Book: Brainstorm – Detective Stories from the World of Neurology – Suzanne O’Sullivan
The author is a Consultant Neurologist in the UK – as an aside the UK aspect is welcome when so many of the books in this field stem from America – and in this book she uses a variety of anonymised case studies to review what happens when the brain...Book: The Disordered Mind – What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves- Eric R Kandel
Perhaps more than any other part of our body, the brain is the bit we don’t notice till it goes wrong. There is also the idea that it’s fixed and immutable, while we can learn and memorise, we can’t change structure – put simply the idea perpetuates that brain...Book: Why We Sleep – The New Science of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker
Sleep – most of us probably feel we don’t have enough of it, both a curse of modern life and something which is supported in statistics. But apart from the subtle guilt of knowing you need some more (me too), and the not so subtle ache of insomnia and...Book: Doctoring Data – Dr Malcolm Kendrick
Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense Today’s headline: Saturated Fat increases your risk of dying. Tomorrow’s headline: Saturated Fat protects you against cancer. Sometimes medical research reporting can be puzzling and down right...Book: Attached – Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
“The science of adult attachment and how it can help you find – and keep – love” Attachment Theory provides a theory of interpersonal relationships, primarily based on attachment bonds between an infant and their caregiver. The theory goes that childhood...Book: Sod 70 – The Guide To Living Well – Muir Gray
Although age is inevitable, ageing, or the effects of age, are less so. Sure we all slow, and even at the comparatively tender age of 51 – the author says the readership of this book will mostly be 70s – I feel a transition. However whilst we can adapt to...Book: Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong – Matt Brown
Well, unsurprisingly, in my case, it wasn’t. Probably just as well with the amount I’ve interested, both time and money, in training! This is a bit of a whimsical book, serious, but not overly so, on trivia and myths about the human body. We’ve all got one, and if you...Book: The Distracted Mind – Adam Gazzaley and Larry D Rosen
The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World So most of us have experienced it; the day when you have to get a lot done, yet your nose is stuck in Instagram/Facebook/Twitter. The authors come from backgrounds in Psychology and Neuroscience, and have...Book: Chair Yoga – Kristin McGee
The assumption, of course, is Chair Yoga is a practice for those who can’t get to the floor for health reasons. Often that’s true, but what about when time or circumstances stop you getting to floor? Well, this is the book for those times, for example at work if you...Book: How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy – Paul Chek
Paul Chek’s name is well known in fitness circles, and the thing I liked about this book was it’s comprehensiveness, covering diet, movement and lifestyle/stress. Very often books just major on one of these, some exercise books exclude diet or lifestyle, or just...Book: Wellmania – Misadventures in the Search for Wellness – Brigid Delaney
Extreme fasting; extreme yoga; extreme meditation – this is a sideways look at the wellness world through the eyes and journey one seeker. The author is a journalist, in part reporting on travel and wellness, and this is a memoir partly of those jobs; partly of...Book: Learning To Breath – Rachael Newham
The books subtitle is “My journey with Mental Illness”, and it’s a short, but blunt, memoir of depression, self harm, eating disorder and suicide attempts by the then teenage author now in her 20s. Initially I was a bit cautious of the book, as the introduction brings...Book: Life Long Yoga – Sage Rountree and Alexandra Desiato
The subtitle of this book clearly sets out its market, “Maximising your Balance, Flexibility and Core Strength in our 50s, 60s and Beyond”. Sigh, that includes me now then. I sigh in jest – we all age, and I’d suggest a healthy approach...Book: The Brains Way of Healing – Norman Doidge
Subtitled “Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries”, this 2015 book follows the authors earlier 2008 work, “The Brain that Changes Itself”, and develops and updates the themes of that book – the brains adaptation through neurogenesis and...Book: Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery – Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
The incidence of back pain is huge; for some an occasional niggle, others a life long potentially debilitating condition. And if its not our back, maybe someone close to us suffers, and we pick up the pieces. This is a book those with a serious back problem, but...Book: The Brain That Changes Itself – Norman Doige
If you went back 60 or 70 years there were several clear understandings of our brain structure. One was that after teenage years the structure of the brain was fixed. Another was that you could not form new brain material. Finally, certain areas of...Book: Restorative Yoga Therapy – Leeann Carey
A feature of modern life is that we are always “on demand” – we find our attention being drawn by the lure of social media; by text messages and adverts; by billboards and radio adverts. Our phones mean we are always in touch with family and friends,...Book: The Wisdom of Yoga – Stephen Cope
Anyone who has more than a passing acquaintance with Yoga will know that there is a rich heritage of Wisdom and Philosophy underpinning our modern day practice. One of the key writings in that canon of Yogas wisdom tradition is the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, written...Book: In Shock – Dr Rana Awdish
In Shock: How Nearly Dying Made Me a Better Intensive Care Doctor As the title suggests, the author is an Intensive Care Doctor in the US, working on an Intensive Care Unit. A serious illness during pregnancy saw her nearly die in her own hospital, and an extended...Socials and Feeds
