Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2016. - 389 p. Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and Character covers the science of combining brain imaging with other analytical techniques for use in understanding cognition, behavior, consciousness, memory, language, visual perception, emotional control, and other human attributes. Multidimensional brain imaging research has led to a greater...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. — 374 p. — ISBN 978-0-691-17408-2. A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animals The Neuroscience of Emotion presents a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotion across species. Written by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson, two leading authorities on the study of emotion, this...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 145 p. — ISBN: 978–0 – 19 – 884767 – 0. Glial cells play an essential role in initiating and controlling our behaviors, playing a major role in communication between brain cells. They share certain properties with neurons, including the ability to use information from the environment to formulate behaviors. Understanding these cells is key to...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co, 2015. - 432 p. Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. It takes the view that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness and attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural networks, it explains...
New York: The Guilford Press, 2016. — 430 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4625-2594-2. Bringing together leading researchers, this book comprehensively covers what is known about the amygdala, with a unique focus on what happens when this key brain region is damaged or missing. Offering a truly comparative approach, the volume presents research on rats, monkeys, and humans. It reports on...
Fairfield: Amen Clinic., 1998. — 121 p. This book contains hundreds of three-dimensional color brain SPECT images on a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, including dementia, brain trauma, depression, anxiety, ADD, PMS, aggression, and drug abuse. In addition, there are many before and after studies that highlight hope for healing. This atlas is a wonderful introduction to...
New York: 2014. - 416 p. The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitive neuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as the phrenologist would insist that each organ must have its particular function, so contemporary cognitive neuroscience is committed to the notion that each brain region must...
N.-Y.: Psychology Press, 2008. - 576 p. This volume has as its primary aim the examination of issues concerning executive function and frontal lobe development. While many texts have addressed these issues, this is the first to do so within a specifically developmental framework. This area of cognitive function has received increasing attention over the past decade, and it is...
Elsevier, 2019. — 110 p. — ISBN: 978-0-128-15938-5. This book discusses how the physical attributes of different sounds manifest in neural signals and how to tease-apart their different influences. It includes EEG/MEG as additional variables to be considered when studying neural mechanisms of auditory processing in general, specifically in speech. True PDF
Plural Publishing, 2019. — 2922 p. — ISBN: 9781635502701 Neuroscience Fundamentals for Communication Sciences and Disorders is a comprehensive textbook designed for undergraduate neural bases or graduate neuroscience courses in communication sciences and disorders programs (CSD). Written with a fresh user-friendly conversational style and complemented by more than 350 visually...
2nd edition. — Plural Publishing, 2023. — 833 p. — ISBN: 9781635503593. Neuroscience Fundamentals for Communication Sciences and Disorders, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook primarily designed for undergraduate neural bases or graduate neuroscience courses in communication sciences and disorders programs (CSD). The text can also be used as an accessible go-to reference...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 567 p. Mirror neurons may hold the brain's key to social interaction - each coding not only a particular action or emotion but also the recognition of that action or emotion in others. The Mirror System Hypothesis adds an evolutionary arrow to the story - from the mirror system for hand actions, shared with monkeys and chimpanzees, to the...
Singapore: Springer, 2018. — 184 p. This book addresses a central question: how did cognition emerge in human history? It approaches the question from a cultural-historical, neuropsychological perspective and analyses evidence on the historical origins of cognitive activity; integrates information regarding cross-cultural differences in neuropsychological performance; and...
Manual Moderno. — 364 p. — ISBN: 9789707292796. Al estudio de la organización cerebral de los procesos cognoscitivos comportamentales y de sus alteraciones en caso de daño o disfunción cerebral se le llama Neuropsicología. Este libro es una obra que ha sido diseñada para servir como libro de texto básico para estudiantes de formación profesional, dónde se abordan los...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ― xviii, 222 p. ― ISBN: 1978-1-4214-1002-9, 978-1-4214-1003-6. "Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 453 p. — ISBN: 978–0 – 19 – 979430 – 0. The Boston Process Approach to neuropsychological assessment, advanced by Edith Kaplan, has a long and well-respected history in the field. However, its theoretical and empirical support has not previously been assembled in an easily accessible format. This volume fills that void by compiling the...
Scientific American, 2022. — 180 p. — ISBN: 9781250121523. (Scientific American ebooks). People behave in strange ways. We sometimes giggle when someone falls, swear we've been to places we haven't, or continue believing in something despite scientific evidence to the contrary. For more than a decade, Scientific American MIND's long-running feature "Ask the Brains" has...
Sixth Edition. — Sinauer Associates, 2018. — 959 p. — ISBN: 9781605353807. This comprehensive textbook provides a balance of animal and human studies to discuss the dynamic field of neuroscience from cellular signaling to cognitive function. The book's length and accessible writing style make it suitable for both medical students and undergraduate neuroscience courses. Each new...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1998. — 868 p. — ISBN: 978-0262511094 A neuroscientist and Zen practitioner interweaves the latest research on the brain with his personal narrative of Zen. Aldous Huxley called humankind's basic trend toward spiritual growth the "perennial philosophy." In the view of James Austin, the trend implies a "perennial...
New York: Springer, 2017. - 418 p. This edited volume provides an overview the state-of-the-art in the field of cognitive neuroscience of memory consolidation. In a number of sections, the editors collect contributions of leading researchers . The topical focus lies on current issues of interest such as memory consolidation including working and long-term memory. In particular,...
New York: Academic Press, 2010. - 677 p. Cognition, Brain and Consciousness provides students and readers with an overview of the study of the human brain and its cognitive development. It discusses brain molecules and their primary function, which is to help carry brain signals to and from the different parts of the human body. These molecules are also essential for...
New York: Oxford University Press,1997. — 209 p. — ISBN: 0-19-510265-7. The study of conscious experience has seen remarkable strides, reflecting important technological breakthroughs and the enormous efforts of researchers in disciplines as varied as neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy. Although still embroiled in debate, scientists are now beginning to find common...
Academic Press, 2012. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-415805-4. Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience is a comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide to cognitive neuroscience. Winner of a 2013 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, this book was written by two leading experts in the field to be highly accessible to undergraduates with limited...
Academic Press, 2019. — 226 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-816115-9. This book includes novel concepts and insights on the brain mechanisms that control nonconscious mental functions, some of which were developed in the author’s laboratory. The book describes neuroscience of conventional nonconscious mental functions, along with not so conventional functions like creativity, hypnosis and...
Springer, 2010. — 196 p. — ISBN: 978-88-470-1586-9. The complex issues of agency and self-agency have been examined by researchers in the related fields of psychology and neuropsychology. This volume approaches the cognitive and neuropsychological correlates as two sides of the same coin, with the aim of establishing a correspondence between the hardware (cerebral processes)...
Boston: Elsevier, 2007. — 273 p. How to separate conceptual issues from empirical ones in the study of consciousness The disunity of consciousness Consciousness: the radical plasticity thesis A higher order Bayesian decision theory of consciousness Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge Interdependence of attention and consciousness Computational studies of consciousness...
3кв ed. — Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 2010. — 620 p. This text balances experimental and clinical perspectives with a survey of a variety of mental functions. In a conversational style, the authors provide clear, accessible explanations of difficult concepts, making use of analogies and case studies to illustrate them. A consistent structure throughout each chapter defines a...
4th edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 3213 p. Updated fully, this accessible and comprehensive text highlights the most important theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. Written by two experienced teachers, the consistent narrative ensures that students link concepts across chapters, and the careful selection of topics enables...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 515 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-72772-3. This handbook introduces the reader to the thought-provoking research on the neural foundations of human intelligence. Written for undergraduate or graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and related fields, the chapters summarize research emerging from the...
2nd edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. — 132 p. — (At a Glance). Neuroscience at a Glance is designed to provide medical students and other allied health students who require a concise guide to neuroscience, with a quick review of a traditionally complex field. The authors successfully integrate anatomy, biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology to provide a review of the...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2015. - 356 p. This up-to-date resource offers clinicians a skills-based framework for assessment and treatment of cognitive and emotional problems associated with epilepsy, using current evidence and standardized terminology. Expert coverage reviews widely-used methods for evaluating key aspects of patient functioning (MRI, MEG, electrocortical mapping, the...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. — 283 p. When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. - 447 p. A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind Emotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. Scientists have long supported this assumption by claiming that emotions are...
Washington: American Psychological Association, 2016. — 260 p. Everyone knows that consciousness resides in the brain. Or does it? In this book, Imants Barušs and Julia Mossbridge utilize findings from quantum mechanics, special relativity, philosophy, and paranormal psychology to build a rigorous, scientific investigation into the origins and nature of human consciousness....
New York: Springer, 2011. — 544 p. Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations is a research monograph, with didactical features, on the mechanisms of the mind, encompassing a wide spectrum of results and analyses. The book should appeal to scientists and graduate students in the fields of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry,...
Oxford University Press, 2009 - 690 p. Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges. How does the brain's activity result in the rich phenomenology that characterizes our waking life? Are animals conscious? Why did consciousness evolve? How does science proceed to answer such...
Publisher: The Guilford Press; Second Edition (May 21, 2008), 382 p. This outstanding text gives students a solid grounding in clinical and experimental neuropsychology. The author is a leading authority whose engaging writing style and thorough yet concise coverage of brain localization, anatomy, and their links to cognitive function make the book ideal for undergraduate or...
New York: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. — 307 p. During the last decade, the study of emotional self-regulation has blossomed in a variety of sub-disciplines belonging to either psychology (developmental, clinical) or the neurosciences (cognitive and affective). Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain gives an overview of the current state of this...
Instituto de Migraciones y Servicios Sociales (IMSERSO), 2002. — 602 p. — ISBN: 84-8446-047-9. En este texto, la Profesora María Jesús Benedet perfila, para una audiencia de lengua española, la disciplina denominada neuropsicología cognitiva, sus métodos y sus principales resultados. Un prólogo para un texto de estas características podría considerar cuestiones como «¿Qué es la...
Columbia University Press, 2009 — 232 p. In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, which questions the conceptual commitments of cognitive...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. - 348 p. Arthur Benton has long been recognized as a distinguished researcher, an influential educator, and a gifted writer. Early in his career, he was struck by the extreme divergence in the acceptance and usage of concepts and terms such as "agnosia," "amnesic aphasia," and "apraxia" by leading figures in the then young field of...
Washington: American Psychological Assn, 2011. — 149 p. As humans, we self-regulate whenever we adapt our emotions and actions to situational requirements and to internalized social standards and norms. Self-regulation encompasses skills such as paying attention, inhibiting reflexive actions, and delaying gratification. We need self-regulation for navigating in the social world...
7th edition. — Pearson, 2018. — 867 p. — ISBN: 9780134419695 With its seamless integration of up-to-date research, strong multicultural and cross-cultural focus, and clear, engaging narrative, Development Through the Lifespan has established itself as the market’s leading text. The dramatically revised 7th Edition presents the newest, most relevant research and applications in...
6th ed. — Pearson, 2014. — 867 p. in color. — ISBN: 0205958699, 9780205958696, 9780205957606 Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, has revised the text with new pedagogy, a heightened emphasis on the interplay between heredity and environment, and an enhanced focus on many social policy issues, while emphasizing the lifespan perspective throughout. The latest theories...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. - 533 p. Cognitive Science combines the interdisciplinary streams of cognitive science into a unified narrative in an all-encompassing introduction to the field. This text presents cognitive science as a discipline in its own right, and teaches students to apply the techniques and theories of the cognitive scientist's 'toolkit' - the...
3rd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2020. - 517 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-44034-9. The Third Edition of this popular and engaging text consolidates the interdisciplinary streams of cognitive science to present a unified narrative of cognitive science as a discipline in its right. It teaches students to apply the techniques and theories of the cognitive scientist's 'toolkit' -...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 656 p. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience is a state-of-the-art collection of interdisciplinary research spanning philosophy (of science, mind, and ethics) and current neuroscience. Containing chapters written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in this area, and in some cases co-authored with neuroscientists, this...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 325 p. — (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology). — ISBN: 978-1-107-08459-9. The Neuroscience of Expertise examines how the brain accommodates the incredible feats of experts. It builds on a tradition of cognitive research to explain how the processes of perception, attention, and memory come together to enable experts'...
London: Pearson, 2017. - 738 p. For courses in Physiological/Biopsychology An up-to-date, comprehensive, and accessible overview of behavioral neuroscience Physiology of Behavior provides a scholarly yet accessible portrait of the dynamic interaction between biology and behavior. Lead author Neil Carlson and new co-author Melissa Birkett drew upon their experience teaching and...
Bloomsbury Publ., 2022. — 305 p. — ISBN-13 9781350288447. This book offers a provocative analysis of the neuroscience of morality. Written by three leading scholars of science, medicine, and bioethics, it critiques contemporary neuroscientific claims about individual morality and notions of good and evil. Winner of a 2021 prize from the Expanded Reason Institute, it connects...
3rd Edition. — London, NY: Routledge, 2018. — 639 p. — ISBN-10 1138801305. Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself just an illusion? The 'last great mystery of science', consciousness is an area of cognitive psychology that was once viewed with extreme skepticism and was consequently avoided by the majority of mainstream...
3rd Edition. — London, NY: Routledge, 2018. — 639 p. — ISBN10: 1138801305. Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself just an illusion? The 'last great mystery of science', consciousness is an area of cognitive psychology that was once viewed with extreme scepticism and was consequently avoided by the majority of mainstream...
New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. — 460 p. A book about the unconscious in psychology, about mental processes. Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself just an illusion? The 'last great mystery of science', consciousness is a topic that was banned from serious research for most of the last century, but is now an area of...
Routledge, 2008. — 153 p. The Actor, Image and Action is a 'new generation' approach to the craft of acting; the first full-length study of actor training using the insights of cognitive neuroscience. In a brilliant reassessment of both the practice and theory of acting, Rhonda Blair examines the physiological relationship between bodily action and emotional experience. In...
Palgrave Studies, 2017. — 145 p. Constitutional Puzzles and (Neuro) Technological Changes Lie Detection, Mind Reading, and Brain Reading The Fifth Amendment: Self-Incrimination and the Brain The Fourth (and First) Amendment: Searches with, and Scrutiny of, Neuroimaging
N.-Y.: Springer, 2011. - 142 p. Neuropsychological research on the neural basis of behavior generally asserts that brain mechanisms ultimately suffice to explain all psychologically described phenomena. This assumption stems from the idea that the brain consists entirely of material particles and fields, and that all causal mechanisms relevant to neuroscience can be formulated...
Publisher: Washington DC, American Psychological Association (September 1988), 202 p. Master Lecturers: M. Dennis, E. Kaplan, M. I. Posner, D. G. Stein, R. F. Thompson In pursuit of new strategies for understanding recovery from brain damage - Problems and perspectives Brain substrates of learning and memory Language and the young damaged brain A process approach to...
New York: Springer, 2009. - 82 p. The past decade has witnessed efforts on the part of research, education and policy communities to create a dialogue about the potential relationship between cognitive neuroscience and the science and practice of education. The upsurge of interest in neuroscience in general has given rise to increased attention to the role of the brain in...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 384 p. Many people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are remarkably proficient at remembering how things look and sound, even years after an event. They are also good at rote learning and establishing habits and routines. Some even have encyclopedic memories. However, all individuals with ASD have difficulty in recalling personal memories...
London: I.B.Taurus, 2005. — 241 p. A new way of understanding our emotionsand faith W hy do we think that things happen in the way that they do? Or, that some things are beautiful, and other things ugly, some good, and others evil? In the past these questions have been answered by separating our emotional from our rational responses, but recent work in the neurosciences...
SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024. — 630 p. Cognitive neuroscience is the interdisciplinary study of how cognitive and intellectual functions are processed and represented within the brain, which is critical to building an understanding of core psychological and behavioral processes such as learning, memory, behavior, perception, and consciousness. Understanding these processes not...
SAGE Publications, 2023. — 701 p. Clinical Neuropsychology is a vast and varied field that focuses on the treatment, assessment, and diagnosis of a range of cognitive disorders through a study and understanding of neuroanatomy and the relationship between the brain and human behavior. This handbook focuses on specific Neuropsychological disorders. It covers each of the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 283 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-878993-2. Consumer neuroscience is a complex, interdisciplinary, and emerging field that cuts across psychology, neuroscience, and consumer research. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations and applications of modern consumer neuroscience, exploring a wide range of established and emergent topics in...
