How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist - Hardcover

Newberg, Andrew; Waldman, Mark Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345503414 ISBN 13: 9780345503411

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 2009

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Reveals the controversial discovery that thinking about God -- however we define the term -- can improve cognitive functioning and physical health, interrupt the devastating effects of depression, Alzheimer's disease, and a host of stress-related disorders, and foster compassion towards others.

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Andrew Newberg, M.D., is the director of the Center for Spirituality and the Mind at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the founders of the new interdisciplinary field called neurotheology. He is an associate professor in the department of radiology, with secondary appointments in the departments of psychiatry and religious studies, at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been featured on Good Morning America, Nightline, the Discovery Channel, the BBC, NPR, and National Geographic Television. He is the co-author of Why God Won’t Go Away, Born to Believe, and The Mystical Mind.

www.andrewnewberg.com



Mark Robert Waldman is an associate fellow at the Center for Spirituality and the Mind at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a therapist, the author or co-author of ten books, including Born to Believe (with Andrew Newberg), and was the founding editor of Transpersonal Review. He lectures throughout the country on neuroscience, religion, and spirituality and conducts research with numerous religious and secular groups. His work has been featured in dozens of newspapers and magazines and on syndicated radio programs.

www.markrobertwaldman.com

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0345503414
• ISBN 13: 9780345503411
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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