I am not sure this should be called a “book” review as it is about an article…. Dr. Flynn of the Brain Training Centers of Florida has provided another informative review. 
The Best Six Pages Ever About Cocaine: 
“The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addition.” Eric J. Nestler, M.D., Ph.D.,
 Science & Practice Perspective. December 2005
http://nida.nih.gov/PDF/Perspectives/vol3no1/Neurobiology.pdf
 
Eric J. Nestler’s introductory three or four pages of this article, published in a journal of the National Institute on Drug Abuse/national Institutes of Health, are so good that I keep copies on both my campus and private …

The Best Brain Book Ever:
The Human Brain Book.  Rita Carter. DK Publishing. (2009).
Until something better is published (and don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen), The Best Brain Book Ever Award must go to The Human Brain Book the team of Rita Carter, Susan Aldridge, Martyn Page and Steve Parker. With 241 full-color pages and thousands of illustrations and full-color brain images, it is the best illustrated and most easily readable book ever published for people just beginning to explore the most complex system in the Universe.
Slightly …

The Brainy and Not-So-Brainy Brain Books Corner
The Brain Training Centers of Florida presents a service not found anywhere else on the Internet or offered by any other affiliate of Brain State Technologies: The Brainy and Not-So-Brainy Brain Books Corner.
“Books about the brain are like a good news-bad news joke,” notes Francis J. (Skip) Flynn, Psy. D., CAP, director of the Brain Training Centers of Florida. “The good news is that there are a number of great new books that make understanding some dynamics of the brain relatively easy to …

It was a news articles that went too largely unnoticed and it blew the whistle on one of the great non-secret secrets of modern medicine and psychiatry: The benefit of antidepressants “is hardly more than what patients get when they… take a dummy pill – a placebo.”
The cover story of the February 8, 2010 edition of Newsweek magazine was written by Sharon Begley with Sarah Kliff and cites a number of major research reports dating back to the 1950s. Most impressively, Begley and Sliff examine several meta-analysis studies – reviews …

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Brain Training Centers bring Miracles to South Florida
State-of-the-art technology balances the brain to work more effectively.
 (Miami, FL / February 2010) – Brain Training Centers of Florida (BTC)  is now offering a new technology that achieves remarkable results.  Brain Wave Optimization with Real Time Balancing™ addresses the condition and balance of the human brain through a sophisticated neuro and biofeedback system. 
The “Brain Training” method engages state-of-the-art computer technology and specially designed neurofeedback and EEG equipment that captures and analyzes the energy levels of …

  J.B.
Mother
 “I wanted to give you a update on how my 8 year boy is doing since we completed the 10 Brain State training sessions. As you know, though very bright, my son was having difficulty in school and his teachers wanted to put him a special class for kids having difficulties.
 Since the training he was re-tested in the areas that he had tested below grade level last August. He improved in all six areas. Two areas showed notable jumps. He improved a year and a half in reading content …

Today we are empowering brains utilizing our Brain Wave Optimization with Real Time Balancing system powered by Brain State Technologies to strengthen the processing of seven different peoples’ brains. The issues people are coming to see us at the Brain Training Centers of Florida include, but are not limited to the following, “No Issues just want my brain to work better”, anxiety, addictions, teenager having problems integrating information – cognitive functioning, sleep issues, phobias, chronic fear, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, depression, sadness, despair, and panic attacks.
Client quotes for today include …

We are blessed with eight different clients coming in to brain train today. Through our Brain Wave Optimization with Real Time Balancing we are assisting our clients with the following issues; anxiety, fear, addictions, sleep issues, phobias, eating disorders, over-active brains, focus issues, ADD and ADHD, motivation, energy levels, depression, and chronic fatigue.
It is another great day here at the Brain Training Centers of Florida.

Just when I thought we had established a new record…. we are setting another new one today. Today we are helping nine of our clients benefit from the neuroplasticity of their brains through Brain Wave Optimization with Real Time Balancing (Brain Training).  In the fourteen daily sessions we have available, nine people are coming in for training.
 Today, the issues that we are dealing with the most seem to be helping our clients get to the neuropathway programming that originated in-utero during the last trimester of their mother’s pregnancy with them. …

From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 10:05PM EST Last updated on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 3:43AM EST
The six-year-old boy plays the game Operation, skillfully wielding a pair of tweezers in a school gym that doubles as a research lab. His brain has been damaged by the alcohol his mother drank when he was in the womb, but he’s adept at extracting tiny plastic bones.
“When it gets too easy we will have him switch to his left hand,” says Chris Bertram, a scientist at the University …