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The Odd Body

Author : Stephen Juan
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449411398
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Odd Body written by Stephen Juan and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever had a question about your body (maybe one you're afraid to ask?), this book is for you. Things like why we yawn, why skin wrinkles after a bath, or even whether it's possible to keep a severed head alive: The Odd Body explains these and many other silly, weird, bizarre, and fascinating body mysteries. Dr. Stephen Juan entertains and rivets readers with his detailed answers. Reading The Odd Body is like having your doctor patiently answer all your random questions, one by one. But Dr. Juan goes well beyond the usual and ordinary things people wonder about bodies, like why most individuals are right-handed or why you get chills when chalk screeches across a blackboard. He also tells readers how a dead body is made into a mummy, the success rate of those who bore holes in their own heads to relieve headaches, and much, much more. The Odd Body is a unique combination of fun and fascinating material that's delivered by an expert who happens to be a great storyteller. The book's question-and-answer format makes it easy to pick up, turn to any page, and immediately become drawn into the intricacies of anatomy and physiology while gaining a better understanding of the human need to know more about ourselves.

The Odd Brain

Author : Stephen Juan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567319279
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Odd Brain written by Stephen Juan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Odd Body and Brain

Author : Stephen Juan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780732273750
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book The Odd Body and Brain written by Stephen Juan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Odd Brain Mysteries of Our Weird and Wonderful Brains Explained

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Odd Brain Mysteries of Our Weird and Wonderful Brains Explained written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Juan is that rarest of rarities, a scholar with a sense of humor. He fearlessly tours the brain's mysterious corridors, discussing such wide-ranging topics as phobias, compulsive water drinking, serial killers, the secrets of hypnotism and the man who thought he was a cat. You will find this book absolutely engrossing. Do kleptomaniacs have a legitimate excuse to steal? Can excessive T.V. watching physically "shape" a child's growing brain? These answers and scores more fill Dr. Stephen Juan's fascinating and endlessly entertaining book The Odd Brain. Following up his popular first book, The Odd Body, Dr. Juan takes us on an animated tour of the enigmatic organ that sits on top of them all.Equal parts scholarly professor — he teaches at the University of Sydney — cultural detective, and theater of oddities tour guide, Dr. Juan explores bizarre brain disorders and the normal-but-still-weird brain phenomena that we all occasionally experience (like deja vu). Through it all, Dr. Juan pulls off the nifty trick of making the clinical both clear and entertaining. Each chapter is packed with real-life anecdotes and case studies. These include the Criminal Brain, the Savant Brain, the Shy Brain, the Suicidal Brain, the Thrill-Seeking Brain, the Obsessive-Compulsive Brain and more than 20 others. For anyone who's ever witnessed unusual behavior and thought, "Now, what would make a person do that?" The Odd Brain is sure to have an answer.

The Essential Odd Body

Author : Stephen Juan
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0730449742
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Odd Body written by Stephen Juan and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever wonder if you could really die laughing? A Danish doctor did when his heartbeat accelerated from a normal 60 bpm to over 250 while watching A Fish Called Wanda! With an eye for the intriguing and bizarre, Stephen Juan has assembled a corpus of body facts and exposed some fallacies. From top to bottom, inside to out and everywhere in between the Essential Odd Body gives you all of the facts about your odd body.

The Disordered Mind

Author : Eric R. Kandel
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781472140869
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Disordered Mind written by Eric R. Kandel and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Odd Body III

Author : Stephen Juan
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0730445151
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Odd Body III written by Stephen Juan and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you be born with two heads and survive? What's the "Pinocchio effect" - and "mermaid syndrome"? Can a recently dead person get sunburn? How is eye colour related to hearing? Does chocolate cause tooth decay, or prevent it? You've heard of anorexia - but what about bigorexia?Sometimes strange but always informative and entertaining, the answers to these and many more questions can be found in the Odd Body 3.Australia's Wizard of Odds is at it again, exploring facts and exploding fallacies about everything from birth to death, from the hair on our heads to the tips of our toenails. He'll tell you everything you ever wanted to know about your odd body - and a lot of things you didn't!

How the Body Knows Its Mind

Author : Sian Beilock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145162669X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book How the Body Knows Its Mind written by Sian Beilock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Takes you inside the amazing science of how the body affects the mind, and shows how to use that wisdom to live smarter and maximize what your body teaches your mind"--

The Odd Body 3

Author : Stephen Juan
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0732283043
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book The Odd Body 3 written by Stephen Juan and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you be born with two heads and survive? What's the Pinocchio effect and mermaid syndrome? Can a recently dead person get sunburn? Sometimes strange but always informative and entertaining, the answers to these and many more questions can be found here.

Mind from Body

Author : Don M. Tucker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195316983
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Mind from Body written by Don M. Tucker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mind from Body, Don Tucker, one of the most original thinkers about organic information processing, provides a fascinating analysis of how our brains have become what they are today and speculates intriguingly about what they could be tomorrow. He presents important research that explains how personal experience creates the emotional and motivational bases of each of our thoughts, even though we are usually not aware that it is happening. Tucker shows that in exploring how these bodily thought processes still determine how we react to the world andmake decisions, we can become more rational

Phantoms in the Brain

Author : V. S. Ramachandran
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780688172176
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Phantoms in the Brain written by V. S. Ramachandran and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1999-08-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we're so clever at philosophy, music and art. Some of his most notable cases: A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud's theory of denial. A man who insists he is talking with God challenges us to ask: Could we be "wired" for religious experience? A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters illustrates how, in a sense, we are all hallucinating, all the time. Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- the human mind -- yielding new and provocative insights into the "big questions" about consciousness and the self.

