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The chemistry of connection : how the oxytocin response can help you find trust, intimacy, and love / by Kuchinskas, Susan.(CARDINAL)423121;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Oxytocin;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Habits of a happy brain : retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, & endorphin levels / by Breuning, Loretta Graziano,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.Readers will learn that happiness is not just an emotion, but a byproduct of chemical reactions in the brain. This guide will teach new habits and thought patterns, which are used to rewire the non-thinking part of the brain to release Dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin, and Endorphin - the chemicals responsible for happiness. Straightforward, easy-to-understand explanations of neurochemistry provide the means by which the reader can increase the release of these chemicals, which has been featured in the media, including NPR and The Huffington Post.
Subjects: Brain;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The DOSE effect : optimize your brain and body by boosting your dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins / by Power, Tj,author; Robinson, Chris(CARDINAL)737899; Power, Thomas Jefferson,eauthor;
Welcome to the DOSE Effect -- Introduction to TJ Power -- Part 1: Dopamine. Flow state ; Discipline ; Phone fasting ; Cold water ; My pursuit -- Part 2: Oxytocin. Contribution ; Touch ; Social life ; Gratitude ; Achievements -- Part 3: Serotonin. Nature ; Sunlight ; Gut health ; Underthinking ; Deep sleep -- Part 4: Endorphins -- Conclusion -- Your DOSE actions -- DOSE stacking -- The DOSE revolution -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- References."A neuroscientist's powerful framework for enhancing quality of life through the regulation of four key hormones: Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins (DOSE). You have everything you need to optimize your brain chemistry--this groundbreaking book shows you how." --
Subjects: Self-help publications; Brain chemistry; Neurotransmitters; Dopamine; Oxytocin; Serotonin; Endorphins; Mental illness;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 12
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Happier than ever [sound recording] / by Eilish, Billie,2001-composer,performer.(CARDINAL)839008; O'Connell, Finneas,1997-composer.;
Billie Eilish ; with accompaniment.Produced by FINNEAS.Parental advisory; explicit content.
Subjects: Popular music.; Rock music.; Popular music; Rock music; Electronic music.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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The moral molecule : the source of love and prosperity / by Zak, Paul J.(CARDINAL)533421;
MARCIVE 7/3/12Includes bibliographical references and index.The trust game : from short cons to the wealth of nations -- Lobsters in love : the evolution of trust -- Feeling oxytocin : the circuit that brings us home -- Bad boys : the complications of gender -- The disconnected : victims of abuse, bad genes, and bad ideas -- Where sex touches religion : stepping outside the self -- Moral markets : liquid trust and why greed isn't good -- A long and happy life : mimes creating bottom-up democracy.A founding neuroeconomics researcher identifies the role of oxytocin in shaping human behavior and relationships, tracing his work throughout the world to explain what his findings reveal about the origins of basic human qualities.
Subjects: Social psychology.; Human behavior.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dream teams : working together without falling apart / by Snow, Shane,author.(CARDINAL)408347; Walton, Aaron,writer of foreword.; Sandberg, Sheryl,writer of afterword.(CARDINAL)402257; Grant, Adam,writer of afterword.(CARDINAL)371768;
Foreword / by Aaron Walton -- Incipitus prolongus. Dream teams -- Buddy cops and mountaintops -- Trouble in Shaolin -- The magic circle -- Angelic troublemakers -- The black square -- Welcome to Pirateland -- When Malcolm changed his mind -- Oxytocin, a love story -- Epilogue -- Special afterword / with Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant -- Dream teams cheat sheet, and special features."Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through. The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream Teams, Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, exploring what separates groups that simply get by together from those that get better together." -- Amazon.com.
Subjects: Cooperativeness.; Small groups; Teams in the workplace.; Interpersonal relations.; Interpersonal conflict.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Aroused : the history of hormones and how they control just about everything / by Epstein, Randi Hutter,author.(CARDINAL)497924;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-298) and index.The fat bride -- Hormones...as we may call them -- Pickled brains -- Killer hormones -- The virile vasectomy -- Soul mates in sex hormones -- Making gender -- Growing up -- Measuring the immeasurable -- Growing pains -- Hotheads : the mysteries of menopause -- Testosterone endopreneurs -- Oxytocin : that lovin' feeling -- Transitioning -- Insatiable : the hypothalamus and obesity."Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity, medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein takes us on a journey through the unusual history of these potent chemicals from a basement filled with jarred nineteenth-century brains to a twenty-first-century hormone clinic in Los Angeles. Brimming with fascinating anecdotes, illuminating new medical research, and humorous details, Aroused introduces the leading scientists who made life-changing discoveries about the hormone imbalances that ail us, as well as the charlatans who used those discoveries to peddle false remedies. Epstein exposes the humanity at the heart of hormone science with her rich cast of characters, including a 1920s doctor promoting vasectomies as a way to boost libido, a female medical student who discovered a pregnancy hormone in the 1940s, and a mother who collected pituitaries, a brain gland, from cadavers as a source of growth hormone to treat her son. Along the way, Epstein explores the functions of hormones such as leptin, oxytocin, estrogen, and testosterone, demystifying the science of endocrinology. A fascinating look at the history and science of some of medicine's most important discoveries, Aroused reveals the shocking history of hormones through the back rooms, basements, and labs where endocrinology began."--Dust jacket flaps.
