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1) The Scientific American healthy aging brain: the neuroscience of making the most of your mature mind
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Series
Language
English
Description
Drawn from the latest research, this fascinating book offers new insight about how the brain ages; provides strategies for promoting brain health; reveals how aging people can still achieve new levels of intelligence and learn new skills and more.
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Publisher
Wydawnictwo Czarne
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Polish
Description
Po prostu zawsze byłem błaznem. Dla mnie posągowość często jest podejrzana, sztuczna i nadęta mówi o sobie jeden z najbardziej oryginalnych polskich uczonych i popularyzatorów nauki. W rozmowie Marcina Rotkiewicza z profesorem Jerzym Vetulanim spotkamy zatem nie tylko znanego naukowca, ale także artystę i współzałożyciela Piwnicy pod Baranami, showmana, młodego buntownika, ulubieńca kobiet i ojca palącego z synem skręta. W trakcie...
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Mind & Life Institute/New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When science meets religion, the result can be explosive--or insightful. His Holiness the Dalai Lama poses many questions about secular approaches to mindfulness, the brain biology of meditation, and meditation's relationship to mental and physical health, which are then answered by the preeminent meditation scholars, academics, and researchers in each specialty.
11) Consciousness at the crossroads: conversations with the Dalai Lama on brain science and Buddhism
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Snow Lion Publications
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Organized by the Mind and Life Institute, this discussion addresses some of the most troublesome questions that have driven a wedge between Western science and religion. Consciousness at the Crossroads resulted from meetings of the Dalai Lama and a group of eminent neuroscientists and psychiatrists. Is the mind an ephemeral side-effect of the brain's physical processes? Are there forms of consciousness so subtle that science has not yet identified...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Carrie Figdor presents a critical assessment of how psychological terms are used to describe the non-human biological world. She argues against the anthropocentric attitude which takes human cognition as the standard against which non-human capacities are measured, and offers an alternative basis for naturalistic explanation of the mind.