Books by Sharon Begley

Richard J. Davidson har studeret hjernemønstre hos tibetanske lamaer og har kunnet påvise meditations gavnlige effekt på hjernen. DIN HJERNES FØLELSESMÆSSIGE LIV er en samlet fremlæggelse af de sidste års opdagelser omkring hjernens smidighed og påvirkelighed og specifikt, hvad denne hjerneforskning kan lære os om sindets indretning, om vores forskellighed og om vores individuelle muligheder for at påvirke os selv og øge vores livsglæde.Bogen vil præsentere videnskabelig dokumentation for, hvorfor vi føler og reagerer, som vi gør. Den vil appellere til de mange, der ønsker at gå et skridt videre end populærpsykologien. Den vil give samleveren bedre mulighed for at forstå kærestens humørsvingninger, forældrene bedre mulighed for at forstå deres børn og bedsteforældrene mulighed for at optimere deres aldring.Richard J. Davidson er hjerneforsker og medvirkede i de samtaler mellem Dalai Lama og førende videnskabsfolk, som blev beskrevet i Goleman-bogen Destruktive følelser.

This groundbreaking book by a pioneer in neuroscience brings a new understanding of our emotions - why each of us responds so differently to the same life events and what we can do to change and improve our emotional lives.If you believe most self-help books, you would probably assume that we are all affected in the same way by events like grief or falling in love or being jilted and that only one process can help us handle them successfully.From thirty years of studying brain chemistry, Davidson shows just why and how we are all so different. Just as we all have our own DNA, so we each have our own emotional 'style' depending on our individual levels of dimensions like resilience, attention and self-awareness. Helping us to recognise our own emotional style, Davidson also shows how our brain patterns can change over our lives - and, through his fascinating experiments, what we can do to improve our emotional responses through, for example, meditation.Deepening our understanding of the mind-body connection - as well as conditions like autism and depression - Davidson stretches beyond mainstream psychology and neuroscience and expands our view of what it means to be human.

For decades, the conventional wisdom of neuroscience held that the hardware of the brain is fixed - that we are stuck with what we were born with. But recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity reveal that the brain is capable not only of altering its structure but also of generating new neurons, even into old age. The brain can adapt, heal, renew itself after trauma and compensate for disability. In this groundbreaking book, highly respected science writer Sharon Begley documents how this fundamental paradigm shift is transforming both our understanding of the human mind and our approach to deep-seated emotional, cognitive and behavioural problems. These breakthroughs show that it is possible to reset our happiness meter, regain the use of limbs disabled by stroke, train the mind to break cycles of depression and OCD and reverse age-related changes in the brain.