Announcing new books, author interviews and book excerpts from the Dana Press. http://www.dana.orgTue, 07 Feb 2012 02:41:25 EDTen-usCopyright 2010, Dana Foundation http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=23486Jerome Kagan, one of the leading developmental pscyhologists publishes new book, The Temperamental Thread: How Genes, Culture, Time, and Luck Make Us Who We Are.  Available March 2009, Dana Press.2010-04-06T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=24074Available in late February 2010: This fourth annual collection brings together the foremost experts in brain science. Jay Giedd, Michael Posner, Mariale Hardiman, David Kupfer and Paul McHugh present their research – and their take – on such cutting-edge topics as the development of the teen brain, how arts education affects intelligence, the limitations of brain imaging, and how to bring more certainty and flexibility to diagnosis in the next edition of the psychiatric bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V).2010-02-28T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=21672Treating the Brain What the Best Doctors Know by Walter G. Bradley Available November 2009 $25.00 Description Even in this information age, those dealing with symptoms2009-11-04T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=14022Cerebrum 2009 Emerging Ideas in Brain Science Foreword by Thomas R. Insel, M.D.  In this third annual volume, leaders in the field of neuroscience discuss cutting edge research on subjects ranging from unidentified traumatic brain injury to the brain and politics.  The experts include neuroscientist Guy McKhann, computation neuroscientist Sebastian Seung, developmental psychologist Jerome Kagan, and neurologist Stephen L. Hauser.2009-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=13508Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise in the Most Difficult Cases, a book by Jamie Talan. Every year, more than 30,000 people worldwide undergo deep brain stimulation, which involves implanting electrodes in the brain that are connected to a device similar to a pacemaker. With compelling profiles of patients and an introduction to doctors and scientists who pursue pioneering research, Talan describes the ways in which deep brain stimula­tion has produced promising results in the treatment of numerous diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, depres­sion, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Alzheimer’s disease—as well as the ethical issues that have arisen in the course of their work.2009-03-02T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=12986Try To Remember: Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory, and Mind by Paul R. McHugh, M.D.  In this firsthand account Dr. Paul McHugh warns of the dangers of fads in psychiatry. He describes his battle agains the "repressed sexual memories" craze of the 1990's and his concerns over the over-diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder today.2008-11-14T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=11860Cerebrum 2008 Emerging Ideas in Brain Science: Prominent scientists and other thinkers explain, applaud, and protest new ideas arising from discoveries about the brain. An annual volume.2008-03-27T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=10468Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans, edited by Dan Gordon.  Anyone who has ever cheered for a sports team knows the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.  Why do we feel that we succeed and suffer along with our favorite players? Why do we remain loyal to even the most disappointing teams? What goes on inside the brains of the most sensational athletes? In Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans top scientists seek to answer these questions and more.2008-03-14T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=5600The Neuroscience of Fair Play Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule by Donald Pfaff, Ph.D.  Humans across cultures and throughout history have had very similar notions of what is right and wrong.  While scholars have recently used anthropology, psychology, and evolution to argue that our moral life evolved from nature, neuroscientist Donald Pfaff, Ph.D., takes it a step further - right into the hardwiring of the human brain.  Pfaff presents a rock-solid hypothesis of how specific circuits in the brain cause us to consider an action toward another as though it were happening to us - and therefore why we (usually) treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves.2007-12-03T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=5478Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science Essential Readings in Neuroethics, edited by Walter Glannon, Ph.D.  University of Calgary philosophy professor Walter Glannon edits this authoritative account of the new ideas that are defining neuroethics.  It is essential reading for anyone interested in the ever-evolving debate surrounding brain science and ethics.2007-08-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=5472Top neuroscientist Floyd E. Bloom has selected the most fascinating brain-related articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind since 1999 in this collection. Divided into three sections—Mind, Matter, and Tomorrow’s Brain—this compilation takes you to the latest information from the front lines of brain research.2007-07-16T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=5480Cerebrum 2007: Emerging Ideas in Brain Science, foreword by Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D. In the first volume of the annual Cerebrum anthologies, readers will encounter the most provocative ideas in brain science today.  More than a dozen articles and book reviews discuss such topics as the biological nature of ethical behavior, the brain basis for belief in the supernatural, and the science of music.2007-05-21T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3272Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense, by Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D.  