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  • Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age

    Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload

    by Richard E. Cytowic ...
    An award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them.The human brain hasn’t changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of the Screen Age. That’s why, according to neurologist Richard Cytowic—who, Oliver Sacks observed, “changed the way we think of the human brain”—our brains are so poorly equipped to resist the incursions ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Wednesday Is Indigo Blue

    Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia

    by Richard E. Cytowic, David M. Eagleman, Dmitri Nabokov ...
    Revealing the neuroscience and genetics behind synesthesia—and how this multi-sensory phenomenon changed our view of the brain.A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter “J” as shimmering magenta or the number “5” as emerald green, hear and taste her husband’s voice as buttery golden brown. Synesthetes rarely talk about their peculiar sensory gift ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Synesthesia

    by Richard E. Cytowic ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia—vividly felt sensory couplings—by a founder of the field.One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait—like perfect pitch—synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings. A synesthete might hear a voice and at the same time see it as a color or shape, taste its ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Nerve Block for Common Pain

    by Richard Cytowic ...
    The approach in this book is direct and simple. The author deals only with nerve block for the most common pain syndromes that the average practitioner will encounter frequently. This option is highly effective, but often not used simply because oral analgesics and anti-inflammatories are more familiar methods. The clear writing style leads step-by-step to the appropriate nerve block procedure. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Synesthesia

    A Union of the Senses

    by Richard E. Cytowic ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Synesthesia comes from the Greek syn (meaning union) and aisthesis (sensation), literally interpreted as a joining of the senses. Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in which the real information from one sense is joined or accompanies a perception in another. Dr. Cytowic reports extensive research into the physical, psychological, neural, and familial background of a group of synesthets. His ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age

    Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload

    by Richard E. Cytowic, MD, MFA ...
    Narrated by Lyle Blaker ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    An award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them.The human brain hasn't changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of the Screen Age. That's why, according to neurologist Richard Cytowic—who, Oliver Sacks observed, "changed the way we think of the human brain"—our brains are so poorly equipped to resist the incursions ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Synesthesia

    by Richard E. Cytowic, MD ...
    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 18 min

    One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait—like perfect pitch—synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings. A synesthete might hear a voice and at the same time see it as a color or shape, taste its distinctive flavor, or feel it as a physical touch.Cytowic explains that synesthesia's most frequent manifestation is seeing ... Read more

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