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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 571
EAN: 9780060988470
ISBN: 0060988479
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: October 01, 2003
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Studio: Harper Perennial
Features:- ISBN13: 9780060988470
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The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
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I wanted a book on how to increase brain performance, that is not the focus of this book. The book is about the advances in neuro-sciences and how it challenges the ideas of materialism and suggests that the brain can grow and develop throughout life. The author gives good information which can easily be cross referenced. Difficult concepts are explained for the average reader. The author tends to repeat information and conclusions in the middle of the text slowing things ... Read More
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Jeff Schwartz writes a great book that ties in his personal Buddhist experiences with mindfulness, experience as a well established UCLA psychiatrist who has had groundbreaking progress with OCD patients, and many important historical people and points. The book is well written and contains a lot of valuable information. The reason I give it 4 stars, is because in some parts of the book- he gets a bit redundant. It almost seems as if he is trying to stretch his book to be thicker than it needs to ... Read More
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In my opinion, the greatest contribution of The Mind and the Brain lies in it's discussion of the potential of brain cells to change and adapt to new functions and even to reproduce. Brain plasticity is a new, revolutionary concept in neuroscience. It is revolutionary concept in psychotherapy as well.
Dr. Schwartz's particular interest seems to lie in the area of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Using the concept of brain plasticity he presents a four step plan in the treatment of OCD. ... Read More
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In March of this year (2009), I experienced a series of meditations that led me to the same types of conclusions about my "mind" and my "brain" that Schwartz and Stapp come to in their study of quantum mechanics. And the similarities are nearly verbatim. To be fair, I took QM in One Dimension in 1990 at the University of Washington. So having devoured one college level text, I have also read several other noteworthy books on the subject. These conclusions, however, never led me to any conclusive evidence ... Read More
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(1) A book with good information and thoughts
The Mind and The Brain covered many interesting and important subjects for those who consider themselves thinkers of humanity.
I had Ph.D in solid State Physics and had been thinking along a similar line of thoughts about the philosophical implication of Quantum physics for 30 years. I think the book has the breath and the depth to be considered a great book, although the conclusion of attention being the mental force, in my opinion, is ... Read More
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