Subjects: Hormones.; Endocrinology; Socioendocrinology.;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 16
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The big disconnect : the story of technology and loneliness / by Slade, Giles.(CARDINAL)476856;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Immortality and Free Will.-- Breadcrumbs. Incunabula ; Self-serve ; Selling robots ; Closed cars ; Radio's "free" content ; Screens ; Stars. -- Wired for Sound. Music is technology ; Distance grooming ; Palliative music ; Accessibility in American music ; Factory whistle, factory noise ; Stars, music, and personality ; Canned music ; Solitary (acousmatic) listening. -- Trusting Machines. Trust in traditional societies ; Modern trust ; Modern alternatives to trust: professionalization ; Modern alternatives to trust: standardization ; Modern alternatives to trust: reliable machines ; National crisis of trust ; The arts and crafts of machines ; World without Oxytocin -- Machines as Friends.Tablets, smart phones, and social networks all promise better opportunities to connect and stay connected. Yet what they really do is replace face-to-face interactions and disguise our growing inability to trust others. According to recent surveys, at any given moment, sixty million Americans, 20 percent of the population, feel sufficiently isolated to report that loneliness is a major source of unhappiness. Have we arrived at a new kind of consciousness in which electronic interfaces receive most of our attention to the detriment of real interpersonal communication and empathy? In this book the author offers a bracing look at an America where intimacy with machines is increasingly replacing mutual human intimacy. In a sweeping overview that ranges from the late nineteenth century to the present, he reveals how consumer technologies changed from analgesic devices that ameliorated the loneliness of a newly urban generation in the Gilded Age to prosthetic machines that act as substitutes for companionship in contemporary America. Mining insights from neuroscience, the author delves deeply into the history of this transformation, showing why Americans use certain technologies to mediate their connections with other human beings instead of seeking out face-to-face contacts. In a final investigative section, he describes ways in which some people are bucking the trend by consciously including interpersonal strategies that build empathy, community, and mutual acceptance. This interdisciplinary synthesis provides many insights into our increasingly artificial relationships and a vision of how we can rediscover genuine community and human empathy.
Subjects: Household electronics; Human-machine systems.; Technology;
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Vagina : a new biography / by Wolf, Naomi.(CARDINAL)360245;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-365) and index.Does the vagina have a consciousness? Meet your incredible pelvic nerve ; Your dreamy autonomic nervous system ; Confidence, creativity, and the sense of interconnectedness ; Dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin ; What we "know" about female sexuality is out of date -- History : conquest and control. The traumatized vagina ; The vagina began as sacred ; The Victorian vagina : medicalization and subjugation ; Modernism : the "liberated" vagina -- Who names the vagina? "The worst word there is? ' How funny was that? ; The pornographic vagina -- The goddess array. "The beloved is me" ; Radical pleasure, radical awakening : the vagina as liberator -- Reclaiming the goddess."When an unexpected medical crisis sends [the author] on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain--and thus has a fundamental connection to female consciousness itself."-- From the dust jacket.
Subjects: Wolf, Naomi.; Femininity; Women; Vagina.; Women.; Womyn.; Vagina.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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This is your brain on food : an indispensable guide to the surprising foods that fight depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and more / by Naidoo, Uma,author.;
The gut-brain romance -- Depression: probiotics, Omega-3s, and the Mediterranean eating pattern -- Anxiety: fermented foods, dietary fiber, and the tryptophan myth -- PTSD: glutamates, blueberries, and "old friends" bacteria -- ADHD: gluten, milk caseins, and polyphenols -- Dementia and brian fog: microgreens, rosemary, and the MIND diet -- Obsessive-Compulsive disorder: NAC, glycine, and the dangers of orthorexia nervosa -- Insomnia and fatigue: capsaicin, chamomile, and anti-inflammatory diets -- Bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia: L-Theanine, healthy fats, and Ketogenic diet -- Libido: oxytocin, fenugreek, and the science of aphrodisiacs -- Cooking and eating for your brain.A Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Cornell nutrition specialist, and professional chef shares actionable dietary recommendations and brain-healthy recipes for foods that can support the treatments of common psychological and cognitive health challenges, from anxiety to sleep disorders.
Subjects: Brain; Brain; Memory disorders; Self-care, Health.;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 20
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