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A NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Everyone we know needs this remarkable book ... Essential for the rest of your life' Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive'The secrets of ageing well ... a serious, evidence-based guide to what really works and why' Sunday TimesWe have long been encouraged to think of old age as synonymous with a decline in skills. Yet recent studies show that our decision making improves as we age, and our happiness levels peak in our eighties. What really happens to our brains as we get older? In The Changing Mind, neuroscientist, psychologist and internationally bestselling author Daniel Levitin invites us to dramatically shift our understanding of aging, demonstrating its many cognitive benefits.He draws on cutting-edge research to offer realistic guidelines and practical cognition-enhancing tricks for everyone to follow during every decade of their life, and show us what we all can learn from those who age joyously.

Modern society is in a state of information overload. Neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin investigates how and why our brains are struggling to keep up with the demands of the digital age.Why is email so addictive? Is multitasking really possible? And what do successful people keep in their junk drawer? The Organized Mind debunks myth and presents one simple idea - storing information in the physical world instead of the mind - to revolutionize twenty-first century living.In a world where information is power, The Organized Mind holds the key to harnessing that information and making it work for you.

A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting polls, IQ tests to divorce rates, we're bombarded by seemingly plausible statistics on how people live and what they think. Daniel Levitin teaches us how to effectively ask ourselves: can we really know that? And how do they know that? In this eye-opening, accessible guide filled with fascinating examples and practical takeaways, acclaimed neuroscientist Daniel Levitin shows us how learning to understand statistics will enable you to make better, smarter judgements on the world around you.

Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life.

Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture. And how, far from being a bit of a song and dance, music is at the core of what it means to be human.A one-time record producer, now a leading neuroscientist, Levitin has composed a catchy and startlingly ambitious narrative that weaves together Darwin and Dionne Warwick, memoir and biology, anthropology and a jukebox of anecdote to create nothing less than the ' soundtrack of civilisation'.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, a surprising and inspiring exploration of the healing power of music.'Fascinating' Observer'Fun and thoughtful' Financial Times'Eye-opening' Rolling StoneWe are only just beginning to appreciate the healing power of music. In recent years, a wave of scientific research has upended everything we once knew about its effects on our brains: not only in reducing stress, but also in enhancing cognitive function, slowing the spread of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, even strengthening our immune systems.Here, a neuroscientist and celebrated musician introduces a bold new paradigm for medical treatment, rooted in the unexpected influence of music on our minds and bodies. From explaining how ‘rhythmic auditory stimulation’ can fight multiple sclerosis, to examining why Tracy Chapman’s songs might just help cure PTSD, Professor Daniel Levitin offers surprising insights into the new science of music as medicine.Along the way, he explores how each of us can use music to calm our thoughts, repair our memories and heal our deepest psychological wounds. The result is both a surprising tour through the science of music, and a joyful celebration of humanity’s oldest obsession._'For many years I have wondered why a bunch of frequencies organised into a piece of music has the ability, even without words, to make the listener cry and become emotional. Although I know this happens to me and many people, I have often wondered how this can be. Dr Levitin, in this latest book, Music as Medicine, has some fascinating insights into this great phenomenon.' Paul McCartney'It's impossible to read this book without thinking of the music that has meant a lot to you in your own life.' Daily Mail'A natural communicator - warm, friendly, and geekily enthused about his subject.' Guardian

Music insinuates itself into our earliest memories; it is intimately connected to our emotional regulation and cognition; its shared rhythms and sounds are essential to our social behaviours. That is why we can remember songs word for word years later, or why certain music has the power to uplift us almost instantly. Music is more than a vehicle for entertainment and expression: it's also a powerful tool for lifelong health. In Music and Medicine, bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin delves into the latest research on the interaction of music, mood, health, and the biology of our brain. In it, he explains how music can lead to lasting improvements in our brain and body, increasing brain function and connectivity, boosting neuroplasticity and even strengthening our immune system. From promoting relaxation when we're stressed and supporting stroke victims to recover the ability to walk, improving memory for those suffering with Alzheimers’ Disease and helping manage chronic pain, music has an extraordinary therapeutic potential that is yet to be fully realised. A work of dazzling ideas, cutting-edge research, and joyful celebration of the human mind, Music as Medicine will explain to you what we know, and how we can harness music to heal – helping us look forward and reimagine our lives.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, a surprising and inspiring exploration of the healing power of music.'Fascinating' Observer'Eye-opening' Rolling Stone'Intriguing as a long jazz riff' NEW YORK TIMESWe are only just beginning to appreciate the healing power of music on our minds and bodies.Here, a neuroscientist and celebrated musician introduces a bold new paradigm for medical treatment. From explaining how ‘rhythmic auditory stimulation’ can fight multiple sclerosis, to examining why Tracy Chapman’s songs might just help cure PTSD, Professor Daniel Levitin explores how each of us can use music to calm our thoughts, repair our memories and heal our deepest psychological wounds. The result is both a surprising tour through the science of music, and a joyful celebration of humanity’s oldest obsession.

Maailma on yhtäkkiä herännyt vaihtoehtoisiin totuuksiin, valeuutisiin, disinformaatioon ja monenlaisiin muihin valehtelun muotoihin. Valheiden käsikirja opastaa arvioimaan arkielämässä päivittäin eteen tulevia “tietoja” ja “totuuksia” ja auttaa seulomaan varsinaisen tiedon kaikesta muusta monesta suunnasta tulevasta. Daniel Levitinin hauskasti esittelemät valheen paljastuksen välineet ovat yksinkertaisia, ne ulottuvat logiikasta aritmetiikkaan ja jokainen osaa käyttää niitä.Daniel Levitin on McGill Universityssä, Montrealissa työskentelevä psykologian professori.

Muzyka - odno iz drevnejshikh lekarstv chelovechestva, i vo mnogikh kulturakh slozhilis bogatye traditsii ispolzovanija zvuka i ritma dlja oblegchenija stradanij. Na protjazhenii vsej istorii chelovechestva my intuitivno ili soznatelno pribegaem k nej ne tolko kak k istochniku esteticheskogo naslazhdenija, no i kak k sredstvu uspokoit nas, podnjat nastroenie, pridat sil, vyrvat iz depressii. No chto imenno nadeljaet ee etoj sposobnostju? Otvetu na etot vopros posvjatil svoju knigu nejrobiolog, muzykant i kompozitor Deniel Levitin. V nastojaschej rabote on obedinjaet glubokie znanija muzyki i mozga, demonstriruja, kak i pochemu muzyka pomogaet lecheniju mnozhestva nedugov - ot nejrodegenerativnykh zabolevanij, takikh kak bolezni Parkinsona i Altsgejmera, do sindroma Turetta, kognitivnykh travm, depressii i boli. Pri vsej svoej predannosti idee i samykh optimistichnykh ozhidanijakh v otnoshenii muzykalnoj terapii avtor dotoshno ischet ubeditelnye dovody i podtverzhdenija, vstrechajas s muzykantami, predprinimaja vse novye issledovanija i nakhodja dokazatelstva v mirovoj nauke. Napisannaja s ljubovju k iskusstvu i svoim personazham, kniga poraduet chitatelja mnozhestvom udivitelnykh istorij i primerov preodolenija.