Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Hands-On Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power - Couverture rigide

Lambert, Kelly

 
9780465037728: Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Hands-On Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power
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ISBN 10 : 0465037720 ISBN 13 : 9780465037728
Editeur : Basic Books, 2008

Synopsis

Today's young adults are up to ten times more likely to experience depression than their grandparents were. Could it be that in our increasingly automated world, the reduced physical effort needed to accomplish anything may somehow interfere with our level of happiness and subsequent responses to stress? Neuroscientist Kelly Lambert finds compelling evidence that having to work hard for rewards significantly improves mood and prevents depression. Beginning with her innovative research on rats-she compared “trust-fund rats” (whose rewards came with no effort on their part) to hard-working “trained-to-succeed” rodents-Lambert offers hope of treatment for people without debilitating (and often ineffective) drugs. Drawing on a wealth of information from the fields of anthropology, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology, Lambert develops a unique theory suggesting that physical effort directed toward tangible outcomes activates particular regions of the brain and builds resilience against the emotional emptiness and negative thinking associated with depression. Whereas most therapies emphasize the importance of mental activity, Lambert reminds us of the importance of physical activity in establishing control in a fast-paced culture that is focused more on the prospect of immediate gratification than savoring the fruits of our labor.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kelly Lambert, Ph.D., is Chair of Psychology at Randolph-Macon College and has published widely in the neuroscientific literature. Her smart-rats research, which is described in The Mommy Brain, was most recently presented on ABC's “World News Tonight.” She lives in Mechanicsville, Virginia.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465037720
ISBN 13 
9780465037728
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0465018149 ISBN 13 :  9780465018147
Editeur : Basic Books, 2010
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