Mysteries of Body and Mind

Author : John Townsend
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781410905604
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Mysteries of Body and Mind written by John Townsend and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines some of the world's greatest mysteries, looking at unexplained behaviors and events related to the mind and body, including tales of incredible survival, psychic messages, strange coincidences, dreams, comas, spontaneous combustion, and other topics.

Body, Brain, Behavior

Author : Tamas L. Horvath
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128180935
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Body, Brain, Behavior written by Tamas L. Horvath and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation describes brain research on the frontiers, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between the brain and its development and evolution, peripheral organs, and other brains in communication. The book expands current views of neuroscience by illustrating the integration of these disciplines. By using a novel method of conversations between 3 scientists of different disciplines, cellular, endocrine, developmental, and social processes are seamlessly woven into topics that relate to contemporary living in health and disease. This book is a critical read for anyone who wants to become familiar with the inner workings of the nervous system and its intimate connections to the universe of contemporary life issues. Introduces the reader to basic principles of brain research and integrative physiology Dissects the dispute between Cajal and Golgi regarding the state-of-the art in the neurosciences and immunobiology Provides a short history of brain research and metabolism Discusses contemporary approaches in the neurosciences, along with the importance of technological versus conceptual advances Examines the dynamics of social connections between two brains, integrating mechanisms of Body/Brain/Behavior-to-Body/Brain/Behavior between subjects

Unthinkable

Author : Helen Thomson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062391186
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Unthinkable written by Helen Thomson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Month Indiebound Bestseller Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extraordinary cases Our brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, navigate, empathise and understand the world around us, but how would our lives change if these abilities were dramatically enhanced – or disappeared overnight? Helen Thomson has spent years travelling the world, tracking down incredibly rare brain disorders. In Unthinkable she tells the stories of nine extraordinary people she encountered along the way. From the man who thinks he's a tiger to the doctor who feels the pain of others just by looking at them to a woman who hears music that’s not there, their experiences illustrate how the brain can shape our lives in unexpected and, in some cases, brilliant and alarming ways. Story by remarkable story, Unthinkable takes us on an unforgettable journey through the human brain. Discover how to forge memories that never disappear, how to grow an alien limb and how to make better decisions. Learn how to hallucinate and how to make yourself happier in a split second. Find out how to avoid getting lost, how to see more of your reality, even how exactly you can confirm you are alive. Think the unthinkable.

The Brain's Body

Author : Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822361077
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Brain's Body written by Victoria Pitts-Taylor and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically entangled with neurobiological bodies. Pitts-Taylor is interested in how the brain interacts with and is impacted by social structures, especially in regard to race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability, as well as how those social structures shape neuroscientific knowledge. Pointing out that some brain scientists have not fully abandoned reductionist or determinist explanations of neurobiology, Pitts-Taylor moves beyond debates over nature and nurture to address the politics of plastic, biosocial brains. She highlights the potential of research into poverty's effects on the brain to reinforce certain notions of poor subjects and to justify particular forms of governance, while her queer critique of kinship research demonstrates the limitations of hypotheses based on heteronormative assumptions. In her exploration of the embodied mind and the "embrained" body, Pitts-Taylor highlights the inextricability of nature and culture and shows why using feminist and queer thought is essential to understanding the biosociality of the brain.

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own

Author : Sandra Blakeslee
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1400064694
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body Has a Mind of Its Own written by Sandra Blakeslee and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of the interaction between the mind and the body describes how the brain maps out every part of the body and the space around it and how the brain controls one's ability to sense, move, and act in the physical world, explaining the diverse applications of this science of body maps, from losing weight or recovering from a stroke, to finding new treatments and understanding human emotion. 20,000 first printing.

Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations

Author : Erol Başar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441961364
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations written by Erol Başar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations is a research monograph, with didactical features, on the mechanisms of the mind, encompassing a wide spectrum of results and analyses. The book should appeal to scientists and graduate students in the fields of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, physiology, psychology, physics and philosophy. Its goals are the development of an empirical-analytical construct, denoted as “Reasonings to Approach the Mind”, and the comprehension of 20 principles for understanding the mind. This book amalgamates results from work on the brain, vegetative system, brains in the evolution of species, the maturing brain, dynamic memory, emotional processes, and cognitive impairment in neuro-psychiatric disorders (Alzheimer, Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorders). The findings are comparatively evaluated within the framework of brain oscillations and neurotransmitters. Further, a holistic approach links the brain to the cardiovascular system and overall myogenic coordination of the vegetative system. The results emphasize that EEG oscillations, ultraslow oscillations, and neurotransmitters are quasi-invariant building blocks in brain-body-mind function and also during the evolution of species: The temporal domain is where the importance of research on neural oscillators is indispensable. The core, holistic concept that emerges is that the brain, spinal cord, overall myogenic system, brain-body-oscillations, and neurotransmitters form a functional syncytium. Accordingly, the concept of “Syncytium Brain-Body-Mind” replaces the concept of “Mind”. P>