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Leiden Sie unter Erschöpfung und Atemnot? Fallen Ihnen schon kleine Aktivitäten wie Zähneputzen, Duschen oder Einkaufen schwer? Die Symptome, unter denen Long-Covid-Betroffene leiden, sind größtenteils identisch mit den Symptomen des Chronischen Fatigue Syndroms (ME/CFS). Mithilfe der Pacing-Methode, einer Technik des Energiemanagements, gelingt es Betroffenen, wieder mehr Lebensqualität zu gewinnen und ihren Alltag besser zu meistern. Zusätzlich bietet das Hörbuch mentale und psychologische Strategien zur Bewältigung der Erkrankung, wie z. B. Imaginations-Übungen und Tools zur seelischen Stärkung.

Angela Leigh Tucker had not expected death that day. Newlywed, thirty years old and a successful public relations professional, she and her husband were driving home when a semi-truck hurtled over the center-lane divider and crushed their SUV. Her husband died on impact. She was left hanging onto life by a thin, golden thread. With her brain severely injured and her neck, shoulder, and ribs broken, she had instantly lost everything but her will to live.

The Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory invites you on an enlightening journey deep into the intricate web of our neurophysiology, uncovering the remarkable power of the vagus nerve and the transformative potential of the Polyvagal Theory.

Are you ready to embark on a journey to transform your understanding of neurodiversity in your workplace and beyond? Prepare to challenge your preconceptions as we explore lived experiences, strengths and challenges of individuals on the spectrum. Many autistic individuals face unique challenges including the need to navigate an intricate web of social cues, unspoken norms and physical environments. Most organisations create a homogenous, “one size fits all” culture without realising how rigid it is.

Cardiovascular health assumes a paramount and extraordinary significance in our overall well-being and the quality of our existence. The cardiovascular system, comprising the heart, blood vessels, and blood, assumes a pivotal and indispensable role in the transportation of vital oxygen, essential nutrients, and crucial hormones to every cell in our body, while simultaneously eliminating harmful waste products. Let us delve deeper into the multifaceted and compelling reasons that underscore the criticality of prioritizing cardiovascular health:

Rebooting My Brain is the true story of what happens when you get yanked out of your life by a crisis and have to get back on the ride all over again. With refreshing candor, Maria Ross shares how the relentless pace of her life came to a screeching halt when an undetected brain aneurysm ruptured and nearly killed her. Along her stubborn road back to health, her resulting cognitive and emotional challenges forced her sometimes kicking and screaming to reframe her life, her work and her identity.

What if all brain disorders were treatable? Few would lament the passing of dementia or autism, but what if the twisted mind of a sex offender or murderer could be cured, too? Or how about a terrorist or maybe a political extremist? What if we could all be "corrected"? Welcome to the Condition: The Complete Trilogy, a series of near-future fiction novels on the cusp of becoming a frightening reality.

A doctor’s powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40-year quest to find a treatment for multiple sclerosis.

Lack of blood flow (ischemia) is the most common cause of back pain. The disc is poorly perfused even under optimal conditions. This audiobook is like an "antibiotic" to improve blood supply to the entire spine. Better blood supply helps prevent progression of degenerative disc disease and the cascade of adverse events that follow it.

Notre fonctionnement est une conséquence directe de notre façon de nous utiliser. Or, nous avons l'habitude de foncer tout droit vers le but et de ne pas considérer les moyens par lesquels nous l'atteignons.

This audiobook covers a wide range of topics, such as artificial intelligence (AI), its effects on the society, and its future, psychopaths and sociopaths, and about dissociative identity disorder, more commonly known as split personality disorder. This book teaches you the basic topics in neuroscience and neurology.

Oliver Sacks siempre se ha sentido atraído por las islas, esos "experimentos de la naturaleza, lugares benditos y malditos por su singularidad geográfica, que albergan formas de vida únicas". En su última obra, esta fascinación le lleva más lejos que nunca, a las remotas islas del Pacífico, donde concilia su afición a explorar el mundo real con su pasión por investigar el mundo de la mente. En esta ocasión abandona transitoriamente a los individuos y con herramientas no sólo de neurólogo sino también de antropólogo...

Amid the internet boom of the mid-2000s, a band of entrepreneurs stood at the intersection of medicine, technology, and business. They saw a solution to the crucial problems of emergency care, which was too often handicapped by underfunding, overscheduled specialists, archaic practices, and onerous equipment.

Unlocked begins with a vivid depiction of the author's life with her autistic son, Ben. Feelings of isolation, self-hate, and even moments of hatred toward her own child in response to his behaviors, as well as the impact on her marriage and younger daughter, impel her to seek solutions for his condition. Through years of trial and error, Susan eventually discovers methods that bring about radical improvement in Ben.

In this darkly comic memoir, a young woman recounts the steps she took to rebuild her sense of self in the aftermath of two devastating strokes that robbed her of her ability to communicate. Nina Mitchell was an accomplished Harvard graduate whose world changed forever when her facility with language - and much of her personality - disappeared. Lacking the tools to navigate her old life, Nina was forced to create another one. In After Words, she shares her remarkable journey as she slowly reclaims the power to converse, write, assert her identity, and to be herself - with words.

Now in tradepaper: New York Times best-selling author presents a solution for brain drain and anxiety. Are you anxious, frazzled, exhausted? Do you find yourself constantly worrying? Do you feel like you're "running on empty"? Do you have trouble sleeping? Like millions of people living today...

Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. Kandel illustrates how reductionism - the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable components - has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths.

In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr. Bernard M. Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experiences with patients throughout his 34-year medical career...Neurology Rounds with the Maverick presents an authentic look inside some of the most complex, strange, and fascinating neurological cases of the last half-century of medicine. Listen it to appreciate the good, the bad, the terrible, and the densely human anecdotes that document the past and light the way for the future of medicine.

You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones... to which this book says: Pure nonsense.

Now an audiobook, this groundbreaking book by renowned Harvard neurologist Bernstein launched on the Today show to great acclaim and sales. It’s the only book to present the newest science on migraine headaches as well as offer a comprehensive program to treat them—and will change the lives of migraine sufferers forever.