Change your brain every day Simple daily practices to strengthen your mind, memory, moods, focus, energy, habits, and relationships
Book - 2023
"In Change Your Brain Every Day psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years' clinical practice with tens of thousands of patients to give you the most effective daily habits he has seen that can help you improve your brain, master your mind, boost your memory, and make you feel happier, healthier, and more connected to those you love"--
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Carol Stream, Illinois :
Tyndale Refresh
[2023]
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- English
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- Physical Description
- 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-398).
- ISBN
- 9781496454577
- Introduction
- Day 1. Your Brain Creates Your Mind
- Day 2. If You Are Struggling, Welcome to Normal
- Day 3. When Your Brain Works Right, You Work Right
- Day 4. Your Brain Is the Most Awe-Inspiring Creation
- Day 5. Brain Envy Is the First Step
- Day 6. Doug Falls in Love with His Brain
- Day 7. Avoid Anything That Hurts Your Brain
- Day 8. But How Can I Have Any Fun?
- Day 9. Engage in Regular Brain-Healthy Habits
- Day 10. Boost Your Brain Reserve
- Day 11. Unchained from the Shackles of Failure
- Day 12. You Are in a War for the Health of Your Brain
- Day 13. Brain Warrior Marianne-Best Days Ahead
- Day 14. Do One Simple Thing at a Time for Massive Results
- Day 15. Are You a Wolf, Sheep, or Sheepdog?
- Day 16. Getting Started Can Feel Hard
- Day 17. Develop a Healthy Rhythm
- Day 18. Brain Health Becomes Automatic and Second Nature
- Day 19. You Cannot Change What You Do Not Measure
- Day 20. People Get Sick or Well in Four Circles
- Day 21. Why I Collect Seahorses
- Day 22. Why I Collect Anteaters
- Day 23. Why I Collect Penguins
- Day 24. Why I Collect Butterflies
- Day 25. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Biological
- Day 26. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental illness: Psychological
- Day 27. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Social
- Day 28. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Spiritual
- Day 29. All Psychiatric Issues Have Multiple Causes
- Day 30. Why I Hate the Term Mental Illness and You Should Too
- Day 31. How Brain Imaging Changes Everything: Steve and Schizophrenia
- Day 32. It's Easy to Call Someone Bad; It's Harder to Ask Why
- Day 33. The Structure of Scientific Revolution
- Day 34. Your Brain Can Be Better Tomorrow
- Day 35. The Brain Is a Sneaky Organ
- Day 36. How Do You Know Unless You Look?
- Day 37. Is It Depression or Dementia?
- Day 38. Keeping Memories Alive
- Bright Minds
- Day 39. B Is for Blood Flow
- Day 40. The World's Best Brain Sport
- Day 41. Brain Health Can Improve Your Sex Life
- Day 42. Caffeine and the Brain
- Day 43. Consider Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Day 44. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Blood Flow
- Day 45. R Is for Retirement and Aging
- Day 46. Best Mental Exercises for Your Brain
- Day 47. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Retirement/Aging
- Day 48. I Is for Inflammation
- Day 49. Boost Omega-3s to Calm Inflammation
- Day 50. The Gut-Brain Connection
- Day 51. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Inflammation
- Day 52. G Is for Genetics
- Day 53. Brain Warrior Chalene Transforms Her Life
- Day 54. The Lincoln Legacy
- Day 55. Turn Off the Genes That Make You Vulnerable
- Day 56. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Genetics
- Day 57. His for Head Trauma
- Day 58. Identify Head Injuries of Any Kind
- Day 59. Reversing Brain Damage Is Possible: Amen Clinics NFL Brain Rehabilitation Study
- Day 60. Amen Clinics' Position on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
- Day 61. You Must Know about Irlen Syndrome
- Day 62. Brain Warrior Captain Patrick Caffrey
- Day 63. Distinguishing PTSD from Traumatic Brain Injuries
- Day 64. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Head Trauma
- Day 65. T Is for Toxins
- Day 66. 15 Toxins That Damage Your Brain and Steal Your Mind
- Day 67. I Told You So: Why the American Cancer Society Says to Stop Drinking
- Day 68. Is Marijuana Innocuous?
- Day 69. Can General Anesthesia Damage the Brain?
