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The Little Book of Big Stuff About the Brain
The true story of your amazing brain
Designed as a cover to cover read to leave the reader with a working knowledge of the human brain from its first evolution 2 billion years ago to the present day. This light-hearted look at the brain is aimed at a lay audience. It especially focuses on the neurobiology of emotional intelligence and in many ways is the neurobiological explanation of why emotional intelligence is so important to health, wealth and happiness.
The Little Book of Big Stuff About the Brain is about understanding the importance of emotional health. It is a book about structure and function – and the immensely reassuring fact that there is nothing occult or sinister or hidden about our emotional selves – there is just a whole pile of circuitry that can be adjusted and changed and remodelled. Emotional damage is repairable, painful memories can be unlearned, and debilitating conditions such as post traumatic stress disorder can be placed firmly in the past. There is nothing about ourselves that we can’t fundamentally change if we are prepared to do the work required. This means that no matter how deep the damage runs, there is still hope that it can (eventually) be unlearned.
The most important message in this book – emotions and our emotional brains - underpins most of what we are and how we express ourselves from how we brush our hair to how we solve complex social and intellectual questions.

Type: Hardback
178 pages
Published: April 2008