New York: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2007. — 349 p. A paradigmatic revolution On Part I: Introducing the matrix and multiple layers of intersubjectivity On Part II: Relating intersubjectivity in humans to the discovery of mirror neurons On Part III: From preverbal to verbal intersubjectivity in child development On Part IV: Applications and therapeutic implications of the...
9th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2020. — 823 p. — ISBN: 9781605359076. Instructors of behavioral neuroscience are faced with the challenge of how to teach the course's complex material in an accessible and relatable, yet comprehensive way for undergraduate students. For more than twenty years, Breedlove and Watson's Behavioral Neuroscience has successfully solved these...
8th Edition. — Sunderland, MA, USA: Sinauer Associates, Inc., 2017. — 815 p. — ISBN: 160535418X. For 20 years, instructors have relied on the textbook Biological Psychology for a definitive and comprehensive survey of the neuroscience of behavior. Thanks to the explosion of work in the neurosciences, each of the seven editions has included more neural details than the one...
Pearson, 2014. — 720 p. — ISBN13: 9780132942881. " The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals ,"provides an in-depth look at the science of human development, highlighting theories and research that have useful applications for individuals working in fields such as education, counseling, and social work. The main purpose of this book is to provide the reader...
New York: AMACOM, 2009. - 289 p. Have you ever wondered why you remember color images and scenes so much better than those in black and white? The answer is in the way our brains interpret and process the sights, smells, tastes, and touches that make up our lives. "Brainsense" explores brain function and the senses, and offers new insight about what makes us tick. Based on new...
CRC Press, 2000 — 352 p. Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience Using the most well-studied behavioral analyses of animal subjects to promote a better understanding of the effects of disease and the effects of new therapeutic treatments on human cognition, Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience provides a reference manual for molecular and cellular research scientists in both...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 500 p. Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior brings together, for the first time, the experiments and theories that have created the new science of rules. Rules are central to human behavior, but until now the field of neuroscience lacked a synthetic approach to understanding them. How are rules learned, retrieved from memory, maintained in...
3rd edition. — Academic Press, 2014. — 670 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-397179-1. An understanding of the nervous system at virtually any level of analysis requires an understanding of its basic building block, the neuron. The third edition of From Molecules to Networks provides a solid foundation of the morphological, biochemical, and biophysical properties of nerve cells. In keeping...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 480 p. — (Oxford Library of Psychology). — ISBN: 0199753881, 9780199753888 Determining the biological bases for behavior, and the extent to which we can observe and explain their neural underpinnings, requires a bold, broadly defined research methodology. The interdisciplinary entries in this handbook are organized around the principle of...
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2016. - 398 p. The Mathematical Brain Across the Lifespan is the latest volume in the Progress in Brain Research series that focuses on new trends and developments. This established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within the neurosciences, as well as popular and emerging subfields. Provides a comprehensive review of...
Harlow: Pearson, 2013. — 524 p. The ninth edition of Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience offers a concise introduction to behavioral neuroscience. The text incorporates the latest studies and research in the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and physiological psychology. The theme of strategies of learning helps readers apply these research findings to daily life....
10th edition, Global Edition. — Pearson Education Limited, 2021. — 529 p. — ISBN: 978-1-292-34954-1. For courses in Physiological Psychology or Biopsychology. A streamlined overview of behavioral neuroscience. Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience offers a concise introduction to behavioral neuroscience with a good balance of human and animal studies. Authors Neil Carlson and...
11th edition. — Pearson, 2013. — 771 p. Thoughtfully organized, Physiology of Behavior provides a scholarly yet accessible portrait of the dynamic interaction between biology and behavior. Close collaboration between the author and a talented artist has resulted in beautiful, accurate, and pedagogically effective illustrations in every chapter. No other author compares to...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. — 393 p. Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault. In the first-wave of existentialism, writings typified by Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion, and religious tradition, to support a foundation of being....
Publisher: The MIT Press; 1 edition (August 17, 2012), 192 p. If you touch something hot, it hurts. You snatch your hand away from the hot thing immediately. Obviously. But what is really happening, biologically - and emotionally? In "Understanding Pain" Fernando Cervero explores the mechanisms and the meaning of pain. You touch something hot and your brain triggers a reflex...
ITexLi, 2018. — 194 p. — ISBN: 1789231957 9781789231953 1789231949 9781789231946 1838812865 9781838812867. This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date insights into emerging research trends on neuroplasticity with current or future treatments for neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative diseases. This book is recommended to healthcare providers, clinical scientists, students,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. — 625 p. What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a...
A Bradford Book, 2003 — 1808 p. Series: Bradford Books Visual science is the model system for neuroscience, its findings relevant to all other areas. This massive collection of papers by leading researchers in the field will become an essential reference for researchers and students in visual neuroscience, and will be of importance to researchers and professionals in other...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 1503 p. Psychobiology provides a comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to the study of psychobiology and the key concepts, topics, and research that are core to understanding the brain and the biological basis of our behavior. Assuming no prior knowledge of biology, the text emphasizes the interaction of psychobiology with other core...
New York: Springer, 2010. — 357 p. In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A. Changizi defends a non-reductionist philosophy and applies it to a variety of problems in the brain sciences. Some of the key questions answered are as follows. Why do we see visual illusions, and why are illusions inevitable for any finite-speed vision machine? Why aren't brains universal learning...
London: Routledge, 2017. — 133 p. The goal of this volume is to highlight theoretical and methodological advances in cultural neuroscience and the implications of theoretical and empirical advances in cultural neuroscience for philosophy. The study of cultural and biological factors that contribute to human behavior has been an important inquiry for centuries, and recent...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 429 p. The goal of the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience is to highlight the theoretical and methodological advances in the field of cultural neuroscience and the role that these scientific advances can play in understanding how to close the gap in population mental health disparities. Population mental health disparities may arise due to...
CRC Press, 2001 — 344 p. Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience The past few years have witnessed extraordinary advances in molecular genetic techniques and the accumulation of structural genomics information and resources in both human and model organisms. With the development of new technologies and the availability of resources like the sequence of eukaryotic genomes, problems of...
Imperial College Press, 2006 — 468 p. The last decade has seen major advances in our understanding of the basic scientific principles that underpin clinical neurology. Many of these advances have already had a major impact on routine clinical practice, and this is likely to continue in the future. Although this makes it an exciting time to practice neurology, it also presents...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2013. — 301 p. In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed to solve them. Making the case for the relevance of theoretical and experimental results in neuroscience, cognitive...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2002. - 486 p. Progress in the neurosciences is profoundly changing our conception of ourselves. Contrary to time-honored intuition, the mind turns out to be a complex of brain functions. And contrary to the wishful thinking of some philosophers, there is no stemming the revolutionary impact that brain research will have on our understanding of how the...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 361 p. — (Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences 37). — ISBN: 978-3-319-78755-8. 'Behavioral Neuroscience of Learning and Memory' brings together the opinions and expertise of some of the world's foremost neuroscientists in the field of learning and memory research. The volume provides a broad coverage of contemporary research...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 361 p. — (Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences 37). — ISBN: 978-3-319-78755-8. 'Behavioral Neuroscience of Learning and Memory' brings together the opinions and expertise of some of the world's foremost neuroscientists in the field of learning and memory research. The volume provides a broad coverage of contemporary research...
New York: Springer, 1982. — 431 p. There is much music in our lives -yet we know little about its function. Music is one of man's most remarkable inventions - though possibly it may not be his intention at all: like his capacity for language, his capacity for music may be a naturally evolved biological function. All cultures and societies have music. Music differs from the...
Psychology Press, New York, 2013. — 303 p. — (Contemporary Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience) — ISBN: 1848720823 This book collates the most up to date evidence from behavioural, brain imagery and stroke-patient studies, to discuss the ways in which cognitive and neural processes are responsible for language processing. Divided into six sections, the edited volume presents...
London: Academic Press, 2007. — 292 p. What were the circumstances that led to the development of our cognitive abilities from a primitive hominid to an essentially modern human? The answer to this question is of profound importance to understanding our present nature. Since the steep path of our cognitive development is the attribute that most distinguishes humans from other...
Wisconsin Center for Education Research School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, 1987. – 25 p. The Committee on Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education was established in the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Research Council in 1984 in response to a request from the U.S. Department of Education....
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2011. — 693 p. The Handbook of Stress represents an up-to-date and authoritative guide to both the beneficial and deleterious effects of stress on brain health. Contributions from international scholars in the field emphasize actions in the brain, from the molecular and cellular stage, to systems interactions and function. Sections begin with studies...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. - 451 p. There are several tests used in clinical practice and research worldwide that have been devised to assess the functions subsumed by the frontal lobes of the brain. Anatomical localisation has revealed that the frontal lobes can be divided into sub-regions with different functional domains. As a result, a number of authors working...
2nd Edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2014. — 988 p. — (The Norton series on interpersonal neurobiology). — ISBN: 978-0-393-70791-5. A revised edition of the best-selling text on how relationships build our brains. As human beings, we cherish our individuality yet we know that we live in constant relationship to others, and that other people play a significant part in...
2nd edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 434 p. — ISBN: 978-0393706420 In contrast to this view, recent theoretical advances in brain imaging have revealed that the brain is an organ continually built and re-built by one's experience. We are now beginning to learn that many forms of psychotherapy, developed in the absence of any scientific understanding of the brain, are...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. — 321 p. Memory is typically thought of as a set of neural representations - 'memory traces' - that must be found and reactivated to be experienced. It is often suggested that 'memory traces' are represented by a hierarchically organized system of analyzers, modified, sharpened, and differentiated by encounters with successive events....
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 316 p. — ISBN: 9780190088743. Behind heart disease and cancer, medical error is now listed as one of the leading causes of death. Of the many medical errors that may lead to injury and death, diagnostic failure is regarded as the most significant. Generally, the majority of diagnostic failures are attributed to the clinicians directly involved...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 241 p. — ISBN10: 1403946752; ISBN13: 978-1403946751. The blush is a ubiquitous, but little understood, phenomenon. It involves an involuntary change in the face that can express feelings, reveal character and cause intense anxiety. Crozier provides a scholarly, yet accessible, synthesis of new research, locating blushing within the context of the...
Berlin: Springer, 2011. In this accessible overview of current knowledge, an expert team of editors and authors describe experimental approaches to consciousness. These approaches are shedding light on some of the hitherto unknown aspects of the distinct states of human consciousness, including the waking state, different states of sleep and dreaming, meditation and more. The...
United States, NY.: Pantheon Books, 2010. - 268 p. The arrival of neurons and their unique ability to transmit and receive messages was the radical break in the course of the human brain’s evolution. This led to the development of the self. Neurons organize themselves in complex circuits and networks. Networks that serve to represent events occurring in the body, influence the...
United States, NY.: Pantheon Books, 2010. - 268 p. The arrival of neurons and their unique ability to transmit and receive messages was the radical break in the course of the human brain’s evolution. This led to the development of the self. Neurons organize themselves in complex circuits and networks. Networks that serve to represent events occurring in the body, influence the...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1996. - 214 p. - ISBN: 978-3-642-79930-3 Until now decision-making has been studied in the fields of psychology, artificial intelligence, and economics - to name just a few - while neuroscientific research has paid only little attention to it. But now the importance of decision-making has become indisputable, especially in the context of...
Oxford University Press 2002. 690 p. Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings is an ideal text for introductory, advanced undergraduate, and graduate courses in the philosophy of mind and related areas. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, this volume ranges from the classical contributions of Descartes to the leading edge of the discipline. Three of...
The MIT Press, 2022. — 1225 p. — ISBN: 9780262045438. Philosophers and neuroscientists address central issues in both fields, including morality, action, mental illness, consciousness, perception, and memory. Philosophers and neuroscientists grapple with the same profound questions involving consciousness, perception, behavior, and moral judgment, but only recently have the two...
L.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. - 256 p. What are we exactly, when we are said to be our brain? This question leads Jan De Vos to examine the different metamorphoses of the brain: the educated brain, the material brain, the iconographic brain, the sexual brain, the celebrated brain and, finally, the political brain. This first, protracted and sustained argument on...
New York: Copernicus Center Press, 2014. - 372 p. The Emotional Brain Revisited tackles various issues at play in the current neuroscientific, psychological, and philosophical research on emotions. The book discusses such topics as the role of amygdala in the emergence of emotions, the place of the affect within the psychological construction of the agent, insights from the...
The MIT Press, 2011 — 272 p. In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. The social neuroscience approach to the subject is premised on the idea that studying empathy at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, and social) will lead to a more comprehensive understanding of how other people's thoughts and feelings can...
Springer, 2014. — 230 p. Traditionally, neuroscience has considered the nervous system as an isolated entity and largely ignored influences of the social environments in which humans and many animal species live. However, there is mounting evidence that the social environment affects behavior (and vice versa) across species, from microbes to humans. Vertebrate species display a...
New York: A Psychology Press book, 1999. — 1121 p. The domain of neuroscience has had one of the most explosive growths in recent decades: within this development, there has been a remarkable and renewed interest in the study of the relations between behavior and the central nervous system. Part of this new attention is connected with the contribution of new technologies (PET,...
New York: Psychology Press, 2005. — 154 p. Many topics have inspired significant amounts of neuroimaging research in recent years, and the study of mental imagery was one of the earliest to receive a thorough empirical investigation. Twenty years later, the goal of understanding this pervasive but elusive phenomenon continues to motivate a number of sustained research programs...
USA, NY.: Back Bay Books, 1991. — 528 p. — ISBN: 0-316-18066-1. "The book puts forward a "multiple drafts" model of consciousness, suggesting that there is no single central place (a "Cartesian Theater") where conscious experience occurs; instead there are "various events of content-fixation occurring in various places at various times in the brain". The brain consists of a...
W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. — 512 p. Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful "imagination-extenders and focus-holders"...
A Bradford Book, 2002 — 301 p. Despite dramatic advances in neuroimaging techniques, patient-based analyses of brain disorders continue to offer important insights into the functioning of the normal brain. Bridging the gap between the work of neurologists studying clinical disorders and neuroscientists studying the neural mechanisms underlying normal cognition, this book...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — 264 p. In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of music, shows how illusions of music and speech — many of which she herself discovered — have fundamentally altered thinking about the brain. These astonishing illusions show that people can differ strikingly...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2024. — 999 p. — (Advances in Neurobiology 36). — ISBN: 978-3-031-47605-1. The new edition of the highly popular, The Fractal Geometry of the Brain, reviews the most intriguing applications of fractal analysis in neuroscience with a focus on current and future potential, limits, advantages, and disadvantages. It brings an understanding of fractals to...
Wien: Springer, 2008. — 452 p. Can psychoanalysis offer a new computer model? Can computer designers help psychoanalysts to understand their theory better?In contemporary publications human psyche is often related to neural networks. Why? The wiring in computers can also be related to application software. But does this really make sense? Artificial Intelligence has tried to...
Milano: Adriano Salani Editore S.p.A, 2007. — 411 p. Cheryl ha la costante sensazione di cadere a causa di un deficit del suo apparato vestibolare; Barbara ha un cervello asimmetrico ed è considerata "ritardata"; Michael è un chirurgo oculare che a quarantaquattro anni subisce un ictus invalidante. Queste sono solo alcune delle storie alle frontiere della neuroscienza narrate...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 306 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-19001-6. This unique analysis of neuropsychological conditions provides readers with a review of both pediatric and adult presentations in one convenient place. Covering the most common disorders encountered in clinical practice, including those specific to the extremes of the age spectrum, this book provides...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 503 p. Lifespan developmental neuropsychology is the study of the systematic behavioral, cognitive, and psychosocial changes and growth that occur across infancy, adolescence, adulthood and later life. This book provides insight into how brain-behavior relationships change over time, how disorders differ in presentation across the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 228 p. Have you ever found yourself re-reading the same sentence four or five times and thought 'I should get more sleep'? Are you clueless as to why one paragraph just seems to 'flow' while you simply can't recall the contents of another? Guess what: you are not alone. Even the best writers fail to grasp why their writing works....