- Day 70. Personal Care Products: The Ugly Side of Health and Beauty Aids
- Day 71. Brain Warrior Dave Asprey and Mold
- Day 72. The Vulnerability of First Responders
- Day 73. The Key to Marriage Therapy
- Day 74. Your House May Be Harming Your Brain
- Day 75. Vaping and the Brain
- Day 76. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Toxins
- Day 77. M Is for Mental Health Issues
- Day 78. Natural Ways to Help ADD/ADHD
- Day 79. Natural Ways to Help Anxiety
- Day 80. Natural Ways to Help Depression
- Day 81. Is Bipolar Disorder the New "Fad" Diagnosis?
- Day 82. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Mental Health
- Day 83. I Is for Immunity and Infections
- Day 84. Vitamin D: The Sunshine Vitamin
- Day 85. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Brain
- Day 86. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Immunity and Infections
- Day 87. N Is for Neurohormone Issues
- Day 88. The Pill's Surprising (and Scary) Side Effects
- Day 89. Change Your Hormones, Change Your Dog
- Day 90. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Neurohormones
- Day 91. D Is for Diabesity
- Day 92. What We Learned from the Weights of 20,000 Patients
- Day 93. A Half Dozen Ways Doughnuts Can Ruin Your Life
- Day 94. Love Food That Loves You Back
- Day 95. Brain Warrior Carlos Influenced Everyone He Loved
- Day 96. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Diabesity
- Day 97. S Is for Sleep
- Day 98. Natural Ways to Improve Sleep
- Day 99. Understanding Dreams and Nightmares
- Day 100. Hypnosis for Sleep
- Day 101. The Good Ruler vs. Evil Ruler Strategies to Create and End Mental Illness: Sleep
- Day 102. Tiny Habits for BRIGHT MINDS
- Day 103. Digital Obsessions
- Day 104. When Getting Healthy Starts with Love
- Brain Typing
- Day 105. Introduction to Brain Types
- Day 106. Balanced Brain Type
- Day 107. Spontaneous Brain Type
- Day 108. Persistent Brain Type
- Day 109. Sensitive Brain Type
- Day 110. Cautious Brain Type
- Building Brain Skills
- Day 111. Natural Treatments Whenever Possible
- Day 112. Supplement Basics for the Brain
- Day 113. Protecting Teenage Brains
- Day 114. Brain Warrior Alicia Dominates Her Husband in Table Tennis
- Day 115. Discipline Your Mind
- Day 116. Know the Nine Types of ANTs
- Day 117. How to Kill the ANTs
- Day 118. Five Ways to Increase Willpower
- Day 119. Be Curious, Not Furious
- Day 120. Feel Better Now and Later vs. Now but Not Later
- Day 121. Be a Good Parent to Yourself
- Day 122. The One Thing
- Day 123. Where You Bring Your Attention Determines How You Feel
- Day 124. Eliminate the Little Lies That Keep You Fat, Depressed, and Foggy-Minded
- Day 125. Make Rules for Vulnerable Times
- Day 126. Brain Warrior Sherry and Investigating Setbacks
- Day 127. Family and Friends-and You-Are Contagious
- Day 128. Now Is the Only Time You Will Get Well
- Day 129. It's Not Me; It's What Happened to Me
- Day 130. It's More Expensive Not to Get Help
- Day 131. Food Is Medicine or Poison
- Day 132. It's Not about You, but Generations of You
- Day 133. Give Your Mind a Name
- Day 134. If You Knew a Train Was Going to Hit You, Would You at Least Try to Get Out of the Way?
- Day 135. Brain Warrior Judy Changed Her Family
- Day 136. Three Steps to Thrive in a Crisis
- Day 137. Disconnecting the Emotional Bridges from the Past
- Day 138. Healthy Ways to Deal with Pain
- Day 139. Can Red Dye 40 Get You into Trouble?
- Day 140. Can Brain Health Make You More Beautiful?
