Educating the human brain

Brain literacy for educators and psychologists

Practical resources for the mental health professional

Practical resources for the mental health professional.

What educators need to know about the brain -- Introduction and conceptual foundations -- General principles of microstructure and microfunction -- General principles of macrostructure and macrofunction -- General principles of brain development -- Linking brain research to literacy research -- Building a reading brain neurologically -- Building a writing brain neurologically -- Building a computing brain neurologically -- Linking literacy research to brain research -- Building a reading brain pedagogically -- Building a writing brain pedagogically -- Building a computing brain pedagogically -- Educational applications of brain-literacy links -- Implications for educational policy -- Implications for classroom practice.

Brain literacy for educators and psychologists

Practical resources for the mental health professional

Practical resources for the mental health professional.

The new science of learning [DVD]: brain fitness for kids

Brain fitness for kids

The infant mind : origins of the social brain

Part I. Evolutionary, neural, and philosophical approaches to the social mind -- ch. 1. An evolutionary basis for social cognition / ch. 2. The evolution of motor cognition : its role in the development of social cognition and implications for autism spectrum disorder / ch. 3. When the problem of intersubjectivity becomes the solution / Part II. Social experience and epigenetic mechanisms of gene-environment interactions -- ch. 4. Differential susceptibility : developmental and evolutionary mechanisms of gene-environment interactions / ch. 5. Variation in empathy : the interplay of genetic and environmental factors / Part III. The dynamic role of early social experience in vision, memory, and language -- ch. 6. Development of brain networks for visual social-emotional information processing in infancy / ch. 7. Event memory : neural, cognitive, and social influences on early development / ch. 8. Biology of shared experience and language development : regulations for the intersubjective life of narratives / ch. 9. The situated infant : learning in context / Part IV. The role of early experience on social development -- ch. 10. The developing social brain : social connections and social bonds, social loss, and jealousy in infancy / ch. 11. Infant memory consolidation : the social context of stress, learning, and memory / ch. 12. Mother-infant attachment : a multilevel approach via body, brain, and behavior / Part V. Neural processes of mental awareness -- ch. 13. False-belief understanding in infants and preschoolers / ch. 14. Neural connectivity, joint attention, and the social-cognitive deficits of autism

Rethinking the brain : new insights into early development

Brain research and childhood education : implications for educators

The learning brain : memory and brain development in children

Lärande hjärnan. English

Being unlucky when you think : the importance of working memory -- Remembering what to concentrate on -- Why do students daydream? -- The working memories of the Nynäshamn children -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and children with low working memories -- The growing brain : how the brain develops and matures -- The development of the brain -- The brain matures -- Genes and the brain -- The white matter -- Through the Pyrenees by motorbike : the risk-taking teenage brain -- Risks and rewards -- Neuroscience and the law -- Now I am really awake for the first time ever : long-term memory -- Children's long-term memory -- The key to the memory -- Improving the long-term memory -- Mathematics, memory, and space -- Counting babies -- Retaining numbers in working memory -- The mnemonic map -- Mathematical areas -- Mathematics and gender -- Dyscalculia : does it exist? -- Premature birth and dyscalculia -- Training programs.

Reading, dyslexia, and problematic relationships -- Learning to read -- Reading areas of the brain and dyslexia -- Dyslexia: genetics and displaced cells -- Why the problems are interconnected -- Dyslexia training and neuroscientific predictions -- The early environment and brain development: the importance of stimulation and engaged parents -- Stimulating environments and brain development -- The role of parents in memory and stress -- Skydiving and expectations: what acute and chronic stress do to us -- Stress hormones and nerve cells -- Social stress -- Chronic stress -- Cognitive training, memory techniques, and music -- The dream of the perfect memory -- The brain of a memory champion -- Working memory training -- The art of training -- Can everything be trained? -- Music -- Body and soul -- Jogging and the brain -- Intelligence and infections -- 11. This will change everything -- Five themes -- A schoolgirl of the future.

The first three years & beyond : brain development and social policy

First three years and beyond

Current perspectives in psychology

Current perspectives in psychology.

The first three years & beyond : brain development and social policy

First three years and beyond

Current perspectives in psychology

Current perspectives in psychology.

Neural plasticity and cognitive development : insights from children with perinatal brain injury

Romania's abandoned children : deprivation, brain development, and the struggle for recovery