The Book of Brain

Stephen J. Gislason MD

Table of Contents

 

Topics from the Book of Brain

Introduction

The Nature of Mind

Right and Left Brain

Connected to the Environment

Tuning into The Universe

Psychiatry versus Biology

Mind Alteration on Prescription

Psychosomatic

Self Regulation

Depression

Brain Nutrition

Memory

Simulation and Virtual Reality

Food Allergy and the Brain

Attention Deficits and Hyperactivity

Alpha BMX, Brain Food


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Introduction, Brain and Mind

Looking for Something

Cells and Molecules

Drives & Cathexis

Consciousness

Form and Content

Approach-Avoidance

Familiar & Strange

Foraging

Selection, Competition and Survival

Academic Views

What is Intelligence?

The Origins of Intelligence

Psychology

Neuroscience

Neurosurgery

Mental Illness

Psychiatry

Psychiatry versus Biology

Psyche and Soma

Psychosomatic Beliefs

Stress

Psychoneuroimmunology

Conditioning, Choices, Freedom

Be Here Now

Holding on to the Past

What is Worth Remembering?

Emotions, Feelings and Moods

Interface between Body and World

Feelings Are Inner States

Empathy

Mood

Feelings of Attraction

Feelings of Nurture, Caring, and Affiliation

Irritability & Gain Controls

Self Evaluation

Eigenstates

Molecular Switches

Introversion & Extroversion

Contexts and Learning

Social Chaos

Features of the Brain

Ontogeny and Phylogeny & Pruning

Size and Complexity

One System, PsycheSomaWorld

Connected to the Environment

Neuroanatomy

Neurons

Four Regions of the Cerebral Hemispheres

Two Hands, Two Hemispheres

How Many Senses?

Limbic System

Biological Clocks

Smell

Loss of Taste & Smell

Pheromones

Memory

Implicit and Explicit

Visual Working Memory

Photographic Memory

Unreliable Memory

Brain and Genes

Synapses, Quantum Mechanics

Catecholamine Transmitters

Dopamine

Serotonin

Acetylcholine

Cannabinoids

Amino Acid Neurotransmitters

Peptides

Nitrous Oxide

Learning & Children’s Behavior

What Causes What?

The Developing Mind

Caring for Infants

Children Need Other Children

Learning Modifies Brain Function

Developmental Deficiencies

Intelligence and Learning

Education

Adolescents

Nutritional Disorders

Behavior Disturbances & Food

Autism

Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity

Drugs for ADHD

Psychotropic Drugs

Good Drugs, Bad drugs?

Mind Alteration on Prescription

Eating Behaviors

Resistance to Change

Lifestyle and Eating Patterns

Traditional Lifestyle

New Eclectic Lifestyle

Dysfunctional Eating

Men and Women

Appetite Regulation

Chemical Controllers of Appetite

The Idea of Food Addiction

The Recursive Loop

Eating Disorders

The Biological Questions

Addiction and Tolerance

Brain Nutrition

What are the Best Fats to Eat?

Calcium

Magnesium

Vitamin B1 Thiamin

Vitamin B3 Niacin

Vitamin B6,  Pyridoxine

Vitamin B12 – Cobalamin (Cbl)

Folic Acid

Alcoholism and B Vitamin Deficiency

Vitamin E

Amino Acid Therapy

Nutritional Therapy

Elemental Nutrient Formulas

Steps to a Nutritional Program

Parents & Children

Self Regulation

Self-Talk

Meditation

Sitting & Walking Practice

Helping Disturbed People

Mechanisms of Brain Disturbances

An Overview

Problems in the Food Supply

Protein Diseases

Amino Acid Disease

Mitochondrial Amino Acid Processor

Non-Nutrient Amino Acids

Atlantic Mussels and Memory Loss

Alcohol

Alcoholism

Acetylcholine, Smoking, Drugs and Pesticides

Alkaloids

Turpenes

Heavy Metals

Soya Problems

Coffee, Tea and Chocolate

Allergy and the Nervous System

Peptides Derived From Food Proteins

Cytokines

Immune-Mediated Protein Diseases

Distribution of Antigen

Cow’s Milk Proteins

Gluten Proteins

Gluten and the Brain

Gluten and Cerebellar Ataxia

Milk, Gluten and Autism

Headaches

Migraine Headaches

The Major Neurological Diseases

Strokes

Preventing Stroke

Depression

Memory Disorders

Dementia

Alzheimer’s Disease

Aluminum and  Dementia

Multiple Sclerosis

Parkinson's Disease

Jacob Creuzfelt Disease and Mad Cows

Cycad Beans and Lytico-Bodig

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Schizophrenia

Adolescents, Maturation & Pruning

Drugs for Schizophrenics

Appendices

Alpha Modular Nutrition

The Alpha Nutrient Formula Series

Alpha Nutrition Book List

Cited References