Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology Books

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...

Mental Health and Physical Health are undeniably connected. One cannot recover physically, if there is still mental suffering, and vice versa. The essays collected here examine the relationship between mental and physical health, and how that...

Originally published in 1974, this volume examines the behavioural similarities of obese humans and animals whose so-called feeding centre (the ventro-medial hypothalamic nuclei) has been lesioned. Both the obese human and the VMH-lesioned animal seem to...

Originally published in 1987, this book, attempted to bring together work by researchers concerned with the functional and neurological mechanisms underlying visual object processing, and the ways in which such mechanisms can be neurologically impaired...

Originally published in 1989, this sourcebook for anatomic studies in the neuropsychology of visual perception contains chapters on disorders of visual agnosias, impaired object perception and spatial neglect, and abnormal visual imagery. The...

Originally published in 1987, this title intended to historically reveal, through tracing Gibson's development, the substance of his views and how they bore upon general philosophical issues in theories of knowledge, and to investigate in detail the...

Despite the prevalence of behavioral research conducted through genetic studies, there is an absence of literature pertaining to the genetics of motor behavior. Genetics and the Psychology of Motor Performance is the first book to integrate cutting-edge...

Les Affections Nerveuses Syst�����matiques et la Th�����orie des Neurones, �����crit par Gerest, J�����r�����me Maurice en 1898, est un ouvrage qui explore les maladies nerveuses syst�����matiques et la th�����orie des neurones. L'auteur examine les...

""Leitfaden der Physiologischen Psychologie in 15 Vorlesungen (1896)"" ist ein Buch von Theodor Ziehen, das eine Einf�����hrung in die physiologische Psychologie bietet. Das Buch besteht aus 15 Vorlesungen, die verschiedene Aspekte der physiologischen...

Beitr�����ge zu einer exakten Psycho-Physiologie ist ein Buch von Eugen Dreher, das im Jahr 1880 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es enth�����lt eine Sammlung von Aufs�����tzen, die sich mit der Beziehung zwischen Psychologie und Physiologie befassen. Dreher...

""What Is Phrenology?"" is a book written by Nelson Sizer and published in 1892. Phrenology is the study of the shape and size of the human skull to determine a person's character and mental abilities. The book provides an overview of the history of...

Internal Evidences of Christianity Deduced from Phrenology is a book written by an author using the pseudonym Medicus in 1827. The book explores the relationship between phrenology, the study of the structure and function of the brain, and Christianity...

Horae Phrenologicae is a collection of three essays on phrenology written by John Epps and published in 1829. Phrenology is a pseudoscientific theory that suggests that the shape and size of the skull can reveal a person's character traits and mental...

A caregiver's guide to stroke- Through the Eyes of a Survivor Find out more about stroke, through the eyes of a survivor. See life from their perspective, looking from the inside out, and understand the things they do. Some of what you will...

Saber cómo son los demás por la forma de su rostro, es tan antiguo como el propio hombre. Esta ciencia, ha sido siempre objetivo de necesidad y gran fascinación, con infinidad de utilidades. A través de este libro, el lector podrá descifrar...

In recent years, as suggested by Dr. György Buzsáki, such ideas as "Without the rhythm of the brain, the mind is not born" and "The brain is a device that predicts, and it is the rhythm of the brain that produces predictive ability" have come to be...

¿Sabes cómo identificar a una persona con un trastorno obsesivo compulsivo? ¿Cuáles son las obsesiones más comunes que se suelen presentar? ¿Cómo saber si eres una persona obsesiva? Entonces sigue leyendo... "Algunos no pueden dejar de lado sus...

""A Treatise On Some Nervous Disorders: Being Chiefly Intended To Illustrate Those Varieties Which Simulate Structural Disease"" is a medical book written by Edwin Lee and published in 1838. The book focuses on various nervous disorders that mimic...

This is a classic edition of Christopher Frith's award winning book on cognitive neuropsychology and schizophrenia, which now includes a new introduction from the author. The book explores the signs and symptoms of schizophrenia using the framework of...

The clinician needs to make sense of many client experiences in the course of daily practice: do these experiences reflect the simple product of complex neurochemical activity, or do they represent another dynamic involving the subjective self? When...