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We've been taught that the female brain has a large communication center and a large emotion center, and is hard-wired for empathy, and that the male brain has a large sex center and a large aggression center, and is hard-wired for building systems. Dr. Joel explains that every individual human brain is actually a unique mixture, or mosaic, of "male" and "female" features, and that these features don't map neatly into two categories.
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Después del éxito mundial de La vida secreta de la mente, Mariano Sigman reúne los últimos avances de la neurociencia y los combina con historias de vida y una dosis importante de humor para explicar cómo y por qué las buenas conversaciones mejoran nuestras decisiones, ideas, memoria y emociones. He aquí un poder que está a nuestro alcance para cambiar nuestra mente y tener una vida mejor: el poder de las palabras.
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"'Is addiction really a disease?' In this high-definition video essay, Kevin McCauley explores the arguments for and against this vital debate, reviewing the latest neuroscientific research about addiction along the way. Using the spectacular landscape of Utah's State and National Parks to describe the brain areas involved in addiction, Dr. McCauley turns complex neuroscientific concepts into easy-to-understand visual images that will help people...
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"For so long, our brain was the great unknown of human biology; a highly evolved complex of cells, chemicals and electricity which, despite that sophistication, we could not understand. Now this comprehensive guide explains the most complicated concepts from across the field of neuroscience by breaking them down into bite-sized, easily understood pieces."--Back cover.
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"¿Cómo tomamos cada una de nuestras decisiones? ¿Qué es la conciencia? ¿Y las emociones? ¿De dónde viene la inteligencia? El cerebro humano es la estructura más compleja del universo, tanto, que se propone el desafío de entenderse a sí mismo. Todo lo que hacemos depende de esta "máquina" casi perfecta, que contiene más neuronas que las estrellas que existen en nuestra galaxia. Hasta hace solo algunas décadas estas incógnitas eran abordadas...
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So many of us believe that we are free to shape our own destiny. But what if free will doesn't exist? What if our lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our brains - and our choices over what we eat, who we fall in love with, even what we believe are not real choices at all? Neuroscience is challenging everything we think we know about ourselves, revealing how we make decisions and form our own reality, unaware of the role of our unconscious...
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"¿Por qué pierde discusiones con personas que saben MUCHO MENOS que usted? ¿Por qué es capaz de reconocer a esa mujer a la que conoció aquella vez que... pero no logra recordar su nombre? ¿Por qué, tras su última ruptura sentimental, se pasó varios días seguidos en el sofá, hecho un ovillo, y sin mover más que la mano para secarse los mocos y las lágrimas de la cara de cualquier manera? He aquí por qué: por la idiotez de nuestro cerebro....
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