Washoe County Library System

Shares strategies for optimizing the brain to safeguard against disease while promoting overall wellness and improving focus, memory, energy, mood, inner peace, and relationships.

"In Whole Health, Dr. Mark Mincolla outlines the Whole Health Healing System, his unique healing system based on more than thirty years' experience as a medical practitioner. This system integrates elements of classical Chinese medicine, personalized nutrition, and extrasensory energy medicine, while inspiring, empowering, and teaching its patients and students how to attain balance in body, mind, and spirit"--

"Leading psychiatrist/researcher Jesse Wright and his daughter Laura McCray, a family physician, have seen thousands of depressed patients in their practices--and have learned that a range of different treatments work. Infused with warmth, optimism, and clinical know-how, this book presents simple yet powerful depression-fighting strategies that sufferers can try on their own. Drs. Wright and McCray offer a flexible menu of treatment ideas plus clear...

"Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder can be devastating to the person who has the disorder and to his or her family. Depression and bipolar disorder affect every aspect of how a person functions, including their thoughts, feelings, actions, and relationships with other people. Family members and close friends are often the first to recognize the subtle changes and symptoms of depression. They are also the ones who provide daily...

"Do you freak out at small things? Do you yell at people or things when you don't mean to? Do you you sometime cry or get scared and you aren't sure why? Does it sometimes feel like your feelings control you? All of these feelings are a normal part of life for everybody but sometimes they're just too much and it seems like you're the only one the planet that feels them. Our brains are doing their best to help us out, but sometimes we get hurt instead....

It all starts with your brain: how you think, how you feel, how you interact with others, and how well you succeed in realizing your goals and dreams. When your brain works right, so do you. When it's out of balance, you feel frustrated, or worse. Yet amid all the advice about how to keep the rest of our body strong and healthy, we hear very little about how to keep the most complex and magnificent organ of all in top working order. Here, Dr. Amen...

"Heal the hidden cause of your symptoms with the 5-step Mind Detox method Details an effective 5-step technique that quickly resolves the root-cause experiences and beliefs that trigger chronic conditions and negative behavior patterns Explores the most common unhealthy beliefs that have been found to negatively impact health, wealth and happiness, and shows ways to heal them Provides practical healing tools like Blind-Spot Busting, Decision Destroyers,...

Luke Jackson serves up a sparkling guide to young adulthood on the autism spectrum in this sequel to his best-selling Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome. Offering personal insights, he covers everything from bullying and drugs to finding a job, navigating relationships, and sex. A must read for all young adults with autism.

The author of the best-selling 30-Day Heart Tune-Up and Smart Fat explains how diet and lifestyle can render the brain insulin resistant to prevent and reverse cognitive declines and memory loss, in a guide that identifies brain-bolstering foods and supplements while providing 50 easy-to-prepare recipes.

"The human brain can actually grow--and a bigger brain means better memory, creativity, speed of learning, and ability to concentrate. In Boost Your Brain, Majid Fotuhi, M.D., Ph.D., guides you through the innovative brain fitness program that he has developed for his patients at the NeurExpand Brain Center, an institute dedicated to helping people quickly sharpen their brain performance. You start the program with an assessment of your current brain...