Washington: Joseph Henry Press, 2007. — 199 p. How much of our behavior is determined by our genes and how much by our environment? Fiercely debated but not fully resolved, we continue to grapple with this nature-vs.-nurture question. But data from the study of the developing and adult brain are providing us with new ways of thinking about this issue - ways that, finally,...
North Atlantic Books, 2019. — 399 p. — ISBN: 9781623173050. At the edges of consciousness, between waking and sleeping, there’s a swirling, free-associative state of mind that is the domain of liminal dreams. Working with liminal dreams can improve sleep, mitigate anxiety and depression, help to heal trauma, and aid creativity and problem-solving. Readers of Liminal Dreaming...
New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2012. — 191 p. Handedness is an attribute of humans defined by their unequal distribution of fine motor skill between the left and right hands. A minority of people are equally skilled with both hands, and are termed ambidextrous. This book presents current research in the study of handedness, including the significance of knot-tying habits in...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. — 689 p. Brain and Behavior addresses the central aims of cognitive neuroscience, examining the brain not only by its components but also by its functions. Emphasizing the dynamically changing nature of the brain, the text highlights the principles, discoveries, and remaining mysteries of modern cognitive neuroscience to give students a...
Oxford, 2009 — 280 p. Brain Landscape: The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture is the first book to serve as an intellectual bridge between architectural practice and neuroscience research. John P. Eberhard, founding President of the non-profit Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, argues that increased funding, and the ability to think beyond the norm, will lead...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 224 p. How does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? The quest for a scientifically based understanding of consciousness has attracted study and speculation across the ages. In this direct and non-technical discussion of consciousness, Dr....
New York: Imprint Academic, 2006. — 231 p. This book proposes that the only possible solution to the 'mind-brain' problem is that each nerve cell is conscious separately and that we have no other 'global' consciousness. We are colonies of sentient micro-organisms, each, unaware of the sentience of the others, led to believe that it is 'me'. Despite being counterintuitive and...
Academic Press, 2021. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-819818-6. Brain Oscillations, Synchrony, and Plasticity: Basic Principles and Application to Auditory-Related Disorders discusses the role of brain oscillations, especially concerning the auditory system, and how those oscillations are measured, change over the lifespan, and falter leading to a variety of psychiatric and...
Pearson, 2014. — 495 p. Neuropsychology: Clinical and Experimental Foundations is an engaging and balanced text, providing an intelligible introduction to how the mind works and what happens when the brain is damaged. Neuropsychology provides an overview of the fascinating clinical evidence that gave rise to the field of human neuropsychology and reviews the latest experimental...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2005. — 477 p. The cognitive disorders that follow brain damage are an important source of insights into the neural bases of human thought. This second edition of the widely acclaimed Patient-Based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience offers state-of-the-art reviews of the patient-based approach to central issues in cognitive neuroscience by leaders in...
New York: Chelsea House, 2007. — 153 p. A Universal Language Experience and Expression of Emotion Neuroscience Basics The Biology of Emotion Emotion and Cognition The Stress Response Stress and Health Stress and the Brain Coping with Stress Further Reading Picture Credits About the Author/About the Editor
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. — 216 p. The Patients John The Perplexing "Inner I" Mirna Sonya Personification of the Limb Shirley Jack Patsy Daryl Explaining Asomatognosia Lizzy The Margins of the Ego Capgras Syndrome Emma Louise Oliver The Family Romance Frégoli Syndrome Fannie JP Environmental Reduplication The Capgras-Frégoli Dichotomy Disorders of Personal...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2018. — 220 p. Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes. Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be an unbridgeable gap between understanding the brain...
Oxford University Press, 2005. - 416 p. The idea that some day robots may have emotions has captured the imagination of many and has been dramatized by robots and androids in such famous movies as 2001 Space Odyssey's HAL or Star Trek's Data. By contrast, the editors of this book have assembled a panel of experts in neuroscience and artificial intelligence who have dared to...
Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2003. — 640 p. — (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical Biology and Medicine Series). — ISBN: 1-58488-362-6. How does the brain work? After a century of research, we still lack a coherent view of how neurons process signals and control our activities. But as the field of computational neuroscience continues to evolve, we find that it provides a...
New York: Academic Press, 2006. — 169 p. The ID, The Ego, and The Temporal Lobe ID, EGO, and Temporal Lobe Revisited Olfactory Gustatory Responses Evoked by Electrical Stimulation of Amygdalar Region in Man are Qualitatively Modifiable by Interview Content: Case Report and Review Pathogenesis of Psychosis in Epilepsy. The “Seesaw” Theory: Myth or Reality? Memory Function after...
InTech, 2012. — 416 p. The primary goal of this book is to inform experts and newcomers of some of the latest data in the field of brain structures involved in mechanisms underlying emotional learning and memory, and it will also help to stimulate discussion on the functional role of the amygdala and connected brain structures in these mechanisms. Among the components of the...
Academic Press, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-811012-6. This book presents the key role of receptors and their cognate ligands in wiring the mammalian brain from an evolutionary developmental biology perspective. It examines receptor function in the evolution and development of the nervous system in the large vertebrate brain, and discusses rapid eye movement sleep and...
A Bradford Book, 1991 — 440 p. Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology. in a new chapter Flanagan develops a neurophilosophical theory of subjective mental life. He brings recent developments in the theory of neuronal group selection and connectionism to bear on...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. - 398 p. - ISBN: 978-3-642-45189-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-45190-4 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any...
New York: Springer, 2015. - 354 p. Two recent innovations, the emergence of formal cognitive models and the addition of cognitive neuroscience data to the traditional behavioral data, have resulted in the birth of a new, interdisciplinary field of study: model-based cognitive neuroscience. Despite the increasing scientific interest in model-based cognitive neuroscience, few...
Boca Raton: CRC press, 2014. — 322 p. While there have been tremendous advances in our scientific understanding of the brain, this work has been largely academic, and often oriented toward clinical publication. Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Systems: Work and Everyday Life addresses the relationship between neurophysiological processes and the performance and experience of...
Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience offers a concise, sixteen chapter introduction to behavioral neuroscience, incorporating the latest studies and research in the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and physiological psychology. The text includes many human case studies of people with neurological disorders. The online MyPsychKit features Carlson’s Neuroscience...
New York: Springer, 2019. — 466 p. This book is a comprehensive textbook of the psychobiology of behavior. It is written primarily for mental health professionals in general, doctors of various specialties outside mental health and students of medicine, psychologists and others who are interested in this topic. The editors apparently had in mind also particularly GPs who are...
Springer, 2019. — 1489 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-18323-3 The book provides a comprehensive reference on the neurobiological understanding of behaviour, how behaviour is regulated by the brain, and how such behaviours in turn influence the brain.The work offers an introduction to neural systems and genetics/epigenetics, followed by detailed study of a wide range of behaviours –...
New York: Psychology Press, 2002. - 329 p. Psychologists are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the ecological validity of their assessment procedures--to show that the recommendations concluding their evaluations are relevant to urgent concerns in the legal and social policy arenas, such as predicting dangerousness, awarding compensation, and choosing a custodial parent....
4th Edition. - Cengage Learning, 2019. - 692 p. Do you have a strong science background? Or do you feel overwhelmed at the prospect of taking a behavioral neuroscience, biological psychology, or physiological psychology course? Either way, this text's clear writing, interesting examples, learning aids, and illustrations will keep you interested and on track. DISCOVERING...
5th edition. — Cengage Learning, 2024. — 639 p. — ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-357-79823-2. With comprehensive, authoritative coverage and a student-centered presentation, Freberg's Discovering Behavioral Neuroscience An Introduction to Biological Psychology, 5th Edition appeals to the broad range of students taking a first undergraduate course in behavioral neuroscience, biological...
London, UK: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publ., 2012. — ISBN: 978-0-7864-6495-1. Throughout the ages, the mysteries of what happens when we die and the nature of the human mind have fascinated us. In this collection of essays, leading scientists and authors contemplate consciousness, quantum mechanics, string theory, dimensions, space and time, nonlocal space, the hologram, and...
4th edition. — SAGE Publishing, 2022. — 559 p. — ISBN: 9781544380155. Cognitive Science provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the study of the mind. The authors examine the mind from the perspective of different fields, including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, networks, evolution, emotional and social cognition, linguistics, artificial intelligence,...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2017. — 299 p. Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex entity with subcomponents responsible for its phonological, syntactic, and semantic aspects. In this landmark work, Angela Friederici offers a comprehensive account of these subcomponents and how they are...
The MIT Press, 2017. — 304 p. Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex entity with subcomponents responsible for its phonological, syntactic, and semantic aspects. In this landmark work, Angela Friederici offers a comprehensive account of these subcomponents and how they are integrated....
ISBN: 1405160225, 248 p. Written by one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world. Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments and studies of patients to explore the relationship between the mind and the brain. Demonstrates that our knowledge...
2nd edition: CRC Press, 2009 — 428 p. Sereis: Frontiers in Neuroscience These are exciting times for the field of optical imaging of brain function. Rapid developments in theory and technology continue to considerably advance understanding of brain function. Reflecting changes in the field during the past five years, the second edition of In Vivo Optical Imaging of Brain...
CRC Press, 2002. — 267 p. — (Frontiers in Neuroscience) — ISBN: 978-0849323898 The major advantage of in vivo optical techniques is the ability to study many levels of function of the CNS that are inaccessible by other methods. This rapidly expanding field is multidisciplinary in nature and findings have thus far been scattered throughout the literature. In Vivo Optical Imaging...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. — 369 p. Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a collective, a living being which uses the brain to mediate interactions. Those...
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 193 p. Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation and actions of those who are awake. How to Sleep argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena with a dynamic aesthetic and...
New York: Springer, 2007. - 367 p. How is information represented in the nervous system? How is that information manipulated and processed? These are some of the more important and challenging questions for neuroscientists and psychologists today. Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging,...
CRC, 2000 — 376 p. How do brain, mind, matter, and energy interact? Can we create a comprehensive model of the mind and brain, their interactions, and their influences? Synthesizing research from neuroscience, physics, biology, systems science, information science, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, The Neurophysics of Human Behavior advances a unified theory of brain,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. - 313 p. This book presents a unique synthesis of the current neuroscience of cognition by one of the world's authorities in the field. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet that the entirety of our knowledge is encoded by relations, and thus by connections, in neuronal networks of our cerebral cortex. Cognitive networks...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 286 p. Professor Joaquín M. Fuster is an eminent cognitive neuroscientist whose research over the last five decades has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the neural structures underlying cognition and behaviour. This book provides his view on the eternal question of whether we have free will. Based on his...
Elsevier, 2020. — 534 p. This is one of a two-volume work on neurocognitive development, focusing separately on normative and non-normative development. The normative volume focuses on neurology, biology, genetics, and psychology of normative cognitive development. It covers the development of intellectual abilities, visual perception, motor function, language, memory,...
Philadelphia: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2018. — 592 p. Ignite your excitement about behavioral neuroscience with Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, Fifth Edition by best-selling author Bob Garrett and new co-author Gerald Hough. Garrett and Hough make the field accessible by inviting readers to explore key theories and scientific discoveries using...
Sage Publications, Inc, 2017. — 1675 p. Ignite your excitement about behavioral neuroscience with Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, Fifth Edition by best-selling author Bob Garrett and new co-author Gerald Hough. Garrett and Hough make the field accessible by inviting readers to explore key theories and scientific discoveries using detailed...
5th edition. — SAGE Publications, 2018. — 2390 p. — ISBN: 9781506392455 Ignite your excitement about behavioral neuroscience with Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, Fifth Edition by best-selling author Bob Garrett and new co-author Gerald Hough. Garrett and Hough make the field accessible by inviting readers to explore key theories and scientific...
New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. - 754 p. The first textbook for the course, and still the market leader, Cognitive Neuroscience has been thoroughly refreshed, rethought, and reorganized to enhance students’ and instructors’ experience. A stunning, all new art program conveys data and concepts clearly, and new chapter-opening Anatomical Orientation figures help students get their...
5th edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 772 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-60317-0 Authoritative, applied, and accessible Written by world-renowned researchers, including Michael Gazzaniga, Cognitive Neuroscience remains the gold standard in its field, showcasing the latest discoveries and clinical applications. In its new Fifth Edition, updated material is woven into the...
New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. — 240 p. A provocative and fascinating look at new discoveries about the brain that challenge our ethics The rapid advance of scientific knowledge has raised ethical dilemmas that humankind has never before had to address. Questions about the moment when life technically begins and ends or about the morality of genetically designing babies are...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. — 163 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-190610-7. About the Author. Michael S. Gazzaniga is the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the president of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, the founding director of the MacArthur Foundation’s Law and Neuroscience Project, and a member of the...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2014. — 299 p. Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences. In The Measure of Madness, Philip Gerrans offers a novel explanation of delusion. Over the last two decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists have investigated explanations of delusion...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 172 p. From Aristotle to Cognitive Neuroscience identifies the strong philosophical tradition that runs from Aristotle, through phenomenology, to the current analytical philosophy of mind and consciousness. In a fascinating account, the author integrates the history of philosophy of mind and phenomenology with recent discoveries on the neuroscience...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 564 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-03603-1. Neuroscientific evidence has educated us in the ways in which the brain mediates our thought and behavior and, therefore, forced us to critically examine how we conceive of free will. This volume, featuring contributions from an international and interdisciplinary group of distinguished researchers...
MIT Press, 2001. — 465 p. This book is for students and researchers who have a specific interest in learning and memory and want to understand how computational models can be integrated into experimental research on the hippocampus and learning. It emphasizes the function of brain structures as they give rise to behavior, rather than the molecular or neuronal details. It also...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. - 352 p. Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind. In The New Executive Brain, Goldberg...
Academic Press, 2017. — 584 p. — ISBN: 9780128036761 Executive Functions in Health and Disease provides a comprehensive review of both healthy and disordered executive function. It discusses what executive functions are, what parts of the brain are involved, what happens when they go awry in cases of dementia, ADHD, psychiatric disorders, traumatic injury, developmental...
New York: Springer, 2016. - 66 p. This concise reference clarifies the gray areas between traumatic brain injury and PTSD while providing an empirically sound framework for neuropsychological evaluation and differential diagnosis. Its extended research review summarizes findings on key topics including the neuroanatomy of brain injury, test battery design and selection, and the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 377 p. In «Simulating Minds», his ninth and latest book, Alvin Goldman provides a comprehensive survey of the principal theories devised to explain the mind's ability to ascribe mental states to other minds as well as to itself. Minds --human and to all appearances those of other intelligent fellow creatures-- possess the capability not...
The MIT Press, 2020. — 403 p. — ISBN: 9780262358774. The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain — often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind...
2nd edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 628 p. General Introduction General Introduction: What Is the Relevance of Neuropsychology for Clinical Psychology Practice Neuroscience Background Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology Neurological Investigations Neuropsychological Assessment: General Issues Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Brain Disorder: Nature, Assessment and...
New York: Academic Press, 1997. — 222 p. Anomia is the inability to access spoken names for objects, most often associated with the elderly or those with brain damage to the left hemisphere. Anomia offers the state-of-the-art review of disorders of naming, written by acknowledged experts from around the world, approached from both clinical and theoretical viewpoints. Goodglass,...
New York: Dana Press, 2010. - 246 p. Cerebrum 2010 offers a feast for readers keen to know what the world’s leading thinkers see as the newest ideas and implications arising from discoveries about the brain. Drawn from Cerebrum’s highly regarded Web edition, this fourth annual collection brings together the foremost experts in brain science. Jay Giedd, Michael Posner, Mariale...
Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000 — 269 p. Most brain related activity has focussed on specialized interests within individual disciplines. Recent multidisciplinary activity has provided the impetus to break down these boundaries and encourage a freer exchange of information across disciplines. This text reflects these developments. It spans the landscape of brain science to...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 321 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-79336-0. Neuroscience has begun to intrude deeply into what it means to be human, an intrusion that offers profound benefits but will demolish our present understanding of privacy. In Privacy in the Age of Neuroscience, David Grant argues that we need to reconceptualize privacy in a manner that will allow us to reap...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. - 759 p. This is a major revision of a standard reference work for neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, and neurologists. About one-half of the book contains entirely new work by new contributors. New topics not covered in the previous editions include consideration of common sources of neurocognitive morbidity, such as multiple sclerosis,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 280 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–992864–4. What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows...