- Day 141. Never Let Grief Be Your Excuse to Hurt Yourself
- Day 142. Global Change Is Possible
- Day 143. Warning Sign Your Brain Is in Trouble: Poor Memory
- Day 144. Nine Surprising Early Warning Signs of Dementia
- Relationships and the Brain
- Day 145. RELATING: R Is for Responsibility, Part 1
- Day 146. R Is for Responsibility. Part 2
- Day 147. E Is for Empathy
- Day 148. L Is for Listening, Part 1
- Day 149. L Is for Listening, Part 2
- Day 150. A is for Assertiveness
- Day 151. T Is for Time
- Day 152. I Is for Inquiring
- Day 153. N Is for Noticing What You Like More Than What You Don't
- Day 154. G Is for Grace and Forgiveness
- Day 155. Tiny Habits for RELATING
- Day 156. Brutal Honesty Can Do More Harm Than Good
- Day 157. Effective Brain-Based Parenting Strategies
- Day 158. 10 Things Parents Should Never Do
- Day 159. Male and Female Brains Are Wildly Different
- Day 160. Strengths and Vulnerabilities of the Female Brain
- Day 161. Gray Matter vs. White Matter
- Day 162. More Male-Female Differences
- Day 163. Stop Saying "I Love You with All My Heart"
- Day 164. When Relationships Struggle, Think of the Brain
- Day 165. Practical Neuroscience Can Bring More Love
- Day 166. Better Relationships through Biochemistry
- Day 167. New Love Is a Drug
- Day 168. A Healthier Brain Equals a Sexier You
- Day 169. Embed Yourself in Your Partner's Brain
- Day 170. Simple Answers Are Not Sufficient
- Day 171. The Strangest Things Can Hurt Your Brain and Ruin Relationships
- Day 172. Use Your Brain Before You Give Your Heart Away, Part 1
- Day 173. Use Your Brain Before You Give Your Heart Away, Part 2
- Day 174. Have You Ever Been Mobbed? I Have
- Practical Neuroscience
- Day 175. Executive Function Time: Meet Your PFC
- Day 176. Controlling Your Inner Child and Overly Harsh Inner Parent
- Day 177. The Two Most Important Words for Brain Health: Then What?
- Day 178. Master Two Opposing Forces in the Brain: The Elephant and the Rider
- Day 179. The Neuroscience of Why You Lose in Vegas
- Day 180. Crime, Treatment, and Punishment
- Day 181. Six Lessons from the Scans of Murderers
- Day 182. Brain Warrior Michael Peterson: Good Habits Are the Keys to All Success
- Day 183. Dealing with Conflict-Seeking People
- Day 184. Your Brain Makes Happen What It Sees
- Day 185. The One Page Miracle (OPM)
- Day 186. Use Your Brain to Manifest Your Destiny
- Day 187. Coordinate Your Mind and Body: Meet Your Cerebellum
- Day 188. Flexibility Time: Meet Your ACG
- Day 189. What to Do When You Feel Stuck
- Day 190. Don't Try to Convince Someone Else Who is Stuck
- Day 191. Ask for the Opposite of What You Want
- Day 192. Natural Ways to Boost Serotonin
- Day 193. Notice When You're Stuck, Distract Yourself, and Come Back to the Problem Later
- Day194 Argue with Reality, Welcome to Hell
- Day 195. Tiny Habits to Be More Flexible
- Day 196. Relaxation Time: Meet Your Basal Ganglia
- Day 197. You Need Some Anxiety
- Day 198. Protect Your Pleasure Centers
- Day 199. I Have No idea Why I'm Anxious
- Day 200. Diaphragmatic Breathing
- Day 201. Loving-Kindness Meditation
- Day 202. Heart Rate Variability Training
- Day 203. Hypnosis to Discipline Your Mind
- Day 204. Hypnosis Can Help Kids Too
- Day 205. Hand Warming
- Day 206. Remember the 18-40-60 Rule
- Day 207. Managing Road Rage
- Day 208. Four Steps to Break a Panic Attack
- Day 209. How to Wake Your Child a Republican, Democrat, or Anything You Want
- Day 210. Eight Tips to Master Performance Anxiety
- Day 211. Feel Good Time: Meet Your Deep Limbic System
- Day 212. Feel Great Anytime, Anywhere
- Day 213. Healing Scents
- Day 214. Surround Yourself with People Who Provide Positive Bonding
- Day 215. Recognize the importance of Physical Contact
- Day 216. Create an Emotional Rescue Playlist
- Day 217. Anchor Images
- Day 218. Positivity Bias Training Time
- Day 219. Start Every Day with "Today Is Going to Be a Great Day"
- Day 220. End Each Day with "What Went Well Today?"
