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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 41,252 ratings — published 2007
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brain-development)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,728 ratings — published 2011
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 64,524 ratings — published 2011
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
by (shelved 3 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,782 ratings — published 2008
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as brain-development)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,516 ratings — published 2006
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 223,006 ratings — published 2024
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,429,042 ratings — published 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 618,682 ratings — published 2011
Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 886 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.33 — 311,252 ratings — published 2014
Ben: Diary of A Heroin Addict (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 101 ratings — published 2012
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 15,543 ratings — published 2010
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,091 ratings — published 2005
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 3.56 — 15,335 ratings — published 2013
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,252 ratings — published 2009
Disconnected Kids: The Groundbreaking Brain Balance Program for Children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Disorders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,036 ratings — published 2009
Reconnected Kids: Help Your Child Achieve Physical, Mental, and Emotional Balance (The Disconnected Kids Series)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 106 ratings — published 2011
What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,348 ratings — published 1999
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,803 ratings — published 2009
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as brain-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,835 ratings — published 1999
Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Neuroscience of Trauma, Resilience and Healing throughout the Life Course (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Childhood Trauma And Its Link To Borderline Personality Disorder: Re-edited (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.31 — 16 ratings — published 2013
See What I'm Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.76 — 200 ratings — published 2010
How Childhood Trauma Can Physically Damage The Developing Brain: And How These Effects Can Be Reversed (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 2014
Brain Matters: How to help anyone learn anything using neuroscience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.50 — 20 ratings — published 2015
How Does Your Engine Run? Leader's Guide to the Alert Program for Self Regulation (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 31 ratings — published 1996
Comment Apprivoiser Son Crocodile: Écoutez Le Message Caché De Vos Émotions Pour Progresser Sur La Voie Du Bien Être (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.12 — 8 ratings — published 2002
The Teen Years Explained; A Guide to Healthy Adolescent Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.10 — 10 ratings — published 2010
Interoception: The Eighth Sensory System (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.45 — 83 ratings — published
The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,398 ratings — published 2017
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 452,506 ratings — published 2020
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 446,249 ratings — published 2016
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.55 — 137,441 ratings — published 2015
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 969,739 ratings — published 2010
Going Bovine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,394 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,823,781 ratings — published 1945
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,614,619 ratings — published 1943
Digitale Demenz. Wie wir uns und unsere Kinder um den Verstand bringen (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,698 ratings — published 2012
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.33 — 516 ratings — published 2006
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.36 — 146,158 ratings — published 2018
This Is How It Always Is (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 221,140 ratings — published 2017
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,343 ratings — published 2011
Do or Die (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.86 — 478 ratings — published 1991
The Secret History of the Mongols (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 112 ratings — published
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,919 ratings — published 2010
Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (Nation of Nations, 28)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.53 — 15 ratings — published
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,412 ratings — published 2016
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,639 ratings — published 2011
The Interpretation of Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 3.84 — 83,659 ratings — published 1899
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as brain-development)
avg rating 4.07 — 245,882 ratings — published 1999
“Too many of the teenagers I encounter in my practice and across the country are late in developing what it will take to function as an adult and create adult relationships: agency, independence, intimacy, fortitude, and self-reliance. Often it's because their community (not just parents but also peers, teachers, and extended family) is focused exclusively on the high-school paper chase and fails to encourage these qualities. I try desperately to convince these teens and their parents that delaying the emotional work of adolescence is dangerous.
"We're discovering that the brain during adolescence is very malleable, very plastic," Steinberg says. "It has a heightened capacity to change in response to experience. That cuts both ways: On the one hand it means that the brain is especially susceptible to toxic experiences that can harm it, but it also means that the brain is susceptible to positive influences that can promote growth. That's an opportunity we're squandering.”
― Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World
"We're discovering that the brain during adolescence is very malleable, very plastic," Steinberg says. "It has a heightened capacity to change in response to experience. That cuts both ways: On the one hand it means that the brain is especially susceptible to toxic experiences that can harm it, but it also means that the brain is susceptible to positive influences that can promote growth. That's an opportunity we're squandering.”
― Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World
“Vegetables with limbs (Sonnet 2824)
Now more than ever, if the human race
stops doing art, writing literature,
writing philosophy, poetry, code,
writing songs, music and mathematics, because
apparently generative ai can do all of that,
soon indistinguishable from the human article,
then this is the exact moment in history
when the human brain, particularly
the prefrontal cortex, starts to shrink,
rendering our species into vegetable with limbs.
Generative AI is going to have
the biggest impact on brain evolution,
since primitive humans learnt
to harness fire, for better or worse.
I'm not asking you to avoid ai altogether,
even if you try you cannot, any more than
you can refuse internet or electricity,
because, more and more, ai is going to infiltrate
every aspect of the global tech infrastructure -
all I'm saying is, get your priorities straight,
no matter what you do in any other aspect of life,
keep the central art of your life untouched by ai,
use ai as assistant, not as ghostwriter.”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
Now more than ever, if the human race
stops doing art, writing literature,
writing philosophy, poetry, code,
writing songs, music and mathematics, because
apparently generative ai can do all of that,
soon indistinguishable from the human article,
then this is the exact moment in history
when the human brain, particularly
the prefrontal cortex, starts to shrink,
rendering our species into vegetable with limbs.
Generative AI is going to have
the biggest impact on brain evolution,
since primitive humans learnt
to harness fire, for better or worse.
I'm not asking you to avoid ai altogether,
even if you try you cannot, any more than
you can refuse internet or electricity,
because, more and more, ai is going to infiltrate
every aspect of the global tech infrastructure -
all I'm saying is, get your priorities straight,
no matter what you do in any other aspect of life,
keep the central art of your life untouched by ai,
use ai as assistant, not as ghostwriter.”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth