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• Can we change? Challenging the dogma of the hardwired brain — Th enchanted loom The discovery of neuroplasticity — New neurons for old brains Neurogenesis — A child shall lead them The neuroplasticity of young brains — Footprints on the brain Sensory experience reshapes adult brains — Mind over matter Mental activity changes the brain — Nature through nurture Turning on genes in the brain — Blaming Mom? Rewired for compassion — Transforming the emotional mind Challenging the happiness Set point — Now what?
• Neuroscience long held that the hardware of the brain is immutable–that we are stuck with what we were born with. As science journalist Begley shows, however, recent pioneering experiments in the new science of neuroplasticity reveal that the brain is capable not only of altering its structure but also of generating new neurons, even into old age. The brain can adapt, heal, renew itself after trauma, and compensate for disability. Begley documents how this paradigm shift is transforming both our understanding of the human mind and our approach to deep-seated emotional, cognitive, and behavioral problems. These breakthroughs show that it is possible to reset our happiness meter, regain the use of limbs disabled by stroke, train the mind to break cycles of depression and OCD, and reverse age-related changes in the brain. They also suggest that it is possible to teach and learn compassion.–From publisher description.

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• Neuroplasticity.
• Brain.
• Mind and body.
• Philosophy of mind.
• Buddhism and science.
• Brain — physiology.
• Neuronal Plasticity.
• Psychophysiology.
• Mental Processes — physiology.
• Buddhism.
• Brain.
• Mind and body.

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• The startling story of America’s devotion to vitamins-and how it keeps us from good health. Health-conscious Americans seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, or a daily multivitamin. We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better-and yet despite this familiarity, few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. Instead, we outsource our questions to experts and interpret vitamin as shorthand for health. What we don’t realize-and what Vitamania reveals-is that the experts themselves are surprisingly short on answers. Yes, we need vitamins without them, we would die. Yet despite a century of scientific research (the word vitamin was coined only in 1912), there is little consensus around even the simplest of questions, whether it’s exactly how much we each require or what these thirteen dietary chemicals actually do. The one thing that experts do agree upon is that the best way to get our nutrients is in the foods that naturally contain them, which have countless chemicals beyond vitamins that may be beneficial. But thanks to our love of processed foods (whose natural vitamins and other chemicals have often been removed or destroyed), this is exactly what most of us are not doing. Instead, we allow marketers to use the addition of synthetic vitamins to blind us to what else in food we might be missing, leading us to accept as healthy products that we might (and should) otherwise reject. Grounded in history-but firmly oriented toward the future-Vitamania reveals the surprising story of how our embrace of vitamins led to today’s Wild West of dietary supplements and investigates the complicated psychological relationship we’ve developed with these thirteen mysterious chemicals. In so doing, Vitamania both demolishes many of our society’s most cherished myths about nutrition and challenges us to reevaluate our own beliefs. Impressively researched, counterintuitive, and engaging, Vitamania won’
• Health-conscious Americans seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, or a daily multivitamin. We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better–and yet despite this familiarity, few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. What we don’t realize is that the experts themselves are surprisingly short on answers. Yes, we need vitamins without them, we would die. Yet despite a century of scientific research there is little consensus around even the simplest of questions, whether it’s exactly how much we each require or what these thirteen dietary chemicals actually do. The one thing that experts do agree upon is that the best way to get our nutrients is in the foods that naturally contain them, which have countless chemicals beyond vitamins that may be beneficial. But this is exactly what most of us are not doing. Instead, we allow marketers to use the addition of synthetic vitamins to blind us to what else in food we might be missing, leading us to accept as healthy products that we might (and should) otherwise reject. Grounded in history Vitamania reveals the surprising story of how our embrace of vitamins led to today’s Wild West of dietary supplements and investigates the complicated psychological relationship we’ve developed with these thirteen mysterious chemicals — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-306) and index.
• High seas and Hi-C — Plants and plants — Death by deficiency — The journey into food — From A to Zeitgeist — Nutritional blindness — From pure food to pure chaos — The people’s pills — Foods with benefits — The nutritional frontier — Appendix A. The vitamins — Appendix B. Abbreviations and definitions — Recommended dietary allowances chart.

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• Vitamins in human nutrition — Social aspects — United States.
• Dietary supplements — Social aspects — United States.
• Nutrition — United States — Psychological aspects.
• Food — United States — Psychological aspects.
• Vitamins — History.
• Vitamins — history — United States.
• Dietary Supplements — history — United States.
• Food — United States.

