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| | Description | How to rewire your brain to improve virtually every aspect of your life-based on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology on neuroplasticity and evidence-based practices Not long ago, it was thought that the brain you were born with was the brain you would die with, and that the brain cells you had at birth were the most you would ever possess. Your brain was thought to be “hardwired” to function in predetermined ways. It turns out that's not true. Your brain is not hardwired, it's "softwired" by experience. This book shows you how you can rewire parts of the brain to feel more positive about your life, remain calm during stressful times, and improve your social relationships. Written by a leader in the field of Brain-Based Therapy, it teaches you how to activate the parts of your brain that have been underactivated and calm down those areas that have been hyperactivated so that you feel positive about your life and remain calm during stressful times. You will also learn to improve your memory, boost your mood, have better relationships, and get a good night sleep. - Reveals how cutting-edge developments in neuroscience, and evidence-based practices can be used to improve your everyday life
- Other titles by Dr. Arden include: Brain-Based Therapy-Adult, Brain-Based Therapy-Child, Improving Your Memory For Dummies and Heal Your Anxiety Workbook
- Dr. Arden is a leader in integrating the new developments in neuroscience with psychotherapy and Director of Training in Mental Health for Kaiser Permanente for the Northern California Region
Explaining exciting new developments in neuroscience and their applications to daily living, Rewire Your Brain will guide you through the process of changing your brain so you can change your life and be free of self-imposed limitations. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | John B. Arden PhD | | Paperback: | 256 pages | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Publication Date: | March 22, 2010 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0470487291 | | Package Length: | 8.9 inches | | Package Width: | 6.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Rewire Your Brain: Think your way to a better life Jul 15, 2010
I downloaded "Rewire your brain" with much anticipation. Mr. Arden's examples of patient successes were oversimplified explanations that bend to his theory. If the people shown in his book were completely well with no underlying physical illnesses other than mild psychological ones, no stress so deep, so real, in some cases insurmountable that the most heroic efforts worked, like many people are undergoing right now, then yes, some of his suggestions might help with moderate depression or bad habits or a slipping memory. But who is perfectly healthy, now?
The book was so last century. Not a cutting edge book on neuroplasticity written in 2010 that I had hoped for and the review promised. Mr. Arden, PHD talks about good memory but neglects the thyroid. Who researches plasticity and talks about a good memory or studies the brain without a full discussion of the implications of thyroid disease and it's effect on the brain, and subsequent depression?
Mr. Arden minimized and explained symptoms away when advising a patient with thyroid disease, which has a bagful of symptoms that mimic everything from Alzheimer's to mental illness to mind numbing depression. He diagnoses him with "loneliness." Treatment for the disease with thyroid supplementation might have relieved his "loneliness" or the mental illness that often accompanies this disease within the first few days of taking the missing or low hormone, especially with desiccated natural hormone. How do you treat depressive patients for 35 years and not associate thyroid disease with depression? That patient example was fairly far along in the book but it was where I quit reading, and started skimming.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 REWIRE YOUR FOCUS AND EFFORTS Jul 13, 2010
Author John Arden, Ph.D, is also the director of training in Mental Health for Kaiser Permanente in Northern California. His background makes him abundantly qualified to create a book with the objective of helping people "rewire" their brains. It's a tall, difficult, and very challenging order, but the book's content makes it possible.
John anecdotally illustrates the effectiveness of his F.E.E.D. method for helping people overcome their thinking based difficulties through stories about his patients. This rather simple system of altering behavior consists of four steps: focus, effort, effortlessness, and determination.
Focus is the ability to pay attention to situations without distraction. Effort is equated with actions and behaviors which help you change the things you habitually do, or how you naturally think. Effortlessness is the desired condition in which you have trained yourself through repetition to do things instinctively. Determination means simply staying in practice by engaging in beneficial actions again, and again, until they become natural.
Now, that you know what the book is about, I must tell you that it's peppered with a lot of neuroscientific lingo, but don't be alarmed; every field has it's own lexicon, and if you are interested in the brain and how it operates, this book will help you build the vocabulary you need to communicate accurately and intelligently with other brainiacs.
I found the sections on memory, nutrition, sleep, and social medicine (in particular relationship attachment styles) to be eye-opening. Because all of us need to rewire our brains in some way, at some point, this book will provide you with deeper insight into your own thinking process, as well as that of others. Most importantly, it will provide you with excellent instruction on how to change the way you think, and think your way to a better life in the process.
38 of 40 found the following review helpful:
Useful, well written, and informative Apr 05, 2010
This book looked interesting as the neural plasticity movement is something that has come along in recent decades, since I was trained in neurobiology, and wanted to find out more about it since I felt I was somewhat out of date on new developments. So I bought the book and brought it home.
Then I looked at the back cover and it said the author was the "Director of Training in Mental Health at Kaiser Permanente." I almost threw the book away at that point, having rarely heard anyone say anything positive about Kaiser in the several decades I've been aware of them, and having read and heard a snoot full of negative stuff.
But I started to read it anyway, and I'm glad I did. It's a useful, well written, and informative book on these new ideas related to rewiring your brain. The author does a fine job of explaining the relevant neurobiology without getting too technical, and perhaps even more importantly, explaining how these new scientific developments can be used to rewire your brain. Such recent findings as mirror neurons, spindle cells in the hippocampus, neurogenesis, brain nutrition, differences in the brain between men and women, and many other new findings, get discussed along with their implications for plasticity and rewiring.
The book has a good chapter on brain nutrition which has increasingly come to the forefront in recent years as a way to enhance brain function and prevent its deterioration in age, especially in the case of memory functions, so if you're into vitamins and supplements (or even if you're not), this might be the book for you.
This book is packed with useful information, but I would point out that although this new knowledge about the plasticity of the brain has been called a "revolution," there's nothing really new here. The great Austin Riesen (who I studied under briefly) first demonstrated the growth of synaptic trees and dendrites in response to learning and stimulus enrichment using monkeys as subjects back in the 50s. What's different is that we do know more about it and how to promote it, and it's taken more seriously now by physicians and psychologists and neurobiologists. And perhaps most important, apparently effective evidence based therapies and treatments have been developed.
Overall an excellent and readable book on this subject.
3 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Easy Reading On A Complex Subject Mar 26, 2010
Well written distillation of recent developments in neuropsych. Cannot recommend it more highly.
Walt Maack, MD
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Practical and Accessible Mar 23, 2010
Arden has done something in this volume that's hard to achieve--taking a body of complex scientific information and putting it into a form that is accessible to a broad audience. The book is based on sound brain science and good psychology, rendered in a way that lets us see how we can apply the lessons of cutting edge neuroscience to daily life. Highly recommended.
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