Marisa Menchola

A Brain-Friendly Life

How to Manage Cognitive Overload and Reduce Glitching

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Produktbeschreibung

Menchola draws on her experience as a clinical neuropsychologist who has worked with a widely diverse group of patients, to translate the findings from highly controlled research into concrete strategies that people can implement in their messy worlds to make their days more brain-friendly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781032529400
• ISBN-10: 1032529407
• Artikelnr.: 70600267

Autorenporträt

Marisa Menchola is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist and Associate Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona (United States). She also has a forensic private practice and consulting office in Tucson, Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Depleted Brains in a Demanding World. Part I: Why we glitch.
Chapter 1: How our brain works. Chapter 2: Neurocognitive disorders.
Chapter 3: A brain-unfriendly life. Part II: Tending to our depleted
brains.
Chapter 4: Chronic stress. Chapter 5: Mental health. Chapter 6: Medical
conditions. Chapter 7: Sleep. Chapter 8: Substance use. Chapter 9: The
aging brain. Part III: Decreasing cognitive overload. Chapter 10: Life.
Chapter 11: Slowing down. Chapter 12: Hitting pause. Chapter 13: Taming our
attention. Chapter 14: Outsourcing mental tasks. Chapter 15: Minimizing
multitasking. Chapter 16: Containing worry.
Chapter 17: Befriending our emotions. Chapter 18: Transforming our
thoughts. Chapter 19: Back to the body.
Chapter 20: Sparking alertness. Chapter 21: Reclaiming our time. Parting
Thoughts: Looking Upstream. Appendix: Seeking Help: The Evaluation Process.