Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology Books

This highly readable text details the findings of an exhaustive series of studies of Israeli combat veterans, documenting the effects of combat stress reaction on mental and physical health, social interaction, and military...

The three long essays that make up The Bone House are an extended meditation on the life of the body and the life of the mind, each based on a single theme and woven out of the same few elemental symbols of earth, and water, fire and...

Three mental health professionals cut through the "parenting advice" noise with this accessible, easy-to-skim book filled with actionable strategies and tips to help parents focus only what's truly essential and build their child's...

Reveals how meditation can be used for emotional growth, releasing trauma, and accessing inner wisdom• Shares 16 guided meditations for neuroaffective brain development and emotional maturation, along with links to online recordings • Explores the stages...

"Freud 'is destined to remain among us as the most influential of 20th-century sages'"-New York Times One of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's most prominent ideas was that of the id, the ego, and the super-ego-the three main factors behind the...

Data science methods and tools - including programming, data management, visualisation and machine learning - and their application to neuroimaging research.As neuroimaging turns toward data-intensive discovery, researchers in the field must learn to...

'Explores a dimension of synesthesia long encountered in reports of synesthetes: its relation to mystical and artistic vision . . . fascinating accounts.' - Patricia Lynne Duffy, author ofBlue Cats and Chartreuse KittensA violinist sees...

An evolutionary case for the existence of free will.Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behaviour and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision...

Why are we often convinced that we're right even when we're wrong? Why are we jealous, or paranoid, even when we have absolutely no reason to be? Why is it so easy for fake news to spread around the globe and fool us?It's because we don't see the world...

A novelist and a neuroscientist uncover the secrets of human memory.What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory?With playfulness and intelligence, Adventures in Memory answers these questions and more, offering an...

Business success begins with trust.Trust is the basis for all that we do as leaders and as organisations. Employees who trust their employers are more productive and creative. Businesses that earn their customers' trust maintain better...

How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it.There's a force we encounter every day that we aren't aware of - and it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress.This hidden...

A life-changing guide to understanding your brain and how to change it-for good.Break Through the Limits of the Brain connects the dots between the discoveries of neuroscience and the meditation-born spiritual experience, and offers proven and practical...

We've outsourced too much of our thinking. How do we get it back?At the height of the 2014 Ebola epidemic, a man who had recently returned from West Africa with a fever and severe abdominal pain entered a hospital in Dallas--and was sent home. Even after...

Poll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem?In this bold, enlightening book, social psychologist and professor Daniel M. Cable takes leaders...

A comprehensive guide to understanding how memory works, how memory forms, the mind-body connection, and more! In the busy, information-filled world in which we live, it's often easy to forget things and hard to keep track of how details get stored in...

A fun and fact-filled AZ treasury for anyone with a head on their shoulders.Neuropedia journeys into the mysteries and marvels of the three pounds of tissue between your ears - the brain. Eric Chudler takes you on a breathtaking tour of the nervous...

The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate...

What neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itselfHow does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiologists investigate how nature accomplishes this feat, computer scientists interested in artificial...

A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animalsThe 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...