In this first-ever overview of brain research and national defense, author Jonathan Moreno probes the fascinating ethical and legal issues that have risen from the federal defense agencies' interest in the growing field of neuroscience.  Moreno also calls upon the scientific community to be more aware of the unintended consequences of their work.2006-11-17T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=1260Resistance: The Human Struggle Against Infection, by Norbert Gualde, M.D.  While modern science has given us such amazing medical treatments as the polio vaccine, we are also faced with the realities of drug resistant bacteria, new diseases, and new agents of infection.  Resistance traces the history of some of the world's most dangerous epidemics and their consequences, including the current fight against HIV and the threat of man-made pathogens.2006-11-17T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3452The Dana Guide to Brain Health: A Practical Family Refrence from Medical Experts, editors Floyd E. Bloom, M.D., M. Flint Beal, M.D., and David J. Kupfer, M.D.  This first ever family-friendly medical reference about the brain is a necessity for anyone who wants to be an active participant in their own health care.  This comprehensive guide, based on the contributions of more than a hundred top scientists and clinicians, details such essential topics as brain development, brain health, and a variety of brain disorders.2006-11-10T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3406Hard Science, Hard Choices: Facts, Ethics, and Policies Guiding Brain Science Today, by Sandra J. Ackerman.  This book, the fourth in the Dana Foundation Series on Neuroethics, details the meeting of top scholars and neuroscientists at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in May 2005.  Hard Science, Hard Choices provides a narrative of their discussion of neuroscience's most pressing ethical issues including brain imaging, drugs and the brain, and new technology aimed at the brain.2006-05-31T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=1208A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn, by Peter Perret and Janet Fox.  When Perret, conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony for more than 25 years, placed a woodwind quintet in a poorly performing elementary school the result was an eye-brow raising jump in the children’s test scores—and this book.  This charming story raises questions about one of the newest areas of brain research: the effect of music on the brain.2006-05-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3388Fatal Sequence: The Killer Within, by Kevin J. Tracey, M.D.   In this griping and tragic account, Dr. Kevin J. Tracey remembers his struggle to save a one year old girl from sepsis brought on by a severe scalding.  As he recounts trying to heal this young patient, he desribes how sepsis is the result of the immune system escaping the brain's control and killing normal, healthy cells along with foreign microbes. 2006-03-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=1190The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius, by Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D.  The concept of creative genius comes with some highly charged questions: Is creativity inherited or can it be taught? What is the definition of "genius" versus intelligence? What is the line between "genius" and insanity?  Best selling author Nancy Andreasen explores how the human brain achieves creative breakthroughs and whether that potential lies in all of us.2005-11-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=1170The Ethical Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga.  Author Michael S. Gazzaniga, widely considered to be the father of cognitive neuroscience, explores the most controversial topics in neuroethics today.  Topics range from when an embryo becomes "one of us" to the science of extending life to the ethics of "neuroenhancement."  Gazzaniga also addresses the challenges these issues could raise for the justice system.2005-04-29T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3446Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Report on the President's Council of Bioethics.  This report addresses the ethical questions involved in using biotechnology to achieve such things as healthier children, superior intelligence, and ageless bodies.  Leading scientists offer differing opinions.2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3450Neuroethics: Mapping the Field.  Neuroethics: Mapping the Field is a record of the proceedings of a landmark conference organized in 2002 by Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco. Some 100 pioneers and opinion leaders in neuroscience, journalism, law, philosophy, and other fields engaged in free-wheeling debate on where the discoveries of brain research could lead individuals and society.2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3454A Good Start in Life: Understanding Your Child's Brain and Behavior from Birth to Age 6, by Norbert Herschkowitz, M.D., and Elinore Chapman Herschkowitz.  This comprehensive guide to a child's development, updated from the original hardcover edition, offers tremendous insight for parents and caregivers.  This reader-friendly narrative covers a host of key development issues, including the effect of a mother's stress on a fetus, the development of language, impulse control, and appropriate rule-setting.2004-09-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=6622Neuroscience and the Law: Brain, Mind, and the Scales of Justice, edited by Brent Garland.  