Mark Olshaker, Author, Olshaker Mark, Author, Richard M. Restak, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $21 (335p) ISBN 978-0-517-58044-8
In his first novel since Blood Race (1989), Olshaker has dreamed up a fiendishly disturbing medical thriller. Detective Cassandra ``Sandy'' Mansfield of the Washington, D.C., police is investigating a series of ritualistic murders of young women...
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Richard M. Restak, Author . Crown/Harmony $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-609-60445-8
"Most of us would like to be smarter," asserts Restak (The Brain, companion to PBS's series by the same name), neuropsychiatrist and clinical professor of neurology at George Washington University Medical Center. Restak claims that...
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Richard M. Restak, Author . Rodale $23.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-57954-501-7
Restak (Mozart's Brain), a neurosurgeon and popular science writer on the brain, focuses on new technology for examining the physiology of the brain (such as MRI) and how it allows us to monitor and control a far wider range of activities than...
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Richard M. Restak, Author . Harmony $22 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4850-2
If it's true that we live in an age of anxiety, says Restak, a neuropsychiatrist and professor at George Washington University Medical Center, then our best defense is to learn as much as we can about anxiety and what causes it. Restak (Mozart
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Richard M. Restak, Author . Harmony $23 (255p) ISBN 978-1-4000-9808-8
No brain is an island—so argues neurologist and writer Restak (The New Brain
) in his latest book, which aims to synthesize emerging research on what he calls "social neuroscience," which examines the relationship between the social...
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Richard M. Restak, Author Harmony $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57483-6
Unlike psychiatrists who tend to underestimate the role of the brain in mental illness, neurologist Restak ( The Brain ) seeks the cause, in part, in brain dysfunction. Drawing on his patients' often dramatic stories, this gifted and disarming...
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Richard M. Restak, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-553-08198-5
Restak here gives new meaning to the term ``designer drugs.'' A noted neurologist and author of The Brain and The Mind , he outlines advances in our understanding of the brain's chemical processes that, while holding great promise for the relief of...
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Richard M. Restak, Author Rodale Press $22 (199p) ISBN 978-0-684-19544-5
Restak, a neurologist and author of The Brain and The Mind , examines recent discoveries in neuroscience that radically alter traditional views of how the brain operates and, at the same time, cast light on free will and identity and other matters...
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Richard M. Restak, Author Hyperion Books $10.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8190-1
Neurologist Restak offers a guided tour of the workings of the brain. (Oct.)
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Richard Restak, with Scott Kim, Riverhead, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59448-777-4
Idle mental diversions are good for you, according to this delightful neurology primer–cum–brain teaser compendium. Neuroscientist Restak (Think Smart) begins with an engaging introduction to the brain's features and flubs, from quirks in the visual
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Richard M. Restak, Author, Richard Restack, Author Simon & Schuster $23.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-82976-0
""Use it or lose it,"" declares Restak (author of The Brain, on which the PBS special series was based) to readers wishing to increase their odds of living longer and healthier. The ""it"" is the brain, the organ that can play a primary role in...
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