Category：Popular Science

Restoring the Brain 大脑修复术

By YAO Nailin

• Apractical guide to understand depression, anxiety, socialphobia 
• Learn to enhance brain immunity in one book

This popular science book delves into brain science, exploring mental disorders like OCD, procrastination, and depression, covering their principles, symptoms, and relief methods. The book challenges the oversimplified view that normal brain activity is always correct and that mental patients are invariably wrong, highlighting the gray areas in everyone’s mental state. It illustrates how hallucinations can affect normal individuals. It emphasizes that distinctions between normal and mentally ill brains are nuanced.    Readers dealing with issues like depression, anxiety, social anxiety, obsession, procrastination, or sleep disturbances will find valuable  insights. It reassures that nobody has a flawless brain and provides solutions for enhanced performance and deeper understanding of these conditions in each chapter.

Author

Yao Nailin, a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at Yale University, holds a Ph.D. in psychiatry from   the University of Hong Kong and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Zhejiang University. With years of experience in brain science research, she has published over ten research papers in internationally renowned journals. Her research focuses on using brain imaging techniques to   observe hallucinations, schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, Parkinson’s disease, and other psychiatric, neurological, and aging-related conditions. She has been involved in the Human Connectome Project in the United States, collaborating with over 50 brain research teams worldwide to advance the study of brain function.