knowledge about right hemisphere communication disorders and the processes presumed to underlie them; explains how to generate hypotheses about evaluation and management based on theory, data, logic, and patients' communicative needs; and charges clinicians to become critical evaluators of the literature and their own treatment plans and procedures.
User's Guide to the Brain:
Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
John J. Ratey, MD, 2002, Vintage
ISBN 0-37570-107-9
Dr. Ratey explains the basic structure and chemistry of the brain. He discusses how its systems shape our perceptions, emotions, actions, and reactions; how possession of this knowledge can enable us to more fully understand and improve our lives; and how the brain responds to the guidance of its user. Other topics covered include prenatal and early childhood development; the perceptual systems; the processes of consciousness, memory, emotion, and language; and the social brain. A well-researched and written book.
Your Miracle Brain
Jean Carper, 2001, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., NY
ISBN 0-06098-440-6
This book was written as an informational rather than a medical guide to explain how the brain structure and functioning of brain cells can be improved by what you eat as well as the supplements you take.