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• P.S. insights, interviews & more… –Back cover.
• Previous edition: 2013.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-340).
• Where I come from — Before and after — Big Mama — Sex education — Rap and rewards — Drugs and guns — Choices and chances — Basic training — Home is where the hatred is — The maze — Wyoming — Still just a nigga — The behavior of human subjects — Hitting home — The new crack — In search of salvation — Drug policy based on fact, not fiction.
• A neuroscientist relates his escape from a life of crime and drugs to a career helping to save the lives of addicts, examining the relationship between drugs and pleasure and shedding new light on ideas about race, poverty, and drugs.

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• Hart, Carl L.
• Neuroscientists — United States — Biography.
• Ex-drug addicts — United States — Biography.
• Drugs of abuse — Physiological effect.
• Drug addiction.
• Drug abuse — United States.

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• A James H. Silberman Book.
• Includes bibliographical references (page 367-394) and index.
• Physician hurt, then heal thyself : Michael Moskowitz discovers that chronic pain can be unlearned — A man walks off his Parkinsonian symptoms : how exercise helps fend off degenerative disorders and can defer dementia — The stages of neuroplastic healing : how and why it works — Rewiring a brain with light : using light to reawaken dormant neural circuits — Moshe Feldenkrais, physicist, black belt, and healer : healing serious brain problems through mental awareness of movement — A blind man learns to see : using Feldenkrais, Buddhist, and other neuroplastic methods — A device that resets the brain : stimulating neuromodulation to reverse symptoms. A cane against the wall Three resets: Parkinson’s, stroke, multiple sclerosis The cracked potters How the brain balances itself–with a little help — A bridge of sound : the special connection between music and the brain. A dyslexic boy reverses his misfortune A mother’s voice Rebuilding the brain from the bottom up : autism, attention deficits, and sensory processing disorder Solving the mystery at the abbey : how music raises our spirits and energy — Appendix 1 : a general approach to TBI and brain problems — Appendix 2 : matrix repatterning for TBI — Appendix 3 : neurofeedback for ADD, ADHD, epilepsy, anxiety, and TBI.
• The New York Times bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience-what we call neuroplasticity. His revolutionary new book shows, for the first time, how the amazing process of neuroplastic healing really works. It describes natural, non-invasive avenues into the brain provided by the forms of energy around us-light, sound, vibration, movement-which pass through our senses and our bodies to awaken the brain’s own healing capacities without producing unpleasant side effects. Doidge explores cases where patients alleviated years of chronic pain or recovered from debilitating strokes or accidents children on the autistic spectrum or with learning disorders normalizing symptoms of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and cerebral palsy radically improved, and other near-miracle recoveries. And we learn how to vastly reduce the risk of dementia with simple approaches anyone can use. For centuries it was believed that the brain’s complexity prevented recovery from damage or disease. The Brain’s Way of Healing shows that this very sophistication is the source of a unique kind of healing. As he did so lucidly in The Brain That Changes Itself, Doidge uses stories to present cutting-edge science with practical real-world applications, and principles that everyone can apply to improve their brain’s performance and health — Provided by publisher.

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• Neuroplasticity.
• Brain.
• Healing.
• Brain. fast (OCoLC)fst00837570
• Healing. fast (OCoLC)fst00952704
• Neuroplasticity. fast (OCoLC)fst01036479

