A User’s Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
A User’s Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain Books
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John Ratey, bestselling author and clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, here lucidly clarifies the human brain’s workings, and paves the way for a better understanding of how the brain affects who we are. Ratey provides insight into the basic structure and chemistry of the brain, and demonstrates how its systems shape our perceptions, emotions, and behavior. By giving us a greater understanding of how the brain responds to the guidance of its user, he provides us with knowledge that can enable us to improve our lives.
In A User’s Guide to the Brain, Ratey clearly and succinctly surveys what scientists now know about the brain and how we use it. He looks at the brain as a malleable organ capable of improvement and exchange, like any muscle, and examines the way specific motor functions might be applied to overcome neural disorders ranging from everyday wariness to autism. Drawing on examples from his do and from everyday life, Ratey illustrates that the most vital lesson we can learn about our brains is how to use them to their maximum potential.Amazon.com Review
Before consulting with customer service, it’s everlastingly a excellent thought to read the manual. Psychiatrist John Ratey has condensed years of research on one of the most intimidating yet ubiquitous pieces of hardware in the world into the ever-handy User’s Guide to the Brain. More intellectually stimulating than day-to-day matter-of-fact, the Guide uses tales from Ratey’s do and other clinical venues, tidbits from neuroscientific research, and plain common sense to suggest how the brain develops and manifests personality and behavior. With section titles like “Free Will and the Fore Cingulate Gyrus,” many readers will feel intimidated, but Ratey is careful to direct his explanations to all–even those without a PhD in neuroanatomy. His fascinating four-acting theory of mental function is the most directly matter-of-fact section of the book, incorporating the author’s years of experience with patients into a sensible framework that readers can use to better tune their own systems. Describing the changing of the guard from psychoanalysis to a more biological paradigm, Ratey writes:
Neuroscientists have, in a sense, simply taken over the elite, nearly clerical office once held by analysts. The language used to describe the brain is, if anything, more opaque than any of the ancient psychoanalytic language, which was itself so obscure that only trained professionals may possibly wade through the literature. Most people never even bother to learn such language, deeming that, like the language of the computer scientists of the early 1970s, it is better left to the nerds.
Determined to help us overcome our sense of helplessness in matters cranial, Ratey has shown that we can know ourselves better and can learn quite a bit from the nerds. –Rob Lightner
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This book is full of ignorance. Read anything but what this manipulative author puts forth in his books.
Rating: 1 / 5
I just received this book from a supporter. I barely got past the introduction. Even as the book is advertised to bestow the latest finding the author decides that most current brain models are too influenced by cognitive science and determines that the brain is “analog” by which he means it works in analogies! His introduction says he will therefore talk about the brain largely in analogies and metaphors. The author even claims this type of discourse will replace much of the logical reasoning we use today. The few sections I looked into are full of loose language and a singular lack of scientific rigor. In small it is a popularization and imho not a very excellent one.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Rating: 1 / 5
As someone living with hydrocephalus for nearly 40 years and as the p.r. director for the Hydrocephalus Support Group/Seattle, I take come forth w/Mr. Ratey’s definition of hydrocephalus and how his misconceptions of the shape up are presented here as fact. In fact, they are fiction. There are millions of us who live very full lives with small or no mental impairment from hydrocephalus or having a shunt. Sadly, there are still those, like Mr. Ramey, who insist on perpetuating myths and misconceptions of what hydrocephalus is and how incompatable it is with a functional life!
Rating: 1 / 5
the introduction lonely was enough to make me return this book. this author writes extremely long winded setences and does not make excellent use of his commas. the sentences are so verbose that the i found myself reading them mutliply times and placing my own commas and periods where necessary. reading this book reminded me of the days i had to read my biochemistry textbooks for a college class. his writing style does not belong in a consumer book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Dr Ratey and his colleague Dr. Hallowell have made vital contributions to the broadcast’s understanding of ADD through the publication of several well loved lay books. But in, “A User’s Guide to the Brain,” it seems that Ratey trys to tackle too much or reaches too far outside his do in an attempt to clarify the current understanding of brain chemistry, genes, behavior, and their relevance in psychotherapy. I was excited to dig in to this book but keep wondering when the concepts (The “theaters”) would develop into a cohesive thesis. The level of detail of brain anatomy detracted rather than aided the presentation. I also found the copious analogies to be to some extent digressive and awkward. This work would have been much better if it were more focused.
Rating: 1 / 5