Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: How to Retrain Your Brain to Overcome Pessimism and Achieve a More Positive Outlook Hardcover – 1 May 2012

Review

Michael J. Fox
"Every day I send my kids out the door to school with this admonition, 'you can choose to be happy.' More often than not, they roll their eyes, but in "Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain" Elaine Fox (no relation) offers a scientific argument for my contention. After much research, and in comprehensive, but comprehensible detail, Professor Fox provides a mental map to the sunny side of the street. For optimists and pessimists alike, this fascinating book is a must read."Joseph LeDoux, author of "The Emotional Brain" and "Synaptic Self
""Every experience you have, from the most trivial to the most significant, alters the brain. Elaine Fox offers scientifically based advice about how to make the most of this, how to be in charge of changing your brain for the better." "Publishers Weekly
""Drawing on a host of studies in neurobiology and genetics, as well as evolutionary and behavioral psychology, Fox explores the struggle between the parts of the brain associated with fear and pessimism and those associated with pleasure and optimism.... Fox introduces readers to many new concepts from experimental psychology and recent research on neuroplasticity and neurogenesis.... [A] welcome, if intellectually demanding, introduction to a key area of brain research." "Kirkus Reviews"
"A psychologist looks at the influence that outlook - a tendency toward optimism or pessimism - can play in shaping the events in our lives.... An insightful addition to the self-help bookshelf." "Library Journal ""Fox brings to this book a wealth of knowledge and experience from her many years as head of the psychology department and Center for Brain Science at the University of Essex. She explains how the latest research in the areas of genetics, neurology, and psychology intersects and how it relates to optimistic versus pessimistic attitudes toward life.... Fox's writing style will appeal to a lay audience with scholarly interests."
"Philadelphia"" Inquirer""It's worth s

Michael J. Fox
Every day I send my kids out the door to school with this admonition, you can choose to be happy. More often than not, they roll their eyes, but in "Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain" Elaine Fox (no relation) offers a scientific argument for my contention. After much research, and in comprehensive, but comprehensible detail, Professor Fox provides a mental map to the sunny side of the street. For optimists and pessimists alike, this fascinating book is a must read.
Joseph LeDoux, author of "The Emotional Brain" and "Synaptic Self"
Every experience you have, from the most trivial to the most significant, alters the brain. Elaine Fox offers scientifically based advice about how to make the most of this, how to be in charge of changing your brain for the better.
"Publishers Weekly"
Drawing on a host of studies in neurobiology and genetics, as well as evolutionary and behavioral psychology, Fox explores the struggle between the parts of the brain associated with fear and pessimism and those associated with pleasure and optimism.... Fox introduces readers to many new concepts from experimental psychology and recent research on neuroplasticity and neurogenesis.... [A] welcome, if intellectually demanding, introduction to a key area of brain research.
"Kirkus Reviews"
A psychologist looks at the influence that outlook a tendency toward optimism or pessimism can play in shaping the events in our lives.... An insightful addition to the self-help bookshelf.
"Library Journal "
Fox brings to this book a wealth of knowledge and experience from her many years as head of the psychology department and Center for Brain Science at the University of Essex. She explains how the latest research in the areas of genetics, neurology, and psychology intersects and how it relates to optimistic versus pessimistic attitudes toward life.... Fox s writing style will appeal to a lay audience with scholarly interests.
Philadelphia Inquirer
It s worth sticking with the hard science of "Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain." Fox offers persuasive arguments that we are well on the way toward creating people and societies that will allow healthy minds to truly flourish.
"New York Times"
An informative new book on the science of optimism. "

Book Description

Why some of us are optimists, and others pessimists - and what we can do about it --This text refers to the Paperback edition.