Bøger af Michael P. Cohen

You really CAN change your brain without medication.Maybe you've struggled for years with anxiety, depression, ADHD, migraines, PTSD, obsessive thinking, sleep issues or other unwanted conditions. You've tried medication, psychotherapy, breathing techniques, yoga, exercise or dietary changes-with no permanent relief.Neurofeedback is an emerging technology that's helped thousands of people feel better-without medication. It allows you to gently nudge your brain along through training until it learns to operate in a healthier manner.Neurofeedback is a form of biofeedback that's like a gym for your brain. The training improves your brain's timing which, in turn, improves its functioning. When your brain works better, you feel better. It's like heavy-duty weight training for the brain, even though you do it while relaxing in a chair.Once you've done sufficient training, these improvements are often long-term.Neurofeedback 101 explains how you change your brain--in clear, simple terms. It's full of real cases of how training has helped children and adults with their symptoms. There's a section that offers a thorough discussion of important questions and issues about neurofeedback - designed both for professionals and consumers.Author Michael P. Cohen is Director and Chief of Neurotechnology at the Center for Brain Training in Jupiter, Florida, one of the largest neurofeedback practices in South Florida. He's specialized in neurofeedback and helping individuals improve their brain function since 1996. He's taught more than 2,500 health professionals how to utilize neurofeedback in a clinical practice.If you want to explore how the brain can rewire and retrain itself, Neurofeedback 101 will give you the answers and resources you need. Please note: This book is NOT a manual or textbook on how to conduct neurofeedback. It provides general information on what neurofeedback is, how it works, and what neurofeedback can do. Those wishing to learn how to do neurofeedback should seek out books designed for that purpose.

In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential evolutionary theorist, George C. Williams (May 12, 1926-September 8, 2010), the author contends that certain classic works of evolutionary theory and history are the most important nature writing of recent times. What it means to be scientifically literate-is essential for humanistic scholars, who must ground themselves with literary reading of scientific texts. As the most influential American evolutionary theorist of the second half of the twentieth century, Williams masters critique, frames questions about adaptation and natural selection, and answers in a plain, aphoristic writing style. Williams aims for parsimony-to "e;recognize adaptation at the level necessitated by the facts and no higher"e;-through a minimalist writing style. This voice articulates a powerful process that operates at very low levels by blind and selfish chance at the expense of its designed products, using purely trial and error. 

By creating a dialogue between geological and literary representations, where the geological becomes metaphorical, while science turns mythological, these essays shaped by on-the-rock encounters with landforms, open up important experiential and pragmatic dimensions.

Tree Lines unites striking ink drawings of high-altitude pine trees with poetic vignettes about how people interact with mountain environments. The drawings and text work together to form a direct artistic encounter with timberline conifers. The husband and wife team of Valerie and Michael Cohen employ a unique process whereby she draws in isolation, gives him her drawings, and he then writes whatever he's inspired to create. Neither offers the other any kind of feedback or instruction. The result is an accessible and deeply engaging work that is also extremely well researched; the Cohens bring a lifetime of scholarship in literature, history, and the environment to this work.The drawings are black-and-white, pen-and-ink representations of high alpine ecosystems. The prose is stripped bare, abbreviated in an epigrammatic style that is poetic and spontaneous. Trees represented here are the Western Juniper or Sierra Juniper, the Limber, and the Bristlecone Pine - three species of long-lived, slow-growing conifers that grow across the Great Basin. While they represent only a small portion of the vegetative culture high in the western mountains, the Cohens use representation as abstraction as is utilized by writers and artists to convey a unique kind of microcosm of our natural environment. This book compares to such classics as Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, and Berger's Ways of Seeing, which open up lines of observation, analysis, and art for a new generation of readers.