Brains That Work a Little Bit Differently
Brains That Work a Small Bit Differently Books
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This book for teachers and parents draws from very recent brain research to clarify the causes and consequences of common diversities including: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyslexia, Alcoholism, Autism, SAD (The Winter Blues), Left-handedness, Photographic Memory, Perfect Pitch, and even D ja Vu and Synesthesia. All of these have specific brain-to-body connections. This book provides diagnostic tests for the symptoms. It clarifies genetic and environmental factors that cause the conditions, by the side of with consequences and correlations with other health matters that statistically accompany each shape up. Each section includes checklists and testing exercises used for professional diagnosis of these cognitive abnormalities. The bibliography offers sources for further in rank and an index makes it a convenient handbook for people without technical training.
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This informative and entertaining book about recent discoveries surrounding ten types of brain abnormality is the result of collaboration between a Ph.D in cognitive science and the founding editor of Games magazine, Bragdon and Gamon look at topics that will interest most readers (and personally touch many): ADHD alcoholism, autism, dèjá vu, dyslexia, handedness, perfect pitch, photographic memory, seasonal affective disorder, and synesthesia. Sidebars, whimsical illustrations, brain diagrams, reader “tests”, and “where to learn more” sections at the end of each chapter all make the book reader friendly and enticing. Although the book is aimed at older readers -especially teachers and parents(e.g., the section on photographic memory contains a visual test entitled, “Is your child and eidetiker?”) some middle schoolers will be intrigued by pertinent sections. (This reviewer’s 6th-grade son, a lefty, was fascinated by the section on southpaws-although mildly messed up by the notion that left-handedness is due to an atypical brain shape up.) Even as presenting lots of fun facts, the book also manages to convey a fantastic deal of solid brain research.
-Gloria Levine, Freelance Education Novelist, Potomac MD Kliatt, Volume 34 Number 6, November 2000
Rating: 5 / 5