Books like Children with starving brains by Jaquelyn McCandless

Explores the groundbreaking science of neuroplasticity, showing how the brain can recover from injury, learn new skills, and even rewire itself to overcome long‑standing mental limits.

An authoritative history of autism that traces its medical origins, examines rising diagnoses, and champions neurodiversity, offering insight into treatment, discrimination, and the quest for a more inclusive society.

A practical guide for parents and professionals on recognizing and treating Sensory Processing Disorder and related disorders without medication.

How does parent-infant attachment affect mental functioning throughout life? What are the pathways by which interpersonal experience shapes the structure and function of the brain? How are neural processes altered by psychological trauma, and how can psychotherapeutic intervention help? Going beyond the nature-nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, this volume presents an integrative new framework for understanding the interface of the brain and the social environment. Daniel J. Siegel addresses fundamental questions about mental health and dysfunction as he explores the ways that interpersonal relationships influence the genetically programmed unfolding of the human mind. Offering a unique perspective on the brain in its natural environment - the growing, feeling, communicating mind - this book belongs on the shelf of professionals and students in a range of fields. It serves as an engaging and informative text for courses in psychiatry, clinical and developmental psychology, neuropsychology, and cognitive science.

"Move beyond conventional thinking about autism. . . . After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, prominent Harvard researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child's genes and destined to remain fixed forever, as we're often told. Instead, it is the result of a cascade of events, many seemingly minor: perhaps a genetic mutation, some toxic exposures, a stressful birth, a vitamin deficiency, and a series of infections. And while other doctors may dismiss your child's physical symptoms--the diarrhea, anxiety, sensory overload, sleeplessness, immune challenges, and seizures--as coincidental or irrelevant, Dr. Herbert sees them as vital clues to what the underlying problems are, and how to help. In The Autism Revolution, she teaches you how to approach autism as a collection of problems that can be overcome--and talents that can be developed. Each success you achieve gives your child more room to become healthy and to thrive. Drawing from the newest research, technologies, and insights, as well as inspiring case studies of both children and adults, Dr. Herbert guides you toward restoring health and resiliency in your loved one with autism. Her specific recommendations aim to provide optimal nutrition, reduce toxic exposures, shore up the immune system, reduce stress, and open the door to learning and creativity--all by understanding and truly meeting your child's needs. As thousands of families who have cobbled together these solutions themselves already know, this program can have dramatic benefits--for your child with autism, and for you, your whole family, and your next baby as well. A paradigm-changing book that offers hope and healing for the millions of families who have autism in their lives, The Autism Revolution shows that there's plenty you can do every day to give someone you love the best possible gift: a life lived to the fullest potential"--