Product Description
BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK
In this breakthrough bestseller, you’ll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You’re not stuck with the brain you’re born with. Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen’s surprising–and effective–”brain prescriptions” that can help heal your brain and change your life:
To Quell Anxiety and Panic:
¸ Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner turmoil
To Fight Depression:
¸ Learn how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts)
To Curb Anger:
¸ Follow the Amen anti-anger diet and learn the nutrients that calm rage
To Conquer Impulsiveness and Learn to Focus:
¸ Develop total focus with the “One-Page Miracle”
To Stop Obsessive Worrying:
¸ Follow the “get unstuck” writing exercise and learn other problem-solving exercises
From the Trade Paperback edition.Amazon.com Review
In this age of do-it-yourself health care (heck, if the doctor only sees you for 10 minutes each visit, what other options are there?), Change Your Brain, Change Your Life fits in perfectly. Filled with “brain prescriptions” (among them cognitive exercises and nutritional advice) that are geared toward readers who’ve experienced anxiety, depression, impulsiveness, excessive anger or worry, and obsessive behavior, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life milks the mind-body connection for all it’s worth.
Written by a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has also authored a book on attention deficit disorder, Change Your Brain contains dozens of brain scans of patients with various neurological problems, from caffeine, nicotine, and heroin addiction to manic-depression to epilepsy. These scans, often showing large gaps in neurological activity or areas of extreme overactivity, are downright frightening to look at, and Dr. Amen should know better than to resort to such scare tactics. But he should also be commended for advocating natural remedies, including deep breathing, guided imagery, meditation, self-hypnosis, and biofeedback for treating disorders that are so frequently dealt with by prescription only.
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I don’t know about advocating natural remedies, including deep breathing, guided imagery, meditation, self-hypnosis, and biofeedback for treating disorders that are so frequently dealt with by prescription only. One can only imagine why people in the world are so screwed-up. Alcohol, drugs, depression, psychosis, bi-polar-mania, skizoid Freud. Will this book treat and cure us? Will this MD show us the way to faith and posterity? Drug freedom is merely a dream, doctors advocate drugs for anything and everything. Without drugs and changing your brain, will that change your life? Will that conquer anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, anger and impulsiveness? Perhaps, perhaps not. Enjoy what you have before you give it away or it is taken away from you. I imagine most of you won’t like what I’ve written above, after all personal denial is on the upsweep.
I’m the author of the book KISSING FREUD, a fascinating psycho comedy/drama, and the book DUBROVNIK, a thrilling spy/adventure story in the beautiful city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Both books are available here at amazon.com/books. Enjoy.
Rating: 3 / 5
I cannot recommend this book. Keep in mind,I sometimes wear fake suede and artificial silk-at least these things have an advantage over the real thing in that they are cheap and washable.Sometimes they even look fairly good.The pseudo science in this book overs no advantages over the real thing .Admittedly, it almost says something of some value every 4rth page or so, but I still cannot recommend it.
Rating: 2 / 5
If You have ADD or know some one who does, cost for treating it
are 2000 to 5000 dollars a year. If You or a family have it
and are on wefare good luck because the program does not pay
for it. Book could of told of the few government programs that
do.
Rating: 3 / 5
I loved this, I now have Mr Instability for my career problems and a quick laugh and this book for all others..great week!
Rating: 5 / 5
Actually, this is a review of the reviewers. But a little about myself. For 9 years I performed failure analysis for safety related systems in nuclear reactors. Safety related systems are those used to safely shut down a reactor when it needs to be. When a part doesn’t work as expected, you have to know why. Why? Because you can’t fix it unless you know what it is you need to fix. I’ll end it here, but I’m sure the reader can now appreciate all the arguments, pointing fingers, investigations, test, communications, travels, lies, stories and pressure (you have to have a reason and solution in 72 hours or the NRC will force you to shut down the reactor) you get hit with. It has taught me to look at things differently.
I see two groups of people here: those that are for and those who are against. I see the writing style. Before you even hit the keys, you have decided what you want to say. Bias.
For those of us that think Dr. Amen’s approach is the best thing since sliced bread…..beware. This is new. It has some valid points. I myself relied on a vast army of tools, including the electron microscope. Yes, EM. I was able to do in two days what General Electric took to do in one month. Once you have all the data you can possibly secure and boiled it down into information (very important concept here) only then can you sit back and form a conclusion. At no time can you be bias before the conclusion phase. And you are asking for trouble in your conclusions if you base everything on one experience.
For those of us that think Dr. Amen’s approach is akin to snake oil…. beware. The world does revolve around the sun. In nuclear, you can have the best program running in a computer and it won’t work if the computer hardware is at fault. You can have the best computer in the world but it won’t work if the program is faulty. You can imagine the complexity if both are at fault. And both won’t work properly if the operator doesn’t understand what the results mean (Three Mile Island). Having said that, I get a little edgy when a person says it has nothing to do with the hardware or the hardware couldn’t possibly contribute to the faulting net system results. Then resort to personal attacks to ensure the validity of his conclusions. As soon as I see personal attacks to boost a conclusion, all bets are off. There are emotions here and emotions have a way of tainting data. Many of you have done this in your reviews of Dr. Amen’s book. You proved you were bias and as a result your data, information and conclusions are corrupt.
Now for something we all wanted to know. If a tree falls in the forest, and no one was there, did it make a noise? Most of you will remember this in high school or college and no one had a solution but boy did it entertain!!
First, what is noise. You need an energy source and a transducer. Energy is fed to a transducer and the transducer vibrates. A transmitter. Second, we need a receiver, which is our second transducer. It receives the vibrations and converts it to…. on the part of a human, sound. A tape recorder can also produce the same results. The third part, and this is the part that everyone forgets, the transmitting media. You have to transmit those vibrations from the source transducer to the receiving transducer. In air, it’s air. In water, it’s water. Or wood, teeth and bone in the case of Beethoven.
Lets test. I talk to you, you hear. I stop talking to you, you do not hear. You leave the room, you do not hear. We take the air out of the room, you do not hear.
Second test. You and I outside of the space shuttle way up above earth. No radio. I talk, you do not hear. I press my helmet to yours. I talk, you hear. You leave, you do not hear. I stop talking, you do not hear.
Third test. You are in a city. You have a radio. The talk host is talking. You hear the talk host. You walk away from the radio. You do not hear the talk host. The talk host stops talking, you do not hear him. The battery dies on the radio, you do not hear the talk host. Air, in this instance, is irrelevant. The mic can be attached to the person’s throat expelling air as he talks in into a vacuum and the headphone is attached to the receiver’s cochlear implant (just in case there are those who wish to argue).
What we have: We have identified three elements essential to sound. You must have a transmitter, the transmitting medium, the receiver. Sound relies on these three elements. If we take any one of them away, you do not have sound.
In the woods, you have the transmitter, the falling tree. You have the transmitting medium, air. You do not have a receiver.
What is your conclusion?
The tree did not make a sound in the forest when it fell because no one was around.
Rating: 4 / 5