Tag: #Neuroscience
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again
The Attention Crisis You Didn’t See Coming Johann Hari begins Stolen Focus with a confession:he can’t pay attention anymore — and neither can we. “I could still read, but I couldn’t sink into reading.I could still think, but I couldn’t stay with a thought.” What starts as a personal struggle turns into a global investigation.Hari…
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
Why This Book Hits So Close to Home Scroll. Click. Like. Repeat.In a world where pleasure is one tap away, Dopamine Nation feels less like a science book and more like a mirror. Dr. Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, takes readers into her clinic—and into their own habits—to reveal how we’ve all become…
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Why This Book Changed How We Understand Trauma Before The Body Keeps the Score, trauma was often seen as an invisible mental wound—a psychological scar that could be reasoned or “talked” away.Dr. Bessel van der Kolk shattered that illusion. Drawing on decades of research in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry, he revealed something profound: trauma doesn’t…