Based on the latest neuroscience research, this book explains how movement enhances learning and introduces a unique and highly effective way to energize an audience and increase retention through simple body-focused techniques. It shows readers how to: tie lessons to movement t…
Learners need to move. No doubt you've noticed when training participants get antsy: shifting in their seats, restless, their attention drifting away. When you ignore the innate human desire for motion, participants learn less. Far from a necessary evil employed during breaks to…
When people are kept from moving-whether they're sitting through a presentation or stuck behind a desk-they become restless and their attention waivers. Yet most training ignores the innate human desire for motion, resulting in participants learning less. Based on the latest neu…
Brain stimulation: methodologies and interventions
An iconoclast in-depth analysis of the current understanding of DBS: efficacy, safety, indications, selection criteria and post-operative management. This book is an epistemic analysis of the presumptions, assumptions and fallacies. It provides the revolutionary potential and th…
An iconoclast in-depth analysis of the current understanding of DBS: efficacy, safety, indications, selection criteria and post-operative management. This book is an epistemic analysis of the presumptions, assumptions and fallacies. It provides the revolutionary potential and th…
Breaking ground -- "Coop, the king" -- Finding the problem in Parkinson's -- The French connection -- Learning from the leads -- DBS for psychiatry -- DBS teams take on depression -- Tourette syndrome -- Battling epilepsy -- The hardest cases -- Patients, parameters, and risks -…
The Faces of a New Field: Q & A with Jamie TalanAuthor of Deep Brain Stimulation By Aalok MehtaFebruary 27, 2009 It''s an idea as simple in conception as it is revolutionary: implanting electrodes in a person''s brain to send the malfunctioning circuits back into normalcy. Unlik…
The 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, the CIA's notorious "mind control" project. His research subjects i…
-- The Pleasure Shock weaves together biography, scientific history, and medical ethics. It is an adventure into our ever-shifting views of the mind and the fateful power we wield when we tinker with the self.