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Part I. Specific Dietary Constituents. A. Major dietary constituents. Proteins and Amino Acids / Dwight E. Matthews — Carbohydrates / Peter J. Havel — Dietary Fiber / Joanne L. Slavin — Lipids, Sterols, and Their Metabolites / Todd Rideout — Energy Needs: Assessment and Requirements / Benjamin Caballero — Water, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Metabolism / Harold A. Franch — B. Minerals. Calcium / Robert P. Heaney — Phosphorus / Karl L. Insogna — Magnesium / Robert K. Rude — Iron / Marianne Wessling-Resnick — Zinc / Robert J. Cousins — Copper / James F. Collins — Iodine / Peter Laurberg — Selenium / Roger A. Sunde — Manganese / Alan L. Buchman — Trace Elements / Curtis D. Eckhert. — C. Vitamins. Vitamin A / A. Catharine Ross — Vitamin D / Glenville Jones — Vitamin E / Maret G. Traber — Vitamin K / John W. Suttie — Thiamin / Roger F. Butterworth — Riboflavin / A. Catharine Ross — Niacin / James B. Kirkland — Vitamin B6 / Jesse F. Gregory III — Pantothenic Acid / Paula R. Trumbo — Folic Acid / Patrick J. Stover — Cobalamin (Vitamin B12) / Ralph Carmel — Biotin / Donald M. Mock — Vitamin C / Sebastian J. Padayatty — Choline / Steven H. Zeisel. — D. Other Compounds with Health Relevance. Carotenoids / Xiang-Dong Wang — Carnitine / Charles J. Rebouche — Cysteine, Taurine, and Homocysteine / Martha H. Stipanuk — Glutamine / Thomas R. Ziegler — Arginine, Citrulline, and Nitric Oxide / Nicolaas E.P. Deutz — Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in Health Promotion / Cindy D. Davis — Polyphenols and Flavonoids / Ronald L. Prior — Probiotics and Prebiotics as Modulators of the Gut Microbiota / Glenn R. Gibson.
• Part II. Nutritional Roles in Integrated Biologic Systems. A. Nutrient-Gene Mechanisms. Nutritional Regulation of Gene Expression and Nutritional Genomics / Louis A. Lichten — Genetic Variation: Effect on Nutrient Utilization and Metabolism / Zhenglong Gu — Epigenetics / Paul Haggarty. — B. Digestive, Endocrine, Immune, and Neural Mechanisms. Nutritional Physiology of the Alimentary Tract / Samuel Klein — Nutrition and the Chemical Senses / Valerie B. Duffy — Control of Food Intake and Appetite / Stephen Robert Bloom — Nutrition and the Immune System / Susan J. Zunino — Defenses against Oxidative Stress / Dean P. Jones — Mechanisms of Nutrient Sensing / Teresa A. Davis.
• Part III. Nutritional Needs and Assessment during the Life Cycle and Physiologic Changes. Body Composition / Joshua Farr — Use and Interpretation of Anthropometry / Benjamin Caballero — Metabolic Consequences of Starvation / L. John Hoffer — Metabolic Consequences of Calorie Restriction / Luigi Fontana — Nutrition in Pregnancy / R. Elaine Turner — Nutrition in Lactation / Mary Frances Picciano — Nutritional Requirements of Infants and Children / William C. Heird — Nutrition in Adolescence / Kathleen L. Keller — Nutrition in Older Adults / Mary Ann Johnson — Clinical Manifestations of Nutrient Deficiencies and Toxicities / Douglas C. Heimburger.
• Part IV. Prevention and Management of Disease. A. Obesity and Diabetes. Obesity: Epidemiology, Etiology, and Prevention / James O. Hill — Obesity Management / Kavita H. Poddar — Bariatric Surgery / Michael Schweitzer — Nutritional Management of Diabetes Mellitus / Adrian Dobs — Metabolic Syndrome: Definition, Relationship with Insulin Resistance, and Clinical Utility / Dominic N. Reeds — Nutrition and Inflammatory Processes / Philip C. Calder. — B. Cardiovascular Diseases. Nutrient and Genetic Regulation of Lipoprotein Metabolism / Robert A. Hegele — Nutrition in the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease and the Management of Lipoprotein Disorders / Ernst J. Schaefer — Diet and Blood Pressure / Lawrence J. Appel. — C. Pediatirc and Adolescent Disorders. Pediatric Feeding Problems / Richard M. Katz, James K. Hyche, and Ellen K. Wingert — Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Manuel Ramirez-Zea and Benjamin Caballero — Inherited Metabolic Disease : Amino Acids, Organic Acids, and Galactoose / Louis J. ElsasII and Phyllis B. Acosta — Inherited Lipid Disorders of ß-Oxidation / Jerry Vockley, Lynne A. Wolfe, and Deborah L. Renaud — Nutritional Management of Infants and Children with Specific Diseases and Other Conditions / Arthur Cooper, Richard L. Mones, and WIlliam C. Heird — Food Insecurity in Children : Impact on Physical, Psychoemotional, and Social Development / Rafael Pérez-Escamilla.