Springer, 2016. — 148 p. — ISBN: 3319467042 This book explores Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) dynamics as investigated through Electrodermal Activity (EDA) processing. It presents groundbreaking research in the technical field of biomedical engineering, especially biomedical signal processing, as well as clinical fields of psychometrics, affective computing, and psychological...
New York: Penguin Books, 2002. — 274 p. How do our unique personalities emerge from our anatomically identical physical brains? What gives rise to our emotions? Why do some drugs make us ecstatic while others make us miserable? For centuries, the most elusive and tantalizing questions about how the human mind works were left to the esoteric realm of philosophers. But in the...
London: Notting Hill Editions, 2016. — 214 p. What is it that makes you distinct from me? Identity is a term much used but hard to define. You and Me considers the concept of identity from the perspective of a neuroscientist. As the brain adapts exquisitely to the environment, do the cultural challenges of the 21st century mean that we are facing unprecendented challenges to...
Springer, 2018. — 162 p. — (Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action 06). — ISBN: 978-3-319-99294-5. This book consists of eleven new essays that provide new insights into classical and contemporary issues surrounding free will and human agency. They investigate topics such as the nature of practical knowledge and its role in intentional action; mental content...
New York: Springer, 2016. - 256 p. This book gives the reader an understanding of what consciousness is about, and of how to make conscious experiences more pleasant. It expands on a new theory that describes the evolutionary trajectory leading to conscious life forms. In short, the evidence suggests that consciousness first evolved some 300 million years ago as a consequence...
New Harbinger Publications, 2021. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-1684035663. Do you cope with anxiety by avoiding people, places, and situations that make you feel anxious? Do you deal with depression by isolating yourself from the people and activities that used to bring you joy? Do you avoid talking or thinking about the events that caused your post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? If...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 771 p. — ISBN: 978-0190070557. How does your mind work? How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our lives, if only because everything that we know is experienced in our minds. They are also very hard questions to answer. After all, how can a mind understand itself? How...
New York: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2001. - 345 p. How does the brain go about the business of being conscious? Though we cannot yet provide a complete answer, this book explains what is now known about the neural basis of human consciousness.The last decade has witnessed the dawn of an exciting new era of cognitive neuroscience. For example, combination of new imaging...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2010. — 915 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–923411–0. Sadly, since the publication of the first edition in 2003, John Marshall has passed away, but leaving a hugely inspirational body of consequential neuropsychology research on which to build. Much has changed, and much remains the same since 2003. Technology and philosophical approaches to embracing...
New York: Flatiron Books, 2017. — 455 p. From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 346 p. — ISBN: 9781107089778. This book introduces new and provocative neuroscience research that advances our understanding of intelligence and the brain. Compelling evidence shows that genetics plays a more important role than environment as intelligence develops from childhood, and that intelligence test scores correspond...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 333 p. — Second Edition. This new edition provides an accessible guide to advances in neuroscience research and what they reveal about intelligence. Compelling evidence shows that genetics plays a major role as intelligence develops from childhood and that intelligence test scores correspond strongly to specific features of the brain assessed...
New York: The Guilford Books, 2004. — 337 p. This important resource presents the latest information on brain-behavior relationships and describes ways school practitioners can apply neuropsychological principles in their work with children. Bridging the gap between neuropsychological theory, assessment, and intervention, this accessible text addresses complex topics in a...
Bradford Books, MIT Press, 2010. — 344 p. The field of neuroimaging has reached a watershed. Brain imaging research has been the source of many advances in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive science over the last decade, but recent critiques and emerging trends are raising foundational issues of methodology, measurement, and theory. Indeed, concerns over interpretation of...
Basel: Birkhäuser, 1992. — 366 p. Footnotes to the Recent History of Neuroscience: Personal Reflections and Microstories The workshop upon which this volume is based offered me an opportunity to renew contact fairly painlessly with workers in the brain sciences, not just as a participant/observer but maybe as what might be called a teller of microstories. I had originally...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2015. - 613 p. The proposed book investigates brain asymmetry from the perspective of functional neural systems theory, a foundational approach for the topic. There is currently no such book available on the market and there is a need for a neuroscience book, with a focus on the functional asymmetry of these two integrated and dynamic brains using historical...
London: Riutledge, 2017. — 223 p. Errrorless learning is one of the most studied principles in neurorehabilitation. This is the first volume to capture all the key elements in the field in one invaluable resource, providing an up-to-date and broad analysis of the use of errorless learning principles in rehabilitation after brain injury. With contributions from key researchers...
Publisher: The MIT Press; Reprint edition (October 28, 2011), 384 p. Episodic memory proves essential for daily function, allowing us to remember where we parked the car, what time we walked the dog, or what a friend said earlier. In How We Remember, Michael Hasselmo draws on recent developments in neuroscience to present a new model describing the brain mechanisms for encoding...
Oxford, 2010 — 576 p. Oxford Series in Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience How do we - societies and individuals alike - (sometimes) manage to act in line with our high priority goals when faced with tempting-yet-conflicting alternatives? In other words, how do we (sometimes) resolve a conflict between a superordinate, global goal and a subordinate, local one, and do so in...
Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., 2002. — 378 p. Since its publication in 1949, D.O. Hebb's, The Organization of Behavior has been one of the most influential books in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. However, the original edition has been unavailable since 1966, ensuring that Hebb's comment that a classic normally means "cited but not read" is true in his...
2nd edition: Academic Press, 2003 — 583 p. An understanding of the nervous system at virtually any level of analysis requires an understanding of its basic building block, the neuron. This book provides the solid foundation of the morphological, biochemical, and biophysical properties of nerve cells that is needed by advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as...
4th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2003. — 735 p. — ISBN: 978-0195133677 Clinical Neuropsychology comprehensively reviews the major neurobehavioral disorders associated with brain dysfunction. Since the third edition appeared in 1993 there have been many advances in the understanding and treatment of neurobehavioral disorders. This edition, like prior editions, describes...
Non-fiction, Florida, Park Avenue Press, 2013, 362 p. In "The Power of Neuroplasticity," Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D., presents the scientific discovery that the thoughts we think physically rewire and reshape our brains and change our lives. Dr. Helmstetter shows how to use the latest research from the field of neuroscience to wire your brain to change attitudes, overcome...
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2014. — 729 p. An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror neurons, responded equally well during the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 293 p. Can consciousness and the human mind be understood and explained in sheerly physical terms? Materialism is a philosophical/scientific theory, according to which the mind is completely physical. This theory has been around for literally thousands of years, but it was always stymied by its inability to explain how exactly mere...
New York: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. — 272 p. Our brains plan conscious experience in our sleep using our waking experience only to correct a built-in, virtual reality model of the world that becomes more fully active when we sleep. We become subjectively aware of that virtual reality model when we dream. Our dreams are a mixture of anticipated virtual and...
3rd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 287 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-874918-9. The third edition of the best-selling Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians provides readers with an up-to-date, practical guide to cognitive function and its assessment to ensure readers have a conceptual knowledge of normal psychological function and how to interpret their findings. Organized into...
2 edition. — Springer, 2010. — 608 p. — ISBN10: 0826118852, ISBN13: 978-0826118851 This book serves as an updated authoritative contemporary reference work intended for use by forensic neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, pediatricians, attorneys, judges, law students, police officers, special educators, and clinical and school psychologists, among...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 659 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-48852-5. How does brain activity give rise to sleep, dreams, learning, memory, and language? Do drugs like cocaine and heroin tap into the same neurochemical systems that evolved for life's natural rewards? What are the powerful new tools of molecular biology that are revolutionizing neuroscience? This undergraduate...
New York: Chelsea House, 2005. — 143 p. The Neuroanatomy of Learning and Memory Learning and Memory: A Historical Perspective Forms of Learning Stages of Memory and the Brain’s Memory Systems Memory Organization Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory An Invertebrate Model of Learning and Memory Long-Term Potentiation: A Synaptic Correlate of Learning and Memory Strategies...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. — 198 p. Invitation Prelude Coming-to Explained Being “Like Something” Sentition Looping the Loop So What? Being There The Enchanted World So That Is Who I Am! Being Number One Entering the Soul Niche Dangerous Territory Cheating Death Envoi
Springer, 2018. — 586 p. — (Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences. Vol. 35). This volume collects cutting-edge expert reviews in the oxytocin field and will be of interest to a broad scientific audience ranging from social neuroscience to clinical psychiatry. The role of the neuropeptide oxytocin in social behaviors is one of the earliest and most significant discoveries...
Humana, 2009 — 364 p. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology The developing of in vivo neuroscience techniques is rapidly improving the specificity and sensitivity of measurements of brain function. However, despite improvements in individual methods, it is becoming increasingly clear that the most effective research approaches will be multi-modal. Thus, it is the researchers who...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 544 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-68420-8. This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation. Since its inception in the early...
Amazon Digital Services, 2012 . - 240 p. ISBN: 9788740301007 Cognitive neuroscience is an exciting and a relatively new area of research into the neural basis of the human mind. Using sophisticated neuroimaging technology, it is possible to study how the brain allows one to think, remember, see, hear, smell, touch, attend, feel emotions, understand others, and be motivated to...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2013. - 196 p. The source of endless speculation and public curiosity, our scientific quest for the origins of human consciousness has expanded along with the technical capabilities of science itself and remains one of the key topics able to fire public as much as academic interest. Yet many problematic issues, identified in this important new book, remain...
The MIT Press, 2007 — 464 p. Series: Computational Neuroscience In order to model neuronal behavior or to interpret the results of modeling studies, neuroscientists must call upon methods of nonlinear dynamics. This book offers an introduction to nonlinear dynamical systems theory for researchers and graduate students in neuroscience. It also provides an overview of...
New York: Springer, 2009. - 133 p. Bioinformatics involves specialized application of computer technology to investigative and conceptual problems in biology and medicine; neuroinformatics (NI) is the practice of bioinformatics in the neurosciences. Over the past two decades the biomedical sciences have been revolutionized by databases, data mining and data modeling techniques....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. - 336 p. The phenomenon of hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness. Understanding hypnosis tells us about a basic human capacity for altered experiences that is often overlooked in contemporary western societies. Throughout the 200 year history of psychology, hypnosis has...
Basic Books, 2018. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0465052681, ISBN13: 978-0465052684. To many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. But the way we talk about the brain is often rooted more in mystical conceptions of the soul than in scientific fact. This blinds us to the physical realities of mental function. We ignore bodily influences on our psychology, from chemicals...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. — 512 p. At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 434 p. Our Professions Come of Age: Neuroscience Knowledge and Tools for Biopsychosocial Practice Why Should I Care about Brain Science? I’m a “People” Person Neuroscience Knowledge: How Is It Faring in the Second Decade of the Millennium? Normality, Professional Culture, and Psychiatric Disorders: Diagnosing Jared Breaking Th rough: Is...
Scribner, 2004 — 294 p. ISBN: 0743241665 Brilliantly exploring today's cutting-edge brain research, mind wide open is an unprecedented journey into the essence of human personality, allowing readers to understand themselves and the people in their lives as never before. Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson...
2nd edition. — CRC Press, 2007. — 522 p. — ISBN: 9780849319037 A complete background to concepts and principles of behavioral genetics, Neurobehavioral Genetics: Methods and Applications, Second Edition features a broad spectrum of the most current techniques in neurobehavioral genetics in a single source. Based on various studies of living organisms ranging from primates to...
New York: Routledge, 2018. — 155 p. One of the main aims of modern mental health care is to understand a person's explicit and implicit ways of thinking and acting. So, it may seem like the ultimate paradox that mental health care services are currently overflowing with brain concepts belonging to the external, visible brain-world and that neuroscientists are poised to become...
Doubleday, 2014. - 400 p. The New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Hyperspace tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain. For the first time in history, the secrets of the living brain are being revealed by a battery of high tech brain scans devised by physicists. Now what was once...
4 edition: McGraw-Hill Medica, 2000 — 1414 p. Now in resplendent color, the new edition continues to define the latest in the scientific understanding of the brain, the nervous system, and human behavior. Each chapter is thoroughly revised and includes the impact of molecular biology in the mechanisms underlying developmental processes and in the pathogenesis of disease....
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 554 p. The latest volume in the critically acclaimed and highly influential Attention and Performance series focuses on the role that functional neuroimaging plays in visual cognition. Functional neuroimaging has greatly enhanced our knowledge of the brain, and has been one of the most important tools in cognitive neuroscience. At the same time,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. — 269 p. This collection brings together a set of new papers that advance the debate concerning the nature of explanation in mind and brain science, and help to clarify the prospects for bonafide integration across these fields. Long a topic of debate among philosophers and scientists alike, there is growing appreciation that understanding...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 308 p. This edited monograph provides a compelling analysis of the interplay between neuroscience and aesthetics. The book broaches a wide spectrum of topics including, but not limited to, mathematics and creator algorithms, neurosciences of artistic creativity, paintings and dynamical systems as well as computational research for architecture. The...
Washington: APA, 2015. - 328 p. Research in brain cognition and development has expanded rapidly over the last ten years. Our scientific understanding of the developmental stages of infancy, childhood, and adolescence has reached a new level of sophistication, thanks to extensive studies on cognitive processes such as attention, inhibition, executive control, working memory,...
Amsterdam: Boom, 2017. — 625 p. This overview of clinical neuropsychology provides the most important theories and methods that are relevant to professionals who are dealing with patients with brain impairment. In this edition, all chapters have been completely revised by the editors and several professionals and researchers from the field. The first part contains several...
New York: Routledge: 2018. — 145 p. In this jointly authored book, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein defend the controversial thesis that phenomenal consciousness is realised by more than just the brain. They argue that the mechanisms and processes that realise phenomenal consciousness can at times extend across brain, body and the social, material and cultural world. Kirchhoff and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 248 p. The first half is a NECESSARY read for those interested in philosophical zombies: a very clear thorough response to Chalmers. The second half is also an important read for those interested in non-human consciousness and possible methods to study consciousness of all kinds.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008. — 470 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8058-5858-7. Over the last decade, the topic of prospective memory – the encoding, storage, and delayed retrieval of intended actions – has attracted much interest, and this is reflected in a rapidly growing body of literature: 350 scientific articles have been published on this topic since the appearance of the first...
Publisher: The MIT Press; 1 edition (March 9, 2012). 200 p. What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal...
Englewood: Roberts and Company Publishers, 2004. - 442 p. Consciousness is one of science’s last great unsolved mysteries. How can the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the unmistakable smell of dogs after they have been in the rain, or the exhilarating feeling of hanging on tiny fingerholds many feet above the last secure foothold on a cliff, emerge from...
Routledge, 2006. — 257 p. Cognitive Science is a major new guide to the central theories and problems in the study of the mind and brain. The authors clearly explain how and why cognitive science aims to understand the brain as a computational system that manipulates representations. They identify the roots of cognitive science in Descartes - who argued that all knowledge of...
New York: Worth Publishers, 2015. — 913 p. Written by two masterful researchers and educators, "Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology" was the first textbook to introduce students to the scientific exploration of human behavior from a neuroscientist’s perspective. With this updated edition, Bryan Kolb and Ian Whishaw again take students to the very forefront of one of the most...
5th edition. — Worth Publishers, 2016. — 2906 p. — ISBN: 978-1-319-11745-0 From authors Bryan Kolb and Ian Whishaw, and new coauthor G. Campbell Teskey, An Introduction to Brain and Behavior offers a unique inquiry-based introduction to behavioral neuroscience, with each chapter focusing on a central question (i.e., "How Does the Nervous System Function?"). It also incorporates...
5th edition. — Worth Publishers, 2016. — 2906 p. — ISBN: 978-1-319-11745-0. From authors Bryan Kolb and Ian Whishaw, and new coauthor G. Campbell Teskey, An Introduction to Brain and Behavior offers a unique inquiry-based introduction to behavioral neuroscience, with each chapter focusing on a central question (i.e., "How Does the Nervous System Function?"). It also...
Publisher: Worth Publishers, March 2003. 5th edition, 763 p. Written by two top researchers, Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, Fifth Edition guides students on a comprehensive journey of discovery through the realm of contemporary human neuropsychology. It is a remarkable text that makes an extraordinary amount of recent scholarship accessible and compelling. And with its...
