The Entangled Brain
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The Entangled Brain
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Author : Luiz Pessoa
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-11-15
The Entangled Brain written by Luiz Pessoa and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Science categories.
A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ. Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but The Entangled Brain tackles a much bigger question: What kind of object is the brain? Neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa describes the brain as a highly networked, interconnected system that cannot be neatly decomposed into a set of independent parts. One can’t point to the brain and say, “This is where emotion happens” (or any other mental faculty). Pessoa argues that only by understanding how large-scale neural circuits combine multiple and diverse signals can we truly appreciate how the brain supports the mind. Presenting the brain as an integrated organ and drawing on neuroscience, computation, mathematics, systems theory, and evolution, The Entangled Brain explains how brain functions result from cross-cutting brain processing, not the function of segregated areas. Parts of the brain work in a coordinated fashion across large-scale distributed networks in which disparate parts of the cortex and the subcortex work simultaneously to bring about behaviors. Pessoa intuitively explains the concepts needed to formalize this idea of the brain as a complex system and how to unleash powerful understandings built with “collective computations.”
The Entangled Brain
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Author : Luiz Pessoa
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-11-15
The Entangled Brain written by Luiz Pessoa and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Science categories.
A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ. Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but The Entangled Brain tackles a much bigger question: What kind of object is the brain? Neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa describes the brain as a highly networked, interconnected system that cannot be neatly decomposed into a set of independent parts. One can’t point to the brain and say, “This is where emotion happens” (or any other mental faculty). Pessoa argues that only by understanding how large-scale neural circuits combine multiple and diverse signals can we truly appreciate how the brain supports the mind. Presenting the brain as an integrated organ and drawing on neuroscience, computation, mathematics, systems theory, and evolution, The Entangled Brain explains how brain functions result from cross-cutting brain processing, not the function of segregated areas. Parts of the brain work in a coordinated fashion across large-scale distributed networks in which disparate parts of the cortex and the subcortex work simultaneously to bring about behaviors. Pessoa intuitively explains the concepts needed to formalize this idea of the brain as a complex system and how to unleash powerful understandings built with “collective computations.”
Entangled Minds
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Author : Dean Radin
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-11-24
Entangled Minds written by Dean Radin and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-24 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Is everything connected? Can we sense what's happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller's identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information about future events? Is it possible to perceive without the use of the ordinary senses? Many people believe that such "psychic phenomena" are rare talents or divine gifts. Others don't believe they exist at all. But the latest scientific research shows that these phenomena are both real and widespread, and are an unavoidable consequence of the interconnected, entangled physical reality we live in. Albert Einstein called entanglement "spooky action at a distance" -- the way two objects remain connected through time and space, without communicating in any conventional way, long after their initial interaction has taken place. Could a similar entanglement of minds explain our apparent psychic abilities? Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, believes it might. In this illuminating book, Radin shows how we know that psychic phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis are real, based on scientific evidence from thousands of controlled lab tests. Radin surveys the origins of this research and explores, among many topics, the collective premonitions of 9/11. He reveals the physical reality behind our uncanny telepathic experiences and intuitive hunches, and he debunks the skeptical myths surrounding them. Entangled Minds sets the stage for a rational, scientific understanding of psychic experience.
The Cognitive Emotional Brain
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Author : Luiz Pessoa
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-10-04
The Cognitive Emotional Brain written by Luiz Pessoa and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-04 with Science categories.
A study that goes beyond the debate over functional specialization to describe the ways that emotion and cognition interact and are integrated in the brain. The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain (and its corollary, that cognition resides elsewhere) shaped thinking about emotion and the brain for many years. Recent behavioral, neuropsychological, neuroanatomy, and neuroimaging research, however, suggests that emotion interacts with cognition in the brain. In this book, Luiz Pessoa moves beyond the debate over functional specialization, describing the many ways that emotion and cognition interact and are integrated in the brain. The amygdala is often viewed as the quintessential emotional region of the brain, but Pessoa reviews findings revealing that many of its functions contribute to attention and decision making, critical components of cognitive functions. He counters the idea of a subcortical pathway to the amygdala for affective visual stimuli with an alternate framework, the multiple waves model. Citing research on reward and motivation, Pessoa also proposes the dual competition model, which explains emotional and motivational processing in terms of their influence on competition processes at both perceptual and executive function levels. He considers the broader issue of structure-function mappings, and examines anatomical features of several regions often associated with emotional processing, highlighting their connectivity properties. As new theoretical frameworks of distributed processing evolve, Pessoa concludes, a truly dynamic network view of the brain will emerge, in which "emotion" and "cognition" may be used as labels in the context of certain behaviors, but will not map cleanly into compartmentalized pieces of the brain.
The Power Of The Entangled Hierarchy
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Author : Dr. Dawn Irene Eshelman Singleton, PhD
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2014-09-12
The Power Of The Entangled Hierarchy written by Dr. Dawn Irene Eshelman Singleton, PhD and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-12 with Medical categories.
When Dawn Singleton's teenage daughter suffered two gymnastic accidents, she had no idea that this crisis would lead her on a path not only to help her daughter to heal, but to transform her own life's calling. The Power of the Entangled Hierarchy is the inspiring, powerful testimony of Dawn’s experience learning to use quantum biofeedback, particularly the Indigo biofeedback technology. Dawn’s in-depth discussion of quantum biofeedback includes her daughter’s case history and course of treatment, as well as enlightening and insightful information about quantum technology and the ways in which modern medicine repeatedly fails patients with traumatic brain injury, who are frequently misdiagnosed with psychiatric or emotional disorders. Offering hope for miracles, Dawn’s remarkable book is a gift to anyone who is searching for a new, different, integrated path to healing.
Beyond The Brain
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Author : Louise Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-22
Beyond The Brain written by Louise Barrett and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-22 with Psychology categories.
When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ecological niches, and physical attributes. How do these differences influence animal thinking and behavior? Removing our human-centered spectacles, Louise Barrett investigates the mind and brain and offers an alternative approach for understanding animal and human cognition. Drawing on examples from animal behavior, comparative psychology, robotics, artificial life, developmental psychology, and cognitive science, Barrett provides remarkable new insights into how animals and humans depend on their bodies and environment--not just their brains--to behave intelligently. Barrett begins with an overview of human cognitive adaptations and how these color our views of other species, brains, and minds. Considering when it is worth having a big brain--or indeed having a brain at all--she investigates exactly what brains are good at. Showing that the brain's evolutionary function guides action in the world, she looks at how physical structure contributes to cognitive processes, and she demonstrates how these processes employ materials and resources in specific environments. Arguing that thinking and behavior constitute a property of the whole organism, not just the brain, Beyond the Brain illustrates how the body, brain, and cognition are tied to the wider world.
Empathy A Quantum Approach The Psychical Influence Of Emotion
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Author : Dr. Theresa M. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-02
Empathy A Quantum Approach The Psychical Influence Of Emotion written by Dr. Theresa M. Kelly and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02 with Science categories.
This textbook, written by bestselling author and metaphysicist Dr. Theresa M. Kelly, offers you straightforward, honest explanations of psychical empathy through new research initiatives in parapsychology, psychology, neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and related subjects for a semi-technical audience. Whether you are an intelligent layperson or professional curious about empathy, or looking to discover how to utilize empathy, this textbook will provide a detailed framework, without complicated equations, onto which more advanced concepts can be applied. For students of Empathic Studies, this textbook will be a revelation of what actions and influences you are involved in and exactly how you can take your empathic ability to a completely new level step-by-step. (Includes: Models, Definitions, Descriptions, Techniques, and Therapeutic and Experimental Practical Applications.) A Textbook of the University of Alternative Studies.
