Author: Caleb Gattegno
Publisher: Educational Solutions
Keywords: brain, teaches, mind
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2010-03-24
ISBN-10: 0878250646
ISBN-13: 9780878250646

It is futile to reduce all mental life to functionings of the brain. This observation does not make the brain any the less mysterious, challenging, or important in our lives. It suggests only that we may find more about the brain by knowing more about how the mind penetrates it, makes the brain do what it wants, and uses it as its instrument. The brain does not know pain while all other parts of the soma do. Doesn't this alone say that the brain is only a relay to the knowing self-which then experiences pain? In this book, Gattegno examines the role of the brain, the mind, and the self in vari

Author: Maurice Schiff
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: growth, greatly, exaggerated, welfare, impact, gain, claims, size, brain
Number of Pages: 41
Published: 2005
eBookDB-ID: GGKEY:74YU

"Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the "new brain drain" literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in welfare and growth due to education's positive externalities. This paper argues that these claims are exaggerated. In the static case, and based on both partial and general equilibrium considerations, the paper shows that (1) the size of the brain gain is smaller than suggested in that literature; (2) the

Author: Sandra Ackerman
Publisher: National Academies
Keywords: brain, discovering
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 1992
eBookDB-ID: NAP:13403

In Discovering the Brain, science writer Sandra Ackerman cuts through the complexity to bring this vital topic to the public and offers an overview of what we know about the brain and what researchers may be able to accomplish in the next ten years.

Author: Centre for Educational Research and Innovation
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: science, learning, birth, brain, understanding
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2007-02-01
ISBN-10: 9264029125
ISBN-13: 9789264029125

This book provides new insights about learning. It synthesises existing and emerging findings from cognitive and brain science. It shows what the latest brain imaging techniques and other advances in the neurosciences actually reveal about how the brain develops and operates at different stages in life from birth to old age and how the brain is involved in acquiring skills such as reading and counting. It also presents scientific insights into what happens when the brain malfunctions in conditions such as dyslexia or Alzheimer's disease. This enlightening publication is essential reading for

Author: RAM Arora
Publisher: ram
Keywords: brains, exploding, fix
Number of Pages: 466
Published: 2009-11-11
ISBN-10: 1448619262
ISBN-13: 9781448619269

All living organisms are like biological robots. Their physical actions, organic capabilities and senses are firmly and very narrowly limited and so programmed in the DNA. Brain, the master controller of the living system, is as susceptible to external and internal stresses as all other bodily components. The brain is also abode of the mind, and the mind is the embodiment of thoughts. The scientific observation that brain and mind die simultaneously is irrefutable. Wherein the brain the mind parks itself is a mystery. The brain is more intricate than the universe and the mind exceeds the brain

Author: David Aaron Holmes
Publisher: David Aaron Holmes
Keywords: light, soul, generates, brain, palace, psyche
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2007-10
ISBN-10: 0615164110
ISBN-13: 9780615164113

This pioneering theoretical model of consciousness deftly bridges the chasm between science and spirituality--with a bridge of literal and figurative Light. Conventional wisdom in neurobiology holds that the brain is nothing more than a complex biocomputer, whose neurons' sole purpose is to process and transmit information. Psyche's Palace proposes a new theory--that the brain creates this brilliant sound and light show directly upon the convoluted surfaces of the cerebral cortex. A filigree of sparkling pixels suspended in the crystal-clear fluid of the cerebral cortex forms the live and lumi

Author: Amalia Corby-Edwards
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: freedom, operation, enduring, iraqi, veterans, treatment, brain, injury, care, traumatic
Number of Pages: 18
Published: 2010-11
ISBN-10: 1437926991
ISBN-13: 9781437926996

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), a disruption in brain function that is caused by a head injury, has become known as one of the żsignature woundsż of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan due to its high occurrence in post-deployment servicemembers and vets of these wars. A recent study estimated that as many as 20% of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) vets experience TBI. The VA has screened almost 250,000 OEF/OIF vets entering the Vets Health Administration system as of Jan. 2009. This report provides a review of TBI as an illness, its prevalence among veterans, curr