Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology Books

Regardless of the many confusions and misunderstandings, the word dyslexia is often utilized by medical personnel, researchers, and clinicians. Among the most typical misunderstandings concerning this condition is that dyslexia is an issue of attention,...

¿Te gustaría descubrir técnicas respaldadas por la ciencia para potenciar tu mente y vivir una vida más plena? Entonces sigue leyendo..."El cerebro es el órgano más impresionante del cuerpo humano. Pesa solo 1.4 kilogramos, pero es capaz de generar...

Significant progress has been made in the study of human psychology in recent years. However, certain aspects of personality, such as electrophysiological attributes, have yet to be fully examined. Measuring the Psychological and Electrophysiological...

Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary research area that evaluates the structural and organizational function of the nervous system. When applied to business practices, it is possible to investigate how consumers, managers, and marketers makes decisions...

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...

Neuroeconomics has emerged as a field of study with the goal of understanding the human decision-making process and the mental consideration of multiple outcomes based on a selected action. In particular, neuroeconomics emphasizes how economic conditions...

The Brain And Its Functions is a comprehensive book written by Jules Bernard Luys in 1882. This book explores the intricate workings of the human brain and its various functions. Luys delves into the anatomy of the brain, discussing its structure and the...

Encephalitis is a devastating condition whose impact upon people should not be underestimated. It robs people of abilities most of us take for granted, it leaves people without their loved ones, and even in those families where the person affected...

At the age of twenty eight Gary was assaulted by a gang with baseball bats and a hammer, resulting in several skull fractures and severe brain damage. For nineteen months he had little awareness of his surroundings before he started to show some recovery...

We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences. This book focuses on the experiences that good stories generate: feelings of...

Biosocial criminology is an interdisciplinary field that aims to explain crime and antisocial behavior by exploring both biological factors and environmental factors. Since the mapping of the human genome, scientists have been able to study the biosocial...

Persistence of Vision in Color-Blind Subjects is a book written by Frank Allen in 1902. The book explores the phenomenon of persistence of vision in individuals who are color-blind. Allen presents a series of experiments that he conducted to investigate...

Fight, Flight or Flourish: How neuroscience can unlock human potential takes the latest research in neuroscience and translates it into actionable steps you can take today to help you and your team thrive at work!This practical book offers dozens of...

The nation of Israel has played a significant part in the history of the world as God's chosen nation. As a response to the growing anti-Semitic climate in today's culture, this informative text sheds light on Israel's vast historical and religious...

This collection of brief essays and still briefer commentaries is a personal reflection on some topics that have been thematic in the development of my theoretical work. These essays are not meant to extend the theory into yet-uncharted territory, but...

This authoritative reference examines in depth the myriad challenges facing pediatric cancer survivors and proposes a robust framework for structured follow-up of these patients through adulthood. Approaches to long-term follow-up include both...

Despite considerable progress in clinical and basic neurosciences, the cure of psychiatric disorders is still remote, little is known about their prevention, and the etiology and molecular mechanisms of mental disorders are...

The model system of eyeblink classical conditioning in humans has enormous potential for the understanding and application of fundamental principles of learning. This collection makes classical conditioning accessible to...

Epilepsy research has entered an exciting phase as advances in molecular analysis have supplemented in vitro and in vivo electrophysiologic and phenotypic characterization. Recent Advances in Epilepsy Research sets forth a...

This handbook celebrates the abundantly productive interaction of neuropsychology and medicine. This interaction can be found in both clinical settings and research l- oratories, often between research teams and clinical...

Schizophrenia remains an important challenge to psychiatry, with its causes and underlying brain mechanisms yet to be fully revealed. Currently available treatments are neither universally effective nor without unwanted effects. These aspects, together...

""Thoughts On Phrenology: Or Phrenology Tested By Reason And Revelation"" is a book written by A Barrister in 1841. The book is a critique of phrenology, a popular pseudoscience in the 19th century that claimed to be able to determine a person's...

The Borderland of Epilepsy, written by William Richard Gowers in 1907, is a comprehensive exploration of various neurological conditions that are often associated with epilepsy. Gowers delves into conditions such as fainting, vagal attacks, vertigo,...

Dyspraxia is a disorder of voluntary, purposeful, learned movement and is one of the most common sequelae of stroke, head-injury, neoplasm and abnormal ageing. It is also a major complicating factor in the assessment and treatment of acquired language,...