• D. Disorders of the Alimentary Tract. Nutrition and Dental Medicine / Dominick P. DePaola — Esophagus and Stomach / Mark H. DeLegge — Assessment of Malabsorption / John K. DiBaise — Diet and Intestinal Disaccharidases / Dennis Savaiano — Short Bowel Syndrome / Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy — Nutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Implications for Its Role in the Management of Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis / Douglas L. Seidner — Celiac Disease / Carol E. Semrad — Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diverticular Disease / Carol E. Semrad — Nutrition in Pancreatic Diseases / Stephen J.D. O’Keefe — Nutrition in Liver Disorders and the Role of Alcohol / Craig J. McClain — Enteral Feeding / Michele M. Gottschlich — Parenteral Nutrition / Thomas R. Ziegler — Nutrition Therapy in Hospital and Outpatient Medicine / Malcolm K. Robinson. — E. Nutritional Management during Cancer. Epidemiology of Diet and Cancer Risk / Edward Giovannucci — Cancer Cachexia / Vickie E. Baracos — Nutritional Support of the Patient with Cancer / Maureen Huhmann. — F. Skeletal and Joint Disorders. Bone Biology in Health and Disease / Robert P. Heaney — Prevention and Management of Osteoporosis / Clifford J. Rosen — Nutrition and Diet in Rheumatic and Arthritic Diseases / Joseph E. Baggott.
• G. Nutrition in Surgery and Trauma. Hypercatabolic States / Susette M. Coyle — Nutrition Support for the Patient with Surgery, Trauma, or Sepsis / Kenneth A. Kudsk — Nutrition in Burn Injury / David N. Herndon — Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Neurologic Disorders. Nutritional Disorders of the Nervous System / Gustavo C. Roman — Behavioral Disorders Affecting Food Intake : Eating Disorders and Other Psychiatric Conditions / Angela S. Guarda. — I. Other Systemic Disorders. Nutrition, Diet, and the Kidney / Joel D. Kopple — Hematologic Aspects of Iron Deficiency and Less Common Nutritional Anemias / Asok C. Antony — Nutrition in Respiratory Diseases / Margaret M. Johnson — Nutrition and Infectious Diseases / Richard D. Semba.– J. Food Additives, Hazards, and Nutrient-Drug Interactions. Food Additives, Contaminants, and Natural Toxicants: Maintaining a Safe Food Supply / Joseph L. Baumert — Food Allergies and Intolerances / Joseph L. Baumert — Drug-Nutrient Interactions / Lingtak-Neander Chan.
• Part V. Nutrition of populations. A. Nutrition in a Changing World. Foundations of a Healthy Diet / Meir J. Stampfer — Dietary Patterns / Katherine L. Tucker — Dietary Reference Intakes / Linda D. Meyers — Food Labeling / F. Edward Scarbrough — Food Assistance Programs / Craig Gundersen — The Nutrition Transition: Global Trends in Diet, Lifestyle, and Noncommunicable Diseases / Benjamin Caballero — Food-Based Dietary Guidelines for Healthier Populations: International Considerations / Alan D. Dangour — Approaches to Preventing Micronutrient Deficiencies / Lindsay H. Allen — B. Nutrition and Human Performance. Physical Activity, Fitness, and Health / Gary R. Hunter — Sports Nutrition / Melvin H. Williams — The Evolving Science of Dietary Supplements / Paul M. Coates.
• This book is a complete, authoritative reference on nutrition and its role in contemporary medicine, dietetics, nursing, public health, and public policy. Distinguished international experts provide in-depth information on historical landmarks in nutrition, specific dietary components, nutrition in integrated biologic systems, nutritional assessment through the life cycle, nutrition in various clinical disorders, and public health and policy issues. This 11th Edition, offers coverage of nutrition’s role in disease prevention, international nutrition issues, public health concerns, the role of obesity in a variety of chronic illnesses, genetics as it applies to nutrition, and areas of major scientific progress relating nutrition to disease.
• Editors, A. Catherine Ross, Benjamin Caballero, Robert J. Cousins, Katherine L. Turner and Thomas R. Ziegler.