Based on an invitational meeting of 26 top neuroscientists, legal scholars, attorneys, and state and federal judges, Neuroscience and the Law examines how discoveries in the field of neuroscience are affecting criminal and civil justice and the potential influence on the legal system as a whole.  Part One summarizes the meeting while Part Two contains four commissioned papers by experts.2004-09-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=1104Back from the Brink: How Crises Spur Doctors to New Discoveries about the Brain, by Edward J. Sylvester.  Sylvester takes readers into the lives of a new kind of doctor, the neurointensivist, as they fight to save patients with life-threatening brain injuries.  Sylverster follows three leading doctors and their fascinating and moving patients, ranging from a Baltimore drug addict with a storm of seizures to a college student who simply came home from school one day and passed out, the sign of a congential defect in the brain.2004-05-14T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3376The End of Stress as We Know It, by Bruce McEwen, Ph.D. Bruce McEwen, Ph.D., one of the world's authorities on the subject of stress, illuminates how our bodies work under stress and how we can avoid its debilitating effects. The premise of this book is that knowledge is power. By learning how the body reacts to large and small challenges in our lives, by understanding how we put ourselves in situations that cause upheaval in our minds and bodies, we can make the best choices--backed up by the latest scientific knowledge.  2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3456Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do About It, by J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr., M.D.  One in five Americans will experience depression at sometime in their life.  Who gets depression and why? What does depression do to the brain? What treatments work? In this book, DePaulo draws on his experience with more than 8,000 affected people to answer these questions and more.  For anyone confronting depression, this book is a must-read.2003-05-22T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3448Striking Back at Stroke: A Doctor-Patient Journal, by Cleo Hutton and Louis R. Caplan, M.D.  In the prime of her life Cleo Hutton experienced a devastating stroke which left her unable to speak or walk. Striking Back at Stroke combines Hutton's personal journal from this trying time with medical and scientific commentary by the leading expert in American stroke medicine, Louis R. Caplan, M.D. This inspiring story is also an indispensable guide for anyone enduring the changes that a stroke can bring to a life, a family, and a sense of self.2003-05-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=1138The Bard on the Brain: Understanding The Mind Through the Art of Shakespeare and the Science of Brain Imaging, by Paul M. Matthews, M.D. and Jeffrey McQuain, Ph.D.  In this beautifully illustrated full-color book, authors Matthews and McQuain explore the beauty and mystery of the human mind and the workings of the brain, following the paths the Bard pointed out in 35 of the most famous speeches from his plays.  What does the joy that The Tempest's Miranda feels at first seeing other people say about how are brain is shaped by development and experience? What does Richard III's admission of his evil intentions tell us about the brain and moral choice?2003-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3458Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide To Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity, by Guy M. McKhann, M.D. and Marilyn Albert, Ph.D.  McKhann and Albert, two of the nation's leading experts on aging and the brain, offer readers a practical guide to keeping your brain healthy later in life. They discuss every aspect of aging--memory, nutrition, mood, sleep, and sex, as well as the later problems that creep up in alcohol use, vision, hearing, movement, and balance.  Such age related diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are also addressed.2002-03-29T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3462In Search of the Lost Cord: Solving the Mystery of Spinal Cord Regeneration, by Luba Vikhanski. Award-winning popular medical writer Luba Vikhanski follows the work of today's most watched scientific teams as they race to defeat the ancient assumption that spinal cord injury is incurable. In an era full of new hope for regeneration, the struggle to heal the spinal cord is by far the most compelling story.2001-10-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3460The Secret Life of the Brain by Richard Restak, M.D. In this companion book to the PBS series, bestselling author and neurologist, Dr. Richard Restak, explores the intricacies of the brain, showing how it grows and develops from infancy through old age. Restak also addresses problems in the brain and how the brain fights back.2001-10-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3466States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are, edited by Roberta Conlan.  At some point, everyone asks, "Who am I?" and "Why do I think, act, and feel like I do?"  In these thought provoking essays, eight top brain scientists, including Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, answer these questions and many more. The essays are based on a lecture series co-sponsored by The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and the Smithsonian Associates.2000-01-02T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3464The Longevity Strategy: How to Live to 100 Using the Brain-Body Connection, by David Mahoney and Richard Restak, M.D.  Today, when people are living into their 80's, 90's, and beyond, the younger generation is often tempted to ask: How do they do it?  In this delightful book,  a successful CEO and a leading brain expert identify the key traits that link centenarians and how brain science, together with personal action, can give us all long, productive lives. 1999-02-26T13:00