Neurosciences

This new book examines the relationship between agency theory and executive pay.

This volume addresses one of the Holy Grails in Psychiatry, namely the evidence for and potential to adopt 'Biomarkers' for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment responses in mental health conditions.

This book investigates the fascinating concept of a continuum between human memory and memory of materials.

The book focuses on original approaches intended to support the development of biologically inspired cognitive architectures.

The goal for this volume is to provide an up-to-date review of the discriminative stimulus properties of major psychoactive drug classes with an emphasis on how this paradigm enhances our understanding of these drugs and how these findings translate from animals to humans.

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This comprehensive book provides new insights into the morphological, metabolic, thermoregulatory, locomotory, diving, sensory, feeding, and sleep adaptations of Cetacea (whales and dolphins), Pinnipedia (seals, sea lions and walrus), Sirenia (manatees and dugongs) and sea otters for an aquatic life.

This book presents the state of the art in the use of neuroimaging technologies in the study of schizophrenia and other primary psychotic disorders.

This volume gives an overview of new insights to alcohol pharmacology using DREADDs (Designer Receptors and Unraveling the Neuropharmacology of Alcohol).

This textbook goes beyond introductory sensory perception by incorporating supplementary electronic materials to demonstrate the parallels between both hearing and seeing.

The work described here investigates the advantages and limitations of using laser light for the deep in-vivo illumination and micromanipulation of the neuronal system in zebrafish.

Provides important information from anatomy to pathophysiology and covers most neurological disorders that involve venous circulation.

The focus of this book lies on novel aspects of rehabilitation medicine used as a treatment tool in both physical and mental spheres.

This is the first volume in the Cognitive Computation Trends book series, summarising our understanding on the neural correlate of memory, perception-representation, action, language, emotion and consciousness and their mutual interactions.

This broad and thought-provoking volume provides an overview of recent intellectual and scientific advances that bridge the gap between psychiatry and neuroscience, offering a wide range of penetrating insights in both disciplines.

Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of a key topic within the multidisciplinary fields of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology.

This volume describes our current understanding of the biological role of the delta-opioid receptor (DOR) system, focusing on its unique mechanisms of receptor trafficking and signaling in disease states.

This latest volume in the series, Socio-Affective Computing, presents a set of novel approaches to analyze opinionated videos and to extract sentiments and emotions.

This book offers a broad perspective on the field of cognitive engineering and neuroergonomics, covering emerging practices and future trends toward the harmonious integration of human operators and computer systems.

This volume focuses on the behavioral neuroscience that supports our understanding of the neurobiology of trauma risk and response.

This book introduces readers to techniques of geometric optimal control as well as the exposure and applicability of adapted numerical schemes.

This single resource for the fire safety community distills the most relevant and useful science and research into a consensus-based guide whose key factors and considerations impact the response and behavior of occupants of a building during a fire event.

This edition of Advances in Neurobiology brings together experts in the emerging field of Systems Neuroscience to present an overview of this area of research.

This book summarizes early pioneering achievements in the field of human neural stem cell (hNSC) research and combines them with the latest advances in stem cell technology, including reprogramming and gene editing.

This book looks at classic puzzles from the perspective of their structures and what they tell us about the brain.

Common forms of preventable hearing loss are drug and noise-induced hearing loss which are believed to be produced by a similar mechanism.

By far, the most widely used subjects in psychological and biological research today are rodents.

This book offers a critical review of the head and neck from an anatomical, physiological and clinical perspective.

Behavioral, biobehavioral, and biomedical interventions are programs with the objective of improving and maintaining human health and well-being, broadly defined, in individuals, families, schools, organizations, or communities.

This case series book offers a practical and accessible approach to psychiatry, addressing major clinical problems ranging from psychosis to aging effects, each of which is tackled as it arises in everyday settings.

This book presents the latest state of knowledge on grey matter changes in the brain following stress and trauma.

The Second Edition of this introduction to fire protection systems is completely revised and updated to offer the student, architect or engineer the basics of fire protection devices and equipment, and how they may be applied to any given project.

This book traces the history of adenosine receptor research from molecular biology to medicinal chemistry to behavior, including their implications in disease and potential strategies as therapeutic targets.

This book is devoted to the issue of how we can learn to live together in the face of division and conflict.

This volume is focused on subjects related to cerebral ischemia and reperfusion injuries after acute stroke.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research.

It has become evident over the last years that abnormalities in RNA processing play a fundamental part in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases.

This book is a compendium of articles providing insights into a range of contemporary ideas concerning the core yet unsettled clinical issues.

This textbook presents for the first time a comprehensive body of the latest knowledge in the field of neuropeptides and their action on energy balance.

This book's basic hypothesis - which it proposes to test with a cognitive-sociological approach - is that legal behavior, like every form of human behavior, is directed and framed by biosocial constraints that are neither entirely genetic nor exclusively cultural.

This work challenges the current reliance on "e;The Three R's"e; or Replacement, Reduction and Refinement which direct most animal research in the behavioral sciences.

This book describes a sleep disorder belonging to the category of parasomnias (i.

This book describes models of the neuron and multilayer neural structures, with a particular focus on mathematical models.

Brain disorders (neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative, and affective disorders) can be investigated, treated, and prevented using person-centered methods.

Notable experts in the field of neuroimaging provide comprehensive overviews of advances in functional and structural aspects of both common and uncommon brain disorders.

'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.

Over the last decade, and particularly during the recent five years, a rapidly increasing number of novel psychoactive substance (NPSs), often marketed as "e;designer drugs"e;, "e;legal highs"e;, "e;herbal highs"e;, "e;research or intermediate chemicals"e; and "e;laboratory reagents"e;, has appeared on the drug market in an effort to bypass controlled substance legislation.

One of the most important routes to chaos is the chaotic intermittency.

This volume reviews the current research focused on the functional importance of unfolded protein response (UPR) signaling in the context of health and disease.

This book presents an innovative approach to clinical assessment in psychiatry based on a number of psychopathological dimensions with a presumed underlying pathophysiology, that are related to fundamental phenomenological aspects and lie on a continuum from normality to pathology.