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Where in the World is God?    by Hope Raymond
Price: Free! 143080 words. Language: English. Published on December 4, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » Neuropsychology.

Where in the World is God? traces the course of an informal study of humanity’s choices today, linking them with energy-driven needs of the universe. The author examines her premises, provides extensive data collected mostly from mainstream media, and draws conclusions that link the course of humanity’s life with the long-term, evolutionary needs of the universe.
The Mysterious Mind of Opal Whiteley: Four Unique Lives Compared    by Lili Marlene
Price: $1.99 USD. 15400 words. Language: English. Published on September 15, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Literary biography.

Opal Whiteley (1897-1992) remains a mysterious figure. Her life began as a brilliant girl with a passion for nature living in logging camps in Oregon, and ended as a psychiatric patient in the Napsbury Hospital in England after decades of institutionalization. How did this happen? Can the riddle of multi-synaesthete Whiteley be solved by comparing her life with other famous and enigmatic people?
The Strange and Mysterious Life of Opal Whiteley    by Lili Marlene
Price: $0.99 USD. 2750 words. Language: English. Published on August 31, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Literary biography.

Opal Irene Whiteley was born in 1897 in Washington and was raised in Oregon, and died at the Napsbury Hospital in England as a psychiatric patient, at the age of ninety-four in 1992. How did a brilliant young American girl with a passion for geology and nature study come to end her life institutionalized in England?
Anatomia della Memoria    by Georg Werner
Price: $5.99 USD. 14830 words. Language: Italian. Published by ALVIS International Editions  on June 26, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » Neuropsychology.

Per molti anni è prevalsa la convinzione che la memoria dell'uomo sia una singola entità riconducibile ad un'unica struttura o regione del cervello. Progressivamente i neurobiologi si sono resi conto che la memoria dell'uomo è costituita da molteplici componenti imperniate su una rete diffusa di neuroni.
Multi - Componential Memory    by Gabriele Bruno
Price: $4.99 USD. 4650 words. Language: English. Published by ALVIS International Editions  on June 26, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » Neuropsychology.

Always been the theme of memory has aroused curiosity and scientists to establish the processes and try to optimize it. Nowadays one can no longer speak of "memory" because it was identified the multiplicity of componential memory. Most recent studies have determined the existence of three memory areas with different structure and function.
La Memoria Multicomponenziale    by Gabriele Bruno
Price: $4.99 USD. 4660 words. Language: Italian. Published by ALVIS International Editions  on June 26, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » Neuropsychology.

Da sempre il tema della memoria ha suscitato curiosi e scienziati per stabilirne i processi e cercare di ottimizzarla. Oggi ormai non si può più parlare di “memoria” perché é stata individuata la molteplicità componenziale della memoria. I più recenti studi hanno determinato l’esistenza di tre aree di memoria con diversa struttura e funzionamento.
Neurobiology of Memory    by Ingrid Bauer
Price: $5.99 USD. 15970 words. Language: English. Published by ALVIS International Editions  on June 26, 2012. Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Life Sciences / Biological Diversity.

Memory is the brain's ability to keep track of past experience and make it reappear in consciousness. Memory is a complex process that involves three phases: learning, information storage, return (evocation and recognition). These phenomena are not controlled by a specialized region of the brain, but develop together at the nerve centers polyvalent and nerve fibers that connect them.