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The Brain and Pain: Breakthroughs in Neuroscience

Pain is an inevitable part of existence, but severe debilitating or chronic pain is a pathological condition that diminishes the quality of life. The Brain and Pain explores the present and future of pain management, providing a comprehensive understanding based on the latest discoveries from many branches of neuroscience.

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Richard Ambron―the former director of a neuroscience lab that conducted leading research in this field―explains the science of how and why we feel pain. He describes how the nervous system and brain process information that leads to the experience of pain, detailing the cellular and molecular functions that are responsible for the initial perceptions of an injury. He discusses how pharmacological agents such as opiates affect the duration and intensity of pain. Ambron examines new evidence showing that discrete circuits in the brain modulate the experience of pain in response to a placebo, fear, anxiety, belief, or other circumstances, as well as how pain can be relieved by activating these circuits using mindfulness training and other nonpharmacological treatments. The book also evaluates the prospects of procedures such as deep brain stimulation and optogenetics. Current and thorough, The Brain and Pain will be invaluable for a range of people seeking to understand their options for treatment as well as students in neuroscience and medicine. Review This book may be of specific interest to students at any level who are interested in medicine, neuroscience, or biology but should also be accessible to anyone interested in the mechanisms of pain perception and treatment, provided they do not mind learning some biology on the way. ― Choice

Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age

Living in an age of digital distraction has wreaked havoc on our brains--but there's much we can do to restore our tech-life balance. We live in a world that is always on, where everyone is always connected. But we feel increasingly disconnected. Why? The answer lies in our brains.

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Carl D. Marci, MD, a leading expert on social and consumer neuroscience, reviews the mounting evidence that overuse of smart phones and social media is rewiring our brains, resulting in a losing deal: we are neglecting the relationships that sustain us and keep us healthy in favor of weaker and more ephemeral ties. The ability to connect and form strong social bonds is fundamental to human experience and emerged through unique structures in our brains. But ever-more-powerful technologies and ubiquitous access to media have hijacked our need to connect intimately and emotionally with others. The quick highs of clicking "like" and swiping right overstimulate the same neurological reward centers associated with social relationships. The habits that accompany our digital lifestyles are putting tremendous pressure on critical components of the brain associated with attention, emotion, and memory, changing how we process information and altering how we communicate and relate, even at a physiological level. As a psychiatrist working at the forefront of research on the impact of digital technology, Marci has seen this transformation up close and developed a range of responses. Rewired provides scientifically supported solutions for everyone who wants to restore their tech-life balance--from parents concerned about their children's exposure to the internet to stressed workers dealing with the deluge of emails and managing the expectation of 24/7 availability.

Pain Neuroscience Education: Teaching People About Pain

Evidence shows that patients who better understand their pain and what pain truly is experience less pain, have less fear, move better, exercise more and can regain hope.
This physical therapy textbook explains how to teach your patients about pain and how to integrate pain neuroscience education into your practice.

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Written by clinicians for clinicians, the revised second edition of this physical therapy book contains significant updates and new content presented in a way that is relevant and readily applicable to real-world clinical settings. The authors deliver an evidence-based perspective on how the body and brain work together to create pain, teach how to convey this new view of pain to patients in a way that’s easily understood and internalized, and demonstrate how to successfully integrate pain neuroscience education into a practice. Covered in this neuroscience book are topics such as: The relationship between cognitions and pain Concepts of pain neuroscience education (PNE) Practical application of a PNE program How to integrate PNE into movement-based practice This neuroscience textbook and clinical guide is not only the perfect way to introduce students to the evidence base and application of pain neuroscience education, but also helps clinicians productively treat chronic pain instead of just managing it. Published On: 2023-01-27 Outstanding compilation of Pain Neuroscience Education material: This book is an outstanding compilation of Pain Neuroscience Education material. It includes the science and how to apply that science/knowledge into patient treatment using a bio psychosocial approach. There is a value in this book for those who treat patients with chronic pain, as well as,applications in treating acute pain in a way that reduces the potential for onset of chronic pain

Neuroscience for Dummies, 2e

An introductory neuroscience class, offering readers an understanding of the brain's structure and function, as well as a look into the relationship between memory, learning, emotions, and the brain. Providing insight into the biology of mental illness and a glimpse at future treatments and applications of neuroscience.

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📢 in : 'Transparent Minds in : An Introduction to , and ', by Paul Matthews.

'Transparent Minds' explores the intersection between and stories. Paul Matthews expertly analyses the narratives of and from to across 200 years of the genre.

In doing so he gives lucid insight into the meaning of and . Rigorously researched and highly accessible, Matthews argues that psycho-emotional writers both imitate and inform and consciousnesses through exploratory narratives and metaphor.

The work constitutes a major contribution to cross-disciplinary perspectives on and , that engages with future states of existence in both ourselves and the machines we create.

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Cover of 'Transparent Minds' on a 3D image of a tablet, a phone, and a book.

My first post in Mastodon!
I'm Nosrat, I'm doing my PhD in computational neuroscience in university of Geneva.
I’m working on understanding underlying dynamics via direct measurement of neural spiking under the supervision of Timothée Proix.
A repost would be amazing as I’m finding my network here in Mastodon.