Mind and body -- Popular works

Recent research shows that the extent to which the body affects the brain is greater than we'd ever imagined. This book reveals extraordinary ways you can use your body to improve your mind and performance in all areas of life.

Vincent Deary is a practitioner health psychologist who helps people cope with whatever life has thrown at them. In 'How We Break', he examines, with great empathy, what happens to our minds and bodies when we are pushed to, and beyond, our limits. Drawing on clinical case studies, cutting edge s...

When we think of what makes us human, one adaptation that is regularly overlooked is our ability to walk, and to walk upright. It's this skill that enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread all over the world - to the far distant glaciers of Alaska, and all the way to the sun-baked deserts o...

In 'The Inflamed Mind' internationally-renowned neuroscientist Ed Bullmore condenses his years of research into a revelatory announcement: the mind and body are linked far more closely than we ever realised.

'Mindwandering' exposes readers to the multi-faceted phenomenon of their wandering minds, the new and exciting research of the brain and the mind behind this default mode of ours and how we can gain some control over our mental lives. In doing so, it illustrates the rare and marvellous convergenc...

A pioneering researcher gives us a new understanding of stress and trauma, as well as the tools to heal and thrive. This groundbreaking book examines the cultural norms that impede resilience in America, especially our collective tendency to disconnect stress from its potentially extreme conseque...