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Neurology and psychology are two sides of the same coin - at least for ordinary people. Both deal with that tricky topic: consciousness. Psychology starts with the experience and behavior of people like you and me. Neurology starts with the physical aspect of that: what happens in our brain, our nerves, our senses.
Neurology in laymens terms
Examples of such disorders include autism, headaches, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, sleep disorders, cerebral palsy, infection of the brain or the central nervous system, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome etc.
What all these syndromes and illnesses have in common is that they affect or are caused by problems in the nervous system: whether it's the brain itself, the nerves in the spinal cord or the nerve systems elsewhere in the body. Any disease that affects the brain specifically (whether it is cancer or epilepsy) will be treated by a neurologist as well.
The Rosetta Stone of the Human Mind
Three languages to integrate neurobiology and psychology
The Rosetta Stone of the Human Mind: Three languages to integrate neurobiology and psychology
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Books by Oliver Sacks
A Leg to Stand On
In this book Oliver Sacks writes from his own experience with leg trouble. In effect: the doctor becomes a patient, with a neurological disorder. Sacks goes into the whole process with a writer (and scientists) eye for detail.
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
Just what the title says: a book about neurology and music. In Oliver Sacks' personal style. As usual plenty of detailed observations about specific cases: real people with mind boggling problems. All centered around that ultimate joy for many people: music.
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Vintage Sacks
A great introduction into neurology - by gathering some of the most famous case studies by Oliver Sacks'.
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
One of the most famous books by Oliver Sacks, and the first one I personally read. As in all his later books - it's a great read, and instructive too. You will never think about your brain in the same way again.
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Awakenings
A movie was made after this book - and it's a great movie. But the book is fascinating in it's own right. Sacks finds himself in a mental hospital where people who contracted the sleeping sickness of 1918 are held. He gives them a medication that wakes them up after years of coma. The results are staggering and mind blowing (really). Reading this book (like all the books by Oliver Sacks) will give you a new appreciation of the wonders of the working brain - because you have an inkling of all that can go wrong.
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Science
This means that the things we take for granted are always going to be questioned. Questions, not answers are the scientists stock in trade. Though of course, ultimately the use of science is the surprising (and hopefully useful) answers they come up with.
One of the issues with any science of consciousness is that the ultimate scientific buzzword 'objectivity' is a bit hard. How can one say something objective about the ultimate subjective: our consciousness?
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Psychology
Psychology also refers to the application of this knowledge to various spheres of human activity, including issues related to everyday life (e.g. family, education, and employment) and the treatment of mental health problems. Psychologists attempt to understand how perception, thinking, emotion and personality impact individual and social behavior. But it is also concerned with the underlying physiological and neurological processes.
Psychology is best known for producing the 'shrink' (or psychotherapist): a person who (in stereotype) listens to the problems people have and gives advice or exercises to help people solve their personal and social problems.
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Dr. Phil books: practical psychology
Real Life: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life
Goes into the life challenges most of us go through:
* Loss
* Fear
* Adaptability Breakdown
* Physical Health
* Mental Health
* Addiction
* Existential Crisis
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Relationship Rescue: A Seven-Step Strategy for Reconnecting with Your Partner
"I'm prepared to kick a hole in the wall of the pain-ridden, unhappy maze you've gotten yourself into, and provide you clear access to action-oriented answers and instructions on what you must do to have what you want," says Dr. Phil. His aim is to expose and eliminate the saboteurs that cause senseless damage to already-fragile marriages, and, like an emotional root canal, to replace them with values he says provide positive results. If you follow Dr. Phil's strategy, he will lead you on a precise journey to uncover your heart and then share it with your partner as part of taking the "risk of intimacy."
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Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family
Dr. Phil offers a new classic on family life -- and gives parents real answers and a plan for being the most positive and effective parents possible. Starting right now, you can begin to make realistic choices and take day-to-day actions that can make your family phenomenal. You must decide that you will lead your family with strength and love and that peace and joy are not just for the people next door or on TV. They're for your family.
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An introduction into psychology
Psychology for Dummies
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- OhMe OhMe Jul 16, 2009 @ 8:56 pm
- I just finished reading "My Stroke of Insight" by Jill Bolte Taylor . It is an amazing book. I highly recommend it if you have not read it. You sure have some great books listed here.
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- julcal julcal Feb 21, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
- Hey, this is a great idea for a lens! I love Oliver Sacks' work. Loved Awakenings! I'm not a great fan of the way modern psychology approaches understanding what people are about. you are right, they are trained to be scientists. the problem is, it is my understanding they are trained toward looking only at the objective. My husband teaches at Rutgers U, highly rated psych dept in the U.S. By FAR most of the faculty there doesn't believe the unconscious exists. It can't be proven by their science. It boggles my mind every time I hear that from him - psychologists who don't believe in the unconscious? It's unscientific. Thus, they are producing shrinks who are behaviorists. no depth analysts are being produced and that's where the real work is done.
My husband is an outlier, but his classes are filled to the max - 1,000 students a semester. No matter what they name his class, he teaches the same thing: Love, Mysticism and Psychotherapy. His students love him; colleagues shun him.5*
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