THE HEALING BRAIN
Breakthrough Discoveries about How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy

Robert Ornstein and David Sobel

Malor Books, 1999

'The Healing Brain is a gem. The authors have managed to synthesize, summarize, and clearly communicate a broad body of knowledge into a coherent description of how the brain affects our health and well-being. It is a treasure trove of information and insights into an area of vital importance to us all.'
--Philip R. Lee, M.D., Professor of Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

'Entertainingly written and authoritative. A superb, comprehensive, balanced review of how the brain guards the health.'
--Jerome Frank, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

'This is a very readable, thoughtful, creative book. It brings together a vast amount of information...in a new way that I have never seen before. This is a brilliant tour de force that will be a major force in setting a new direction for research in the years ahead.'
--S. Leonard Syme, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley