This book for teachers and parents draws from very recent brain research to explain the causes and consequences of common diversities including: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyslexia, Alcoholism, Autism, SAD (The Winter Blues), Left-handedness, Photographic Memory, Perfect Pitch, and even D ja Vu and Synesthesia. All of these have specific brain-to-body connections. This book provides diagnostic tests for the symptoms. It explains genetic and environmental factors that cause the conditions, along with consequences and correlations with other health matters that statistically accompany each condition. Each section includes checklists and testing exercises used for professional diagnosis of these cognitive abnormalities. The bibliography offers sources for further information and an index makes it a convenient handbook for people without technical training.
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"Written with an intelligent lay audience in mind, it explores ten human brain phenomena, drawing on the latest neuroscientific research..." -- Michael Loo, writer and violinist
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The Brainwaves Center undertook to examine the current research into these common diversities because, as a group, the are like the weather. Brain abnormalities affect everyone; human brains are as different as human faces. Yet the causes and consequences of most differences are subtle and complex on the local level, which makes the subject interesting. Diversities such as these ten profoundly torque the private lives of families and the curricula of educational institutions. These clouds burst unexpectedly. The children, especially, are caught without umbrellas.
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From Kliatt, Volume 34 Number 6, November 2000,
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This review is from: Brains That Work a Little Bit Differently (Paperback)
This informative and entertaining book about recent discoveries surrounding ten types of brain abnormality is the result of collaboration between a Ph.D in cognitive science and the founding editor of Games magazine, Bragdon and Gamon look at topics that will interest most readers (and personally touch many): ADHD alcoholism, autism, dèjá vu, dyslexia, handedness, perfect pitch, photographic memory, seasonal affective disorder, and synesthesia. Sidebars, whimsical illustrations, brain diagrams, reader "tests", and "where to learn more" sections at the end of each chapter all make the book reader friendly and enticing. Although the book is aimed at older readers -especially teachers and parents(e.g., the section on photographic memory contains a visual test entitled, "Is your child and eidetiker?") some middle schoolers will be intrigued by pertinent sections. (This reviewer's 6th-grade son, a lefty, was fascinated by the section on southpaws-although mildly disturbed by the notion that left-handedness is due to an atypical brain condition.) While presenting lots of fun facts, the book also manages to convey a great deal of solid brain research.-Gloria Levine, Freelance Education Writer, Potomac MD Kliatt, Volume 34 Number 6, November 2000
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Work every penny. Great book for general education teachers to help you understand those students in your class that are a little different!!
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