Brain Illness

Recent advances in affective neuroscience reveal long-held secrets of mental health and illness in the brain. However, the gap between brain science and clinical practice is wide, and many clinicians find neuroscience to be tedious, overly technical and laborious to learn. Clinical psychologist and best-selling author Jennifer Sweeton details the eight main areas of the brain affected by mental illness, how brain changes show up in the therapy room as symptoms and behaviours and the types of therapies and psychotherapeutic techniques research has shown can heal the brain.

Lost in My Mind is a stunning memoir describing Kelly Bouldin Darmofal's journey from adolescent girl to special education teacher, wife and mother - despite severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Spanning three decades, Kelly's journey is unique in its focus on TBI education in America (or lack thereof).

Boost your cardiovascular health, optimize your mental strength, and prevent and reverse arterial disease with this personalized plan from the founders of the renowned Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center –– “you’ll want to read every page” (Amen). Did you know that every forty...

Recovering from a brain injury can be a challenging and prolonged process. Learn how to maximize your recovery from the effects of brain injuries with the guidance of Sandeep Vaishnavi, MD, PhD, and Vani Rao, MBBS, MD, two leading medical experts with extensive experience helping patients recover from concussion and other brain injuries. Healing the Traumatized Brain explains how the brain works, how injuries affect the brain, and how to use your brain's own power to recover.

The go‑to, revelatory guide based on Dr. Stephen Ilardi's proven Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC) program—a practical plan for natural ways to treat depression without medication. Now updated with new research. The Depression Cure will change the way we think about and manage depression...

Mental wellness issues are at an all-time high, and most quick-fixes fail to provide a long-term solution. While billions of dollars are spent annually on feel-better products, most exclusively target the brain and come with a slew of damaging side effects. Mental Fitness outlines the groundbreaking research on the gut-brain-heart axis to improve mood, thinking, and energy through nutrition, mindset, and movements.

A groundbreaking book by a brilliant scientist renowned for her brain research, A Brain for Life demonstrates how at every age we can reduce our risk of developing dementia—and even reverse the signs once they’ve started. Dementia is one of the most feared illnesses, and one of the world’s...

Navigate the chaos of a sudden medical crisis with a calming guide to understanding and treating brain inflammation. When late-night symptom searches and unpredictable behavioral changes leave your family feeling overwhelmed, securing reliable answers is your most urgent mission. This accessible...

Modern life overstimulates the nervous system. When the sympathetic "fight-or-flight" response stays active, deep sleep becomes difficult. Feel Good All Night is designed to support parasympathetic activation using carefully engineered delta-frequency binaural beats. Delta brainwaves (0.5–4 Hz) are associated with deep, restorative sleep, cellular recovery, and nervous system regulation. This collection includes 21 continuous-flow tracks with running times between 30 and 150 minutes, allowing flexible use for sleep onset, full-night listening, or extended relaxation sessions.

Broken Brain, Fortified Faith is the story of one family's journey through schizophrenia, navigating the uncharted waters of mental illness to find help for their daughter, Amber, and support for their family. This memoir is an honest look at the stress, anger, education, and finally, hope experienced through eyes of a mother. Along the way, she questions her trust in God as their family encounters setbacks, inadequate treatments, and additional family health crises.

This ZIP Reads audio summary provides key takeaways and analysis from the best-selling book Genius by Max Lugavere. Lugavere's exhaustive research details the harmful effects of many foods previously thought to be harmless. Take control of your life, and improve your brain health with his comprehensive list of genius foods.

In this groundbreaking new book, a Harvard-trained neurologist shows how you can attain lifelong mental fitness. Utilizing the latest breakthroughs in research, Dr. Jeff Victoroff has developed a definitive, life-changing plan that provides you with the powerful, scientifically based methods you need to protect your brain from aging and memory loss. Starting today, you too can save your brain.

For sure - this is the cancer book for rednecks! Only someone who survived boot camp would even understand. Twenty-six years of brain cancer makes me infinitely qualified to speak on survival. I hope the audible gives it justice. The published lead in says it all: In an unprecedented format, the Guerilla Guide to Brain Tumors is written in a format that combines the layout of the For Dummies series with a drill-Sargent's attitude. This is a book of war...nothing warm, and fuzzy, or socially acceptable here, and nothing about "Dying with Dignity". Just what it takes to win.

A candid and practical guide to the new frontier of brain customization Dozens of books promise to improve your brain function with a gimmick. Lifestyle changes, microdosing, electromagnetic stimulation: just one weird trick can lightly alter or dramatically deconstruct your brain. In truth...

Dans ce livre unique, fruit d'enquêtes réalisées dans le monde entier, Norman Doidge montre ce que nous savons aujourd'hui des capacités surprenantes de notre cerveau. Vous découvrirez un homme rendu aveugle à la suite d'une maladie auto-immune qui recouvre la vue en méditant ; un enfant souffrant de retard intellectuel apprendre d'un seul coup à parler en écoutant de la musique... Un livre plein d'espérance devenu une référence dans le monde entier.

How to regulate automatic survival responses, stop getting hijacked by your nervous system, and build more safety and flexibility from the inside out, from a clinician who’s been there herself. Human nervous systems are brilliant and adaptive. But in an always-on, overstimulating, chronically...

Die SBP-Serie – Schlaf-Gehirn-Programmierung repräsentiert eine revolutionäre Technik zur Programmierung des Unterbewusstseins während der Schlafphase. Jedes Audio in dieser Serie ist darauf ausgelegt, dir zu ermöglichen, dein Unterbewusstsein aktiv zu programmieren, während du schläfst. Diese Methode nutzt den Moment, in dem die Widerstände des bewussten Verstandes minimal sind, und lässt das Unterbewusstsein offen und empfänglich. Dieses Audio ist perfekt für jeden, der die Macht des Unterbewusstseins erforschen und den Schlaf als einen Moment nutzen möchte, um das eigene Leben positiv zu beeinflussen und persönliche Ziele zu erreichen.

Bedtime Brain Training for Restless Adults is a gentle, practical guide to help you unwind, release mental clutter, and fall asleep naturally. No sleep aids, no pressure, just simple tools that work with your brain instead of fighting against it. You may have tried sleep apps, white noise, melatonin, or podcasts that promise results. But most of those focus on the body. This audiobook is different. It helps you gently retrain your mind, right where the restlessness begins.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. Neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi reviews the link between food and brain function and offers specific recommendations for staying mentally younger, sharper, and fitter in her book Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power.

Two of the most precious things we have is our body and our brain. We don’t have any spare, and it’s precisely for this reason that we have to learn how to keep them in shape. To avoid premature decay and to ensure that they continue performing well for as long as possible, we must have a healthy lifestyle and know which foods allow us to feel better, in addition to those which instead slow down our functioning and can compromise our well-being. This audiobook will allow you to avoid the most common errors.