Favorite Resources for Understanding the Brain: Theirs and Ours

  • Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology by Bonnie Badenoch (2008)
  • Brain Rules for Baby (2010) and Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina (2008) www.brainrules.net Excellent handouts/parent quiz.
  • The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge MD (2007)
  • The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are by Daniel Siegel MD (2001)
  • Essential Differences: Male and Female Brains and the Truth about Autism by Simon Baron-Cohen (2003)
  • The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being by Daniel Siegel MD (2007)
  • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel Siegel MD (2010)
  • My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor (2006)
  • The Neurobiology of “We”: How Relationships, the Mind, and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are by Daniel Siegel (CD – 2008)
  • The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment And the Developing Social Brain by Louis Cozolino (2006)
  • Parenting From the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel MD and Mary Hartzell (2004)
  • The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids by Barbara Straugh (2003)
  • Yes, Your Teen is Crazy: Loving Your Kid without Losing Your Mind (2003) and Yes, Your Parents are Crazy: A Teen Survival Guide by Michael Bradley (2003)

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