- Day 221. Look for Micro-Moments of Happiness
- Day 222. Interrupt Unnecessary Unhappy Moments
- Day 223. Gratitude and Appreciation
- Day 224. Random Acts of Kindness
- Day 225. Thank You, Next
- Day 226. Focus on Your Strengths and Accomplishments
- Day 227. A Simple 12-Minute Meditation to Change Your Brain
- Day 228. Tiny Habits for Trauma and Grief
- Day 229. Brain Warrior Tina: Better Brain, Better Business
- Day 230. Do You Spend Time with Friends or Accomplices?
- Day 231. Fork in the Road Exercise
- Day 232. Let's Stop Blaming Mothers
- Day 233. If You Don't Admit You Have a Problem, You Cannot Do Anything to Solve It
- Nutrition
- Day 234. SOUL Food for Your Brain
- Day 235. High-Quality Calories and Not Too Many
- Day 236. Mimic Calorie Restriction without the Side Effects
- Day 237. Calorie Magic
- Day 238. Drink Plenty of Water and Not Many Calories
- Day 239. High-Quality Protein Keeps Cravings Away
- Day 240. Be a Fat Head
- Day 241. Mood-Boosting Carbs That Last
- Day 242. Cook with Brain-Healthy Herbs and Spices
- Day 243. Make Sure Your Food Is as Clean as Possible
- Day 244. Consider Intermittent Fasting
- Day 245. Are You Hypoglycemic?
- Day 246. Is Gluten Good for Your Brain or Bad for It?
- Day 247. Are You Addicted to Gluten and Dairy?
- Day 248. Be Cautious with Corn
- Day 249. Milk Is for Baby Cows
- Day 250. Make One Decision, Not Thirty
- Day 251. Explaining a Brain-Healthy Diet to Teens
- Day 252. The Marsh mallow Test
- Day 253. Chloe's Game
- Day 254. Can Odd Behaviors Be Related to Your Diet?
- Day 255. Eight Mood Foods to Treat Depression
- Day 256. Brain Warrior Angie and What Toxic Food Was Doing to Her
- Day 257. Consider Potential Food Allergies
- Day 258. Tiny Habits for Nutrition and Nutraceuticals
- Taming the Dragons from the Past
- Day 259. Your Brain Is Always Listening to the Dragons from the Past
- Day 260. Brain Warrior Jimmy: Taming the Dragons from the Past
- Day 261. Taming the Abandoned, Invisible, or Insignificant Dragons
- Day 262. Taming the Inferior or Flawed Dragons
- Day 263. Taming the Anxious Dragons
- Day 264. Taming the Wounded Dragons
- Day 265. The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Day 266. Heating Childhood Trauma: Brain Warrior Rachel Hollis
- Day 267. Taming the Should and Shaming Dragons
- Day 268. How Shame Can Damage Your Brain
- Day 269. Taming the Responsible Dragons
- Day270 Taming the Angry Dragons
- Day 271. Taming the Judgmental Dragons
- Day 272. Taming the Grief and Loss Dragons
- Day 273. Taming the Death Dragons
- Day 274. Taming the Hopeless and Helpless Dragons
- Day 275. Taming the Ancestral Dragons
- Day 276. They, Them, and Other Dragons
- Happiness
- Day 277. Finding Happiness in the Brain
- Day 278. Happiness Is a Moral Obligation
- Day 279. The Seven Lies of Happiness
- Day 280. Brain Warrior Steve Arterburn and Transformation
- Day 281. Ultimate Brain-Based Therapy
- Day 282. With Hope: A Veteran's Story
- Day 283. Know Your Purpose in Five Minutes
- Day 284. Can Purpose Help You Live Longer and Better?