8th edition. — Worth Publishers, 2021. — 2546 p. — ISBN: 9781319247164. Neuroscience is one of the most exciting and impactful areas of scientific inquiry today. Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology is written by an author team that helped lay the foundation for this field and who continue to be actively involved in both clinical research and education in this area. They will...
8th edition. — Worth Publishers, 2021. — 3973 p. — ISBN: 978-1-319-36427-4. Neuroscience is one of the most exciting and impactful areas of scientific inquiry today. Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology is written by an author team that helped lay the foundation for this field and who continue to be actively involved in both clinical research and education in this area. They...
8th edition. — Worth Publishers, 2021. — 3973 p. — ISBN: 978-1-319-36427-4. Neuroscience is one of the most exciting and impactful areas of scientific inquiry today. Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology is written by an author team that helped lay the foundation for this field and who continue to be actively involved in both clinical research and education in this area. They...
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010. - 1533 p. Behavioral Neuroscientists study the behavior of animals and humans and the neurobiological and physiological processes that control it. Behavior is the ultimate function of the nervous system, and the study of it is very multidisciplinary. Disorders of behavior in humans touch millions of people’s lives significantly, and it is of paramount...
Academic Press, 2014. — 340 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-386937-1. Drugs, Addiction, and the Brain explores the molecular, cellular, and neurocircuitry systems in the brain that are responsible for drug addiction. Common neurobiological elements are emphasized that provide novel insights into how the brain mediates the acute rewarding effects of drugs of abuse and how it changes during...
CRC Press, 2010. — 309 p. — (Human Factors in Defence). Neurocognitive and Physiological Factors During High-Tempo Operations features world-renowned scientists conducting groundbreaking research into the basic mechanisms of stress effects on the human body and psyche, as well as introducing novel pharmaceutics and equipment that can rescue or improve maximal performance during...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 158 p. This leading-edge volume offers a new framework for neuropsychological testing rooted in the current evidence base on large-scale brain system interactions. Expert coverage brings traditional discrete areas of cognitive functioning (e.g., attention, memory) in line with highly nuanced relationships between cortical and subcortical processing....
New York: Springer, 2008. — 415 p. Clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists are traditionally taught that cognition is mediated by the cortex and that subcortical brain regions mediate the coordination of movement. However, this argument can easily be challenged based upon the anatomic organization of the brain.
New York: Psychology Press, 2013. — 181 p. Is the everyday understanding of belief susceptible to scientific investigation? Belief is one of the most commonly used, yet unexplained terms in neuro-science. Beliefs can be seen as forms of mental representations and belief as one of the building blocks of our conscious thoughts. This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 414 p. Fundamental Level of Trust. Trust and Psychology. Trust and Behavioral Economics. Trust and Digitalization. Trust and Human Factors. Neuropsychological Level of Trust. Trust and Risk. Trust and Emotion. Trust and Reputation. Trust and Learning. Neurocharacteristic Level of Trust. Trust and Distrust. Trust and Reciprocity....
Yale University Press, 2017. — 286 p. — ISBN10: 0300224087. — ISBN13: 978-0300224085. We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about how sleep affects us? In the past forty years, scientists have discovered that our sleep (or lack of it) can affect nearly every aspect of our waking lives. Poor sleep could be a sign of a disease, the result of a...
Springer, 2018. — 149 p. — (Brain Science) — ISBN: 978-4-431-56613-7 This book is the first digital atlas of the degu brain with microscopic features simultaneously in Nissl sections and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). As an experimental animal model, the degu contributes to a variety of medical research fields in diabetes, hyperglycemia, pancreatic function, and adaptation...
New York: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. — 217 p. Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of human history left-handedness has been stigmatized. In On the Other Hand, Howard I. Kushner traces the impact of left-handedness on human cognition, behavior, culture, and health. A left-hander himself, Kushner has long...
The MIT Press, 2020. — 769 p. — ISBN: 978-0262044288. The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness. In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis — and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only...
Springer, 2018. — 239 p. This is a book about the intersections of three dimensions. The first is the way social scientists and historians treat the history of psychiatry and healing, especially as it intersects with psychedelics. The second encompasses a reflection on the substances themselves and their effects on bodies. The third addresses traditional healing, as it circles...
Springer, 2023. — 177 p. — ISBN: 978-3-031-13436-4. This book explains, in engaging language, the emotional experience and possible behavioral patterns of ADHD on the basis of its neurobiological function, with a focus on the opportunities and obstacles faced by those with ADHD in professional education as well as in the course of a professional career. several...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 374 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-923507-0. Computational and mathematical neuroscience is an active research area attracting the interest of specialist researchers as well as the general public. It involves the intersection between neuroscience and mathematical/computational techniques. Its current popularity is due to several factors, among them...
Nova Science Publishers, 2017. — 354 p. The monograph entitled The Brainstem and Behavior, edited by Robert Lalonde, reports on physiological functions undertaken by different parts of the brainstem. Pfaff, Bubnys, and Tabansky describe the role of the reticular formation on arousal, with information completed by Lemaire from a more clinical viewpoint. Berezovskii enumerates...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 208 p. Whereas the roots of the clinical neuropsychology specialty can be found in fields over a century old, it has grown very rapidly during the past thirty years. Doctoral programs in clinical psychology and predoctoral internship programs have developed concentrations in this area, as the need for postdoctoral training in this specialty has...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 446 p. This book, a member of the Series in Affective Science, is a unique interdisciplinary sequence of articles on the cognitive neuroscience of emotion by some of the most well-known researchers in the area. It explores what is known about cognitive processes in emotion at the same time it reviews the processes and anatomical...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (June 2, 2008); 244 p. Essential to the management of patients suffering from neurological disorders is an understanding of the cognitive aspects of these conditions. This book begins with an outline of the various cognitive domains and how they can be tested, before covering in depth the cognitive deficits seen not only in...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 240 p. In Consciousness We Trust is a synthesis of Hakwan Lau's 20-year research program exploring the neuroscience of consciousness. Discussing studies from his laboratory, Lau uses various neuroscience techniques to address challenging philosophical questions about the nature of our subjective experience. Considering the qualitative nature of...
New York: Penguin Books, 2003. — 160 p. In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons-the brain's synapses — are the channels through...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 373 p. — ISBN: 9780195372502 This book provides essential information about the variety of seizure disorders to serve as a basic epilepsy reference guide for students and practicing clinical neuropsychologists. In addition to epilepsy neuropsychological assessment issues, the book provides an overview of the known cognitive effects of seizures...
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012. — 449 p. The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately small in relation to its adult size and open to cultural sculpting at multiple levels. Recognizing this, the new field of neuroanthropology places the brain at the center of discussions about...
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011. - 312 p. In the past 25 years, the frontal lobes have dominated human neuroscience research. Functional neuroimaging studies have revealed their importance to brain networks involved in nearly every aspect of mental and cognitive functioning. Studies of patients with focal brain lesions have expanded on early case study evidence of...
Publisher: Atlantic Books (July 1, 2011). Print Length: 340 p. Ever wondered why you can identify your favourite song from hearing only the first two notes? Or why you can't get that annoying jingle out of your head? Daniel Levitin's breathtaking - and wholly accessible - book explains why. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience...
5th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2012. — 2389 p. — ISBN: 9780195395525 Now in its Fifth Edition, Neuropsychological Assessment reviews the major neurobehavioral disorders associated with brain dysfunction and injury. This is the 35th anniversary of the landmark first edition. As with previous editions, this edition provides a comprehensive coverage of the field of adult...
5th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2012. — 6342 p. — ISBN: 9780190240806 Now in its Fifth Edition, Neuropsychological Assessment reviews the major neurobehavioral disorders associated with brain dysfunction and injury. This is the 35th anniversary of the landmark first edition. As with previous editions, this edition provides a comprehensive coverage of the field of adult...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. - 385 p. In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Many people, including a number of philosophers, believe that results from neuroscience have the potential to...
Harvard University Press, 2005 — 272 p. Series: Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings — and yet we know relatively little about how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career Benjamin Libet has conducted experiments that have helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious...
London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. — 201 p. Putting the Brain in Control: From Brain Reading to Brain Communication External Control of the Brain: Brain Stimulation and Psychiatric Surgery The Brain Controls Itself: From Brain Reading to Brain Modulation via Neurofeedback The Ethics and Politics of Brain Control
Chicago: University of Michigan Press, 2011. — 216 p. The Lying Brain is a study to take seriously. Its argument is timely, clear, and of particular importance to the enlargement of our understanding of the relationships among science studies, literary studies, and technology studies. — Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma real and imagined machines, including mental...
2nd edition. — Taylor & Francis, 2005. — 481 p. — ISBN: 978-0415351881 The second edition of Instant Notes in Neuroscience covers neuroanatomy, cellular and molecular neuroscience, systems neuroscience, behavior, development of the nervous system, learning, memory, and common brain disorders. It gives rapid and easy access to the core of the subject in an affordable and...
N.-Y.: Taylor & Francis, 2011. - 360 p. BIOS Instant Notes in Neuroscience, Third Edition, is the perfect text for undergraduates looking for a concise introduction to the subject, or a study guide to use before examinations. Each topic begins with a summary of essential facts-an ideal revision checklist-followed by a description of the subject that focuses on core information,...
Springer, 2004 — 254 p. Almost four decades of innovative and intensive research on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have brought major advances in our understanding of its pathogenesis, improved tools for diagnosis, and strategies for its treatment. This research has helped build a solid foundation of knowledge in the neurosciences and biological basis of AD and AD-related...
New York: Springer, 2017. - 251 p. This forward-looking reference defines and illustrates the process and themes of formulation in neuropsychology and places it in the vanguard of current practice. The book explains the types of information that go into formulations, how they are gathered, and how they are synthesized into a clinically useful presentation describing...
L.: Karnac Books, 2007. - 273 p. This groundbreaking book delivers a much needed bridge between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis. Freud hoped that the neurosciences would offer support for his psychoanalysis theories at some point in the future: both disciplines, after all, agree that experience leaves traces in the mind. But even today, as we enter the twenty-first...
New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. — 271 p. This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology, focused on the issue of trauma and psychic wounds. It thereby reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather at its center....
Publisher: The MIT Press (August 2, 2010), 368 p. A fundamental shift is occurring in neuroscience and related disciplines. In the past, researchers focused on functional specialization of the brain, discovering complex processing strategies based on convergence and divergence in slowly adapting anatomical architectures. Yet for the brain to cope with ever-changing and...
New York: Dana Press, 2004. — 361 p. Does current research in neuroscience negate the concept of free will? If it does, can we hold criminals liable for their actions? Would it be proper to give our children drugs that enhance their cognitive abilities, in order that they become better performers in school? Should those who do not have visual or auditory impairments use devices...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (March 26, 1992), 560 p. The goal of this book is to introduce cognitive neuropsychology to a broad audience of clinicians and researchers. To orient readers who are interested in disorders of higher cortical function, but have little background in psychology, sufficient introductory material is provided, and yet each topic is...
4th edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-1118711323 Neuropsychology for Occupational Therapists is a bestselling, comprehensive guide to the assessment and rehabilitation of impaired cognitive function and brain damage. Divided into two parts, the first introduces the fundamental role cognition has in occupational performance, before moving on to examine the...
4th edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 255 p. — ISBN: 978-1118711323 Neuropsychology for Occupational Therapists is a bestselling, comprehensive guide to the assessment and rehabilitation of impaired cognitive function and brain damage. Divided into two parts, the first introduces the fundamental role cognition has in occupational performance, before moving on to examine the...
Il Mulino, 2009. - 229 p. Lo studio psicologico delle emozioni ha mostrato che, se adeguatamente regolate, esse favoriscono, piuttosto che ostacolare, le decisioni e le azioni umane, migliorando l'interazione sociale e il benessere individuale. Il volume - qui presentato in una nuova edizione rivista e aggiornata - descrive i processi cognitivi, neuropsicologici e psicosociali...
New York: The Guilford Press, 2022. — 485 p. Timely and authoritative, this unique volume focuses on neurocognitive aspects of depression and their implications for assessment, evaluation, clinical management, and research. Experts in the field explore the impact of depression on executive function, learning and memory, working memory, and other critical capacities, and present...
Cambridge, 2009 — 318 p. Recent technical advances in the life and medical sciences have revolutionized our understanding of the brain, while the emerging disciplines of social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience continue to reveal the connections of the higher cognitive functions and emotional states associated with religious experience to underlying brain states. At the...
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 1, 2003), 446 p. Clinical Neuropsychology A Practical Guide to Assessment and Management for Clinicians shows how knowledge of neuropsychological applications is relevant and useful to a wide range of clinicians. It provides a link between recent advances in neuroimaging, neurophysiology and neuroanatomy and how these discoveries may best...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 215 p. — (American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology) — ISBN: 9780199988617 This book focuses on the skills required in testing and treating the older adult population. Topics discussed include normal aging, determining competency, important factors to consider in conducting clinical interviews, the importance of evaluating for depression and...
Springer, 2002 (2013 reprint) — 303 p. There are numerous books on cellular and molecular protocols for general use in cell biology but very few are exclusively devoted to neurobiology. This book fills this gap and explains in a clear and consistent manner, some of the more commonly used protocols in neuroscience research. Each chapter is written by either the person who...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2000. — 577 p. This thoroughly revised new edition of a classic book provides a clinically inspired but scientifically guided approach to the biological foundations of human mental function in health and disease. It includes authoritative coverage of all the major areas related to behavioral neurology, neuropsychology, and...
2000. - 360 p. This book brings together an international group of neuroscientists and philosophers who are investigating how the content of subjective experience is correlated with events in the brain. The fundamental methodological problem in consciousness research is the subjectivity of the target phenomenon-the fact that conscious experience, under standard conditions, is...
Springer, 2014. — 479 p. This volume assembles the leading aggression researchers both at the preclinical and clinical level. They review the current state of knowledge about neural mechanisms of aggressive behavior and point to the need for innovative methodologies to further our understanding of this greatly understudied set of behaviors.
3rd edition. — New York: The Guilford Press, 2017. — 620 p. This authoritative work, now thoroughly revised, has given thousands of clinicians, students, and researchers a state-of-the-art understanding of the human frontal lobes--the large brain region that plays a critical role in behavior, cognition, health, and disease. Leading experts from multiple disciplines address the...
N.-Y.: Guilford Press, 2006. - 689 p. The second edition of The Human Frontal Lobes represents a window into the rapid growth of our knowledge on the functions of the frontal lobe. In the few years since the first edition was released, the sophistication of our understanding, and the technologies and techniques that have been developed, continue to expand the horizons of our...
New York: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 481 p. Philosophers of mind have been arguing for decades about the nature of phenomenal consciousness and the relation between brain and mind. More recently, neuroscientists and philosophers of science have entered the discussion. Which neural activities in the brain constitute phenomenal consciousness, and how could science...
New York: Psichology Press, 1999. — 164 p. The behaviorist credo that animals are devices for translating sensory input into appropriate responses dies hard. The thesis of this pathbreaking book is that the brain is innately constructed to initiate behaviors likely to promote the survival of the species, and to sensitize sensory systems to stimuli required for those behaviors....
L.: Routledge, 2015. - 400 p. This edited volume bridges the gap between basic and applied science in understanding the nature and treatment of psychiatric disorders and mental health problems. Topics such as brain imaging, physiological indices of emotion, cognitive enhancement strategies, neuropsychological and cognitive training, and related techniques as tools for...
Boston: MIT Press, 2015. — 295 p. A rigorous analysis of current empirical and theoretical work supporting the argument that consciousness and attention are largely dissociated. In this book, Carlos Montemayor and Harry Haladjian consider the relationship between consciousness and attention. The cognitive mechanism of attention has often been compared to consciousness, because...
New York: Springer, 2016. - 207 p. This book provides up-to-date information on all aspects of brain function and responsiveness in patients with severe disorders of consciousness. Topics considered include the mechanisms and measures of consciousness; perfusional, metabolic, and fMRI markers of responsiveness; responsiveness to pain; the role of brain–computer interface...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. — 281 p. The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides in recent years in understanding aspects of the brain, yet we still struggle with seemingly fundamental questions about how the brain works. What lessons can we learn from neuroscience's successes and...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (October 29, 2010), 720 p. Casebook of Clinical Neuropsychology features actual clinical neuropsychological cases drawn from leading experts' files. Each chapter represents a different case completed by a different expert. Cases cover the lifespan from child, to adult, to geriatric, and the types of cases will represent a broad...
