The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy

The Healing Brain presents an easy to read amusing entertaining - yet highly authoritative account of how our brain minds our body - actively guarding and defending our health and well-being. Robert Ornstein a neurologist and David Sobel a physician highlight the themes most important to understand this fascinating science. They explain that contrary to many of our assumptions about the main purpose of our brain - that it evolved primarily for higher-thinking - in fact the brain works tirelessly to adapt to the changing world around us. This essential reference book helps us understand our brain as the original health maintenance organization- giving us the understanding we need to help our brain do what it does best - guarding our health and helping us to heal.