Complex Integration Of Multiple Brain Systems In Therapy Ipnb
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Author : Beatriz Sheldon
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2021-12-14
Complex Integration Of Multiple Brain Systems In Therapy Ipnb written by Beatriz Sheldon and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Psychology categories.
Enabling patients’ minds to change the structure of their brains. Beatriz and Albert Sheldon have spent the last 20 years developing the novel therapeutic paradigm called Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems (CIMBS). They have pioneered new methodology for "reading" and assessing emotional states using their patients’ carefully observed psychophysiological phenomena as empirical evidence. CIMBS also incorporates the latest groundbreaking research on neuroplasticity, brain development, and therapeutic change. This book details their novel neurobiological and psychotherapeutic paradigm—and reveals how therapists can use it for more successful treatment. Clients come to therapy troubled by deeply ingrained neural circuits and emotional habits. The authors demonstrate how they use psychophysiological perspectives to recognize limitations in brain systems that are interfering with their patients’ functioning. And through “physiopsychotherapy,” they activate self-affirming, nonconscious emotional resources to change rigid, maladaptive neural circuits. CIMBS offers a way of “integrating” these [brain system] resources to foster more complex and flexible mental functioning and to produce more successful psychotherapeutic outcomes. The therapeutic attachment relationship between therapist and patient, and “present moment” experiences within the session rather than recollections of past trauma, are key elements in this unique emotional resource-based mode of therapy. This book is wide-ranging in documenting CIMBS' success at operationalizing neuroscience research. Translating their academic, scientific, and clinical research and successful training courses into a reference work that you can hold in your hands and savor at leisure, the Sheldons have produced an approachable, intriguing, yet comprehensive milestone in the psychotherapeutic literature.
The Spontaneous Brain
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Author : Georg Northoff
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-10-09
The Spontaneous Brain written by Georg Northoff and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Psychology categories.
An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features—a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem—whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, self, and free will. In this book, Georg Northoff does not propose new solutions to the mind-body problem; instead, he questions the problem itself, arguing that it is an empirically, ontologically, and conceptually implausible way to address the existence and reality of mental features. We are better off, he contends, by addressing consciousness and other mental features in terms of the relationship between world and brain; philosophers should consider the world-brain problem rather than the mind-body problem. This calls for a Copernican shift in vantage point—from within the mind or brain to beyond the brain—in our consideration of mental features. Northoff, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and philosopher, explains that empirical evidence suggests that the brain's spontaneous activity and its spatiotemporal structure are central to aligning and integrating the brain within the world. This spatiotemporal structure allows the brain to extend beyond itself into body and world, creating the “world-brain relation” that is central to mental features. Northoff makes his argument in empirical, ontological, and epistemic-methodological terms. He discusses current models of the brain and applies these models to recent data on neuronal features underlying consciousness and proposes the world-brain relation as the ontological predisposition for consciousness.
Entangled Narratives
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Author : Lars-Christer Hydén
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-12
Entangled Narratives written by Lars-Christer Hydén and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12 with MEDICAL categories.
As people are living longer on average than ever before, the number of those with dementia will increase. Because many will live a considerable time at home with their diagnosis, we need to know more about the ways people can adapt to and learn to live with dementia in their everyday lives. Lars-Christer Hydén argues in this book that to do so will involve re-imagining what dementia really is and what it can mean to the afflicted and their loved ones. One of the most important everyday opportunities for sharing experiences is the simple act of storytelling. But when someone close to you gradually loses the ability to tell stories and cherish the shared history you have together, this is seen as a threat to the relationship, to the feeling of belonging together, and to the identity of the person diagnosed. Therefore, learning about how people with dementia can participate in storytelling along with their families and friends helps to sustain those relationships and identities. In Entangled Narratives, Hydén not only emphasizes the possibilities that are inherent in collaborative storytelling, but instructs professionals and otherwise healthy relatives to learn how to effectively listen and, ultimately, re-imagine their patients and loved ones as collaborative meaning-makers in their lives.