Oxford University Press, 2005. — 146 p. — (Very Short Introductions). "The last great mystery for science," consciousness has become a controversial topic. Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction challenges readers to reconsider key concepts such as personality, free will, and the soul. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do...
3rd edition. — New York: System Integrity Press, 2012. — 156 p. — ISBN: 978-1463790929. This book helps you choose healthy ways to stimulate dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and endorphin. Dopamine is the good feeling you get when you approach a reward. Serotonin is the good feeling of getting respect. Oxytocin is the feeling of trust, and endorphin is the euphoria that masks...
Routledge, 2025. — 203 p. The book represents a critical update on interactions between the host and its gut microbiome that conditions the socio-biology of the mind and behavior. Evidence has been scientifically approached and reveals that our conscious behavior involves a complex interplay of multiple non-conscious domains, including complex host-gut microbiome relationships....
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2021. — 283 p. Why do we need two eyes? Why are all cats grey at night and appear to move faster during the day? Why is the sky blue and the setting sun red? This book explains the multifaceted nature of perception and discusses the mysteries of vision. It provides readers with experiments to help them discover optical illusions and the features of their...
New York: Routledge, 2022. — 283 p. An Introduction to Applied Behavioral Neuroscience explores the connection between neuroscience and multiple domains, including psychological disorders, forensics, education, consumer behavior, economics, leadership, health, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The book ensures students have a solid foundation in the history of behavioral...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2004. — 285 p. Energy Psychology: Explorations at the Interface of Energy, Cognition, Behavior, and Health, Second Edition introduces the exciting new paradigm of energy psychology and presents the latest research on the subject. This second edition begins by tracing the roots of energy psychology and contrasting them with contemporary approaches, and...
N.-Y.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. - 354 p. A practical guide to the clinical use of biofeedback, integrating powerful mindfulness techniques. A definitive desk reference for the use of peripheral biofeedback techniques in psychotherapeutic settings, backed by a wealth of clinical researchIntroduces mindfulness and acceptance techniques and shows how these methods can be...
Healing Arts Press, 2012. — 853 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59477-810-0 A guide to neurofeedback for better physical and mental health as well as greater emotional balance, cognitive agility, and creativity - Provides easy-to-understand explanations of different neurofeedback methods--from the LENS technique to Z-score training - Explains the benefits of this therapy for anxiety,...
Guida, 2007 - 320 p., ISBN10: 886042285X Come è possibile parlare di scienza quando in ballo ci sono i sentimenti? La scienza è una materia oggettiva, da sempre considerata altra cosa rispetto ai sentimenti. Tuttavia la parte più intima dell'essere umano, la coscienza, è un dato oggettivo, biologico: chi potrebbe negarne l'esistenza? E chi potrebbe negare l'esistenza del...
The MIT Press, 2024. — 649 p. — ISBN: 9780262547109. What if our goal had not been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure consciousness — what does it look like? What is the essence of human consciousness? In The Elephant and the Blind, influential philosopher Thomas Metzinger, one of the world's leading researchers on consciousness, brings together...
London: Pearson, 2014. — 577 p. Delves into how the central nervous system governs behavior Biopsychology, 9/e, introduces the study of the biology of behavior; that is, the neural mechanisms of psychological processes in the central nervous system. This program combines biopsychogical science and student-oriented discussion, interweaving the basics of this specialized field...
New York: Routledge, 2011. — 306 p. This research volume serves as a comprehensive resource for psychophysiological research on media responses. It addresses the theoretical underpinnings, methodological techniques, and most recent research in this area. It goes beyond current volumes by placing the research techniques within a context of communication processes and effects as...
Urban & Shwarzenberg, Baltimore-Munich, 1982. Reviewing recent literature and ten years of original empirical research, the authors compare the relationships of slow cortical potentials (SCP) of the human EEG with various physiological functions (such as attention, arousal, preparation, expectancy), psychiatric and neurological disorders (such as schizophrenia and brain...
New York: Academic Press, 2019. — 490 p. Multisensory Perception: From Laboratory to Clinicsurveys the current state of knowledge on multisensory processes, synthesizing information from diverse streams of research and defining hypotheses and questions to direct future work. Reflecting the nature of the field, the book is interdisciplinary, comprising the findings and views of...
Penguin Group (USA), 2014. — 542 p. The notoriously tumultuous and mysterious lives of teenagers are illuminated in this study of the teenage brain. The title is slightly misleading, as what Siegel (Mindsight) offers is less a manual than a guide for dealing with relationships. Nevertheless, he attempts to shatter, or at least challenge, popular misconceptions: to be a teenager...
Academic Press, Inc., 1980. — 660 p. Neural Mechanisms of Goal-Directed Behavior and Learning provides information pertinent to the neuronal mechanisms of motivation and learning. This book focuses on the theoretical frameworks within which researchers analyze specific problems. Organized into six parts encompassing 39 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the problem...
AAPB, 2004. — 48 p. Biofeedback is a mind-body therapy using electronic instruments to help individuals gain awareness and control over psychophysiological processes (Gilbert & Moss, 2003; Moss, 2001; Schwartz & Andrasik, 2003). Biofeedback instruments measure muscle activity, skin temperature, electrodermal activity, respiration, heart rate, heart rate variability, blood...
London: The Guilford Press, 2019. — 418 p. Weaving together state-of-the-art research, theory, and clinical insights, this book provides a new understanding of the unconscious and its centrality in human functioning.The authors review heuristics, implicit memory, implicit learning, attribution theory, implicit motivation, automaticity, affective versus cognitive salience,...
Infobase Publishing, 2007. ISBN13: 978-0-7910-9436-5 The goal of biofeedback is to unite the mind and the body to make the conscious, thinking mind more aware and more in control of what the body is doing. At its simplest, biofeedback is a process that uses instruments to make information about the body available to the mind. The idea is to give the mind the knowledge it needs...
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