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...

For the 25 years before publication a form of therapy known as the 'Doman-Delacato Techniques' had been applied to children with disabilities. The therapy originated from the work of Glen Doman and Carl Delacato who established the Institutes for the...

Originally published in 1963, this title was an attempt to provide a new basis for the discipline of Speech Therapy. This was the first work to be published in England relating speech pathology to the wider study of human communication. It also contains...

For many centuries scientists and philosophers have endeavoured to solve the baffling problem of human language. Originally published in 1949, Dr Stein had been fascinated by this problem and collected an enormous amount of data from past and present...

Las neurociencias ocupan un lugar privilegiado que la autora sabe comprender perfectamente. Asimismo, abordar el tema de la diversidad humana en estos tiempos implica una de las cuestiones que más están transformando la fisonomía de las sociedades, y...

The aim of this book is to establish a sociological understanding of dyslexia within adulthood. The research explores the effects dyslexia has on the lives of individuals within an educational and employment context. A feature of the study is that it...

Communication and Information Technology has been used to support older and disabled people for over thirty years and there have been many successes in this field. Until recently, research has largely concentrated on people with physical or sensory...

This special issue of Aphasiology brings together papers from six countries in three continents on the ways in which computers are being used in the domain. Information technology is now well established as a means of delivering treatment to people with...

Vision is not an end in itself. Instead, it has evolved to assure survival in a dynamic environment. Vision - as well as the other senses - evolved from the necessity to act in this environment. Therefore, perceptual processes and action planning are...

Reflections On Gall And Spurzheim�������s System Of Physiognomy And Phrenology is a book written by John Abernethy in 1821. The book is a critical analysis of the physiognomy and phrenology system developed by Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim. The...

""Genio e Degenerazione: In Mazzini (1899)"" di Pasquale Rossi ����� un saggio che esplora la vita e il pensiero di Giuseppe Mazzini, uno dei pi����� importanti leader del Risorgimento italiano. L'autore analizza il rapporto tra genio e degenerazione...

�����tude de psycho-physiologie (1890) est un livre �����crit par Claude Sigaud. L'auteur explore la relation entre la psychologie et la physiologie, en examinant comment les processus mentaux sont li�����s aux processus physiques dans le corps. Le livre...

""Consid�����rations sur les localisations c�����r�����brales"" est un livre �����crit par Ernest Auburtin en 1863. Ce livre traite de la localisation des fonctions c�����r�����brales dans le cerveau humain. L'auteur explore les diff�����rentes...

Los humanos nacemos con el cerebro "alambrado" para el amor y la compasión y la neurociencia nos enseña que el cerebro está constantemente cambiando. Estos dotes innatos están en nuestros genes, nuestra fisiología y nuestra bioquímica y pueden ser...

What happens if you have everything, but you still feel empty?Robert Althuis's life began as a fairy tale-successful career, amazing wife, tremendous wealth-until it all fell apart. His relentless pursuit of more had ruined his life.Never Enoughitis...

Interpreting Visual Art explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie one's interpretation of art. After the brain encodes visual information, this encoding is then processed by perceptual mechanisms to identify objects and depth in...

Originally published in 1988, this is the final volume in the set. The original intent of the tetralogy was to review neural explanations of high level perceptual and cognitive processes. However, at this point, it became clear that there were few neural...

Originally published in 1980, this book contains the proceedings from a memorial conference held in honour of George A. Talland, who made a significant contribution to the area of memory and aging. The major objective of the volume was to stimulate...

The potential of behavioural approaches for improving the lives of people with acquired brain injury is immense. Here that potential is laid out and explored with a thoroughgoing regard for clinical practice and the theoretical frameworks that underpin...

The journal Cognitive Neuropsychology began publication in 1984. In 2004 a special symposium was held at the annual European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology at Bressanone to take stock of the developments in cognitive neuropsychology...

This special issue brings together developments in neurological, psychological and social understanding of sense of self and identity in neuropsychological rehabilitation. Following brain injury and in the context of neurological illness, both the...

In The Biology of Clinical Encounters, Gedo utilizes recent findings in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to elaborate his conception of psychobiology and to consider its implications in clinical analysis.  He pursues this challenging...

This unique two-volume set provides detailed coverage of contemporary learning theory. Uniting leading experts in modern behavioral theory, these texts give students a complete view of the field. Volume I details the complexities of Pavlovian...