Rewire Your Brain 2.0, 2nd Edition

Book description

Combat daily stressors and live your life to its fullest

In the newly revised Rewire Your Brain 2.0: Five Healthy Factors to a Better Life, distinguished psychologist Dr. John B. Arden delivers an essential discussion of how to apply the latest developments in neuroscience, epigenetics, and immunology to help improve your mood, memory, lives, longevity, and relationships. You’ll learn to overcome mild depression and anxiety, procrastination, burnout, compassion fatigue, and a variety of other negative thought patterns.

You’ll also find:

  • Practical, self-help tips based on well-researched principles that are proven to work in the real world
  • Ways to minimize the impact of everyday anxiety, stress, and depression and live your life to its fullest
  • Tactics for improving your memory for day-to-day tasks at work and at home

A practical and hands-on roadmap to applying new advances in neuroscience, psychology, gene expression, and immune system research to everyday problems we all face, Rewire Your Brain 2.0 deserves a place on the bookshelves of professionals, athletes, parents, and anyone else susceptible to the stressors of daily life.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Advanced Praise for Rewire Your Brain 2.0
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Part 1: Healthy Brain and Body
    1. 1 Your Adaptive Brain
      1. Nurtured Nature
      2. Your Brain's Brain
      3. FEED Your Brain
      4. Marlee FEEDS Her Brain
      5. Test Yourself
    2. 2 Energizing Your Brain
      1. Mitos—Your Energy Generators
      2. Genomic Plasticity
      3. The Immune System in Your Brain
      4. Fat Cells, Chronic Inflammation, and Brain Fog
      5. Your Mind–Brain–Immune System Communication
    3. 3 Taming False Threats
      1. Stress and False Alarms
      2. Neutralizing Anxiety
      3. Your Autonomic Nervous System
      4. Avoiding Avoidance
      5. Changing Your Narrative
    4. 4 Shifting into Action
      1. Priming Positive Moods
      2. Full Spectrum Light
      3. Aerobic Boosting
      4. Constructing Positive Narratives
      5. Wiring Positive Thinking
      6. Social Boosting
      7. Taking Action
  8. Part 2: The Five SEEDS Factors
    1. 5 The Social Factor
      1. The Effects of Nurturance and Its Deprivation
      2. Bonding and Attachment
      3. Mirror Neurons
    2. 6 The Exercise Factor
      1. Build Back Stronger
      2. Brain Building
      3. Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Relief
      4. Get Moving
    3. 7 The Education Factor
      1. Cognitive Reserve
      2. Memory—The Basis of Learning
      3. Associations and Mnemonic Tricks
      4. Eduardo's Tables
    4. 8 The Diet Factor
      1. Sugar Toxicity
      2. The Amino Acid Cornucopia
      3. Minerals and Phytonutrients
      4. Nancy's Wrong Fat Problem
      5. Getting the Right Fats
      6. Fats and Depression
      7. Hype versus a Balanced Diet
    5. 9 The Sleep Factor
      1. Your Circadian Rhythm
      2. Body Temperature—Stay Cool
      3. Melatonin and Adenosine
      4. Sleep and Brain Health
      5. Stages of Your Sleep
      6. Nighttime Imagery—Dreaming
      7. Unraveling Sleep Loss
      8. Sleep Hygiene
  9. Part 3: Your Mind‐Brain
    1. 10 Resiliency to Wisdom
      1. Attitude and Resiliency
      2. Shifting Your Emotional Tone
  10. References
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
    4. Chapter 4
    5. Chapter 5
    6. Chapter 6
    7. Chapter 7
    8. Chapter 8
    9. Chapter 9
    10. Chapter 10
  11. About the Author
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Index
  14. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Rewire Your Brain 2.0, 2nd Edition
  • Author(s): John B. Arden
  • Release date: April 2023
  • Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
  • ISBN: 9781119895947