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• Nutrition.
• Diet therapy.
• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
• Micronutrients — physiology.
• Micronutrients — therapeutic use.
• Nutrition Therapy.

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• 008-012.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cool optical illusions: tricky images — See it! believe it? types of optical illusions — Colors: frequencies of light — Project 1: magic color spinner — Opposite colors: take it as a complement! — Project 2: afterimage illusions — 3-D or not 3-D? the objects that couldn’t be — Project 3: drawing impossible objects — Project 4: distorting illusions — Math terms — Glossary.
• Explains the different types of optical illusions and demonstrates how to create such projects as a color spinner, afterimages, and impossible objects.

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• Optical illusions — Juvenile literature.
• Visual perception — Juvenile literature.
• Juvenile works. fast (OCoLC)fst01411637

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• A CRC title.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Chapter 1. Vitamin A : nutritional aspects of retinoids and carotenoids / A. Catherine Ross and Earl H. Harrison — chapter 2. Vitamin D / Wei Zheng and Dorothy Teegarden — chapter 3. Vitamin K / John W. Suttie — chapter 4. Vitamin E / Maret G. Traber — chapter 5. Niacin / James B. Kirkland — chapter 6. Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) / John Thomas Pinto and Richard Saul Rivlin — chapter 7. Thiamine / Lucien Bettendorff — chapter 8. Pantothenic acid / Robert B. Rucker and Kathryn Bauerly — chapter 9. Vitamin B6 / Shyamala Dakshinamurti and Krishnamurti Dakshinamurti — chapter 10. Biotin / Donald M. Mock — chapter 11. Folate / Lynn B. Bailey, Vanessa da Silva, Allyson A. West, and Marie A. Caudill — chapter 12. Vitamin B12 / Ralph Green and Joshua W. Miller — chapter 13. Choline / Xinyin Jiang, Jian Yan, and Marie A. Caudill — chapter 14. Ascorbic acid / Carol S. Johnston, Francene M. Steinberg, and Robert B. Rucker — chapter 15. Vitamins, bioactive food compounds, and histone modifications / Janos Zempleni, Elizabeth L. Cordonier, Scott R. Baier, and Jing Xue — chapter 16. Vitamin-genome interactions / Patrick J. Stover.

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• Vitamins.
• Vitamins in human nutrition.
• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena — Handbooks.
• Vitamins — Handbooks.

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• Thinking about space — The ways of light — Sensing our own shape — Brain maps and polka dots — Sherlock ears — Moving with maps and meters — Your sunglasses are in the Milky Way — Going places — Space and memory — Thinking about thinking.
• Knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet our brains devote tremendous computational power to figuring out the simplest details about spatial relationships. Going to the grocery store or finding our cell phone requires sleuthing and coordination across different sensory and motor domains. Making Space traces this mental detective work to explain how the brain creates our sense of location. But it goes further, to make the case that spatial processing permeates all our cognitive abilities, and that the brain’s systems for thinking about space may be the systems of thought itself. Our senses measure energy in the form of light, sound, and pressure on the skin, and our brains evaluate these measurements to make inferences about objects and boundaries. Jennifer Groh describes how eyes detect electromagnetic radiation, how the brain can locate sounds by measuring differences of less than one one-thousandth of a second in how long they take to reach each ear, and how the ear’s balance organs help us monitor body posture and movement. The brain synthesizes all this neural information so that we can navigate three-dimensional space. But the brain’s work doesn’t end there. Spatial representations do double duty in aiding memory and reasoning. This is why it is harder to remember how to get somewhere if someone else is driving, and why, if we set out to do something and forget what it was, returning to the place we started can jog our memory. In making space the brain uses powers we did not know we have. — Publisher’s description.

Subjects:

• Space perception.
• Spatial behavior.
• Cognition.
• Space Perception.
• Cognition.
• Spatial Behavior.
• Visual Perception.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-358) and index.
• ch. 1. The receptor revolution : an introductory lecture — ch. 2. Romance of the opiate receptor — ch. 3. Peptide generation : a continued lecture — ch. 4. Brains and ambition — ch. 5. Life at the palace — ch. 6. Breaking the rules — ch. 7. The biochemicals of emotion : a continued lecture — ch. 8. Turning point — ch. 9. The psychosomatic network : a concluding lecture — ch. 10. Child of the new paradigm — ch. 11. Crossing over, coming together — ch. 12. Healing feeling — ch. 13. Truth.
• The author, a neuroscientist, asserts that it is our emotions and their biological components that establish the crucial link between mind and body. Further, her findings complement existing techniques by offering a new scientific understanding of the power of our minds and our feelings to affect our health and well-being. –Jacket.

Subjects:

• Emotions.
• Neurochemistry.
• Medicine, Psychosomatic.
• Mind and body.
• Emotions.
• Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical.
• Neurochemistry.
• Psychosomatic Medicine.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.

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• Brain.
• Neuropsychology.
• Neurosciences.

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