2nd edition. — London: Routledge, 2018. — 1167 p. The first edition of the Textbook of Clinical Neuropsychology set a new standard in the field in its scope, breadth, and scholarship. The second edition comprises authoritative chapters that will both enlighten and challenge readers from across allied fields of neuroscience, whether novice, mid-level, or senior-level...
Springer, 2014. — 212 p. — ISBN: 978-4-431-54375-6. This book summarizes recent advances in understanding the mammalian and fish olfactory system and provides perspective on the translation of external odor information into appropriate motivational and behavioral responses. Following the discovery of the odorant receptor gene family in 1991, understanding of the basic...
Academic Press, 2018. — 468 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812098-9. This book examines the role of goal-directed choice. It begins with an examination of the computations performed by associated circuits, but then moves on to in-depth examinations on how goal-directed learning interacts with other forms of choice and response selection. This is the only book that embraces the...
New York: Routledge, 2017. — 215 p. Déjà Vu is one of the most complex and subjective of all memory phenomena. It is an infrequent and striking mental experience, where the feeling of familiarity is combined with the knowledge that this feeling is false. While until recently it was an aspect of memory largely overlooked by mainstream cognitive psychology, this book brings...
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2017. — 212 p. — ISBN: 9781315718156. Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis sets out to give a scientific consistency to the question of time and find out how time determines brain functioning. Neurological investigations into dreams and sleep since the mid-20th century have challenged our scientific conception of living beings. On...
London: Praeger, 1999. — 262 p. Thanks to the enormous progress of neuroscience over the past few decades, we can now monitor the passage of initial stimulations to certain points in the brain. In spite of these findings, however, subjective consciousness still remains an unsolved mystery. This volume exposes neuroscience and cognitive science to philosophical analysis and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 612 p. — ISBN: 1118650948, 9781118650943 The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning charts the evolution of associative analysis and the neuroscientific study of behavior as parallel approaches to understanding how the brain learns that both challenge and inform each other. Covers a broad range of topics while maintaining an...
Radiance House, 2011. — 200 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9798684-7-4. Inside your brain are many keys to what makes you and others tick. Imagine peering into the minds of your clients, friends, and loved ones. Now you can! Award-winning UCLA professor and author Dario Nardi brings to life a feast of useful insights drawn from his brain research lab. He will lead you on a journey of...
New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. — 457 p. — (The Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology). — ISBN: 0393706559. Winner of the Inaugural Expanded Reason Award: A wide-ranging exploration of the role of childhood experiences in adult morality. Moral development has traditionally been considered a matter of reasoning-of learning and acting in accordance with...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 476 p. Consciousness is familiar to us first hand, yet difficult to understand. This book concerns six basic concepts of consciousness exercised in ordinary English. The first is the interpersonal meaning and requires at least two people involved in relation to one another. The second is a personal meaning, having to do with one's...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2011. - 252 p. The study of the brain and behavior is enhanced by the discovery of invariances. Experimental brain research uncovers constancies amid variation with respect to interventions and transformations prescribed by experimental paradigms; furthermore, place cells, mirror neurons, event-related potentials, and areas differentially active in fMRI all...
Academic Press, 2023. — 370 p. — ISBN: 978-0-443-18750-6. Principles of Cognitive Rehabilitation is designed to familiarize readers with the deep-rooted principles of cognitive rehabilitation and cognitive training. Presenting a new comprehensive framework in cognitive rehabilitation for therapeutic, educational, and research purposes, this volume introduces five components...
The MIT Press, 2001 — 685 p. The publication of this handbook testifies to the rapid growth of developmental cognitive neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging and recording technologies, along with well-defined behavioral tasks — the essential methodological tools of cognitive neuroscience — are now being used to study development. Whereas earlier methodologies allowed...
Burlington: Ashgate, 2010. - 287 p. 'Neurotheology' has garnered substantial attention in the academic and lay communities in recent years. Several books have been written addressing the relationship between the brain and religious experience and numerous scholarly articles have been published on the topic, some in the popular press. The scientific and religious communities...
3rd Edition. — Psychology Press, Routledge, 2022. — 335 p. — ISBN-13 9781032267845. Straight Choices provides a fascinating introduction to the psychology of decision-making, enhanced by a discussion of relevant examples of decision problems faced in everyday life. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, this edition provides an integrative account of the psychology of...
New York: Rodale Books, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1635650658; ISBN13: 978-1635650655. Dr. Eben Alexander, author of international phenomenon Proof of Heaven, shares the next phase of his journey to understand the true nature of consciousness and how to cultivate a state of harmony with the universe and our higher purpose. In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander's brain was severely damaged...
New York: Rodale Books, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1635650658; ISBN13: 978-1635650655. Dr. Eben Alexander, author of international phenomenon Proof of Heaven, shares the next phase of his journey to understand the true nature of consciousness and how to cultivate a state of harmony with the universe and our higher purpose. In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander's brain was severely damaged...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2008. — 307 p. The authors of this slim, highly readable, and informative volume are themselves researchers in this field. The major point of the book is to present their comprehensive model of the cognitive underpinnings of reading disorders. In the process, they also cover previous theories and give a broad summary of the research to date. They should...
New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. — 230 p. Alva Noe is one of a new breed — part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist — who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a...
New York: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2004. — 444 p. This volume contains chapters such as: "brain problem" - hypothesis of "embedment" and neurophilosophical model; neuroepistemological account of the brain; and "philosophy of the brain" - empirical hypothesis of the brain, "epistemology of the brain" and "ontology of the brain".
Boston: The MIT Press, 2018. — 534 p. An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features--a shift in which theworld-brain problemsupersedes themind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem--whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers,...
New York: Springer, 2000. — 440 p. The septal area of the brain is part of the limbic system (that part of the brain concerned with emotion) and has a role in a number of important processes such as memory, cognition, and movement. It shares some similarity with the hippocampus, yet it remains a distinct area with unique properties. This book reviews our understanding of this...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. - 318 p. Does the brain create the mind, or is some external entity involved? In addressing this "hard problem" of consciousness, we face a central human challenge: what do we really know and how do we know it? Tentative answers in this book follow from a synthesis of profound ideas, borrowed from philosophy, religion, politics, economics,...
New York: Penguin Group, 2014. — 211 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-62161-5. The book for anyone who wants to improve their ability to learn math and science more easily and with less frustration, whether they are a college or high school student or an established professional seeking a vocational change or new skills. You'll find new insights based on neuroscience and cognitive...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 1111 p. Cognitive neuroscience has grown into a rich and complex discipline, some 35 years after the term was coined. Given the great expanse of the field, an inclusive and authoritative resource such as this handbook is needed for examining the current state-of-the-science in cognitive neuroscience. Spread across two volumes, the 59...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (February 17, 2005), 416 p. Fractured Minds introduces the reader to clinical neuropsychology through vivid case descriptions of adults who have suffered brain damage. At one level, this is a book about the courage, humor, and determination to triumph over illness and disability that many "ordinary people" demonstrate when...
Oxford University Press, 2012 - 432 p. In Trouble in Mind, neuropsychologist Jenni Ogden, author of Fractured Minds, transports the reader into the world of some of her most memorable neurological patients as she explores with compassion, insight, and vivid description the human side of brain damage. These are tales of patients who, as the result of stroke, brain tumor, car...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. — 120 p. This provocative book offers a fascinating account of neuroarthistory, one of the newest and most exciting fields in the human sciences. In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in our knowledge of the visual brain. Knowledge of phenomena such as neural plasticity and neural mirroring is making it possible to answer...
New York. USA: Nova Science Publ., 2011. — 176 p. — (Neuroscience Research Progress). — ISBN: 978-1-61122-378-1. Later chapters cover configuration of the project and the machine it’s running on, and additional techniques for project monitoring and diagnosis. These include good logging practices; automatic log and metrics monitoring; and alerting via email and text messages; A...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. — 287 p. The past two decades have seen a surge of interest in the topic of consciousness, with the result that the research literature has expanded greatly. However, until now, there has been little consensus on just which methods are the most effective for the study of consciousness. As a result, a wide range of experimental paradigms...
New York: Routledge, 2020. — 197 p. Drawing on neuroscientific research and metacognitive theory, this groundbreaking volume examines the theoretical implications that are elicited when neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) are identified. The relationship between consciousness and the brain has concerned philosophers for centuries, yet a tacit assumption in much empirically...
Academic Press, 2014. — 233 p. Dreaming is the cognitive state uniquely experienced by humans and integral to our creativity, the survival characteristic that allows for the rapid change and innovation that defines our species and provides the basis for our art, philosophy, science, and humanity. Yet there is little empirical or scientific evidence supporting the generally...
Helsinki: TWRB Foundation, 2013. - 78 p. - ISBN: 978-0-615-93618-5 The Tapio Wirkkala – Rut Bryk Foundation was established in 2003 to carry on the legacy of the artist-designer couple Tapio Wirkkala and Rut Bryk. As part of the centennial celebration of the couple, the TWRB foundation hosts a series of public events that consider design across a range of disciplinary...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. — 592 p. A look at the seven emotional systems of the brain by the researcher who discovered them. What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. — 592 p. What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach which takes into consideration...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. — 592 p. What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach which takes into consideration...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 466 p. Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However, with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. - 272 p. Cognitive neuroscientists have deepened our understanding of the complex relationship between mind and brain and complicated the relationship between mental attributes and law. New arguments and conclusions based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and other increasingly sophisticated...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 251 p. The first edition of Wisdom of the Psyche engaged with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination. In this revised edition, Ginette Paris re-focuses her attention on the modern...
Washington: American Psychological Association, 2015. - 768 p. This bestselling, comprehensive assessment guide has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest changes in the rapidly maturing field of clinical neuropsychology. This third edition expertly leads neuropsychologists and trainees through the complicated process of assessing, diagnosing, and treating an enormous...
The MIT Press, 2021. — 515 p. — ISBN: 978-0262045551. A general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally, clarifying the nature of human intelligence. In The Working Mind, Juan Pascual-Leone and Janice M. Johnson propose a general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally...
Routledge, 2008 — 160 p. NeuroAnalysis investigates using the neural network and neural computation models to bridge the divide between psychology, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience when diagnosing mental health disorders and prescribing treatment. Avi Peled builds on Freud's early attempts to explain the neural basis of mental health by introducing neural computation as a...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. — 157 p. In the past fifty years scientists have begun to discover how the human brain functions. In this book Wilder Penfield, whose work has been at the forefront of such research, describes the current state of knowledge about the brain and asks to what extent recent findings explain the action of the mind. He offers the general...
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2015. — 407 p. This book´s topic is what since Gorgias and Aristotle is known as the "common" (or shared) sense, and the "Ego" that accompanies all my representations (Kant). "The brain ’ s representational power" attributes all of it to a physiological (cerebral) function. The author assumes that cognition ("consciousness and the integration of...
Second Edition. — Elsevier, 2015. — 317 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-800258-2. Here is a description of the overall logic and layout of the ensuing chapters: Chapter 1 is an overview of key issues and challenges inherent in both private practice and institution-based practice with some suggested solutions. Chapter 2 is the equivalent of “get out while you still can” and goes into some...
Westport: Praeger, 1987. — 90 p. In this study, the scientific principles of learning and brain functions are applied to the God Experience. The author skillfully blends modern neurophysiology with critical behavioral psychology to offer an objective explanation for why people believe in God. This provocative and scholarly work will interest psychologists, neuroscientists,...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2013. — 334 p. The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain (and its corollary, that cognition resides elsewhere) shaped thinking about emotion and the brain for many years. Recent behavioral, neuropsychological, neuroanatomy, and neuroimaging research, however, suggests that emotion interacts with cognition in the brain. In this...
Leiden: Brill, 2000. — 37 p. Although the subject matter of religious studies is essentially phenomenal (e.g., conscious acts, attitudes, intentions, worldviews), the analysis of the basic datum, consciousness itself, remains of necessity incomplete because of the discipline's restriction to the phenomenal envelope. Philosophical and psychological analysis contributed to our...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 295 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–937746–6. Since the beginning of recorded history, law and religion have provided "rules" that define good behavior. When we obey such rules, we assign to some external authority the capacity to determine how we should act. Even anarchists recognize the existence of a choice as to whether or not to obey, since no one has...
New York: Humana Press, 2009. — 369 p. The discovery of mirror neurons and of a mirror neuron system in the human brain raises the interesting possibility that "mirroring" may constitute novel instances of mental simulation. It also provides the basis for unique processes such as "mindreading," the ability to make inferences about the actions of others. That an elementary...
Allyn & Bacon, 2010. - 608 p. ISBN: 0205832563 8th Edition Pinel clearly presents the fundamentals Biopsychology and makes the topics personally and socially relevant to the reader. The defining feature of Biopsychology is its unique combination of biopsychological science and personal, reader-oriented discourse. Rather than introducing biopsychology in the usual textbook...
11th Edition, Global Edition. — Pearson Education, 2022. — 621 p. — ISBN: 978-1-292-35193-3. For courses in Physiological Psychology and Biopsychology. Astudent-focused approach to how the central nervous system governs behavior. Biopsychology, 11th Edition presents a clear, engaging introduction to the discipline through a unique combination of biopsychological science and...
10th edition. — Pearson Education, 2018. — 623 p. — ISBN: 9780134203690. Biopsychology presents a clear, engaging introduction to biopsychological theory and research through a unique combination of biopsychological science and personal, reader-oriented discourse. Original author John Pinel and new co-author Steven Barnes address students directly and interweave the...
10th edition. — Pearson Education, 2018. — 618 p. — ISBN: 9780134203690. Biopsychology presents a clear, engaging introduction to biopsychological theory and research through a unique combination of biopsychological science and personal, reader-oriented discourse. Original author John Pinel and new co-author Steven Barnes address students directly and interweave the...
The MIT Press, 2006 — 620 p. Since Darwin we have known that evolution has shaped all organisms and that biological organs — including the brain and the highly crafted animal nervous system — are subject to the pressures of natural and sexual selection. It is only relatively recently, however, that the cognitive neurosciences have begun to apply evolutionary theory and methods...
The Guilford Press, 2012. — 531 p. — 2nd ed. — ISBN: 978-1-60918-985-3 This authoritative reference provides a comprehensive examination of the nature and functions of attention and its relationship to broader cognitive processes. The editor and contributors are leading experts who review the breadth of current knowledge, including behavioral, neuroimaging, cellular, and...
N.-Y.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 608 p. Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience guides undergraduate and early-stage graduate students with no previous neuroscientific background through the fundamental principles and themes in a concise, organized, and engaging manner. Provides students with the foundation to understand primary literature, recognize current controversies in the...
2nd edition. — Hoboken: Wiley, 2020. — 558 p. Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience introduces and explicates key principles and concepts in cognitive neuroscience in such a way that the reader will be equipped to critically evaluate the ever-growing body of findings that the field is generating. For some students, this knowledge will be needed for subsequent formal study, and...
Springer, 2015. — 266 p. This book attempts to bridge the considerable gaps that exist between spiritual philosophies and evidence-based medicine and between the psychotherapeutic models of the East and the West. Based on the insights of both the ancient wisdom and modern medicine, this book presents Yogic science not just as a set of physical exercises or religious rituals but...
Medical Information Science Reference, 2020. — 290 p. Biopsychology is a branch of psychology that analyzes how the brain and neurotransmitters influence our behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. It is a subdivision of behavioral neuroscience that studies the neural mechanisms of perception and behavior through direct manipulation of the brains of nonhuman animal subjects in...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (July 8, 1999), 374 p. Without guiding principles, clinicians can easily get lost in the maze of problems that a brain-damaged patient presents. This book underlines the importance of patients' subjective experience of brain disease or injury, and the frustration and confusion they undergo. It shows that the symptom picture is...
6th Edition. — New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, USA, 2017. — 958 p. — ISBN: 9781605353807. This comprehensive textbook provides a balance of animal and human studies to discuss the dynamic field of neuroscience from cellular signaling to cognitive function. The book's length and accessible writing style make it suitable for both medical students and undergraduate...
