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When twenty-five-year-old Claire Bullimore fainted on a London train, she thought it was just exhaustion. Months later, doctors discovered a ten-centimeter brain tumor pressing against her vision and memory—a diagnosis that would change everything. Told with disarming honesty and wicked humor, A Brain Tumor's Travel Tale takes readers on Claire’s rollercoaster journey from diagnosis and emergency brain surgery to the long, messy road of recovery.

An extraordinary journey into the mind, around the world, and back to happiness. 49, divorced, with two grown-up children, Ann Amann believes her days of...

For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And what does it mean for brain health in the future? 

Research shows that a leader's behavior is the most important predictor of a team's success. Leading with Your Upper Brain helps you understand why. It provides an innovative framework to shift your behavior in ways that help employees tap into their upper-brain resources that drive higher levels of performance.

Encephalitis almost ended Chris Maxwell's life. The scar tissue in his brain and life with epilepsy made him - and his family and friends - feel like the life they'd known changed suddenly and permanently. For Maxwell and the staggering number of people facing traumatic brain injuries, epilepsy, or other painful encounters, life is experienced through a different lens.