Ergebnis für "Wellness" in Geschichte & Kultur

Smart Phone Dumb Phone rewires our relationship to technology. By unravelling the brainwashing process behind our addictive behaviour, we are freed from dependence and can reassert control over our time and productivity. Including 20 practical steps to help you along your way, this wonderful guide will release you from the clutches of your smartphone and allow you to live in the moment. It truly is the easyway.

Dr. med Daniel Illy arbeitet als Facharzt für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie und Facharzt für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie. Die Ratgeberreihe "Hilfe für den Alltag" zeichnet sich durch die leichte Verständlichkeit und den psychotherapeutischen Ansatz aus. Mit einfachen Worten erklärt Illy umfassend die jeweiligen Krankheitsbilder und was dagegen am besten hilft. Jedes Kapitel befasst sich mit einem anderen Aspekt der Erkrankungen und bietet therapeutische Hilfe in Form von kurzen Aufgaben an.

Many people today are so dazzled by the long-term potential for artificial intelligence that they overlook the much clearer and more immediate potential for a new form of "collective intelligence": the intelligence of groups of people and computers working together. In Superminds, Thomas Malone explains what we need to do to take advantage of this potential. Groundbreaking and utterly fascinating, Superminds will change the way you work - both with others and with computers - for the better.

Digital gaming has become a pervasive form of entertainment, engaging millions of people worldwide across various platforms. As technology advances, the landscape of digital gaming continues to evolve, offering a diverse range of experiences that can influence players' mental and physical health. While many adults view gaming as a leisure activity, it is essential to consider both its beneficial and detrimental effects. This overview examines the multifaceted nature of digital gaming, focusing on its impact on mental health, social interactions, cognitive development, and physical well-being.

Most of us spend a significant part of the day in front of a screen. Our work and social lives play out through our computers, tablets and phones: on email, social media, video conference calls and gaming servers. But what is all this screen time doing to our health, our sleep, and our relationships? Professor Pete Etchells studies the way we use screens, and how they can affect us. In UNLOCKED, he delves into the real science behind the panic about our alleged device addiction and withering attention spans.

While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization - until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, health care has finally gone digital.

As both individuals and communities, we have a choice. We can struggle through the onslaught of information and play an eternal game of catch-up. Or we can choose to live in the present: favor eye contact over texting; quality over speed; and human quirks over digital perfection. Rushkoff offers hope for anyone seeking to transcend the false now.

Guarding Your Health by Sage Ellison is an essential guide for anyone concerned about the privacy and security of their reproductive health data, particularly those using period and fertility tracking apps. In today’s digital age, understanding how personal health information is collected and used is vital for personal safety and community well-being.

Sexual activity is central to our very existence; it shapes how we think, how we act and how we live. With advances in technology come machines that may one day think independently. What will happen to us when we form close relationships with these intelligent systems? Sex robots are here and here to stay, and more are coming. This audiobook explores how the emerging and future development of sexual companion robots might affect us and the society in which we live. It explores the social changes arising from emerging technologies and our relationships with the machines that may someday care for us and about us.

Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming increasingly adept at editing the human genome. How far can—and should—they go in editing future generations? In The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, editor Neal Baer brings together a timely collection of essays by influential bioethicists, philosophers, and geneticists to explore the moral, ethical, and policy challenges posed by CRISPR technology.

What if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words Charing Cross. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the station. What if you could share your vision, and stop that train? Could these forebodings help the world to prevent disasters? In 1966, John Barker, a dynamic psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate these questions.

Digitale Ernährung, digitale Bewegung, digitaler Schlaf – dieser Ratgeber vermittelt eindrucksvoll und leicht verständlich, wie Digitalisierung gesund macht. In rund 60 Kurzgeschichten vom Baby bis nach dem Tod nehmen uns die Autoren mit in die faszinierende Welt der digitalen Gesundheit und erklären, wie das Smartphone uns gesund halten kann und gesund werden lässt. Der Band beschreibt, dass die Digitalisierung für 83 Millionen Menschen und deren Gesundheit essenziell ist. Längst hat die Verschiebung der Schnittstelle zwischen Menschen und Maschine begonnen.

Increasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Revved up and irritable, many of these children are diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar illness, autism, or other disorders, but don't respond well to treatment. They are then medicated, often with poor results and unwanted side effects. Based on emerging scientific research and extensive clinical experience, integrative child psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Dunckley has pioneered a four-week program to treat the frequent underlying cause, Electronic Screen Syndrome (ESS).

A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind" - human and machine capabilities working together - has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results?

Clifford Nass has developed a powerful theory: Our brains can’t fundamentally distinguish between interacting with people and interacting with devices. Nass’s discoveries push the boundaries of both psychology and technology and provide nothing less than a new blueprint for successful human relationships.

Through narratives and case studies spanning the brilliant history of engineering, Madhavan shows how the concepts of prototyping, efficiency, reliability, standards, optimization, and feedback are put to use in fields as diverse as transportation, retail, health care, and entertainment. Equal parts personal, practical, and profound, Applied Minds charts a path to a future where we apply strategies borrowed from engineering to create useful and inspired solutions to our most pressing challenges.

"The Impact of AI on Mental Health: Navigating the Digital Age for Teens, Adults, and Seniors" is a groundbreaking guide that tackles the urgent intersection of artificial intelligence and mental wellbeing. I am not a licensed therapist or clinical psychologist. I make that clear from the start. So why am I writing this book? Because I’ve lived a life at the intersection of leadership, innovation, spiritual formation, and family. I’m a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served as a U.S. Army Ranger Captain. I led teams under high-stress conditions and trained men for war.

This book examines the transformation of human intimacy as it evolves alongside shifts in culture, the human body, and technology. It follows the path of desire from the age of silence and repression to the modern world of artificial intelligence and virtual relationships—a journey that moves from secrecy to openness, from shame to understanding, from wild, consuming passion to calm, conscious connection.

Um estudo definitivo sobre o vício comportamental, um problema a que todos nós estamos sujeitos em razão das irresistíveis tecnologias digitais do mundo de hoje. Somos obcecados com nossos e-mails e redes sociais, e passamos horas usando nossos smartphones. Neste livro revolucionário, o professor de psicologia e marketing Adam Alter analisa o crescimento do vício comportamental, e explica por que a maioria dos produtos de hoje é irresistível.

With the ongoing advancement of AI and other technologies, our world is becoming increasingly intelligent. From chatbots to innovations in brain-computer interfaces to the possibility of superintelligences leading to the Singularity later this century, our reality is being transformed before our eyes. This is commonly seen as the natural result of progress, but what if there's more to it than that? What if intelligence is an inevitability, an underlying property of the universe?