Elsevier, 2013. — 202 p. — ISBN: 9780124160460 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can occur through road traffic incidents, falls, or violence, and is therefore an extremely prevalent type of injury, constituting a significant burden on health care around the world. As more people are able to recover physically from TBI, it is important to consider how to help repair the cognitive...
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 18, 1999), 352 p. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in...
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (January 23, 2012), 384 p. In this landmark work, V. S. Ramachandran investigates strange, unforgettable cases — from patients who believe they are dead to sufferers of phantom limb syndrome. With a storyteller’s eye for compelling case studies and a researcher’s flair for new approaches to age-old questions, Ramachandran...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 307 p. Despite the importance of the problem, strikingly little has been written about effective approaches to the treatment of individuals with mild to moderate brain injury. This book is designed for neuropsychologists, counseling and rehabilitation psychologists, and other rehabilitation professionals who work with individuals who have...
Philadelphia: SAGE, 2014. — 695 p. Contemporary. Current. Complete. Thoroughly integrating DSM-5, this text offers the most current coverage of abnormal psychology available! Abnormal Psychology: Neuroscience Perspectives on Human Behavior and Experience, by William (Bill) J. Ray, is a fresh and innovative text that teaches students that abnormal psychology is a rapidly...
9th edition. — Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2009. — 481 p. — ISBN: 978-0-495-59491-8 Professor Ray's unique philosophy of science approach focuses on introducing you to the basics of science and the spirit that motivates many scientists, and helping you make the transition from outside observer of science to active participant. In meeting those goals, he has written a highly...
Routledge, 2024. — 567 p. — ISBN: 9781003266426. The book has been carefully designed to accompany a typical entry-level course, covering core topics including the function and structure of the nervous system, basic human motivations, stress and health, and cognitive functioning. In addition to traditional topics, the book also includes dedicated chapters on the social brain,...
Routledge, 2024. — 567 p. — ISBN: 9781032210261. The book has been carefully designed to accompany a typical entry-level course, covering core topics including the function and structure of the nervous system, basic human motivations, stress and health, and cognitive functioning. In addition to traditional topics, the book also includes dedicated chapters on the social brain,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 394 p. — ISBN10: 0190263172, ISBN13: 978-0190263171. In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most importantly, Redish shows how...
London: Routledge, 2017. - 172 p. In this book, Dirk Remley applies his model of integrating multimodal rhetorical theory and multi-sensory neural processing theory pertaining to cognition and learning to multimodal persuasive messages. Using existing theories from multimodal rhetoric and specific findings from neurobiological studies, the book shows possible applications of...
BIOS Scientific Publishers Limited, 1998. - 239 p. Receptor cloning Molecular anatomy of the nervous system Voltage-gated ion channels Ionotropic receptors Metabotropic receptors and signal transduction mechanisms Neurotransmitter release Mechanisms of plasticity Molecular mechanisms in neurodegenerative disease Genetic code Single-letter code and three-letter abbreviations for...
London: Routledge, 2017. — 187 p. The conscious mind is life as we experience it; we see the world, feel our emotions and think our thoughts thanks to consciousness. This book provides an easy introduction to the foundations of consciousness; how can subjective consciousness be measured scientifically? What happens to the conscious mind and self when the brain gets injured? How...
New York: Psychology Press, 1998. — 463 p. This volume describes research and theory concerning the cognitive neuroscience of attention. Filling a key gap, it emphasizes developmental changes that occur in the brain-attention relationship in infants, children, and throughout the lifespan and reviews the literature on attention, development, and underlying neural systems in a...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 249 p. The frontal lobes and their functional properties are recognized as crucial to establishing our identity as autonomous human beings. This book provides a broad introductory overview of this unique brain region. In an accessible and readable style it covers the evolutionary significance of the frontal lobes, typical and...
Oxford University Press, 2008. - 257 p. Emotions and actions are powerfully contagious; when we see someone laugh, cry, show disgust, or experience pain, in some sense, we share that emotion. When we see someone in distress, we share that distress. When we see a great actor, musician or sportsperson perform at the peak of their abilities, it can feel like we are experiencing...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 353 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-887170-5. Mirroring Brains combines neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy to provide a comprehensive account of one of the most intriguing discoveries of the last 30 years — the discovery of mirror neurons. These neurons are characterized by firing both when someone acts, and also when they observe the same action...
Wikibooks.org, 2013. — 332 p. Historical review The problem of consciousness Neuroscience of consciousness Explanations of Consciousness A note on Naive Realism Intended audience and how to read this book Historical review Early Ideas Medieval Concepts Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Philosophy Nineteenth To Twenty First Century Philosophy The problem of consciousness What...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 330 p. Myriad questions emerge when one considers emotions and decision-making: What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? What is the relationship between emotion, reward value, and subjective feelings of pleasure? How is the value of 'good' represented in the brain?...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. — 379 p. The Brain and Emotion provides a modern neuroscience-based approach to information processing of the brain, focusing on the brain mechanisms involved with emotion, motivation, punishment, and reward. Coverage of motivated behavior includes discussions of hunger, thirst, sexual behavior, and addiction. The author links his analysis...
Oxford, 2006 — 352 p. Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines — modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what it means to be human. In The Future of the Brain, Rose explores just...
Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishing, 2007. - 169 p. A variety of conscious experiences -- The biology of sleep -- Insomnia and sleep disorders -- Sleep research -- Everyone dreams -- Theories of dreams and application in psychotherapy -- The work of dreams -- Sleep and dreaming in your life A Variety of Conscious Experiences The Biology of Sleep Insomnia and Sleep Disorders...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 314 p. — ISBN: 3319546325. This book discusses theories that link functions to specific anatomical brain regions. The best known of these are the Broca and Wernicke regions, and these have become synonyms for the location of productive and receptive language functions respectively. This Broca-Wernicke model has proved to be such a...
Publisher: Picador (June 16, 2011). Print Length: 224 p. When OIiver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position – that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but straightforward to fix; the psychological effects, however, were far less easy to predict, explain or resolve: Sacks experienced paralysis...
Publisher: Vintage; 1 edition (November 14, 2012). Print Length: 366 p. To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. - 170 p. The recent explosion of neuroscience techniques has proved to be game changing in terms of understanding the healthy brain, and in the development of neuropsychiatric treatments. One of the key techniques available to us is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which allows us to examine the human brain non-invasively, and...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 402 p. — ISBN10: 019960049X, ISBN13: 978-0199600496. In the past ten years, there has been growing interest in applying our knowledge of the human brain to the field of education - including reading, learning, language, and mathematics. This has resulted in the development of a number of new practices in education - some good, some bad, and some...
Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2001. - 264 p. This exciting volume brings together the latest work of 26 recognized experts in clinical neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, neuroscience, and neuroimaging. Its chapters are organized into sections that cover a broad range of topics related to advances in our understanding of normal and abnormal frontal lobe...
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. — 272 p. A radical new theory of the brain bridging science, philosophy, art, and politics Once upon a time, neuroscience was born. A dazzling array of neurotechnologies emerged that, according to popular belief, have finally begun to unlock the secrets of the brain. But as the brain sciences now extend into all corners of...
Springer, 2019. — 612 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4939-8720-7. This unique volume teaches those in the medical fields about the scientific value of neuropsychology in assessing cognition, the 6th vital sign, as part of well integrated collaborative care. It offers physicians a comprehensive tour of the many dimensions neuropsychology can add to primary and specialized medical care across...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. — 312 p. Could a single human being ever have multiple conscious minds? Some human beings do. The corpus callosum is a large pathway connecting the two hemispheres of the brain. In the second half of the twentieth century a number of people had this pathway cut through as a treatment for epilepsy. They became colloquially known as...
R G Landes Co, 1998 — 256 p. This monograph is the first of its kind to focus specifically on the role of astroglia in aging-related human neurodegenerative disorders and experimental models of CNS senescence and degeneration. As such, this volume in the Neuroscience Intelligence Unit Series represents a novel and important contribution to the basic and clinical neuroscience...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2014. - 728 p. This introduction to the structure of the central nervous system demonstrates that the best way to learn how the brain is put together is to understand something about why. It explains why the brain is put together as it is by describing basic functions and key aspects of its evolution and development. This approach makes the structure of...
Berlin: Springer, 2000. — 144 p. While the importance of the prefrontal cortex for 'higher-order'cognitive functions is largely undisputed, no consensus has been reached regarding the precise fractionation of these functions. For example, although some degree of regional specialization within the frontal lobe seems inevitable, to date, most attempts to map specific cognitive...
Publisher: The MIT Press; 1 edition (November 12, 2010), 368 p. An integrated overview of hearing and the interplay of physical, biological, and psychological processes underlying it. The book is supported by multimedia content at auditoryneuroscience.com Why Things Sound the Way They Do The Ear Periodicity and Pitch Perception : Physics, Psychophysics, and Neural Mechanisms...
Publisher: Springer; 2011 edition (January 13, 2011), 986 p. From translating the patient’s medical records and test results to providing recommendations, the neuropsychological evaluation incorporates the science and practice of neuropsychology, neurology, and psychological sciences. The Little Black Book of Neuropsychology brings the practice and study of neuropsychology into...
L.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - 273 p. We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recent. In Pragmatism and the Search for Coherence in Neuroscience, two things converge: a great respect for neuroscience and its many variations, and a sense of investigation and inquiry...
World Scientific, 2012. — 431 p. — (Advanced series on mathematical psychology). — ISBN: 9781283593588, 1283593580, 9789814277464, 9814277460 One of the most successful methods for discovering the way mental processes are organized is to observe the effects in experiments of selectively influencing the processes. Selective influence is crucial in techniques such as Sternberg's...
N.-Y.: Wiley-Blacwell, 2012. - 247 p. A pioneer of CBT explores recent advances in neuroscience, showing how they can be applied in practice to improve the effectiveness of cognitive therapy for clients with a wide range of diagnoses including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders and schizophrenia Utilizes the latest advances in neuroscience to introduce tools...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 518 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-94303-7. A pioneer of CBT explores recent advances in neuroscience, showing how they can be applied in practice to improve the effectiveness of cognitive therapy for clients with a wide range of diagnoses including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and schizophrenia Neuroscience in Context Neuroscience,...
L.: Routledge, 2016. - 403 p. Despite recent strides in neuroscience and psychology that have deepened understanding of the brain, consciousness remains one of the greatest philosophical and scientific puzzles. The second edition of Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment provides a fresh and up-to-date introduction to a variety of approaches to consciousness,...
2nd Edition. Springer, 2009. - 495 p. During the past decade, significant advances have been made in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders, resulting in a considerable impact on conceptualization, diagnostics, and practice. The second edition of Child Neuropsychology: Assessment and Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders brings readers up to speed clearly and...
Second Edition, Springer, 2009. — 492 p. Assesments and Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Anatomy and Physiology. Clinical Assesment. Childhood and Adolescent Disorders. An Integration Intervention Paradigm.
New York: Taylor & Francis, 2013. — 89 p. How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness is recognized as a key objective for 21st century science. The cognitive neuroscience...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York (2012) Sebastian Seung is at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. He believes that our identity lies not in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells - our own particular wiring, or 'connectomes'. Connectome tells the incredible story of how Seung and a dedicated group of researchers are...
New York: Ashgate Pub Co, 2007. - 174 p. In the 1990s, great strides were taken in clarifying how the brain is involved in behaviors that, in the past, had seldom been studied by neuroscientists or psychologists. This book explores the progress begun during that momentous decade in understanding why we behave, think and feel the way we do, especially in those areas that...
Virginia Beach, USA: 4th Dimension Press, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0876046030. Foreword by Caroline Myss, best-selling author and medical intuitive. Building on the significant history of the use of medical intuition by leaders in the field, Dr. Norman Shealy provides us with a path to using our innate intuition to develop optimal personal power and health. This book is your...
Oxford, 2003 — 736 p. For modern scientists, history often starts with last week's journals and is regarded as largely a quaint interest compared with the advances of today. However, this book makes the case that, measured by major advances, the greatest decade in the history of brain studies was mid-twentieth century, especially the 1950s. The first to focus on worldwide...
Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 2021. — 200 p. — ISBN: 9781684037438. Do you feel like your memory isn't as great as it used to be? Do you sometimes find yourself walking into a room and forgetting why? Do you misplace things more often than you used to? As we age, our memory naturally declines. However there are scientifically proven ways to enhance brain and memory function. This...
2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, p.386 Part I: Understanding Autism Autism: The Big Picture From Classification to Treatment: Scanning the Autism Spectrum Causes, Clusters, and Clues: Where Does Autism Come From? Getting a Diagnosis Asperger Syndrome and Autism Part II: Addressing Physical Needs Injecting Yourself with Knowledge about Autism Medication...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. — 281 p. Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state when they are actually in a minimally conscious state. This mistake has far-reaching implications for...
Springer, 1989. — 255 p. The present volume emerges from an attempt to bring together such interest in cognitive science as there was in Australia and New Zealand in late 1985. The occasion was a special symposium organised for the joint conference of the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and the Australasian Association of...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2014. — 374 p. This volume of essays examines the problem of mind, looking at how the problem has appeared to neuroscientists (in the widest sense) from classical antiquity through to contemporary times. Beginning with a look at ventricular neuropsychology in antiquity, this book goes on to look at Spinozan ideas on the links between mind and body, Thomas...
Psychology Press, 2014. — 311 p. In this book, Mark Solms chronicles a fascinating effort to systematically apply the clinical-anatomical method to the study of dreams. The purpose of the effort was to place disorders of dreaming on an equivalent footing with those of other higher mental functions such as aphasias, apraxias, and agnosias. Modern knowledge of the neurological...
W.W. Norton Company, 2021. — 432 p. For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime’s quest. Scientists consider it the "hard problem" because it seems an impossible task to understand why we feel a subjective sense of self and how it arises in the brain. Venturing into the elementary...
5th edition. — New York: Corwin, 2016. — 549 p. Educational neuroscience consultant David A. Sousa continues his tradition of translating new findings into effective classroom strategies and activities in this updated version of his bestselling text. This fifth edition integrates recent developments in neuroscience, education, and psychology and includes New information on...
6th Edition. — New York: Corwin, 2022. — 336 p. — 978-1-071-85533-1. Deliver game-changing — and brain-changing — results for your students. Research on the brain continues to evolve, providing fresh insights educators can use to guide students toward success. In the sixth edition of this international bestseller, world-renowned educational neuroscience consultant David Sousa...
6th Edition. — New York: Corwin, 2022. — 336 p. — 978-1-071-85533-1. Deliver game-changing — and brain-changing — results for your students. Research on the brain continues to evolve, providing fresh insights educators can use to guide students toward success. In the sixth edition of this international bestseller, world-renowned educational neuroscience consultant David Sousa...
Publisher: The MIT Press; 1 edition (December 6, 2012), 248 p. Olaf Sporns takes us on an insightful, yet quite readable, journey on the promises and challenges offered by seeing the human brain through the lens of its own connectional architecture. He convincingly argues that understanding the structural and functional organization of brain connections, a.k.a the human...
New York: Academic Press, 1994. — 405 p. Selectionism and the Brain addresses a number of important theoretical issues in light of recent empirical data from neuropsychological studies. Edited by two researchers at The Neurosciences Institute, this volume features contributions from such well-known neuroscientists as W. Singer, L.R. Squire, A. Georgopoulos, and O. Sacks....
Publisher: The MIT Press (July 19, 2013), 272 p. G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry, Starr shows that neuroaesthetics offers a new model for understanding the dynamic and changing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 240 p. — (New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science). — ISBN: 978-3-031-06800-3. After years of neurohype and a neuroskeptic backlash, this book provides a systematic analysis of the contributions to self-understanding cognitive neuroscience (CNS) and philosophy can make. The stories of five people in search of self-understanding serve as...
Academic Press, 2018. — 354 p. — ISBN: 978-0128098370. The Neuroscience of Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion provides contemporary perspectives on the three related domains of empathy, compassion, and self-compassion (ECS). It informs current research, stimulates further research endeavors, and encourages continued and creative philosophical and scientific inquiry into...
