Emotional Life of Your Brain How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--And How You Can Change Them

Name: Emotional Life of Your Brain How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--And How You Can Change Them
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ISBN: 9780452298880

ISBN-10: 0452298881

ISBN-13: 9780452298880

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Authors: Richard J. Davidson, Sharon Begley

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What is your emotional fingerprint?Why are some people so quick to recover from setbacks? Why are some so attuned to others that they seem psychic? Why are some people always up and others always down? In his thirty-year quest to answer these questions, pioneering neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson discovered that each of us has an Emotional Style, composed of Resilience, Outlook, Social Intuition, Self-Awareness, Sensitivity to Context, and Attention. Where we fall on these six continuums determines our own “emotional fingerprint.”Sharing Dr. Davidson’s fascinating case histories and experiments,The Emotional Life of Your Brainoffers a new model for treating conditions like autism and…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 12/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction: A Scientific Quest



One Brain Does Not Fit All



The Discovery of Emotional Style



Assessing Your Emotional Style



The Brain Basis of Emotional Style



How Emotional Style Develops



The Mind-Brain-Body Connection, or How Emotional Style Influences Health



Normal and Abnormal, and When "Different" Becomes Pathological



The Plastic Brain



Coming Out of the Closet



The Monk in the Machine



Rewired, or Neurally Inspired Exercises to Change Your Emotional Style


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index