- Day 285. Decide What You Truly Want and What You Don't Want
- Day 286. I Used to See Ghosts
- Day 287. Get the Whole Family Involved
- Day 288. EMDR, Steven, and the Santa Monica Farmers Market
- Day 289. Use Humming and Toning to Tune Up Your Brain
- Day 290. Learn to Love What You Hate, Do What You Can't, and Make Space Work for You
- The Chemicals of Happiness
- Day 291. Dopamine: The Molecule of More
- Day 292. Seven Natural Ways to Boost Dopamine
- Day 293. Serotonin: The Molecule of Respect
- Day 296. More Natural Ways to Boost Serotonin
- Day 295. Oxytocin: The Molecule of Trust
- Day 296. Eight Ways to Boost Oxytocin
- Day 297. Endorphins: The Molecule of Pain Relief
- Day 298. Eight Ways to Increase Endorphins
- Day 299. GABA: The Molecule of Calm
- Day 300. Eight Ways to Balance GABA
- Day 301. Cortisol: The Molecule of Danger
- Day 302. 13 Ways to Balance Cortisol
- A New 12-Step Brain-Based Addiction Recovery Program
- Day 303. Why a New 12-Step Program Is Needed
- Day 304. Step 1: Know Your Goals
- Day 305. Step 2: Know When You Have Been Taken Hostage
- Day 306. Step 3: Make a Decision to Care for, Balance, and Repair Your Brain
- Day 307. Step 4: Reach for Forgiveness for Yourself and Others
- Day 308. Step 5: Know Your Addiction Brain Type
- Day 309. Step 6: Use the Neuroscience of Craving Control
- Day 310. Step 7: Drip Dopamine, Stop Dumping It, to Keep Your Pleasure Centers Healthy
- Day 311. Step 8: Eliminate the Pushers and Users Who Make You Vulnerable
- Day 312. Step 9: Tame Your Dragons from the Past and Kill the ANTs
- Day 313. Step 10: Get Help from Those Who Have Tamed Their Own Addictions
- Day 314. Step 11: List the People You Have Hurt and Make Amends When Possible
- Day 315. Step 12: Carry the Message of Brain Health to Others
- Day 316. Wanting vs. Liking
- Day 317. Commit to a Lifetime of Brain Fitness
- Eliminating Bad Habits
- Day 318. Eliminating the Bad Habits That Ruin Your Life, Part 1
- Day 319. Eliminating the Bad Habits That Ruin Your Life, Part 2
- Day 320. The Bad Habit of Yes, Yes, Yes
- Day 321. The Bad Habit of No, No, No
- Day 322. The Bad Habit of Interrupting
- Day 323. Trouble with the Truth Bad Habit
- Day 324. Truth Training: When Children Lie
- Day 325. The Bad Habits of Being Distracted, Being Obsessive, or Multitasking
- Day 326. The Bad Habit of Procrastination
- Day 327. The Bad Habit of Disorganization
- Day 328. The Bad Habit of Creating Problems
- Day 329. The Bad Habit of Overeating
- Day 330. The Bad Habit of Being Oblivious
- Outfox the Scheming Dragons
- Day 331. Outfox the Scheming Dragons
- Day 332. Food Pusher Dragons
- Day 333. Unhealthy "Health" Dragons
- Day 334. Substance Pusher Dragons
- Day 335. Toxin Pusher Dragons
- Day 336. Digital Dragons
- Day 337. Pornography Dragons
- Day 338. News Monger Dragons
- Day 339. Social Media Dragons
- Day 340. Contact Sports Dragons
- Day 341. Holiday Dragons
- ADD/ADHD and More
- Day 342. Do You Have ADD/ADHD?
- Day 343. Untreated ADD/ADHD Can Ruin Your Life
- Day 344. ADD/ADHD Strengths
- Day 345. The Harder You Try, the Worse It Gets
- Day 346. ADD/ADHD in Females
- Day 347. Brain Warrior Jarrett and a Completely New View of ADD/ADHD
- Day 348. Is Medication for ADD/ADHD Always Wrong?
- Day 349. Thinking Ahead
- Day 350. Keeping Your Cool under Stress
- Day 351. Can I Still Be Funny If I Get My Brain Treated?
- Day 352. How Learning Disorders Can Fuel Shame: Brain Warrior Lewis Howes
- Day 353. Raven-Symoné and the Burrito Syndrome: What Depression Feels Like
- Day 354. Overcoming the Lasting Pain of Bullying
- Day 355. Thoughts on Suicide
- Day 356. Unwhack Yourself
- Conclusions
- Day 357. Brain Warrior Trent Shelton: Know Your Brain, Know Yourself
- Day 358. What about Cheat Days?
- Day 359. Seven Bad Excuses for Not Getting the Help You Need
- Day 360. When You Change, Others Are Likely to Follow
- Day 361. What to Do When a Loved One Is in Denial about Getting Help
- Day 362. Change the B Stuff
- Day 363. Six Ways to Boost Spiritual Fitness
- Day 364. Tiny Habits for Your Sense of Purpose
- Day 365. Brain Warrior Jill Lives the Message
- Day 366. Tiny Habits for Your Mind
- Gratitude and Appreciation
- About Daniel G. Amen, MD
- Resources
- Notes