2013. — 341 p. The Overlooked Literary Path to Modern Electrophysiology: Philosophical Dialogues, Novels, and Travel Books Oscar Wilde and the Brain Cell Forgetting the Madeleine: Proust and the Neurosciences Optograms and Criminology: Science, News Reporting, and Fanciful Novels Phrenology and Physiognomy in Victorian Literature Neurological and Psychological Constructs in...
New York: Routledge, 2022. — 472 p. Looking at the ways humans perceive, interpret, remember, and interact with events occurring in space, this book focuses on two aspects of spatial cognition: How does spatial cognition develop? What is the relation between spatial cognition and the brain? This book offers a unique opportunity to share the combined efforts of scientists from...
London: Routledge, 2001. — 177 p. Cortical Functions is a companion to Kevin Silber's series title, The Physiological Basis of Behaviour and concentrates on the cerebral cortex, its structure, connections, functions and dysfunctions. John Stirling includes clinical descriptions and case studies to illustrate various forms of agnosia, aphasia and the split brain syndrome....
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. - 641 p. Principles of Frontal Lobe Function provides a comprehensive review of historical and current research on the functions of the frontal lobes and frontal systems of the brain. The content covers frontal lobe functions from birth to old age, from biochemistry and anatomy to rehabilitation, from normal to disrupted function. Two...
New York: Guilford Press, 2011. — 383 p. Written in an engaging, accessible style, this book synthesizes the growing body of knowledge on the neuropsychology of emotion and identifies practical clinical implications. The author unravels the processes that comprise a single emotional event, from the initial trigger through physiological and psychological responses. She also...
Cambridge University Press, 2005 — 240 p. In many areas of modern life rapid developments in science are overwhelming established norms. Brain biology, through DNA testing and advanced brain imaging techniques, has given medical scientists new insights into the functioning of the human mind. This erosion of long-standing beliefs has many implications for understanding and...
2nd ed. — The Guilford Press, 2017. — 386 p. — ISBN10: 1462530486, 13 978-1462530489. This leading practitioner's guide, now thoroughly updated, examines the nature of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and provides a complete framework for planning and implementing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Steven Taylor addresses the complexities of treating people who have...
Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England. A Bradford Book. The MIT Press. 2005. — p 279. ISBN: 0-262-20154-2. Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. Its intellectual origins are in the mid-1950s when researchers in several fields began to...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. - 497 p. A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of the mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain. Thompson shows how...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2012. - 396 p. Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. We scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts, and for the best deals on Internet sites; we search for new friends to add...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2014. - 192 p. Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that...
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (January 23, 2009), 864 p. Within neuropsychology, localization refers to the relationship between the anatomical structures of the brain and their corresponding psychological or behavioral function. There has long been considerable debate over localization. How widespread is it? Are some functions more localized than others? By...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2009. - 265 p. We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? Philosophical materialists have formulated what is sometimes called ''the phenomenal concept strategy'' (which holds that we possess a range of special concepts for classifying the...
Academic Press, 2019. — 295 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812202-0. This book is the only book available that synthesizes the latest research in the field into a single, accessible resource covering all aspects of how addiction develops and persists in the brain. The book summarizes our most recent understanding on the neural mechanisms underlying addiction. It also examines numerous...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. - 433 p. Unlike many books on neural repair and plasticity, this volume does not discuss neurobiologic change and neural reorganization without making connections to cognitive or behavioral processes that may be both a cause and an effect of such neural reorganization. Unlike existing texts, the emphasis is consistently placed on the...
Boston: The MIT Press, 1994. - 384 p. The Cognitive Brain provides an original account of many aspects of cognition. It explains, in terms of specified neuronal mechanisms and systems, how the human brain does its cognitive work. Most current neurally-based models of human cognition focus on a single narrow domain, such as visual pattern recognition; The Cognitive Brain...
2007. — 305 p. In this provocative study, Michael R. Trimble, M.D., tackles the interrelationship between brain function, language, art -- especially music and poetry -- and religion. By examining the breakdown of language in several neuropsychiatric disorders, neuroscientists have identified brain circuits that are involved with metaphor, poetry, music, and religious...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 220 p. Human beings are the only species who cry for emotional reasons. We weep at tragedies both in our own lives and in the lives of others--remarkably, we even cry over fictional characters in film, opera, novels, and theatre. But why is weeping unique to humanity? What is different about the structure of our brains that sets us apart...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. - 560 p. The book provides an up-to-date account of the neuropsychological, cognitive-neurological, and neuropsychiatric aspects of movement disorders. The past ten years have seen an explosion of research covering non-motor aspects of Parkinson's disease and, more recently, movement disorders such as essential tremor, dystonia,...
Publisher: MIT Press (February 22, 2013), 472 p. A neuroscientific perspective on the mind–body problem that focuses on how the brain actually accomplishes mental causation. Introduction: The Mind–Body Problem Will Be Solved by Neuroscience Overview of Arguments A Criterial Neuronal Code Underlies Downward Mental Causation and Free Will Neurons Impose Physical and Informational...
New York: Psychology Press, 1998. — 293 p. At least half of all neuropsychological assessments are performed on elderly persons, but the information clinicians need to make appropriate judgment calls is widely scattered. Several books offering general descriptions of the cognitive functioning of the aged or of neuropsychological conditions affecting them are helpful to...
The Guilford Press, 2018. — 400 p. Presenting best practices for assessment and intervention with older adults experiencing cognitive decline, this book draws on cutting-edge research and extensive clinical experience. The authors' integrative approach skillfully interweaves neuropsychological and developmental knowledge. The volume provides guidelines for evaluating and...
New York: Psychology Press, 2015. — 215 p. In this book, William R. Uttal continues his analysis and critique of theories of mind. This book considers theories that are based on macroneural responses (such as those obtained from fMRI) that represent the averaged or cumulative responses of many neurons. The analysis is carried out with special emphasis on the logical and...
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2011. — 526 p. Here, William Uttal offers a critical review of cognitive neuroscience, examining both its history and modern developments in the field. He pays particular attention to the role of brain imaging in studying the mind-brain relationship. The background Sensation Perception Emotion and affect Learning and memory Attention Consciousness and...
London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005. — 152 p. Theory! There is perhaps no more overused and misused word in all of cognitive neuroscience than this one. The purpose of Neural Theories of Mind is to bring some order back to the use of the word "theory" so that it can rise above the trivialities to which it is all-too-often attached by current researchers. The main goal is...
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012. — 255 p. Cognitive neuroscientists increasingly claim that brain images generated by new brain imaging technologies reflect, correlate, or represent cognitive processes. In this book, William Uttal warns against these claims, arguing that, despite its utility in anatomic and physiological applications, brain imaging research has not provided...
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2001. - 139 p. William Uttal is concerned that in an effort to prove itself a hard science, psychology may have thrown away one of its most important methodological tools--a critical analysis of the fundamental assumptions that underlie day-to-day empirical research. In this book Uttal addresses the question of localization: whether psychological...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 486 p. — (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 894). The International Symposium on Hearing is a prestigious, triennial gathering where world-class scientists present and discuss the most recent advances in the field of human and animal hearing research. The 2015 edition will particularly focus on integrative approaches linking...
Oxford, 2006.— 548 p. The complexity of the brain and the protean nature of behavior remain the most elusive area of science, but also the most important. van Hemmen and Sejnowski invited 23 experts from the many areas — from evolution to qualia — of systems neuroscience to formulate one problem each. Although each chapter was written independently and can be read separately,...
New York: Psychology Press, 1999. — 562 p. Neuropsychological assessment is a difficult and complicated process. Often, experienced clinicians as well as trainees and students gloss over fundamental problems or fail to consider potential sources of error. Since formal test data on the surface appear unambiguous and objective, they may fall into the habit of overemphasizing...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2017. — 390 p. This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the "embodied cognition" approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science -- claims that have since become highly influential. Through this cross-fertilization of disparate...
Springer, 2009 — 278 p. Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience Increasing interest in the study of coordinated activity of brain cell ensembles reflects the current conceptualization of brain information processing and cognition. It is thought that cognitive processes involve not only serial stages of sensory signal processing, but also massive parallel information...
2nd edition: Routledge, 2009 — 408 p. Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy and common sense. Building on the widely praised first edition, this new edition adds fresh research, and deepens the original analysis in a...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 375 p. This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatry of different types of cognitive impairment by active authorities in the field. There is an emphasis on diagnostic and management issues. Cognitive impairment both with and without criteria for dementia is covered. A critical appraisal of the methodological aspects and...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2009. - 303 p. Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the "moral brain" became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality - are scanned with curiosity, even enthusiasm. How...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2009. - 275 p. Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did. A generation of young neurologists is using advanced technological medical equipment to unravel specific brain processes enabling moral cognition. In addition, evolutionary psychologists have formulated hypotheses about the origins and nature of our...
New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. — 329 p. Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that “we are our brains,” which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have taken a “neural turn,” in the form of neuro-subspecialties in fields such as anthropology, aesthetics, education,...
Psychology Press, 2001 — 176 p. The life of Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869) has fascinated students from many disciplines. Histologists marvel at his early descriptions of cells; physiologists admire his attempts to relate structure to function; pharmacologists view in awe his heroic experiments on self-administered drugs; forensic scientists acknowledge his role in the...
New York: Springer, 2011. — 298 p. Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality presents a variety of perspectives by leading thinkers on contemporary research into the brain, the mind and the spirit. This volumes aims at combining knowledge from neuroscience with approaches from the experiential perspective of the first person singular in order to arrive at an integrated...
Springer 2018. — 237 p. — (Brain Informatics and Health). — ISBN: 9811040257. This book provides detailed practical guidelines on how to develop an efficient pathological brain detection system, reflecting the latest advances in the computer-aided diagnosis of structural magnetic resonance brain images. MatLAB codes are provided for most of the functions described. In addition,...
Springer 2018. — 237 p. — (Brain Informatics and Health). — ISBN: 9811040257. This book provides detailed practical guidelines on how to develop an efficient pathological brain detection system, reflecting the latest advances in the computer-aided diagnosis of structural magnetic resonance brain images. MatLAB codes are provided for most of the functions described. In addition,...
New York: Psychology Press, 2017. — 433 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84872-271-2. Social neuroscience is a rapidly growing field which explains, using neural mechanisms, our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unravelled by neuroscientists. This engaging and cutting-edge text...
NY: Psychology Press, 2015. — 548 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84872-271-2. Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated third edition of the best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and function, as well as...
4th edition. — Routledge, 2021. — 539 p. — ISBN: 978-1138490543. Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated fourth edition of this best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and function, as well...
3rd edition. — Psychology Press, 2015. — 1582 p. — ISBN: 978-1-315-74239-7. Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated third edition of the best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an easy-to-follow introduction to neural structure and function,...
Springer, 2019. — 210 p. — (Neural Network Model: Applications and Implications) — ISBN: 978-3-030-26920-3 This innovative work explores integrating emerging research into how the brain processes information in applied therapeutic interventions. Typically, clinicians select therapeutic interventions based on their own training, personal experience or preference. This book aims...
Springer, 2019. — 596 p. — (Neural Network Model: Applications and Implications) — ISBN: 978-3-030-26921-0 This innovative work explores integrating emerging research into how the brain processes information in applied therapeutic interventions. Typically, clinicians select therapeutic interventions based on their own training, personal experience or preference. This book aims...
Springer, 2017. — 276 p. — ISBN10: 443156506X. — ISBN13: 978-4431565062. This book is devoted to the executive, emotional, social, and integrative functions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The PFC has usually been studied only with its executive function or with its emotional function, but recent studies indicate that the PFC plays important roles in integrating executive and...
Academic Press, 2004 — 552 p. The field of neurology is being transformed, from a therapeutically nihilistic discipline with few effective treatments, to a therapeutic specialty which offers new, effective treatments for disorders of the brain and spinal cord. This remarkable transformation has bridged neuroscience, molecular medicine, and clinical investigation, and represents...
3rd Edition. — Springer, 2007. — 856 p. — ISBN: 0826102514. "A fantastic and monumental contribution to our field." Ralph M. Reitan, Ph.D. The field of neuropsychology has many specialized books on particular diseases, but there is always a need for a general text to cover the major aspects of neuropsychology from neuroanatomy to assessment to practice issues. This is one such...
Knopf, 1999. — 320 p. Time, Love and Memory tells the story of one of the greatest scientists that ever lived: Seymour Benzer (October 15, 1921 – November 30, 2007). It is widely accepted that Dr Benzer would have won a Nobel Prize, had it not been for his untimely demise, for his experiments that demonstrated that behavior has a genetic basis. The title of the book refers to...
2nd edition: Humana, 2008 — 406 p. Methods in Molecular Biology Many questions related to stem cell properties and neural stem cell lineage and differentiation still linger. This second edition revises and expands upon the successful first edition in order to provide the most current, cutting-edge methods of today for the scientists working to answer these questions. The use of...
The MIT Press, 2014. — 1675 p. — ISBN: 978-0-262-01916-3 The New Visual Neurosciences assembles groundbreaking research, written by international authorities. Many of the 112 chapters treat seminal topics not included in the earlier book. These new topics include retinal feature detection; cortical connectomics; new approaches to mid-level vision and spatiotemporal perception;...
Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (January 1, 2003), 312 p. This book brings together theoretical and clinical aspects of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. Following an introductory chapter and a brief history of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, there are chapters on specific cognitive deficits (attention, executive deficits, memory, and language). The next section...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 381 p. — ISBN: 9780521841498 The aim of neuropsychological rehabilitation is to enable people with cognitive, emotional, or behavioural deficits to achieve their maximum potential in the domains of psychological, social, leisure, vocational or everyday functioning. Describing the holistic programme devised and adopted at the world famous...
London: Routledge, 2017. — 627 p. This outstanding new handbook offers unique coverage of all aspects of neuropsychological rehabilitation. Compiled by the world’s leading clinician-researchers, and written by an exceptional team of international contributors, the book is vast in scope, including chapters on the many and varied components of neuropsychological rehabilitation...
Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. — 137 p. How can scientific theories contribute to contemporary accounts of embodiment in the humanities and social sciences? In particular, how does neuroscientific research facilitate new approaches to theories of mind and body? Feminists have frequently criticized the neurosciences for biological reductionism, yet, Elizabeth A. Wilson...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 301 p. From its beginnings until the present day, neuroscience has always had a special relationship to philosophy. And philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain (and by extension, the relation of cerebral processes to freedom, morals, and justice, but also to perception and art). This volume presents some of the...
S Karger Pub, 2009. — 213 p. — (Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience: Volume 25). This book is intended to give a comprehensive and practical overview to the clinician researcher who wants to design and conduct clinical trials in neurology and Our perspective for the book is that of an experienced grant reviewer who carefully examines an application with respect to the key...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 264 p. — ISBN: 978–0 – 19 – 286689 – 9. Movements of the Mind is about what it is to be an agent. Focusing on mental agency, it integrates multiple approaches, from philosophical analysis of the metaphysics of agency to the activity of neurons in the brain. Philosophical and empirical work are combined to generate concrete explanations of key...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 962 p. This magistral treatise approaches the integration of psychology through the study of the multiple causes of normal and dysfunctional behavior. Causality is the focal point reviewed across disciplines. Using diverse models, the book approaches unifying psychology as an ongoing project that integrates genetics, experience, evolution, brain,...
New York: John Benjamins, 2000. — 363 p. This work addresses the question: what role should psychological conceptualization play for thinkers who believe that the brain is the organ of the mind? It compares the writings of eliminativist philosophers of mind with the writings of proponents of biological psychiatry, and by scrutinizing the "anti-anthropomorphism" approach. This...
San Francisco:Jossey-Bass, 2014. — 288 p. First edition. ISBN: 978-1-118-56761-6 (pbk.), 978-1-118-58486-6 (ebk), ISBN: 978-1-118-58488-0 (ebk). From an award-winning neuroscience researcher with twenty years of teaching experience, Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain uses educator-friendly language to explain how the brain learns. Steering clear of neuro-myths, Dr. Janet...
2nd edition. — Thomson Wadsworth, 2008. — 603 p. — ISBN: 978-0-495-00376-2 Focusing on applied and clinical examples, the Second Edition of Principles of Neuropsychology is an exciting and dynamic approach to neuropsychology that should inspire both students and teachers. This progressive and accessible text teaches brain function in a clear and interesting manner by providing...
Comments