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  • The Pleasure Shock

    The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor

    by Lone Frank ...
    The electrifying, forgotten history of Robert Heath's brain pacemaker, investigating the origins and ethics of one of today's most promising medical breakthroughs: deep brain stimulationThe technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath in the 1950s and '60s has been described as among the most controversial experiments in US history. His work was alleged at the time to be part of MKUltra, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Neurotourist

    Postcards from the Edge of Brain Science

    by Lone Frank ...
    Discover the true heart of humanity: the brainAcclaimed journalist and intrepid brain "explorer" Lone Frank embarks on an incredible adventure to the frontiers of neuroscience to reveal how today's top scientists are reinventing human nature, morality, happiness, health, and reality itself. Interlacing bizarre experiments, cutting-edge science, and irreverent interviews, The Neurotourist is an ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • My Beautiful Genome

    Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time

    by Lone Frank ...
    Internationally acclaimed science writer Lone Frank swabs up her DNA to provide the first truly intimate account of the new science of consumer-led genomics. She challenges the business mavericks intent on mapping every baby's genome, ponders the consequences of biological fortune-telling, and prods the psychologists who hope to uncover just how much or how little our environment will matter in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    The Pleasure Shock

    The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor

    by Lone Frank ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 45 min

    The electrifying, forgotten history of Robert Heath's brain pacemaker, investigating the origins and ethics of one of today's most promising medical breakthroughs: deep brain stimulationThe technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath in the 1950s and '60s has been described as among the most controversial experiments in US history. His work was alleged at the time to be part of MKUltra, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Narrated by Bill Mumy ...

    Unabridged

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  • The Brain That Changes Itself

    Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

    by Norman Doidge M.D. ...
    **“Fascinating. Doidge’s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.”—Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatWhat is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman Doidge’s inspiring guide to the new brain science explains all of this and more**An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing ... Read more

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  • Far From the Tree

    Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

    by Andrew Solomon ...
    * Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times ** WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Books for a Better Life Award * The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year *This masterpiece by the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also ... Read more

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  • My Age of Anxiety

    Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

    by Scott Stossel ...
    A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the conditionAs recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Scott Stossel gracefully guides us across the terrain of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Falling Into the Fire

    A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

    by Christine Montross ...
    Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. We meet a young woman who habitually commits self-injury, ... Read more

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  • On Edge

    A Journey Through Anxiety

    by Andrea Petersen ...
    A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety.A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been experiencing panic attacks since childhood. With time her symptoms multiplied. She agonized over every odd physical ... Read more

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  • The Memory Illusion

    Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory

    by Dr Julia Shaw ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Truly fascinating.' Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2- Have you ever forgotten the name of someone you’ve met dozens of times?- Or discovered that your memory of an important event was completely different from everyone else’s?- Or vividly recalled being in a particular place at a particular time, only to discover later that you couldn’t possibly have been?</strong... ... Read more

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  • Brilliant Madness

    Living with Manic Depressive Illness

    by Patty Duke, Gloria Hochman ...
    In her revealing bestseller Call Me Anna, Patty Duke shared her long-kept secret: the talented, Oscar-winning actress who won our hearts on The Patty Duke Show was suffering from a serious-but-treatable-mental illness called manic depression. For nearly twenty years, until she was correctly diagnosed at age thirty-five, she careened between periods of extreme euphoria and debilitating depression, ... Read more

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