Adjust Your Brain: A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (601 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1846940559 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 215 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Paul Fitzgerald has a PhD in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University, and has produced pioneering brain mapping studies with some of the most widely respected neuroscientists in the world. His scientific work on the organization of the brain has been published in several highly respected, peer reviewed journals
breaks new ground Maria Antoinette I enjoyed this book and think it is a worthwhile read. It is chock full of information about many different mental illnesses and many different psychiatric drugs. Mr. Fitzgerald seems willing to go out on a limb, and some of his ideas are a bit far out, but it is not just the same thing you've read in 100 other mental health books. He covers the history of psychiatry, basic info about the brain, and then a lot of emphasis on neur. "Do not adjust your brain" according to A. J. O'brien. Do not adjust your brain, there is a fault in Paul J Fitzgerald's reality. This book is the biggest load of rubbish I've read in a long time. It's Brave New World for the new millenium. When most in the scientific community think there are too many categories of mental disorder Fitzgerald thnks there are not enough. And he doesn't even want to limit treatment to people with mental illness. Apparently most of us need adjustment, a
Adjust Your Brain distils a synthesis of information from the scientific literature, popular literature, and personal experience into a simple model of brain chemistry that is easy to understand. If we as a society were to implement The Adjustment on an international scale, it may not only improve nearly everyone's lives, but also have very positive effects on human relationships and the very functioning of society.
If the author's purpose is to cause the reader to question the validity of the status quo, he succeeded. -- McGill Journal of Medicine, Volume 10, Number 2/2007Overall, the book is easy to follow and is informative. -- Stress and Health, October 25, 2007